Has his "stay at home" wife shovel the driveway for him, while he's out earning the daily bread. The five year old pitches in too with his little shovel, doing the edges after mom's done the heavy lifting. She laughs at the "snowblower" people...and for this (and so many other things), I love her immensely!
We just got puked on huge in St. Albert and they did a great job keeping it all cleared away.
She takes half the time to completely clear our driveway as does someone trying to start a machine that is frozen #### stiff and only moves a 16" swath.
Her own words: "Get on it first thing before you drive on it" (my bad) "and get it done". Take kid to school, go get kid and shovel again if it's still drifting/snowing. If it's still happening later? Get it before "Daddy" comes home and drives on it again,.
A different situation (to most folks who both work) but this is an iron clad solution to the problem for us...and no green house gasses either.
If you let it stack up? It becomes
serious work. Keep on top of it and it's a minor inconvenience to remove a few inches of snow from a 30' long driveway.
Bottom line?
Find the right woman* to marry and leave the snowblower on the floor of the box-store.
*Unless she makes $100 K/yr. In this case? Put slab heating in your driveway (if you're already putting slab heat in the house), and forget about it...
