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Just read the news that 4 people died in NYC area from shoveling. People don't realize that shoveling in the blizzard is bad for your health. The cold air makes it harder for you to breath and over working will cause shortness of breath that can lead to a heart attack or stroke if you're not physically fit.
I've been watching people in my area shoveling Friday night and morning then stopped by noon time. The snow just kept going and going. Don't they realize they are in the middle of a blizzard? You better off waiting til the snow let down a bit then go out and then start. The wind also pushed a lot of snow so any shoveling is pointless right now until the system moves off to sea. By noon time I realize most of the neighbors gave up. I can see atleast 1.5 ft of snow on the side walk not including mounds of snow pushed up by the snow plow trucks.
We didn't go hardcore, didn't do the whole driveway, just cut down some of the drifts and cleared the front and back stairs for the doggy. We didn't move the cars yet to get the whole driveway. We'll do that tomorrow.
With the wind today and tonight, shoveling at all was probably. Tomorrow, I think Mr. Cleveland and his identical twins may have to do the shoveling for me. Naa, probably just Mr. Jackson (and his twins).
It is so much easier to finish it off tomorrow if you took care of it a few times today. It cuts down the amount of snow and will leave less to freeze over night.
Trying to shovel or even use a snow blower on close to 2 feet of snow after it froze over night will not be easy.
Also shoveled a few times today. The snow was light and easy to shovel. Tomorrow it would be frozen and packed. Unfortunately I did not finish the driveway, that is left for tomorrow.
Even though I had planned on waiting until today to clear my driveway with the snow blower, last night at ~10:00 PM, I got a phone call from a friend who had locked himself out of the house, following a marathon 14 hour day of work and commuting in the snow. So, I cranked-up the snow blower, and did a quick & dirty--albeit adequate--job of clearing my driveway in order to bring him his set of spare keys.
The streets in my development were--okay. The snow had been cleared pretty well by the city plows, although they clearly hadn't yet put down any salt. The secondary roads in Franklin Township were also--okay. Not great, but manageable. The roads maintained by Somerset County were very good, especially when you consider the amount of snow that had fallen, and it appeared that adequate salt had been put down after the curb-to-curb plowing.
Rt. 287 was--as the cops say--black & running. Although only 2 of the 3 lanes had been cleared, the pavement was clear and ice-free on those two lanes.
Then, I arrived in Piscataway, where the road conditions were worthy of a Third World country. Centennial Avenue, Possumtown Road, and Birch Run Drive all looked like a plow had been used only once or--perhaps--twice during this epic storm, and despite having AWD and very good tires, the going was still extremely slow and treacherous, due to the very high level of snow on the roads in Piscataway.
The mayor of Piscataway should be ashamed of the crappy plowing job that his Public Works employees and private contractors did yesterday.
Actually I wish I was back in NJ for this one, I always loved a good snowstorm!
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