It did fine for me. I had quite a few from a previous storm and it did okay, depending on the angle. It really has preformed very well the few times I've used it so far. I use to use the leaf blower to blow the leaves down the driveway into a pile for pickup, or blow them the other way into a scattered pile into the woodline, but now I can just drive them down to the pickup point on the curb, dump and go back for another load. This is, of course, after I have mulched all the leaves my lawn can absorb for one cool season.

Beware!!! i got those by buying food in walmart .you can get them enywhere you buy food expecially pet food. check packages before purchacing . if you see web or larve dont buy it. I have eliminated successfully the indian moth . by trowing away every open and anything that showed sign of contamination . sprayed interior out and toop of my cabinet with flying incest killer . then 24 hour later i cleaned every single cabinet with bleach and dish soap. then placed in containers the good food and wiped clean cans with alcohol. then 3 days later placed everything back in the cabinets and placed a lavender leaf in cabinet also you can use moht balls to repel them. after that even if you see 3 or 4 flying around. kill them for peace of mind but after they dont find more food they will not lay eggs cause larva will starve to death.

That is part of the zone alarm free package now and it has an option at install to check to install that or uncheck to not install it. Most of the tech forums are saying do not install it because it will install the ask.com tool bar which has some complaints against it. See here info on ask.com And it seems to cause some problems with some types of webmail. I have seen reports of it killing yahoo mail in firefox. here is a link to the zone alarm forums regarding the spyblocker and the toolbar and instructions on how to delete it. info from zone alarm I also found a report on techguy forum someone saying that once they had that spyblocker it caused their pc to freeze when trying to view images and when it was deleted that stopped. All in all I am seeing a lot of issues related to that BHO spyblocker with ask.com so I think I would say don't install it and if you do have it go to Control Panel> add remove programs> wait for the list then find the zone alarm spyblocker >select it to hilight it then hit the remove button.

I love the Oreck products - my upright ultra-light vac is about 15 yrs old now, works like it did the first day. I have two of the cannister types with soft brush attachements, great for things like lamp shades etc. This Fall I added the floor steam cleaner, somehow its a little more work than I'd imagined but it really does produce a clean floor. I was in the Oreck shop just yesterday and bought more 'bonnets' for the steamer, my one complaint would be that the cleaner should have come with more than one each style/weight. joyfulguy, I took my dishwashers into the laser clinic in one of our local doctors offices last Spring - 5 minutes and $150 later, the brown spots were gone ;) If they don't come back for another 62 years, I'll consider it a good investment.