Leaf blowers are the devil, gas powered ones doubly so. Just my opinion. I recommend a rake, and if that's too onerous, a neighbour kid with a rake. At least in cities, blowers are a scheme by corporations to feed a war, neighbour against neighbour, to push all the leaves away and make them Somebody Else's Problem, with the final result, after the same debris has travelled back and forth up and down the block aided by the expenditure of a whole taxi fleet's year's worth of hydrocarbon pollution, of the entire mass ending up plugging the gutters and drains all along the street just in time for the onset of the monsoon season, resulting in a belated overtime effort by overtaxed civic workers to dredge and collect the sodden lot, all of which could have been avoided, including flooded basements, if the good citizens had had the integrity to collect and bag their leaves instead of trying to push them over the property line. It's an annual spectacle of irresponsibility.
Bothered, no, I'm not bothered, not in the least. Why do you ask? (Wow, that's quite a sentence eh? I'm dangerous in rant mode...)
