Snow.

[scrooge_scratch]

The weather up here is, amazingly, not as harsh as you might think. The wind doesn't howl in Arctic gales; there's usually just enough to make small drifts. The temperature stays below freezing, though not so far as to make icicles form in one's nostrils upon stepping out the door. But what we do have is snow

Comments

[strephon]

How about flamethrowers? Are they *specifically* against the rules, in so many words?

[scrooge_scratch]

Now that you mention it, I don't think there's any mention of flamethrowers...

[anonymous]

Rock salt is your friend.

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It is. Except when the reindeer get loose. Then the walk becomes more impassable than ever.

[scrooge_scratch]

Bah humbug.

[patchthepirate]

Ouch.

Y'know, homemade flamethrowers are legal lots of places, because nobody thinks to ban them...

Just sayin'.

[scrooge_scratch]

Yeah, I'm considering this option more and more seriously.

[patchthepirate]

Well... it's an option, I guess. Or you could see if you can build an awning over your driveway, I guess.

[scrooge_scratch]

If I put up an awning/carport/whatever, the HA's regs say it's gotta have lights and/or garlands. There are worse things, I suppose. I do already have blackout curtains for my bedroom windows.