Digging out

OK, as I said before, I enjoyed getting snowed in. But I had failed to factor into my delight the necessity of shoveling off our driveway. When we moved down South, I let my snowblower go with the house in Wisconsin. Our driveway is about 130 feet long and 10 feet wide, and we had 2 feet of snow. Multiply that out and it comes to 2600 cubic feet of snow that had to be removed. An internet search revealed that a cubic foot of normal snow weights about 15 pounds. So that comes to 39,000 pounds of the white fluffy stuff. That’s 19.5 tons. Call it 20 (or more) since the driveway is wider when it cuts over to the garage. We had to move 20 tons of snow to get the car out! Coal miners in the Merl Travis/Tennessee Ernie Ford song only had to dig 16 tons! And a ton of snow weighs just as much as a ton of coal. I say “we,” but, while I took a couple turns, my son-in-law did virtually all of that work. That’s another good reason to have one.