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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (64879)	3/10/2004 7:39:44 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 71178

We get one or two minor snowstorms every winter, nothing to worry about but since there's not a single snow plow on the island they usually gum up the roads for three or four days. But every ten years or so we get a goodie. A major storm blows down from the Frazer Valley (thank you, Canada) and we can get up to three or four feet of snow, which, given the fact that we have no good way to get it off the roads--do you know how long it takes a front end loader to clear a mile of road?-- can really make life interesting. And of course if the power company crews can't get to the lines that are down, they can't fix them. but that's only every ten years or so. thank goodness! I can remember three major storms in the 25 years I have lived here. The worst one our whole road, which is a minor dead end road going out the point and a mile and a half to the nearest "main" road, as main is measured in places like this, was filled in with chest deep and higher snow. The first front end loader didn't get to our house for four days, and we hadn't finished shoveling out about a hundred feet of driveway -- even four wheel drive cars don't do well in four feet of snow--who can afford to keep a snowblower on hand when you only need it once every ten years?