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"KD" <kdorsey@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> in my driveway!
>
> As you know we got some snow yesterday/last night. We generally don't
> worry about shovelling out the whole driveway; as many of you know,
> we're car-free, so we maybe shovel out a path if we have time, no need
> to shovel out the whole thing unless we're expecting guests. This
> morning we did not have time, waded through snow past my knees and a
> big snowbank nearly up to my thighs to get to the bus stop. We're OK
> with that, we can deal.
>
> Of course the darned snow was still there when we got home. If we want
> to get any mail or get out without being soaked to the knees, we
> needed to do something, so we grudgingly got out the shovel and
> started working. I took the first turn, and figured my husband would
> finish off what I didn't.
>
> As I shovelled, the previously mentioned nice guy went by on the
> street in one of those little Bobcat plows they use for plowing
> sidewalks. He came up my way, opened his window and asked if I could
> use a hand. I said sure! He asked if I was just making a path, and I
> said yes, we have no car to worry about, just need to walk in and out.
> I thought he meant he was just going to plow away the pile at the
> bottom left by the street plows (which would have been fabulous all by
> itself).
>
> But no! This fabulous guy and his wee plow went all the way up my
> driveway! He had to make two tries to get up to the top (it's steep),
> and cleared a five foot wide path all the way up, dumped the snow
> across the street! It took him about three minutes, but saved us about
> a half hour of labour at least! What a great guy! He asked for nothing
> in return. After I thanked him profusely he just said have a nice
> evening and drove away.
>
> MUCH better than two years ago when we got home after a snowfall and a
> night out to find that someone had stolen both our shovels.
>
> It was a kind thing to do.  If I had a snowblower, I'd be blowing out
> the driveway next to me just to be nice to a neighbour. Wish there
> were more strangers willing to do nice things for people, would make
> the world a better place.

Wanna come visit next snowfall then :)

I was faced with either beat it down with 4x4 truck unsure if even it could 
make it out end where plow had piled it up at end of driveway or start 
shovelling. Problem is our new to us Grand Am GT has such a low spoiler on 
it's front end you dare try it thru next to nothing or it'll be at best a 
snowplow. If I use truck and just beat it down it always ends up with ruts, 
some deep enough car hits bottom if not carefull. Then I end up more work.

Back and legs feel the pain tonight, 100+' waist high for a lot of it. Car 
was almost completely unseeable, most snow and highest banks have had in 
years.