Ken I feel for you, we were dumped 20" of snow yesterday. All highways into this area were closed down. I had drifts 3 to 4' high, and like you my dogs looked at it and said NO WAY. I had to make a path for them to get out. Today I got the tractor out and bladed the drive, then took the step daughter to work. While I was out a neighbor with a road grader bladed the road. tractor out again to get the snow ridge out of the drive. temp has been a high of 11 today, and expected to get -11 tonight. Now just so you know I an in south west Missouri. We get some temperatures below 32, but not staying below for long. As for snow, ok we get one good load each year, and it begins melting the next day.