Ok you guys not to lecture but be careful and don’t overdo it with the shoveling. We are all at the age where the stories you hear about someone shoveling snow and two hours after they go in they have a heart attack are all too familiar. It can happen even if you use a blower. Slow and easy, it’s not a race/contest. Good luck be safe.
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Don’t rush. Don’t overdress. If you get tired…STOP.
Looks great,but for me those days are over !!
It stopped here for now. Might start up again between now and 8. Me and the boys will finish up tomorrow morning. After I make pancakes and bacon!
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When I was a kid in Sayville we had a few foot-deep falls each winter, and as the youngster in the house I got to shovel it. Now I’m living in the southern UK where an inch of snow is a serious blizzard, and I don’t miss shovelling at all! Good luck and stay warm & safe!
(Didn’t the Atkins diet guy die of a heart attack while shovelling?)
I’ve been communicating with my sister for a few days about the upcoming storm. Since her husband is Italian and Irish (very of each if you can believe it) they have plenty of food AND drink. This morning she was sauteing sausage for her lasagna.
View from her window facing 35th and Lex this morning:
And of course, view from Park Ave. shows a different story - they cleaned that one off right away!
Walking dog on Park Ave. at 6am:
For the record I love shoveling snow. Used to look forward to it every year when I went up to Kinderhook. Something about growing up in Hawai’i makes you appreciate it more.
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Get yourselves one of these,
makes the snowblowing a lot more fun
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My nephew is Hawaiian and went to school in North Dakota. He loves the cold. Go figure.
Lol yeah I grew up in East Islip, just a few minutes west of Sayville Tom and I remember we had snow more frequently and myself and my two brothers were responsible for shoveling. We always went around the neighborhood and helped some of them. Sometimes got paid in cookies and hot chocolate!
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A bunch of us kids dug out an old lady’s driveway and car. When we were done she threw some coins out of her window. It all landed on her snow covered lawn.
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Yes certain neighborhoods in NYC get plowed out a bit faster than others. I didn’t mind shoveling when I was younger but I was in much better shape then. Now at 55 I can do ok just don’t have as much stamina and it takes longer to recoup.
18Bravo, my older sister lived in Hawaii from 93 til about 03. She lived in Mililani …went there twice and fell in love with the place.
Lmao did you guys retrieve the coins ??
The world wants to know!!
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Robin is that a 454 big block ??!!
Haven’t got the foggiest!
It isn’t mine, I just stumbled upon this video some years ago
and have remembered it since then.
What a wild thing to start up when the neighbours are struggling with the snow
Worked at the model bench till the snow stopped around 2 pm . My guess is we got 18” - 24” and 30 mph winds here at the Jersey shore . Lotta deep drifts .
Then digging before the temps plummet overnight to the low teens.
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East Islip? Home of that wonderful hobby store? It, and Dick’s Hobbies in Sayville were my haunts in the '70s!
The thing I remember most about shovelling was the uncanny way the plow driver KNEW that I’d just finished the end of the driveway - so he could seal it off again with a foot-thick wall of hardpacked slush! In fairness our roads were plowed by locals in the volunteer fire department with their pick-ups fitted with plow mounts, so they were cleared faster than the main roads the Town plowed - there was pride at stake.
Think we got almost 2 feet. Snow drifts look even higher lol
Yes ! Hobby world it was called. The first hobby shop i ever went to and the only one for years. The owners name was Mike and he was a great guy. I only went to Dicks once, think I bought a Tamiya half track from him lol. Great days !
We got plowed out regularly. Town of Islip was pretty good. The town I live in now, Brookhaven (sometimes referred to as Crookhaven lol) is not too good. A few years ago we had a storm like this and they never came. At all lol. This is what I’m paying taxes for ??!! Lol but they’ve been better as of late.
Couldn’t find them!