This year's heavy snow – and even snow in places that never usually see it – has meant that many of us are contending with snowy driveways for the first time. Shoveling all that snow can get pretty ...

While the rest of the neighborhood was digging out, Alex Geier had little problem leaving his house in Hinsdale, Illinois, around 7:30 each morning last winter, no matter how much snow had piled up ...