i spent most of Tuesday and all of Wednesday working from home and avoiding the snow. I don’t have cable so it was network TV for me and I was able to enjoy the excessive local coverage of the snow. I think the snow/school closing s is the one topic that has made the local media take a break from the Steelers as the lead story. I just want to share one of my favorite highlights of the winter weather coverage - Yvonne Zanos demonstrating the wovel.


Shovel + wheel = wovel

Thats right kids, a snow shovel on a big wheel. You can watch the entire segment here at KDKA.com. The best part was when Zanos ran into the curb. I also liked how she had other people test out the wovel.

Here are some other things we learned about the wovel:
- the wovel takes about 30 mins to assemble
- KDKA bought the wovel to test last year, but there was no snow last winter, so they forgot about the wovel until someone saw it sitting on a shelf
- Don’t use the wovel on ice or hard packed snow
- You can’t buy the wovel in stores, but you can buy it online.

So if you have no life at all and if you have a few days to sit in your house and wait for your wovel to arrive, maybe the inch of ice that arrived on Tuesday will have melted and you might be able to use your new wovel. If you are an average Pittsburgh resident who like needs to leave the house like today - the wovel really won’t help you.

Thanks KDKA for sharing this product that you currently cannot get it Pittsburgh and does nothing to help anyone in Pittsburgh with their current snow/ice removal. As always helpful tips from your local media to help you survive the storm.

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