Zerks
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I use to live in the Salt Lake City and Ogden area in Utah and sold Honda products at several cycle dealers including snow blowers. 1984 and 85 brought some huge snowfalls to the state and the spring run off was so big in the Great Divide Basin of the Rocky Mountains that the spill ways were used for the first time to channel the water from an overflowing Lake Mead at Hoover Dam. The snow piled up so fast that the roofs of some homes in Utah that some homes were getting damaged and caving in. We were out shoveling roofs for $10 an hour and getting a workout. More than once a neighbor would see you shoveling a roof and come over and ask if you would shovel his. We would shovel a straight path from the peak of the roof down to the eave on each side and then take a roll of plastic and roll it out so it draped the roof from eave to eave. Now you could shovel starting at the peak and throw it on the plastic and use gravity to slide it off the roof. So, not only have I shoveled driveways where the snowplows blocked access, you learned to get it asap before it has a chance to melt slightly and then freeze and becomes difficult to remove. Been there and done all of that... Even spent a winter living at Summit Park... 6400 ft... top of Parleys Canyon just off of I-80 where it can easily snow 2 ft at a time when a storm blows in. Talk about stuck in the snow!
