What Item Has Your Snowblower Accidentally Eaten Up?

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Remember way back in the day, early to mid-January of this year, when the snow kept a-coming — sometimes too quickly to move stuff off the ground, or to notice dropped things before they got covered?

What item has your snowblower accidentally eaten up?


Doug Read, Tahoe City
Woodworker

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A 100-foot extension cord that fortunately was unplugged at the time. It took 25 minutes to get it out of the auger. Now I have five 20-foot extension cords.

Jessica Penman, Truckee
President and CEO, Truckee Chamber of Commerce

A wallet: My boyfriend climbed on the snowbank in snowshoes and used a rake to find all the cards (and cash) that had been in the wallet. He managed to find pieces of the cards and the remains of a $100 bill. My ID was found whole!

Keith Leary, Kings Beach
Heavy equipment operator

A co-worker got a Christmas tree caught up in one.

 

Jenni Valdivia, Reno
First and foremost, a mom

A can of orange spray paint. Pretty cool watching it spray in the snow.

Wade Snider, Tahoma
Photographer

Not my snowblower, but the West Shore Market blower entombed my wallet in an ice bank, to be excavated four days later with a hammer they generously loaned me. (Watch a video of the finding here.)

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  • Ted Coakley III

    Lived: OH-TX-OK-CA-NY-CA Visited (work and/or non-work): many states all over the U.S., MX, Canada, Central & South America, Asia & Europe. High on my wish list is Ireland, all over Africa, New Zealand, Russia, Norway, China, Iran, Bhutan, Ecuador, Iceland, Bali, Baja .... well, okay, any/everywhere would be great to visit. Worked: photo, film/video, manual labor, high finance, menial, profound. Someone recently asked me, "You like to talk to people that others don't like to talk to?" I answered that I do like doing that, as much as talking to anyone else, but it's not "a thing" for me that I'm especially into. A day or two later, it struck me why I was asked that - because a lot of people are not like that ... not like me in that way. I'm glad I'm not like others in that way. ¡All for fun and fun for all!

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