RandyHolt

I’ve got two sets of ice cleats! I’ll put one on the tykes boots when he goes sledding but the sleetcrete is not as slick as freezing rain fortunately. I have been offering up the big mutt tool to neighbors and recommending to friends and family that did a preliminary shovel job like myself to use a metal shovel to get up underneath the sleet as needed. Very effective and thrilled I figured it out

Anyone else shovel the snow and are facing a 3-5" arctic sleet tundra to shovel today - the Big Mutt tool dominates. Plastic shovel and salt was a failure. Bonus you can chop up blocks to make an igloo or get on one knee and scrape the ground to make shoveling a breeze. Folks with bad backs stay on one knee to shovel that heavy stuff away. Edit: A square point shovel or spade should suffice.

I am calling it 8" - ~5" of snow and ~3"... sleet rock. A loader cleared my culdesac at 5am and think I have enough sizeable sleet blocks dumped in my hard to make an igloo for the tyke.

Sleet bombs IMG_1148.mov

Randoms I have never seen NO snow on the sides of cars not even on door handles, yet snow is tucked up under the rear spoilers on SUVs. Shoveling the sleet off of my sidewalk, I see imprints of the concrete - it looks like a plaster mold. But 5 times as heavy. Its tough sledding as a shoveler today. The piles of sleet coming off my roof are pushing 3' and leaving ridges formed on my roof. And a bird just flew into my window. Fire is roaring game is on so its time to start drinking.

Sleet bombs? hitting the top of my car looked like rain drops hitting a deep puddle during that last surge

I just realized what I thought was drifting off of my roof... is actually a sleet avalanche. That is not going to stop anytime soon.

I think an auger style would chop it right up vs a brushless but report back! I am still surprised how heavy the first 5" were and at the drifting before the sleet took over. This is an impressive amount of sleet. The trails i carved out for the tyke to sled are all but gone.

I am surprised how heavy the snow was on my first pass at shoveling.

Woke up to see a panicked rabbit taking big hops across the yard right into a chicken wire fence. I guess he had limited visibility and his normal exits blocked with the ~4" of glorious white stuff. The tyke will be getting up soon and standard protocol will insist on going outside immediately - loves the snow like us junkies here. Maybe more hmmm I wonder why.

Woke up to an emergency govt alert here. I'm dreaming of the nightmare of muting ALL government alerts risking it so I don't get awaken by every squall going forward.

Camping at Little Bennett in Clarksburg may be interesting.

Use some of the bingo winnings on a hangover helper... 34 and drizzle in the West End.

It's 38 and I am freaking out, man. But not so much, since the Commanders won.

We are staged here as well. Send the younguns out with shovels and tell them you are not ready but if they shovel a walk etc you will take them sledding right away. At least that's my plan.