It took me about an hour to shovel the back walk to the garage, get out the snowblower, clear around my car and out to the alley, and sweep the car mostly clear. There were tire tracks in the alley, not fresh; I backed into the alley and drove up and down a little ways. I went far enough that snow started to pile up under the car.
Tamara took on the front walks after I was done, and that was another hour of work.
Tomorrow is probably going to be a slow process of driving and shoveling. It was 13°F when I was working and I managed to work up a fair sweat* anyway, so at least my cold-weather gear is adequate. Or it was; it's supposed to get down to -5° overnight, and the morning will warm up slowly.
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* I'd like to tell you I glowed or perspired, but no. It was heavy work. It was sweat.
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Nylon wind pants as an outer layer are a winter joy, even if it's not windy. That "extra layer" when you need it most.
Kilo-pascal:snow inch. Interesting. The conversion factor would depend on the "snow ratio", which traditionally is ten inches of snow for one inch of water but is sometimes 12 to 1. Or something.
Is "sweat*": missing a footnote; a typo; some hip lingo you kids are using nowadays; a sign I need more coffee; other?
A now-defunct Madison, WI 70cm repeater would report the air temperature in degrees Kelvin. That made me giggle.
Where do you get "Kilopascals" ? That's a unit of pressure, not depth. Don't understand.
"Kilopascals" is a kind of a joke. I thought it would be pretty obvious I had used metric graph paper, a bit over five squares to the inch, so I just picked a metric unit at random rather than use "centimeters."
Kinda like cubic furlongs as a distance measurement without the metric influence. ;-)
When I was in college (1950s), we used teaspoons per fortnight.
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