So it is now official, this blizzard was the third biggest in Chicago history, just over 21 inches of snow. So, where do you put all the snow you have to get off the roads, your driveway and sidewalk? Here are pictures showing our neighborhood and the front of our house.
It was so much shoveling! The drifts near the truck were over 3 feet and I had to throw the snow as it would not make a large pile that would keep falling back onto the driveway. Thank goodness the truck is large and was parked in the driveway, less to shovel! It took Fran and I close to 2 hours to get it shoveled. We then relaxed until late in the afternoon when the snow plow finally came by to plow the street. Then it was back out to shovel. The plow dumped close to 2 feet of snow on about 6 feet of driveway from the street, oh what fun!
As previously mentioned our plan it to leave on the 21st. Well our trailer is parked in a storage yard about 20 miles away and they got just as much snow as we did, plus the drifts. I was going to get the trailer sometime during the week of the 14th to bring it home and pack it up. Now, unless we get some very warm days, I don’t think I could get the trailer in the driveway, either backing it in or driving in forward due to the limited turning with the high snow mounds. My alternative was to see if the storage yard would bring it out to their parking lot and would leave it there for a few days and pack it up at their place. I then get an email from the yard, which is also an RV dealership, that they will be closed from the 14th to the 20th due to the Chicago RV show. They will be open on the 15th only. So I called them to see what we could work out and was told that at the moment they cannot get anywhere in the storage yard due to the snow and the drifts. They have no where to move any of the snow if they attempted to plow it. I was told to check back late next week and see if anything has changed. Pray for warm weather!
Good news was that we did pass the Radon test, so that hurdle has been cleared. Next week we prepare for the garage sale and then ??????
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