After Tuesday’s massive snow, residents are rushing to clean off their driveways and sidewalks and get back on the roads, but finding the equipment to do that in the village could be difficult.

Snow blowers are flying off the shelves of Bolingbrook stores.  The village’s Home Depot and Lowe’s stores were sold out of them by Wednesday morning.

One company, Power Equipment Direct, an online-based store run out of a Bolingbrook warehouse, may be the best place for locals to turn to this week, but they’d better do it quickly.

“It’s selling like Bears playoff tickets,” said CEO Jon Hoch about snow blowers.

According to the company’s website on Wednesday afternoon, 24 snow blowers were left to sell, ranging in price from $150 to $2,700. The company’s stash of almost 1,000 blowers in December has nearly been depleted, Hoch said.

With the recent blizzards on the East Coast and Tuesday’s local storm, Power Equipment Direct has more than tripled its sales of snow blowers since last January, selling about 3,700 last month compared to 1,100 in January 2010, Hoch said.

The showroom was closed Wednesday, but Hoch said locals interested in buying a snow blower could visit the business, located at 1325 Rodeo Drive, on Thursday or Friday to buy its remaining stock of snow blowing equipment. Even manufacturers are out of snow blowers, Hoch said.

“We bought everything we could get our hands on,” Hoch said. “The spigot is off.”

Hoch, 40,  started Power Equipment Direct in his basement about eight years ago and even without the storm’s help the company has been reporting steady profits.

In 2009, the company pulled in about $29 million in revenue, which soared to just under $50 million in 2010. Inc. Magazine ranked Power Equipment Direct as the 97th fastest growing in the Chicagoland Metropolitan area in 2010.