>>>>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!
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>>Like I say, it's hard for me to conceive of, living in such a temperate clime. :-)
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>>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.
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>How "ruined" when everyone is out clearing the snow at the same time?
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>>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.
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>Ah that explains it. The only "ist"s I find I can understand with are pragmatists.

And I would assume linguists? <g> Their whole purpose would be to be understood by you.