Ow! Ow! Ow! Owie!!! Has anyone else shoveled snow recently?

I would have had hubby do his own shoveling if he wanted to get to work. Still, there are those who do it for hire----------- You are going to be sore for a while,but it will give you some food for thought till the next big snow. Find a kid who will do it for you.

You people are really lucky! I am jealous! You get snow each year and have a lot of fun! Here in Southern India, all that you get is scorching sun for half year and the other half is rain and floods with very cold nights. I fear climate change!

That is just so cool; you get to experience snow. Here in Sg, no snow... But I'm grateful all the same, no matter what. If I have the opportunity to shovel, I'd probably do that definitely. Shoveling can be fun, if having the right kind of crowd and good people around. I'm strong and young to do it definitely. But I think it might be sore if someone isn't used to it.

Haha, been there done that, as the saying goes. I'm only 18 so I suppose it doesn't take such a toll on my body as it would if I were older, but I feel your pain. My grandma lives in the country and had to get to church on a Sunday morning, and it had snowed 5 feet the day before. So it was my cousins and I [the four of us, none of our other cousins felt like helping] to the rescue. We got there at 5 am, and finished at 9 am. We had to shovel our way from the end of the driveway up to her house. It's a 300 foot driveway, so it sucked! She had a warm breakfast waiting for us inside, but still. I hate snow!! I'm usually the one to volunteer to help shovel snow for her, since my other cousins are all 'busy', in other words, lazy. And I live 20 miles from her, too! Oh well, she is my grandma! Haha, and normally she'll let me stay for breakfast and lunch, and sometimes she'll make me her famous hot cocoa and warm apple pie. =] Ah, what I do for her cooking...

We've had a total of 3 inches (a lot for this area) so no shoveling needed. Last time I shoveled I felt like I had been run over by a big truck...twice. The family in VA had a friend come plow them out with his big tractor. (the glory of living in the country) I have heard that this is supposed to be a bad winter so I am sure that you will make good use of your snowblower.

I'm not making fun of you or anything, but I really wish I could have winter in my country. Living in south-east asia, the weather in my country is basically hot and humid the whole year round. Occasionally it rains, but other than that it's just hot. It gets uncomfortable to go out or even stay home without the air-conditioning. I'd like to go somewhere cold for a while just to see what it feels like! Or would I just regret it?

We've only had a couple of inches of snow altogether so far,(Ireland) and it half melts before the next shower,so You can still see the grass outside poking through! Our recycle wheely bins were emptied yesterday,so bringing it back in,I used the bin as a snowplough to clear the path of what little was on it..snowfall here is so rare,it's not worth having dedicated equipment for the Job..I saw a Gadget a while back,it looked as though someone had combined a snow shovel with a cartwheel on the shaft..the demo video (Youtube?) looked impressive,people pushing the thing seemed to be getting the results of a snowblower with about the same effort!

yup.yesterday. damn snowblower broke down.. of course it picks a blizzard to do so.. i'm not hurting much today,but i took a major power nap after doing all that. woke up like 4 hours later. some kid showed up before it stopped and asked for 80 bucks to do my walk. yea,right..cop a walk,kid.

hi mentalward I feel for you as I can at least imagine what it would feel like as I grew up in South Dakota but have b een here in sunny Garden Grove Cal. for a long time now. no snow here so will have a sunnyChristmas just like the ones we used to know. no snow just golden glow. So I have not personally shoveled any snow for some 70 years. I am 83 now.Hope your hurt wears off nicely before Christmas morning. lol.

