Broke down and got one

I'm not sure what the total is but it's a lot. Snow. Snow Snow. And what made it worse was the drifts. So we were asked to leave work yesterday at 10 am. Menards in our town just built a MegaMenards and and the old one is having a supersale. I stop by after work yesterday but no snowblowers. I knew I either had to buy one somewhere or call someone to plow because there was no way I was going to be able to clear the driveway again (I spent an hour and a half yesterday morning removing a 20x40x3 foot drift in front of the garage to get my Jeep out). My intentions this year was to locate the best end of year sale to try and get the best deal, but when a blizzard hits, you just have to do what you have to do. So from Menards I head on over to Sears to see what they have and luckily for me there was a sale.
I ended up getting the biggest one they had in stock which is a 9hp 28in snowblower. This was needed cause my very used 10hp 32in snowblower blew up the very first snowfall of this year leaving me to shovel since. I was keeping up pretty good, but I was no match for what came down yesterday. I buy the blower on sale with a 5 year "at home or in home" warranty w/ zero % interest for a year. Not a bad deal all the way around.
Get home, unload, assemble and have to get gas. Back out in the elements I go, winds a blazing, drifts a forming. There was a little amount of gas in the container but I thougt that that would be ok to mix w/ 2-3 gallons of new. Wrong. I get home fill the gas tank, plug 'r in and fire it up. It starts but runs a little funny. Old Gas. I knew it right away. So after kicking myself I dump out all the new/old gas in a snow bank behind my house and go in for a late lunch break. An couple hours later I get all dressed again and head on out. The drift in front of the garage in now huge and very deep but I have a Jeep right? Wrong. Stuck. Shoveling it out my Jeep does something it's not supposed...the doors all locked while the car was running - it's not supposed to allow the drivers to lock when the door is open. So my jeep is stuck in a huge snow bank, locked and running. I was almost ready to explode. Get the spare, open it up, turn it off and continue to dig it out. Get that done and try to clear a bit of a path to the road by knocking the top foot of snow off. Put it in 4Lo and drop the hammer and out I go. On the way to gas station about a mile down the terrible unplowed drifting road and I come accross a Ford Windstar van that is stuck in the middle of the road. He has a strap. So I turn around and hook him up to the back of my truck and spend the next 1/2 hour trying to yank him out. After a while we have success and I say it's not meant to be and head back home.
About 8 pm the winds stop, the plows go thru, traffic starts to pick up again. I say to myself do I really want to move all that snow in the morning cause I know that it's going to be a bitch for me to leave and IMPOSSIBLE for Tori to get out. So for the third time I jump back in the truck and make my way to the gas station. Put it in 4Lo again and hammer it....made it to the driveway/road enterance....half way out...stuck. AGAIN! This time I'm only stuck a little bit. Kinda thankful I was cause there was a really big suv (08 Chevy Suburban) coming that had to hit the brakes and if I would've made thru the snow bank we could've hit. Wow. So I run to the garage, grab the shovel, remove the snow from infront and behind the tire and under the car and I pop out really easy. Off I go. Make it there (roads are bad), get 93 Octane...come back, fill 'r up, fire' r up and she's running like a pro (I drained the tank of the old stuff right after it happened before). The next two and half hours I spent outside w/ my new snowblower. We got to know each other pretty good. Made it to bed about 11:30 or so. More snow removal tonight as last night was just the essential areas to get out of the driveway and back door. Crazy. Bye.