Avista Dan: Clear Path To Meter

We never had a regularly-in-operation snow blower when I was growing up. Excluding me, of . The driveway also had those pesky little blacktop bumps that always seemed to mess up my rhythm and jam the shovel into my gut when I got going too fast. I can still feel the handle of that wood and plastic shovel that I cursed every snow day for ruining my fort building and sledding. But alas, I’ve graduated to a real snow blower that’s pushing five years now - a gift from my mom one December. And no, it didn’t make up for not having a snow blower for the 18 years I lived at home. It was close though, especially over the last two years of record-breaking snow/ Dan Kolbet /Avista. More here .

Question: Dan goes on to urge homeowners to clear paths (a shovel wide) to electric and gas meters during the first substantial snow. But Huckleberries veers off into a related question: Do you use a snowblower to clear snow? Or a shovel?