Nothing Happens At Ten

I am declaring that Winter is now officially over. You can bet on it.

I know this because of the Basic Snowblower Rule (the B S Rule), which is that just as soon as you need a snowblower, the snowblower will stop working. That happened to us during the previous snow storm, when the Augernaut* developed a flat tire. Have you ever tried to steer a snowblower with a flat tire? It isn’t easy.

Here’s the problem.

Snowblowers have tubeless, pneumatic tires on them. They do. I suppose they do that to get better mileage or something? I don’t know. You would think that a simple rubber donut would suffice as a tire on a snowblower, but nooooo, tubeless tires is what we get.

As it turns out, if a tubeless pneumatic tire goes sufficiently flat (which ours did), the bead will unseat itself from the rim and that leaves the tire off the rim and not inflatable until you can reseat it to the rim. Get out the shovels.

So, after spending the rest of the week and all of Saturday morning figuring out how to reseat the tire to the rim, we were finally successful…. and we got the tire inflated….. just as the sun came out.

And that brings us to the Corollary to the B S Rule, which is that having a working snowblower guarantees that there will be no more snow storms. Hence, the winter is over. I predicted that way back in 2011, when we got the snowblower, New Snowblower Arrives.

Sure, ten bucks says that we get no more snow storms this year.

He’s so easy.

*Augernaut is our nickname for our huge snowblower. See the explanation at Silly Terms I Use.