>>what do you do with a snow blower that a shovel can't do, far more quietly and efficiently?
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>Remove 3 feet of Lake Erie lake effect snow that the Cleveland Ohio area is so famous for w/o breaking your back. <g> I never would have wanted a snow blower in places that I have previously lived (and indeed, I never have owned one). After seeing what this region is capable of, when I wind up back in a house, I think I'll be purchasing one!

Like I say, it's hard for me to conceive of, living in such a temperate clime. :-)

I just have these visions of Sundays being ruined with the roar of a hundred snow blowers as all hands clear their drives, yards, etc. I presume the snow blower melts the snow and doesn't just blow it around, like leaf blowers.

It's the conservationist in me that baulks at the idea of consuming energy for such things as patio heaters, sand blowers, leaf blowers etc.