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July 11, 2026

Plow

by David M Willis on July 11, 2021 at 12:01 am
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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    July 11, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    and it won’t melt until June

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      July 11, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

      –of some year in the 2030s.

      • Wagstaff
        Wagstaff
        July 11, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

        Wonder how many crazy things will happen before then….

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      July 11, 2021 at 1:02 am | #

      Lots of them, and you can take that to the bank. At least until the bank melts.

    • Anna
      Anna
      July 11, 2021 at 3:18 am | #

      I used to live next to a place where they dumped snow in winter, coming from a big part of town I think, so there really was a lot of snow. The pile didn’t melt all summer, but of course it was black by then, because of all the dirt mixed in. 🙁

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 11, 2021 at 8:57 am | #

      This strip was probably written in February or March, and judging by the tense the alt-text probably was as well. I wonder how long that snow mound actually lasted.

      Back in 2015, when we had back-to-back-to-back blizzards for half the winter, Boston had a snow farm like that in a big parking lot in the seaport. It took until July 14th to completely melt away..

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      July 11, 2021 at 9:31 am | #

      Back when ‘Mighty Machines‘ was being produced, Montreal had a snow dumping area which was undercut by rushing water (presumably from the St. Lawrence) that would flush the snow away. The snow would be collected up by truck and brought to the dumping sluice.

    • raultsi
      raultsi
      July 11, 2021 at 10:32 am | #

      i remember finding dirt encrusted snow/ice on the 4th of July after big snowy winters.

    • Some Ed
      Some Ed
      July 11, 2021 at 12:11 pm | #

      There was a rather ridiculous amount of snow one year in the prior decade; I’m forgetting which. My employer had excellent work-from-home capability for administrative staff even before SARS2/Covid, and the building I worked out of when I actually went into work was 99% administrative staff, with the 1% being janitorial and cafeteria staff. The building had three parking lots. One small lot for visitors, two large lots for employees.

      We rented the employee lots to the city. They made piles like this in them, and then made most of us work from home until they melted enough. It *seemed* like that would take years, but everyone who typically went into the office was back to going into the office by June and they finished melting in late July.

  2. Paul Grant
    Paul Grant
    July 11, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Been There done that, anywhere North of Indy

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      July 11, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

      Same, except in upstate New York.

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 11, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

        You can’t fool us with all this talk of this mythical snow substance. If it was frozen water, it would be like ice-cubes, and then how would it get up in the sky?

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          July 11, 2021 at 1:04 am | #

          The IU Engineering school has been building trebuchets for charity. ’nuff said.

          • Pinkie
            Pinkie
            July 11, 2021 at 1:36 am | #

            Snowball fight!

            • Pinkie
              Pinkie
              July 11, 2021 at 1:37 am | #

              Which reminds me, my local college built a watermelon cannon.

              • Clif
                Clif
                July 11, 2021 at 9:29 am | #

                If they froze them first, you could have had flurries of snowmelons.

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  July 11, 2021 at 11:55 am | #

                  I do believe they are called Winter Melons, unless I’m mistaken. From what I’ve heard, they make for excellent zombie defense.

    • plasticwrap
      plasticwrap
      July 13, 2021 at 12:25 am | #

      Same except Northwest Ohio. Go Falcons!

  3. BBCC
    BBCC
    July 11, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Ahhhhh, the giant snow piles. The only thing missing is people climbing it.

    • Clif
      Clif
      July 11, 2021 at 12:34 am | #

      Next to a college campus and no-one climbing it. Sounds pretty sus to me.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        July 11, 2021 at 7:38 am | #

        They need to steal lunch trays from the cafeteria to use as sleds.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          July 11, 2021 at 10:27 am | #

          I covered the bottom of a pizza box in duct tape one year. It worked surprisingly well until the cardboard got soggy.

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            July 11, 2021 at 11:34 am | #

            Wouldn’t packing tape have a lower friction coefficient? But if the hill is steep enough probably it wouldn’t matter. And of course the most important metric would be the coefficient of fun had, especially since as Cfh goes to infinity all other terms disappear.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              July 11, 2021 at 7:33 pm | #

              It was kind of like sledding on a shovel or an inner tube. You went where the snow took you. (And some of the ruts weaved around a lot!)

    • JA
      JA
      July 11, 2021 at 11:30 pm | #

      Or tunneling through it.

  4. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 11, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Nah, Sal’s just reached the edge of the world where the Other Mother ran out of ideas.

    • Nayann Martinelli
      Nayann Martinelli
      July 11, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

      Thanks to you, I’ll have to watch and read Coraline again.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        July 11, 2021 at 12:49 am | #

        You’re very welcome.

