Loading ...A couple of years later , I purchased a home on the outskirts of town on the Trans-Canada Highway . The road crews would ‘gang-plow’ the highway in huge trucks with snowplow blades about five or six feet high . They would fly along the highway plowing at about 60 mph . The lead truck would clear from roadway centerline to the width of the blade . The second would overlap and clear the shoulder back about six feet without taking out the mailboxes . The third lifted the blade about three and a half feet to take the top of the snowbank down low enough that folks could see over it when pulling out from their driveway . I saw -45 degrees on my window thermometer more than once at that house . I once fell off the roof while shoveling the snow from it . It was about a 12 foot fall ( to ground level ) , but I landed in the snow I had cleared and that cushioned the fall . Later tunneled into it , and made an ‘igloo’ for the kids , that they loved playing in . It lasted well into springtime .
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