thanks for the reminder - I don't miss snow. It was great as kid, but when I had to shovel snow at my parents, grandparents houses, it got old fast.
My father and grandfather refused to get a snowblower, so it was snow shovels. They'd last a few years until the front edge rusted away, snapped off or just bent (aluminum), etc.
After I moved south, my dad got a snowblower because I wasn't there to do it. SMH. Can't say a I blame him tho'