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As stated above, I live in North Central Wisconsin, with all the winter weather adventures that this entails. This little guy is great for just about anything you're going to need it for. Now that I have an entire winter under my belt with the Snow Joe, I can honestly say that it performed well above what I ever expected from a plastic, electric unit. We got some pretty impressive snows, last winter, up to 26 inches at a time of wet and heavy snow. The fist time we got 12 inches, I expected to have to call my brother-in-law and have him lend me his gas unit. But the Snow Joe handled it. I had to take two passes to get the full 12 inches, taking about 6 inches, then backing up and getting it clean to the concrete. But compared to a shovel, or a the hassle and cost of a two stage gas unit, it was great. It even handled the packed and frozen stuff the city plow leaves in front of the curbside mailbox. It's so light that if I need to reposition it, I just pick it up and carry it to the next place. As far as cord issues, I find that this is really no more hassle than you have while vacuuming, and once you work out a system for your particular drive/sidewalk, it gets second nature. I did store the unit in the house, since it was small enough. I just put down a garbage bag, with an old towel on top, to catch the melt. By the end of the 2012/2013 winter, the snow piles in our boulevard were to tall for me to see over, at 6'1" tall, and our mailbox was accessed through a little hole we'd dug into that snow bank. The Snow Joe had thrown all of it there, including the heavy piles left by the plow. I worked it well above what the designers meant it to do, I'm sure, but it handled it. Other than an occasional scratch from the odd rock and a missing sticker, or two, it barely looks used. Recommended, whole-heartedly, by this Wisconsinite, who's happy to no longer have to break his back, shoveling.