SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - On Sunday morning, Michiana was confronted by a sudden polar white landscape. It was beautiful, with all the world’s imperfections coated in frozen white.

Our garages, though, did not look the same. More than a few of us had a dust-coated snowblower with a clogged carburetor sitting in a corner that wouldn’t start.

“Generally, what we’re running into about 90 percent of the time is a fuel-related issue,” said Adam Weaver of Weaver Outdoors. “Most of the time, people leave fuel in their snowblowers. Gas station fuel has ethanol in it.”

Weaver Outdoors does extensive snowblower repairs and maintenance. Weaver says do-it-yourselfers are capable of opening up a clogged carburetor, emptying their tank of fouled fuel, and often getting a snowblower back in action. We

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