Built-in timer with floor fan is the way to go, that's awesome dude! We don't have one yet but I used fans at a couple jobs lately where I had to air off wet floors from mopping, etc, and it's amazing how fast a good floor fan works. We'll have to see how bad the water is this year I guess. It has only lightly dusted here in Northern Minnesota. Brown/green grass and ground all around right now. Pretty warm days followed by freezing nights, but again, no snow.
It will probably dump in January but last year was nightmarish. It snowed like 6 feet and my truck got buried. We hired someone to come plow the driveway and he just pushed all the snow into my truck, further trapping it behind like 10 feet of snow, lol!! I was pissed but at least I was able to get out. It looked like a lot of people were trapped in their houses last year. Snow blowers alone aren't enough to do the trick sometimes.
Wall of text I know but when we lived in MT again about 3 years ago, we lived north of butte in elk park/molten reservoir and I had a super nice electronic plow attached to an old white wood truck that I had. I used to plow the whole road up there... it was good times, felt like something I would love to do again. I used to plow the elderly lady's driveway as well, and as you know up in the mountains it's a pretty big job. She loved me for it though and I did it for free.
I also learned to put on chains for my truck and do all kinds of maintenance work then. Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow!
p.s. we would have kept the plow (it really was badass, bought it up in Missoula and permanently attached it to my old truck), but the neighbors offered us good money to keep it because theirs was getting old.. miss that old plow
