The only reason I (Doug) was able to go to work on Saturday morning was because our neighbour Bernie had snow-blowed the moraine at the end of the driveway. Had he not done so, I shudder to think how long it would have taken me to clear by hand. The only reason his snowblower was able to handle it all was because the end-of-driveway snow bank stuck up above the rest - he was unable to penetrate the ice-embedded-snow you can see on our driveway here.