With the white stuff coming down today, we at The Tony Marino Team of Royal LePage Top Producers Real Estate thought we take a couple minutes and tell everybody to be careful when you shovel snow.
In the 18 years in real estate I have had to shovel out a few sidewalks, driveways, and front steps to get homes ready to be shown. Let me tell you, it's not always fun.
When you stop and think about it, you can be pushing a couple hundred pounds of snow sometimes depending how large the driveway, front walk and steps are. The simple way of moving all that snow safely is to take small manageable sized shovel fulls of snow and pace yourself. Take your time, don't rush! Every year you hear the stories on the news of someone having a heart attack from shovelling snow.
Pick a shovel that is light, plastic is the best, and one with a scoop. You want to push the snow if you can, as mentioned above in small manageable loads, if you have to lift, bend at the knees and lift with your legs and not your back.
If the time has come that you can't shovel your own snow, hire a service to do it for you, there is nothing wrong with doing that.
Enjoy yourselves this winter and be safe!
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