After only a brief reprieve from snow clearing, Sunday afternoon we were back at it once again as an intense but quick moving storm dropped another 20cm of fresh snow on the city Sunday morning.

Thankfully the temperature stayed cold so today's snowfall was not water logged nor heavy.

High winds drifted it up good, but we are well used to that this winter.

After getting driveways cleared for myself and our neighbour, I faced my first regret of the new year. That was not getting the trailer (which I need for transporting the sled and/or Argo) out of the backyard before last week's big snowstorm (or even the subsequent ones! lol).

I punched a path through using the Blower and a shovel to knock down the high drift behind the fence. To make a path for the trailer to exit the yard I first got the blower up on top of the now frozen Wednesday Blizzard snowpack to take off today's much lighter snow.

To remove the frozen previously wet bottom layer I had to break it up with a steel shovel then let the blower eat through the chunks. I had to get rid of most of this snow as to not beat up the fenders on the trailer during the retrieval. It was a couple hours of hard work that could have been avoided if I had been more proactive!

On the front lawn I only took off the lighter snow which worked out great as the trailer would ride fine over the harder layer of snow.

Thank God that's done!

This section of Hebron Way which runs along the East Side of the Airport was closed from Sunday until sometime Wednesday, later that evening we found out why!

Cheers, MIKE

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