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Not only did I look outside, but I played in the the mud puddles, creating little trenches so that any liquid water would run off the driveway and road. I'm restly afraid of ice these days.

Now I'm completely, utterly confused. The sports news this morning started yakking about game today (Saturday)...at least I'm pretty sure today is Saturday. Machine check.. It's not Belgium, therefore it isn't Tuesday. If the Pats are playing today, how can they be playing tomorrow?

I changed my blowing procedures. Having spent most of my life wrestling with computers, I should know better than change procedures in midstream.

Yes...that makes me even stupider.

Instead of waiting until the next day to blow the 16", the sun came out at 15:00 and did the driveway then. Even though I cleaned out all of the internal snow, there apparently was still some behind (what I call) the shoe plate1. The next day, I started up the blower with the intent of clearing off the roadside crud. When I engaged the blower, I heard a SCREEECCHHH! saw smoke come out of an orifice that was not the exhaust pipe and smelled burning. I could not see any ice but it was there. It came out after the blower tanned in the sun.

Since that belt is a little be smoother than spec, I decided to have it replaced because I didn't want to be caught in a nor'easter with a smooth belt that slipped a little bit every rotation.

My normal procedure was to do the blowing the day after the storm, then let it set in the sun to melt and dry all snow.

1Shoe plate: the vertical round piece of metal that is attached to the blades that throw the snow up and through the chute...not to be confused with the spiral blades that feed this mechanism.

BAH