After being out of the country for a while for work, coming back home brought a lot of memories. Since I had to fly to the area on a business trip, I decided to take a bit of extra time to visit old friends and get some R&R. I drove to my old house to see if anything had changed and say hello to my real estate agent, who had actually bought my house and lived in it since. Getting back to the area, I realise just exactly how much I did not miss shoveling snow. Since moving to Seattle, I have never had to shovel snow. In fact, I do not even believe the city of Seattle has the equipment to shovel snow. I am pretty confident they just wait for it to melt away. I like being descriptive in text, but the amount of snow is just inconceivable, so I am posting a picture (I took a lot…).
This snapshot was taken from my old street. A lot of kids, not too much traffic, but nice and quiet. I could not get my house sold when I left town, but my real estate agent offered to buy it from me. I found it a bit odd, but I could care less: I got it sold! Well, sort of. My agent is still renting it from me, but it will eventually be sold!
Back to the snow: It sucks. You wake up to a generally fresh 1ft coat of snow in your drive way, spend an hour shoveling it, and spend another hour shoveling the snow that is plowed into your driveway from the road. Usually you do this twice a day, as, if you want to park your car in your own drive way at the end of the day, another plow happily filled your driveway while you were out.
I would really love to invent a type of energy efficient “snow box”, shaped like a green house, that would slowly melt the snow and make it “disappear”. I do not think it needs to really take in a lot of snow, but if it could dispose 1 to 2 sq ft of snow per day, you would be a very happy camper. Throw in R/O and you’ll have a great supply of water. No yellow snow please.