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   AA>That morning, it took me about 90min to manually shovel my 150m   
     >driveway inorder to get out. The driveway has a couple of hard   
     >bends too - which means a little bit of extra clearance is   
     >required inorder to navigate those turns.   
      
   Wow, that's a lot of driveway to do by hand. I talk about having   
   to shovel about 450 feet (136 meters or so) of paths around my   
   property here but I just do that the width of my snow shovel,   
   about 16 inches. Now that there's 2 or 3 feet of snow built up   
   beside my paths it probably looks odd from a distance, me walking   
   along with the bottom half+ of my legs totally hidden..   
      
   We got about another 4 inches of snow after I did the paths   
   yesterday and tonight it's still coming down and likely a lot   
   more than that again so I'll be shoveling again tomorrow..   
      
   RM> I still haven't wandered out to where I park the car to   
   RM> see what sort of mess I have there [...]   
      
   AA>Well... how did it look?  :D   
      
   Probably due to the shoulder high banks on both sides of my car   
   the snow on the ground was a little less, more like 6 to 8 inches   
   rather than 16 inches, but the plow left a bit of a bank right in   
   front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed   
   snow on the ground and on top of the car.   
      
   But the plow guy goes out of his way to try to not leave much   
   in front of my car. It was just tough this time since there was   
   so much snow to push around all at once. And I can't complain much   
   because I don't pay him. The neighbours apparently have to have   
   their place plowed out for insurance purposes, and that is right   
   in front of my driveway entrance so I can just park there close   
   to where he has to plow to. I'm not sure what I'd do if not for   
   that stroke of luck. I plan to give them a few hundred dollars   
   for them making it convenient for me, although they didn't ask   
   and said it wasn't necessary when I talked to them at the start   
   of winter since me parking there doesn't change their situation   
   at all. They have a huge parking area plus access to 3 cottages   
   that gets plowed out plus about 1/2 mile of the road in that the   
   Municipality doesn't plow and for that he charges $75 per plow,   
   but sometimes he has to come 2 or 3 times a week so, even though   
   that's really a fairly low price, it can really add up fast.   
      
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    * SLMR Rob  * Lord give me patience, and give it to me NOW   
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