Icy Stretch

First it snowed about 5" Wednesday night thru Thursday, then it tuned to a mix of sleet and freezing rain that afternoon and all day Friday. The normally 6' tall evergreen shrub in the backyard is not amused. I think of that one branch still standing as a middle finger to Mother Nature :)

It will be fine one it is able to shed its layers of ice (actually, that picture was taken early afternoon, so it it collected more ice thru the next couple of hours.

I had gotten the driveway and paths snow blown during my lunch hour Thursday (I worked from home), but I didn't get the drive to the tent garage done. The snow was very wet as it was falling, and soaking up the sleet made it very difficult to snow blow. I figured the truck could handle the portion I left. The pictures below were taken at 2 pm Friday and show the tracks from the truck thru the 3/4" of sleet slush filled in with another inch+ of more icy precipitation. oh yeah, apparently I needn't have bothered sanding that morning since it was doing absolutely no good.

Friday was my off-Friday, so I was able to shovel the roof dumpage that occurred at 11 (nothing quite like the sound of all 4 sides of the roof dumping 5" of sleet laden snow in about 3 minutes). Late that afternoon, I was out clearing the gates from the couple of inches of ice accumulation, when the town plow finally came by for the first time since Thurday. At that point the skies were starting to clear, the wind was whipping up, and the temperature was dropping like a rock. I  knew I had to get the pile of icy slush up before it froze, so went out and shoveled. Sorry for the photo quality - I was in a hurry to get my gloves back on and start shoveling

 

Most of that I moved by dragging a shovel full to the side of the driveway, then picking up part of it to sling out of the way. It was super heavy! I definitely got a good arm, shoulder and leg workout between the roof dumpage earlier and then the raod berm.

I left the part that is past the paved part becasue I just didn't care enough to punish my muscles any more.

Saturday morning was in the low teens and never hit 20. Right now it is 2*. Snow is expect tonight so all that stuff will be hanging around for a while.

Comments

[Cop Car]

Talk about mixed media! You surely got your workout.