Welcome! I've been here my entire life. That strategy has worked for the past several years, but it wouldn't have worked when I was a kid. The average number o

Welcome! I've been here my entire life. That strategy has worked for the past several years, but it wouldn't have worked when I was a kid. The average number of days with snow on the ground has been decreasing by about 5 days per decade since I was a kid: https://glisa.umich.edu/resources-tools/climate-impacts/precipitation/ https://glisa.umich.edu/resources-tools/climate-impacts/prec... In the 70s, we had about 75 days each winter with more than an inch of snow left on the ground. Last winter, we had barely 20 (El Nino made it extremely warm) but the average over the past decade is currently about 45. It snowed a few times, but always melted shortly thereafter. That's a new trend. I recently got a 36" HDPE blade shovel and will just walk my 400ft driveway for 4 or 5 passes in each direction, holding the shovel at an angle so the snow rolls off to the right like a snowplow - it's really slick (pun intended) and way easier than the old scoop-and-throw technique when there's less than an inch on the ground. Once a month, I have to start up the snowblower and clear a heavy storm and cut back the banks left by the shovel, but those are rare. If you just expose a bit of pavement, the whole thing is likely to melt in a couple days.