Slice: Thrower? Blower?

There are two kinds of people in the Spokane area. There are those who call the driveway-clearing machines “snow blowers.” And there are those who say “snow throwers.” But a shovel is a shovel. Unless it’s a scoop/ Paul Turner , SR.

Question: How do you get rid of the snow on your sidewalk and driveway — w/a “snow blower”? A “snow thrower”? A shovel? Pay someone to do it? Or let it melt?