  5. Wagstaff
    Wagstaff
    July 11, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    *plays “Frozen City Theme” by Jukio Kallio on Voxola PR-76*

  6. He Who Abides
    He Who Abides
    July 11, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Wait, is that a real thing?

    (Southern, not familiar with this “snow” of which you speak).

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      July 11, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

      Oh, trust me, it’s for real all right.  All those street-level parking lots, walkways, access roads, and what-have-you, they’ve got to be cleared — and what Mother Nature dumped has got to be taken somewhere.

    • Black
      Black
      July 11, 2021 at 12:41 am | #

      You get some very large, temporary mountains here and there.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        July 11, 2021 at 1:28 am | #

        I was little in Ottawa, Canada, and the snowplow would come down our street and none of the adults liked having the resulting snow ridges blocking them into their driveways, but all that snow did have to go somewhere. My dad talked to the snowplow guy, and every year, instead of blocking all the driveways, we got to have ALL the snow just on our blank front yard, it was the BEST.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          July 11, 2021 at 1:32 am | #

          My brothers and I named it Mt. Tanenbaum, and we weren’t supposed to dig tunnels through it or play on the streetwards side of the snow-mountain, but we totally did anyway. ❄

          • eh, whatever
            eh, whatever
            July 11, 2021 at 5:35 am | #

            Tunneling is the whole point! 🙂

            • Leorale
              Leorale
              July 11, 2021 at 7:42 am | #

              I agree! My mom was anxious that the tunnel would collapse and bury us. Or that we’d tunnel right into the street and a car would hit us, since they probably weren’t looking for tiny snowsuited children popping out of a mountain. But it turned out OK.

        • Tan
          Tan
          July 11, 2021 at 4:22 am | #

          Your dad is a good neighbor

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            July 11, 2021 at 11:02 pm | #

            They spelled it neighbour, but yes. 🇨🇦
            In the spring, he and I also helped spread the lovely red poppies that grew in a field nearby. Each year we’d feel so happy as the poppies got more numerous. We didn’t learn until years later that we were both doing it — plus everyone who specifically mowed around the poppies so they could keep growing. We were all working together, and never even knew.

    • Moon
      Moon
      July 11, 2021 at 2:30 am | #

      From the midwest. Yeah.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        July 11, 2021 at 5:03 am | #

        Also from the Midwest, can confirm we have giant piles of snow in parking lots during the winter.

        • Pilgrim
          Pilgrim
          July 11, 2021 at 11:53 am | #

          Also from the Midwest but must point out that DoA Bloomington has gotten way more snow than IRL Bloomington gets in an average decade.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      July 11, 2021 at 2:17 pm | #

      Yep, snow piles are a very real thing and there’s always college students, teenagers or children (depending on location) climbing them. They mostly live in parking lots or the yards of non-residential areas like schools.

  7. Mr D
    Mr D
    July 11, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Cue:
    Bicycle race by Queen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GugsCdLHm-Q

  8. CapedLuigisYoshi
    CapedLuigisYoshi
    July 11, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    Ahh, a clever ploy to avoid drawing more background. I respect it.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      July 11, 2021 at 1:37 am | #

      So THAT’S what he’s up to. He had me fooled. What a clever snow job.

      • KingoHrts
        KingoHrts
        July 11, 2021 at 6:45 am | #

        Slow (envious) clap. Well done.

        • Clif
          Clif
          July 11, 2021 at 9:38 am | #

          Clapping is too much effort but I’m right there with the envy.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 11, 2021 at 9:03 am | #

      She’s going to pass John Oliver in his endless blank void soon. (Or maybe find her way to Muncie and the blank dimension Garfield inhabits.)

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        July 11, 2021 at 11:37 am | #

        Ah yes, the endless void of existence without meaning that is the truth behind Garfield minus Garfield

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      July 11, 2021 at 10:10 am | #

      I was just thinking that last panel must have been EASY to draw…

    • Lieutenant Dan
      Lieutenant Dan
      July 11, 2021 at 12:25 pm | #

      That blank panel is wandering dangerously close to 9CL territory.

  9. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    July 11, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

    Ah, yes, Frappe Snowland.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      July 11, 2021 at 12:45 am | #

      I think you mean Everfrost Peak.

      • Nick
        Nick
        July 11, 2021 at 2:47 am | #

        Right next to Snowball Valley.

  10. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    July 11, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    Oh, I love that. Of course, being in Texas, I can admire snow from pretty afar, most of the time.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      July 11, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      Most of the time…

      hope ya had fun in fuckin’ cancun, ted

      • JBento
        JBento
        July 11, 2021 at 6:25 am | #

        Still can’t believe the fucker LEFT THE DOG BEHIND!

