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Slow, steady shoveling will clear your car

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 02/12/10

The safest way to dig your vehicle out of a snowstorm of this magnitude is to give a 14-year-old boy $20 to do it for you.

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But if that's not possible, occupational therapist Julie Belkin advises motorists to follow her shoveling regimen: Always use insulated gloves, shovel small areas every few hours, and keep medication handy.

Shovelers also need to utilize a stop-and-go system of digging as early in a storm as possible.

"The biggest challenge in anything like shoveling, you've got 20 or 30 pounds of snow at the end of a long (shovel)," said Belkin, founder and president of the Stevensville-based...

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