Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 23, 2012

Turn off the engine and dig, dig, dig!!!

Here comes the sun…it’s OK…it’s all right.

(Oh, by the way, I’m Bill the Butcher. New ID)

Evil snow plow operators do this on purpose!

Didn’t I see you hanging up in the butcher shop?

Call Flo, she can use her Super Powers!!Sorry, wrong strip.

The irony is that New England’s had almost no snow this season.

Don’t you hate it when you try to predict the future and it doesn’t cooperate?

From yesterday. Snow was in 68 or 69. My mind ain’t what it used to be. Will have to call my Son to see when he was born.

maybe if I take the snow shovel out of the car it will snow….

4wheel drive! 4wheel drive!

My bad. Son born Nov 25, 1969. Snow March 29, 1970. About 7 inches. Is this close enough for an old man?

CO poisoning. Drama time!

Remember that news story about the guy in Sweden who lived in his car for two snow-trapped months? Well……

Of course, it hasn’t snowed in MA since December.

I live in Maine so I always keep a snow shovel in the car, because the plow will bury it, even in town.

Snow plow drivers are supposed to watch for stranded people and report it.

On my street they just plow down my mailbox. Friend in rural S central PA had just finished shoveling out his driveway after a storm (about 200 ft long) when a plow showed up, blowing everything off to the side of the road (snorkel truck). He stood at the end of the driveway, wielding his shovel like he was waiting for a pitch. Pilot truck ahead of the plow keyed a mike; plow stopped at the end of his property, swung the snorkel around into the street, and drove past his yard blowing the snow in front of him as he passed. Just past the driveway he stopped, waved to my buddy, turned the snorkel back toward the roadside and resumed plowing.

The heater won’t work if the car isn’t running. If the car’s running the battery doesn’t count so much.

“No more adventures!”—C-3PO, Star Wars: A New Hope

Every winter, my Father used to give the man who plowed our street a case of Scotch. Also the mailman, one bottle at a time of course and the trash men a case every Christmas. He didn’t pay for them, they fell off the back of a truck. The snow plow used to come as far up our driveway as possible and push the snow to the side.

Not only can you not melt it that way, you could die (from CO poisoning). I certainly hope that is not what GBT had in mind.