I’d like to slightly edit one thing I said in the previous post. I mentioned that I considered a Blizzard to be a “piece of cake”. That was supposed to mean “compared to some other disasters” on my list. It is not to mean that they are not deadly….or that LEOs, First Responders, ER personnel, road crews, electric crews, propane truck drivers, etc are not working all hours of day and night trying to make them not-so-deadly for folks who get into serious trouble with them. Didn’t mean that!
I think I posted somewhere here, about a blizzard that DH and I had to [decided to] travel in…to get home. Ended up walking the last half mile so more. Were new to that area tho not to winter storms and blizzards. We simply did not REALIZE what the weather was about to do! A weird quirk that was well known regionally but we didn’t….yet. Learned that!
Blizzards are totally serious too. I did state two qualifiers: that if one has power==heat. And doesn’t have a heart attack shoveling or some other medical emergency. I should add: if you are not traveling during one. Then I prefer them because they are generally quite predictable. If you know the local code words or pay better attention to the weather stations. Unlike earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, flash floods, and a lot of other disasters, you pretty much get the word that they are coming to your area soon. You can set up for them and not plan to do anything but deal with them. Stay inside unless you must deal with something outside. Like animals. Like snow overload on the roof that might cave. [I haven’t had that one!]
Anyway, “piece of cake” was somewhat…inaccurate. I merely prefer dealing with them than most any other disaster I’ve lived through. {shrug} …but manual snow removal is getting closer to being deadly as DH and I are aging!! Oye!
OldMtWoman