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          July 11, 2021 at 9:31 am | #

          I can. Rafael Cruz is a dick.

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          July 11, 2021 at 9:34 am | #

          I am unafamiliar with this. Is the dog OK?

          • Clif
            Clif
            July 11, 2021 at 9:53 am | #

            The dog is fine. Crazy Ted deposited the family in Cancun and headed back. Personally I would have been fine if he had stayed there. Preferably permanently.

            As it happens, neither my electricity nor water was cut off, but if it had been and I had the option of transferring to Cancun for the duration, I would have been all over it. Of all the things I blame Crazy Ted for, Cancun doesn’t even make the bottom of the list.

            • Demoted Oblivious
              Demoted Oblivious
              July 11, 2021 at 11:41 am | #

              My sympathy to you all, not that it’ll take up a lot of space in the truckloads of thoughts and prayers. We’re in no position to throw stones here in Canuck-land.

  11. Cholma
    Cholma
    July 11, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    Looks like somebody called Klondike5-3226 for “Mr. Plow”!

  12. butts
    butts
    July 11, 2021 at 12:20 am | #

    ah, yeah, it’ll still be around come graduation

  13. Kravis
    Kravis
    July 11, 2021 at 12:22 am | #

    The Indiana University campus is a nice place to get plowed.

  14. Ray Radlein
    Ray Radlein
    July 11, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

    If she had waited just a couple more feet before saying it, that third panel would have been her cartoonist’s easiest background yet

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      July 11, 2021 at 11:43 am | #

      Has there been an easier background? (or at least easier on the same scale?) Wouldn’t there’ve been plenty of blank wall panels behind various close-ups?

  15. Tan
    Tan
    July 11, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

    Sal will now spend the rest of the day here, with other cast members coming and going, so that Willis no longer has to draw backgrounds.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 11, 2021 at 9:06 am | #

      She passes a bus stop, where a grumpy blonde and her huge dog are waiting for their ride.

  16. ktbear
    ktbear
    July 11, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

    Hmmm, seems like the perfect place to stash a body. Who are we missing?

    • Pinkie
      Pinkie
      July 11, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

      Mike.

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 11, 2021 at 9:22 am | #

        I miss Mike. But opinions vary.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      July 11, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

      It’s not unusual, at least on our local campus, to see people with metal detectors in the spring of the year going over the area where the snow was dumped to see what else (rings, bracelets, coins, etc) also got scooped up and hauled off.

  17. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    July 11, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

    Giant piles of plowed snow are the second best thing on earth.

    The first bit is when it’s a naturally formed snow drift against a building or the like.

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      July 11, 2021 at 12:42 am | #

      playing on these is the absolute greatest thing when you’re 8

      • demonmonkey89
        demonmonkey89
        July 11, 2021 at 1:07 am | #

        It’s still in the top 10 greatest things when you are.18-21 at university. It’s the time of life where you get to rediscover being a kid since most people won’t judge you and your parents can’t tell you no.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        July 11, 2021 at 5:04 am | #

        I loved playing on the giant snow piles when I was a kid.

  18. Pocky
    Pocky
    July 11, 2021 at 1:00 am | #

    Real talk; they did this at my job.

    We had a hill of snow that lasted until it was like 75 degrees outside

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 11, 2021 at 9:08 am | #

      It really helps you understand how they got ice all year long back in the days before refrigeration.

  19. Aggrax
    Aggrax
    July 11, 2021 at 1:31 am | #

    Once spring hits it will get smaller and dirtier until you’re left with a strange black pile in the parking lot just big enough to get in the way.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      July 11, 2021 at 1:39 am | #

      Counter-prediction: It will all vanish on April 1st, wholly-coincidental and not-at-all-related to various Greek prank wars.

  20. pdp15
    pdp15
    July 11, 2021 at 1:51 am | #

    Beware the Sootis …

    https://tinyl.io/4QeR

  21. AGV
    AGV
    July 11, 2021 at 1:51 am | #

    I can’t believe that no one posted the RIGHT soundtrack to this strip: https://youtu.be/gexTc0YbYx8

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      July 11, 2021 at 5:11 am | #

      That’s good for the bike riding part. Perhaps this for the giant snow pile:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 11, 2021 at 9:13 am | #

      Why not this?
      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jSQkFYziGNU

  22. Chris Phoenix
    Chris Phoenix
    July 11, 2021 at 2:16 am | #

    OK, I went to college for a year in Potsdam, NY, where they held the Winter Olympics one year. I never saw one of these huge snow piles. Now I’m feeling like I really, really got cheated.

