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What Cold White Hell Is This?
Posted by Simple Dude | Posted in House | Posted on 13-12-2012
Last weekend I wrote a post about the snow event we were having. At the time I wrote the post I was estimating we had about 5 inches of snow on the ground. Turns out that was just a taste. A little white powdery tease.
Side note… “little white powdery tease” was my nickname in college, but that is a post for another day.
At around 10:00am Sunday morning I opened my back patio door, snapped this photo and posted it on my blog:
And that was merely the appetizer as the snow kept-a-coming. Late that afternoon I snapped this photo:
Right before I took that photo I went outside to do some shoveling . To my dismay the unthinkable happened. Yep… this:
Yes the shovel snapped IN HALF like some kind of freakin’ toothpick. I guess I don’t know my own strength. Of course it’s my own stupid fault for not using my snow blower to begin with. Yes… I own a snow blower and yet I was out there shoveling. There is something manly about the first big snowstorm of the year and being out there shoveling. Stupid. The snow blower was much better. And I am still a man… mostly.
The next morning when all was said and done I estimated about 13 total inches of the cold white hell dropped onto my driveway and sidewalk. I opened the back door one more time to take this photo:
Amazing. Even by Minnesotan standards. By midnight Sunday the snow was all done falling but the commutes to and from work were still shitty on WEDNESDAY. Ugh.
Oh well… global warming was fun while it lasted.
SD
Dude, manliness quotient goes up simply by *owning* a snowblower. I hear it goes down if you have to start wearing a truss because you threw your back out and have a hernia due to shoveling INSTEAD of using your snowblower. Just sayin’
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Posted on: Dec/13/2012@9:08 am
I like snow, and I even made sure to move somewhere that got snow, only to find that for the past two years we have had very little. We get one giant blizzard that knocks out power every year around Halloween and that’s it.
When I am supposed to go sledding? Or make snowmen?
What? Stop looking at me that way, I’m an adult! I can do what I want.
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Posted on: Dec/13/2012@9:19 am
I keep hoping at some point we get enough snow to justify the purchase of a snowblower. The leaf blower is fun but I would much rather try to bury the other with piles of snow. I also miss being able to go out with the YoYo and make snow angels. Up until last year I was able to get pictures of our side by side angels from every year since he was 1.
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Posted on: Dec/13/2012@9:39 am
That is cool. I can say this because I am in CA. and snow is something we see on TV… Hee, Hee… or when we go to the mountains to get a fix… Life is tough.
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Posted on: Dec/13/2012@10:37 am
Just looking at that makes me want to run screaming in a southerly direction. If I had to be there, I’d be poised in a window with a nice cup of hot chocolate with maybe a shot of Baileys in it.
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Posted on: Dec/13/2012@11:16 am
I’ve yet to experience an actual White Christmas, but thinking about the cold it also brings makes me feel contented with California Christmas weather.
Sending you warmth this holiday.
Posted on: Dec/13/2012@11:57 am
Owning a snowblower but using a shovel…and snapping it in 2…you are a beast. Beast I say. On another note…not slow accumulation here in PA yet and I am just FINE with that.
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Posted on: Dec/13/2012@9:15 pm
Nice work on the shovel. I live in Ohio, and we get enough snow to break your back shoveling a handful of times a year. I need to break down and buy a snow-blower.
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Posted on: Dec/15/2012@3:03 pm
the broken shovel will be a good weapon in the coming zombiepocalypse…
jus sayin….
and zombies move PRETTY slow in the snow…so ya got that goin for ya….
Posted on: Dec/19/2012@6:14 pm