What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower?

[Paul Farquhar]

The gas powered ones are like standing in front of your car's exhaust pipe, too. I cannot imagine a homeowner willingly jacking up the risk of lung cancer and Alzheimer's. At a minimum, use an electric one. But yes, a rake and broom are fine. (Or just letting the leaves decompose in place, which is amazing for your yard!)

They tend to be used to blow leaves onto other people’s property or the street rather than actually clear them up, so also add antisocial.

 

[trappedslider]

It feels like xkcd is just subtweeting Elon Musk 99% of the time nowadays.

i don't think you pay attention to xkcd much if you think that

 

[Ryujin]

The gas powered ones are like standing in front of your car's exhaust pipe, too. I cannot imagine a homeowner willingly jacking up the risk of lung cancer and Alzheimer's. At a minimum, use an electric one. But yes, a rake and broom are fine. (Or just letting the leaves decompose in place, which is amazing for your yard!)

Toronto banned the use weed killer. Now our groundskeepers use propane burners to remove weeds from sidewalks.

 

[The Soloist]

The gas powered ones are like standing in front of your car's exhaust pipe, too. I cannot imagine a homeowner willingly jacking up the risk of lung cancer and Alzheimer's. At a minimum, use an electric one. But yes, a rake and broom are fine. (Or just letting the leaves decompose in place, which is amazing for your yard!)

My electric leafblower has a reverse mode that sucks leaves in and crumbles them into a nice mulch I can spread elsewhere where it's needed. Another benefit is that it can suck dead leaves from hard to reach dense bushes.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Toronto banned the use weed killer. Now our groundskeepers use propane burners to remove weeds from sidewalks.

That should work out fine in a warming, drying world.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My electric leafblower has a reverse mode that sucks leaves in and crumbles them into a nice mulch I can spread elsewhere where it's needed. Another benefit is that it can suck dead leaves from hard to reach dense bushes.

Much love for those that both suck and blow.

 

[Ryujin]

That should work out fine in a warming, drying world.

Rob's Law of Unintended Consequences at play. (I'm the Rob referenced) Kind of like how when they banned a poison from being used as an octane enhancer, in gasoline, and it got replaced with a carcinogen.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Rob's Law of Unintended Consequences at play.

That was a rough episode of Game of Thrones.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

The gas powered ones are like standing in front of your car's exhaust pipe, too. I cannot imagine a homeowner willingly jacking up the risk of lung cancer and Alzheimer's. At a minimum, use an electric one. But yes, a rake and broom are fine. (Or just letting the leaves decompose in place, which is amazing for your yard!)

You've never met my dad, then. He was a madman about never letting anything stay on the driveway that wasn't a car. He'd vacuum the maple seeds up and then get out the leafblower.

He's dead now. Lung cancer.

 

[MGibster]

Flamethrowers were used to clear some of the 8 inches of snow that fell on Washington D.C. on the eve of Kennedy's inauguration courtesy of the US Army Corps of Engineers.