Tales from a snowstorm

Posted at 1:19 PM on February 22, 2011 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

If you're a fan of Car Talk, perhaps you heard the caller last weekend who wondered whether it would be possible to make a plow for her car.

This week on Car Talk, Leanne is tired of shelling out 50 bucks per blizzard to escape her driveway, so she's trying to design a mini-snowplow for her Subaru. Leanne's husband thinks she's nuts, but Tom and Ray think she just might be the late-night infomercial's new best friend.

Listen to the call here.

Leave it to a Minnesotan to come up with the answer:

But Leanne was talking about something a little more "homemade." Like this, only workable:

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Comments (3)

Then, of course, there's the bike plow...

Posted by Ken Paulman | February 22, 2011 2:01 PM

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I have used the Solotec plow that fastens on to your car. It worked great with my Volvo wagon to plow a long country drive!

Posted by Jean Binkovitz | February 22, 2011 3:34 PM

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Is that wooden thing a snow plow or a snow groomer? I have seen the same think being used on ball diamonds. Come on. Really?

Posted by Josh | February 22, 2011 3:36 PM

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