    Perhaps it was a different way of handling snow – haul it away rather than just push it up in little mini-ridges everywhere. Things may have changed since 1986. Even though Billy Joel says nothing can be new since then (and yes, I’m dating myself again).

    • Ryek Hvek
      Ryek Hvek
      July 11, 2021 at 9:40 am | #

      Was that one of the years when you (if a freshman) were issued a Zenith computer?

      • Chris Phoenix
        Chris Phoenix
        July 13, 2021 at 5:26 am | #

        I think it was a Zenith. Basically a clone of the IBM PC XT. Two floppy drives, no hard drive, 8 (or 10?) MHz CPU.

        I was in the Clarkson School, in one of those houses across the bridge from the main campus. The house was so old you could go into the basement and see the tree trunks (with bark still on) holding up the first floor.

        And so poorly insulated and poorly heated that you could leave a glass of water on your windowsill and it would freeze overnight. A couple of days it was so cold first thing in the morning that the floppy drives didn’t work right. Good times.

        I heard they tore down that house just a year or two after I went there.

  23. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    July 11, 2021 at 2:38 am | #

    Now I feel like I should have taken a picture of the snow mountain my town created last weeks where for several weeks they dumped 700 trucks of snow a day. Well, I do have a picture of it from two weeks ago but it looks less impressive now.

    I live 63° north, we didn’t used to get glaciers here. . .

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      July 11, 2021 at 9:45 am | #

      Cousin! My paternal grandparents were Norwegian. (yah I’m guessing here, but ’tis fun)

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      July 11, 2021 at 11:48 am | #

      Last winter, not weeks. Ugh.

      And I’m in Sweden. Close enough right.

  24. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 11, 2021 at 3:03 am | #

    Time for Climb it! GO Sal! But maybe do it with someone, like all your friend (or just with Danny). That would be great!

  25. BenRG
    BenRG
    July 11, 2021 at 3:19 am | #

    “Just for once, I want one or two panels without over-complex background taking up most of my time!” — David M Willis.

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    July 11, 2021 at 4:14 am | #

    “Let’s all hang out in this giant pile of snow for three months worth of strips so the author doesn’t have to draw backgrounds”

  27. Eldritchy
    Eldritchy
    July 11, 2021 at 4:48 am | #

    Welcome to the Snow Zone

  28. Keulen
    Keulen
    July 11, 2021 at 5:00 am | #

    When I was a kid, they plowed giant snow piles like that in the parking lot near where my dad worked, and we used to climb them and play in them for fun on weekends during the winter.

  29. Amos Batista
    Amos Batista
    July 11, 2021 at 6:45 am | #

    Sal just has entered a l i m i n a l s p a c e.

    • Spriteless Auntie
      Spriteless Auntie
      July 11, 2021 at 2:56 pm | #

      Is that… a Bob and George reference?

      • Amos Batista
        Amos Batista
        July 12, 2021 at 9:12 am | #

        I really don’t know, I’ll search this comic.

  30. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    July 11, 2021 at 8:10 am | #

    hahaha wow

  31. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    July 11, 2021 at 8:34 am | #

    Huh, now I’m wondering if the UK just doesn’t get that much snow, even up here in the Highlands, so our ploughs can get away with just shoving it to the side of the road, or if I just don’t know where our snow mountain is.

    • Jake'm
      Jake'm
      July 11, 2021 at 10:55 am | #

      Given the current climate, we really just don’t get enough that it’s much of a problem outside of a coupla cold snaps a year. Scotland probably gets some more, but Wales is DEFINITELY running dry for proper snow.

      • Doom Shepherd
        Doom Shepherd
        July 11, 2021 at 5:09 pm | #

        I thought your 4 seasons were Rain, Fog, Rain and Fog, and Rain, rain, rain, spam, sausage and rain.

  32. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    July 11, 2021 at 2:54 pm | #

    A pile that big normally means something buried underneath it. What is this school trying to cover up?

    • Spriteless Auntie
      Spriteless Auntie
      July 11, 2021 at 2:58 pm | #

      It’s the women’s studies department. Leslie has the most well insulated place in the school now.

  33. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    July 11, 2021 at 10:11 pm | #

    After a huge snow storm, my town was basically locked down for a day while the snow was cleared.

    Afterwards my mom took my sibling and I on errands and we stumbled onto the huge pile where they dumped all the snow.

    We took pictures.
    It was a lot of snow.

  34. LazyReader
    LazyReader
    July 11, 2021 at 10:33 pm | #

    Mount Never-rest

    • Wagstaff
      Wagstaff
      July 11, 2021 at 11:08 pm | #

      Is that a Shark Boy and Lava Girl reference?

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