Idle musing of a work in progress.
My mother sent me this picture of my father using his snowblower to clear the driveway after the Blizzard of ’13 (I have a hard time calling it “Nemo”) dumped 30-inches of snow overnight.
This is the view burned indelibly into my memory from childhood: watching my father do this very thing from our big bay window, me snug in my footy pajamas while he wrestled outside with the loud, snow-belching machine that threw the snow forever…
OK, so I’m sure we can debate whether or not the weather event that struck Iowa on 02/01/2011 was an honest to goodness blizzard, I will say that it was the first time I’ve had snow drifts in my garage and snow tornadoes on my stoop.
Pictures Of The cleanup
Snow Tornados
Snowdrifts In The Garage
So these are the winters that I remember. This is a picture of my father finishing snowblowing his driveway in Holden, MA, February 2011.
Rebeka has fun blowing snow with our new snowblower on Christmas Day.
Thanks to John Conrads of City Tractor, North Liberty, Iowa. From all the snowblowers he had in stock, he helped us pick one out that even my wife likes to use!