Winter storm temporarily maroons local couple

I am waiting until tomorrow to break out the machinery.  The plows have been here once but the snow is still falling.  With already a couple of inches since the plows were here I know that the municipal authorities will be here some time overnight for another round of plowing.  Neither of the people living here needs to get to work in the morning.  Snowblowing will commence after plowing is complete.

For now we are marooned.

Wind direction has this time caused some drifting on the picnic table in back.  It looks like a foot and a half or more on the deck.

The snowblower has a maximum cut of 22 inches.  I am quite certain that the cut through the snowplow furrow at the end of the driveway will include a pass or two where the depth of the snow exceeds the maximum cut that the snowblower can take.  The snowblower will go through under the top level of the snow.

But the blower has five forward gears and if I drop down to gear 1 and just let the machine work the blower will slowly work its way through even that amount of snow and then turn around to do it again.  This is a snow event well within the capabilities of available machinery.  This is what I have that machine for.

News flash in the city where I live:  Local couple is temporarily marooned.