Saturday, February 05, 2011

Digging Out

When Clay and I were looking at houses one of the negatives on the house we bought was the size of the driveway. It's HUGE! And steep! We both noted that it would be a HUGE pain to dig out should we have a big storm. But we comforted ourselves with the knowledge that last year's Christmas blizzard was the storm of the century, and since we didn't intend to live for another 100+ years we figured we were mostly safe.

Apparently the whole "storm of the century" was a bunch of bull, because we just had to dig out our enormous driveway from the latest "storm of the century"! And when I say "we" what I mean was Clay was digging while I painted and then I helped him finish up this morning.

Clay begins the big dig.

Notice how tall the drift was! And at this point windchills were in the negative numbers. NOT FUN!

A man and his pile of snow!

Our new outdoor furniture!

Scaling Everest

The driveway is clear!

Final tally - Approximately 16 manhours went into clearing our driveway.

4 comments:

Amanda said...

We've NEVER (knock on wood) had a storm like that here in Boise! That's completely insane, Shyla!! I'm glad you guys are finally dug out! I'll brag - it's almost 50 degrees here today! :)

Unknown said...

And your guests tonight will appreciate all of your (Clay's) diligent work clearing out the driveway :)

Becky said...

Just in time for this week's snow!!!

Unknown said...

Ok, so I have to giggle a little that your driveway is "steep" (he he he) BUT it is rather large and covered with quite a lot of snow. Unfortunately in Oklahoma there's almost no chance of having a friendly neighbor with a snow blower. So digging it is! :)