MINNEAPOLIS — With over a foot of snow or more on the ground across the Twin Cities, many find themselves putting in the time.
"About an hour -- so went quicker than I thought," said Rachel Craig, who was shoveling her driveway in Golden Valley.
Digging out, while making light of the fluffy stuff.
"It's good exercise, I guess," said Craig.
Efforts, that for Craig, are leading to meaningful results.
"I've actually met a lot of my neighbors that way so it's kind of nice," she said.
And across the metro in the Lyndale Neighborhood of Minneapolis...
"Might as well do the whole street," said Nicholas Hoffmann.
The digging-out process for Hoffmann is urgent.
"Usually we have to do this, take matters into our own hands," said Hoffmann.
And it's all business with no breaks in between -- for good reasoning.
"We kind of want to do a like a clearance of the whole street because we've kind of been used to seeing like, in these like narrow situations like our cars getting kind of scraped up," explained Hoffmann.
Necessary work that's paying off while teaching life lessons...
"Yeah now I understand why people have snow blowers," laughed Hoffmann.
One scoop at a time.
"It doesn't take years off my life, it actually probably adds a few," said Hoffmann.
If you're one of the many people who will be out shoveling the next few days, the National Safety Council recommends taking things slow, lifting with your legs instead of your back and trying not to shovel after eating.
For more shoveling safety tips from the Council, click here.
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