Winter math

[nonelvis]

We live on a lot approximately 40' wide.

I shovel our sidewalk to clear a 3' path.

As of yesterday, the Boston area had received about 56" of snow. I estimate we had another 8" on the ground this morning, bringing the total to 64", or 5.34' of snow this winter.

This means that I have shoveled 636 cubic feet of snow over the past several months.

I am ready for spring ANY DAY NOW, please.

Comments

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

I think you could justify a snow-blower.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

We have no place to store it, and actually, most of them are too large for what we need it for. But as we get older and our backs get weaker, the idea gets more and more tempting.

[devjoe.livejournal.com]

And 636 cubic feet is 608,974 fluid ounces. A fluid ounce of water weighs about 1 ounce, but freshly fallen snow tends to be 5-10% of that density. At 5% density, that is 30449 ounces or 1903 pounds of snow. So you have moved about a ton of snow, maybe more.

[nonelvis]

YIKES.

Though I guess now when I tell people I've shoveled a ton of snow, I can tell them I'm speaking literally ...

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

Observe the snow. It fornicates.

[nonelvis]

EXACTLY.

[jagpatel.livejournal.com]

You're not even counting your driveway, which requires clearing as well, so it's definitely a ton of snow. I think with our long wide driveway, I've definitely moved more than a ton of snow. And my shoulder feels it. There is some irony that I ice my shoulder after shoveling ice and snow...

[nonelvis]

Yeah, I didn't count the driveway because usually the division of labor is that I do the steps and sidewalks, while columbina gets the driveway and the car. Damn, that means between the two of us we've moved two tons of snow ... and you've moved at least a ton yourself ... that is, in fact, a metric buttload of snow.

[peebles.livejournal.com]

This, exactly this, is why I live in a condo.

[nonelvis]

I don't mind the exercise every now and then. It's the cumulative effect that's making me a little crazy.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

You remember this... wonderful!