The Story of "The Sno-Angel"

My dad is an 88 years young senior who moved us to the United States from Chile, S.A over 40 years ago in pursuit of the American Dream. Until that point he was a Naval  Officer who had risen to the rank of Commander.  He found work at the Embassy in Washington DC and worked there for many years until he was laid off - forced into an early retirement.  
 

Not one to give up and having always had an entrepreneurial spirit he became a US Citizen, took several business courses and began an Import/Export business and later a Translation Services business which he ran in partnership with my mom for several years.  They dissolved that business a few years ago but that has not slowed my dad down!  

He has always enjoyed tinkering in his shop, in search of the next "big idea", and now he has found it!
 

I'll let him continue in his own words:
 

"Dear Friends, for years, before I left my country  of Chile to immigrate to the United States, I mainly lived in a mild climate area, with snow practically unknown, where people, especially kids, yearned to see even a little patch of snow.  When I was  growing up, I had to  travel to the snowy  mountain skirts of the Andes to get a taste of snow. So, it is understandable that my first winter experience in the US was like a dream come true!
 

Very quickly I had to get used to those beautiful snow storms and large accumulations. Yes, at the beginning, I can't deny my enthusiasm, playing with my girls in the  snow, engaging them with the traditional snowball  fights and building the best snowman. I even enjoyed using the old traditional shovel to remove the snow from around my home and car!  
 

Unfortunately, as I started to age, I'm sorry to say the dream began to turn into a nightmare!   Shoveling, scooping up, lifting and ultimately throwing heavy loads of snow aside became a tiresome and sometime painful process and not something I would recommend for seniors!  
 

I began to hear more often of people my age (and even younger!) getting hurt because of an activity that I used to consider a healthy exercise when I was a younger man. Now, back strains due to  over-exertions, and even heart failure in seniors are something that I hear about with alarming frequency!
 

Every year winter comes back even more threatening. If we consider these past winters as a warning of things to come, recent studies of climate changes should be taken seriously! Being a senior myself I've been meditating on how is it possible that after so many years of hearing about those dramatic cases of people becoming victims of heart attacks, because of exertions while shoveling snow, that something has not changed!   
 

My friends, that's exactly why I started to think about creating that 'something' to somehow ease those kind of painful experiences left by mother nature during those hard winters. I began to research many previous apparatus involved in snow removal, studying all possibilities of improvements and innovations.  
 

One night, an 'angel' appeared in my dream illuminating my brain to come up with the idea of an innovation that would definitely eliminate the body exertion in the final operation of disposing the snow. A snow plow/scoop cart built with light materials with a large scoop and a special mechanism that enables it to automatically dispose of the snow by gravity. Other innovations are also included like the one that enables it to also be used as a garden cart, allowing the user to forget the nightmares of winter and instead using it during Spring-time, filling it up with flowers or transporting bags of mulch.
 

My friends, that's not yet the end of the story. I'm grateful for the 'angel' that inspired me to design the snow plow/scoop cart and that's why I decided to name it 'The Sno-Angel' and I'm sure that if we could manufacture it, not only would it change my life at 88 years of age, but also that of many seniors like me, and in general that of anyone that will come to use it, hoping to safely engage that beautiful but often times dangerous snow!"