I think we have had enough.
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I think we have had enough.
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Yup, Elliiot Lake was like that, I remember the day the garbage truck went back to Blind River because they couldn't get up the hills into Elliot Lake so we had to put the bins in the shed away from the ravens, lucky the bears were asleep eh.
Woke up to a new present one morning, somone up there wanted me to have a heart attack I reckon.
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We had some empty land across fom our houses and one of my neighbors decided to build an extension.
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You have to move your houses a little farther apart so you have room to toss it. :D
We are supposed to get 7-14" in the next couple days, will see.
Last good snow was in December. I drove home to this, snow plow just pushed everything in my driveway, you can see where the snow sticks are.
Had to switch to 4Lo and locked the rear diff. It worked.
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That is one vood thing about where I live. Sure, we get snow. Sometimes a lot of it. But it only stays around for a few days and its gone. The sun is powerful at this altitude I was told. Plus we get warm days to help knock it down. They are saying below 0 in a couple days and with wind it gets really ugly quick.
I haven't lived in Fairbanks since late-May 2012, but I try to "keep my hand in the game" by watching the UAF Geophysics Institute "Climate Cam" (streaming @60fps 24/7). Last night, I spent half-an-hour watching a guy in a Bobcat plow/blow snow from the parking lot across the street. "Cheap thrills" :D
Were having a tropical heat wave, at the moment.
Lows in the 40s thru last night, highs expected near 60., with rain on Wednesday.
Seasons are about to change over, here. So think positive men....I'm sending it your way.
If it's any consolation, February 2015 in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area was terrible regarding snowfall. Around 8-9 feet of standing accumulation at one point. It was like living in the trenches. At one point, there was nowhere to put the shoveled snow. I bought a wheelbarrow and started hauling it away to the nearest street corner, around 300 feet away from my doorstep. Thankfully, we've had less snowfall since then.
Maybe silly and off topic but I don't see any mailboxes. How to you get your mail? At a group of boxes at the end of the street or the post office? Maybe its hidden in the snow but it looks like people don't shovel/use their front doors either.
I am not looking forward to the drive to work tomorrow morning. If the weather girl is half right it will be a slow one in 4WD.
I have heard rumors of snow, maybe Wednesday. We had 3 inches weeks ago, we were shut down for days :)
In the cities there was a time when all mail was delivered to a mail box on your home by the front door Monday through Friday certain holidays excluded. Then the bright boys at Can Post decided to go to community mail boxes so we now have a mix. They stopped adding community mail boxes as people were pretty upset about them. In our area it is still delivered to your house. Front doors are used so sidewalks are cleared but you can't see that because of the snowbanks being so high now. In the rural areas it is a different story depending where you live.
Bob
I would expect that to happen in areas where snow is a rare occurrence. Here snow is an too regular occurrence and they have the equipment to handle it most of the time. In my part of Ontario we still get highway closures on the really heavy snows and it has gotten more frequent since the province privatised/contracted out that work.
Bob
I live on an unusual block in my city. We have alleys and the houses across the alley from my house overlook a lake. I live on the poor side. LOL The rich side doesn't wan't the mailman etc interupting their view etc. so the mail is delivered down the alley into a slot of their garages. On our side it gets delivered to the front. Our alley is kept almost as clean as the streets around here so it is easy to walk down but I think that mail delivery to the garage in a way is not a bad thing other than I would have to walk farther to get it. It would save the mail man many steps if the alley was clean to deliver both sides that way. . Here the city does not clean alleys and it is up to the neighborhood snow Tzar to contract it. We take turns and I did my couple of years. Very long story short but if I remember right it cost me $17 USD for my share this year.
Tim
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Just not here!
Our garages to not have main street acess as I see yours do so we do not have much choice in keeping the lane ways clear so we can use them.
With snow emergencies it is very imprtant to have a place to keep your vehicle off the street for plowing or it gets towed.
There is a complicated set of rules for how you can park on night plow routes, north, south, east, west, along with what side of streets and in what order for plowing.
It is very advantagous to have off street parking!
Tim
All most all the houses here have driveways off the street except for some of the older areas that only have 33 foot wide lots. Most houses you can put 2 to 4 cars in their driveways. I can put 4 cars on my driveway before you get to my old garage. They have restricted parking on streets here too depending on the season. It's mostly odd days and even days parking to aid snowplowing. The city plows the sidewalk here too but a lot of cities don't do that.
Bob
Looks like a couple new inches of snow last night. And more to come over the next 48 hours. And its my Friday. Bummer. I was boping to miss having to work in it this time. Oh well. Time to break out the snow boots again.
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Negitive 1 F. I dont wanna get out of my warm truck.
Couple inches of snow and most of the UK comes to a halt...
LOL, I remember well.
I remember 2 inches when I lived there and people were sleeping in their cars on the M1.
I was a train driver for Virgin in Euston, I went to Preston, Birmingham or Wolverhampton depending on my roster. I remember that same 2 inch occasion, we had a few days off because the points froze and no trains were running on the West Coast Main line (mine).
Of course all the points (switches) over here in North America in the cold parts are heated.
It warmed up to 11f today. Damn cold weather!
TGIF for me anyways.
Well it's been in the lower 50's here so I've got some time on the bike, but I awoke to snow:td it's just a skiff but it's damn disheartening.
The night of the 22nd, my last post on this thread it got down to 14 below not counting windchill. Today it is up to 18 and tomorrow will get us up to 31. Still below freezing but its getting warmer a little bit at a time for the next week. At these temps it almost hurts to go outside.
Dammit man! Dont go outside!
According to the weather app on my computer it's -6c right now.
It's 06:36 and I know it's been snowing all night so I am waiting for it to get light enough to see how bad it is. I know me and Eric the snowblower are going out to play as soon as 8am rolls around and I can start it without making the neighbors mad.
I'll try to remember to take a pic before I shoot it all over next doors yard.
Everything covered in ice, this morning. Light snow as of now.
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We had freezing rain in eastern Ontario a couple of days ago and then snow, so our road is glare ice under a couple of inches of snow. Pretty treacherous walking and driving.
The car and everything else was covered in about 1/4 inch of ice. the trees are creaking and groaning. Walking the dog and doing anything else outside requires that I wear my crampons to avoid slipping and sliding. Too old for broken bones!
Another 15 cm of snow predicted for today.
It is pretty though, and peaceful - the snow damps out traffic noise.
I don't want to jinx myself, but we don't normally get a lot of freezing rain. That stuff is really dangerous and takes power lines down as an added bonus. Hitting black ice while driving has killed a lot of people.
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Light dusting of about 9-10 inches this morning.
Powdery, fluffy and pretty easy to deal with.
Pete <:-}
We are not near as cold or have not had as much snow as guys. It been in the teens F at night and below freezing during the day for last few days. We got about 2" of ice on the roads, the city has been mostly shut down for three days.
I hate ice, but what the hell at least the power stayed on.
Ok.
The plough came by about 45 minutes before i got outside.
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