Earth-Shattering

California Confession

I have redrafted my knowledge of snow machinery. Until this week I had never seen a snowblower. Sometime throughout my young life I conceptualized that a snowblower would have the same design and structure as a leafblower*. However unlike a leafblower, a snowblower would shoot out a thin column of flames to melt the snow. 

*an object I had only seen in movies

Revelation

On my drive to work yesterday I witnessed my neighbors and city workers doing something very odd. Men and women were "mowing" every snowy sidewalks with walkable contraptions that shot the "mowed" snow in a perpendicular direction. A thought crossed my mind as I paused at a slushy stop sign: perhaps this is a snowblower.

A SNOWBLOWER
Photo: HomeDepot.com

The thought clicked in my mind like the first time I heard the intended pronunciation of the Hogwart's houses. Thus, I have gained Midwest Knowledge and now have a patent pending for a "Snow Fireball".