I was trying to figure out where you were with 33" of snow when we got 24 here in South Jersey. So, I took a quick peak at your profile and saw Winchester, VA, and realized why you had more. Winchester's a great little town and a few years back it had a wonderful little Mexican restaurant in it - authentic stuff. My guy friend and I used to take road trips and on one of them ended up in Martinsburg and traveled to Winchester to see a place we'd never seen before. That's how we found the restaurant. Other side of the Blue Ridge, I think you are. My cousin, rat that he is, lives 15 miles from Lexington. If I'm lucky, he's snowed in, too, on his 14 acres of forest land with no city services to speak of. (Yeah - I'm just a tiny wee bit unhappy with him.) As for shoveling, fortunately, my landlords took care of that. They usually have one of the nephews run his plow through several times during a storm to keep up with it, but he came only once and then we were snowed in, so reinforcements were called in (it's a large Irish Catholic family) and between two snow blowers and several shovels, our conjoined driveways for four houses were cleared out for us. My car was still covered with snow, thanks to the antics of my downstairs neighbor who shoveled all her snow onto my car, so I did a bit of shoveling myself yesterday to get out. Even after two days of sunshine, there was still nearly two feet on the roof and hood! But, I wouldn't be able to do too much shoveling at one time. I could do it in dribs and drabs, but not from start to finish.

I was told you so happy to see it come for Christmas I am happy for you at least it staying there with you not me we haven't got any not yet it goes right around where I live which is nice so enjoyed it hope you are making some snow angles hahaha!!! sorry about your hands chear up .... cd

Yes I just helped my husband shovel our driveway and sidewalk the last two days. We got about 10 inches of snow the last two days and I shoveled 3 times that way it was just a little bit at a time.

Nope, haven't had to shovel snow this winter yet, but I know it will be here sooner or later. When we get a large amount of snow, it is good to send kids, grandkids, whomever, out to make snowmen. Have them start in the driveway first, and then by the time they are done, half or more of the snow is already cleared away! Also, those ergonomic shovels may be weird looking, but they do make the job a lot easier - more pushing and less lifting. Nothing compares to the good old snowblower though!

I feel your pain honey! I live in Plymouth MA and we never get much snow but this year i swear we must have got a foot and a half(atleast!) thaknk god my husband and mother were home and we have 3 shovels so we all helped out. We dont have a super long drive way.... it can fit about 4 cars... but we do have a big back yard and a porch off out house leading to the big yard. Our dog refused to gone out in the snow to go to the bathroom so we had to shovel the whole porch and a big part of the yard so she'd pee!

yep we shoveled once this year so far, and we are lucky we had just that to shovel as well. It could be so bad some years here in Montreal. I hate shoveling with my bad back.

Just think of all those muscles you worked out today! You'll have the body of a svelte athlete! If only shoveling snow gave a good reward. I have to say I have never shoveled snow. We don't get a lot of it in Oklahoma. I remember when I was thirteen we had a heck of a lot of snow. It was March 1st, my birthday, and we had gotten at least six inches. It wasn't the first snowfall of course, so it was safe for my dad to make us snow ice cream. Do you think that is all snow is good for? 1. Get some pollution out of the air, 2. Cancel school (only desirable for children, not adults), and 3. Snow ice cream. That year my dad did some shoveling. But in general we don't have enough to shovel. Well, our maintenance man goes around and clears steps around out complex when it snows. To keep it from building up and icing over. We're supposed to get snow tomorrow night, but it won't be the kind of undertaking you guys have right now.

That storm belt pretty much floated on by the prairie state with just a sprinkling of snow. I want what you got!!!! We rarely have to shovel here. Even with 2 ft. of snow being we don't really get drifts..just floats lightly down to blanket the whole yard and everything else.

we haven't shoveled snow yet but we have been getting some snow down pours. I like the snow but I hate it when its cold out. we just started getting are snow so we haven't gotten as much as other have been. But when we get snow boy do we get it. We have had snow up to our knees before? That is hard to walk in with kids.

Yikes, I haven't shoveled snow like that in about 3 years now. We moved to Southern Texas where snow like that is few and far between. I think the last major storm I heard about down here happened like 6 years ago and it was an ice storm. No need for shoveling the ice. Time to find some kids to hire cheap to do the work. Oh wait, good luck with that. They will start to complain that it is too cold to be outside.

You must have really wanted him to go to work! I live outside of Pgh. and we didn't get it as bad as you. We got around 6 inches I guess. My driveway is 175 feet long. I tried to shovel it once and it took me 3 days doing sections at a time. I have someone come plow it now. An ex left a snowblower here, but I am not sure if it works. I am disabled and couldn't use it if it did. I don't have to worry about going to work anymore, so I told the guy that plows it, I will need it if we get more than 4 inches.