Snowpocalypse

[HydroSqueegee]

blizzard warnings... and my snow shovel is broken. how fucked am i?

 

[manimal]

depends. where do you live and do you have a roof over your head? if you live in socal your good to go...

 

[AmdEmAll]

SEMI is soooo close to the blizzard warning area.. please bump up a little north!

 

[Soccerman06]

Whats wrong with a little snow? Lol souths version of a blizzard is barely a sprinkling to the rest of us.

 

[Merad]

On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate your chances of survival at -500.

 

[Anubis]

they are going crazy here. anywhere from 6in to 3 feet depending on which idiot on TV you listen to

this happens at least once ever year, doubt we even get 6 inches at all

 

[AmdEmAll]

I love when people talk about the location they are in but they dont state the location...

 

[postmortemIA]

like snow shovel is going to help you with dump that blizzard sends ... not.

 

[mmntech]

I wonder if this is the same storm we're supposed to get. They're calling for 10-15cm for Toronto, most likely on the lesser end of the scale. More snow is better than less. It tends to keep the idiots off the road.

 

[Harrod]

Not looking forward to tomorrow.

Where I work they tell us to work from home, but my laptop was re-imaged, and they didn't put the vpn software back on it.

Little Rock AR, 3-5 inches expected.

 

[Phoenix86]

|-------this fucked-------|

*not to scale

 

[SparkyJJO]

I'm curious to see how it turns out here. They were originally saying we could just get a nice, thick layer of ice but thankfully that changed and they are "only" calling for possibly up to 10 inches. My brother has a blizzard warning where he is however, with 15+ possible, so I guess it could be worse

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd consider going to buy a new shovel, but other than that, unless it's enough snow to completely cover your house and block all the vents causing you to suffocate from CO poisoning, I would not really worry.

Only thing that DOES suck about getting lot of snow is having to get up earlier to clear the car/driveway so you can get to work on time. That's probably the main part I hate about winter, the constant scrambling in the morning. Though since I work shifts at least I don't have to do that every morning, and when I work nights then I have all day to do it rather than scrambling in the morning.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

live just east of Dayton Ohio. went out and got a shovel this morning. roads were shit, but driveable. this 'blizzard' was highly disappointing. i think we maybe got 5" or so. got the snow blower working at least. so that was a nice back saver. just gotta do one more scraping and slat the driveway before bed and im golden.

 

[EagleKeeper]

I'd consider going to buy a new shovel, but other than that, unless it's enough snow to completely cover your house and block all the vents causing you to suffocate from CO poisoning, I would not really worry.

Only thing that DOES suck about getting lot of snow is having to get up earlier to clear the car/driveway so you can get to work on time. That's probably the main part I hate about winter, the constant scrambling in the morning. Though since I work shifts at least I don't have to do that every morning, and when I work nights then I have all day to do it rather than scrambling in the morning.

If you have to leave the vehicle outside; place it at the end of the drive, just outside the snowplow reach.

Less shoveling to get going in the AM.
Another trick - put a large towel on the windshield, the night before. Makes it easy to get the snow off without stressing yourself or the wipers.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I checked the traffic cams around town here this morning just to see a car spin out and nearly get hit by a semi truck while there was a wrecker on the other side hauling away another car that had hit the wall. That was enough for me to stay put

 

[DrPizza]

I went out to the barn around 6. At that time, the snow was to the top of my barn boots = about 14" of snow. It's been snowing like mad out there. I may even have to spend 5 extra minutes putting the chains on the tractor in the morning.

 

[Gillbot]

If you have to leave the vehicle outside; place it at the end of the drive, just outside the snowplow reach.

Less shoveling to get going in the AM.
Another trick - put a large towel on the windshield, the night before. Makes it easy to get the snow off without stressing yourself or the wipers.

I usually use a piece of cardboard

 

[bigrash]

Not supposed to be too bad around here. I hope they're right.

 

[mmntech]

Looks like there's about 15cm of it on my back deck and it's still coming down. Windy too, so some of it might be from the roof. I think we may end up getting more than they originally forecasted. It's that fine, powder stuff. Looks bloody miserable out there.

Thankfully I don't start work till 1pm. I don't miss those days of freezing my balls off digging my car out at 6am only to go and dig more cars out.

 

[96Firebird]

I took off work this whole week, so I'll be inside cleaning for much of the day tomorrow. Looks like we got quite a bit already...

Side note - Found out my roommate's truck with snowmobile in the back, as well as my car fit into the garage. Success.

 

[midwestfisherman]

SEMI is soooo close to the blizzard warning area.. please bump up a little north!

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you have to leave the vehicle outside; place it at the end of the drive, just outside the snowplow reach.

Less shoveling to get going in the AM.
Another trick - put a large towel on the windshield, the night before. Makes it easy to get the snow off without stressing yourself or the wipers.

Actually I've been seeing more people doing that. I will have to try that. Can probably use hard drive magnets to make it stay put.

 

[DrPizza]

Dumbass son #2. Got home about 12:30 am from skiing and the rear end of his truck slid sideways off the driveway into the ditch. Somehow he managed to get himself wedged in between the driveway & the mailbox (couldn't back up.) And, he conveniently got himself stuck in a manner where I couldn't get the tractor in, due to the van being parked in the driveway. Half an hour later, and I got him out. He went up the road to turn around, with me muttering, "where's the idiot think he's going - there's already been a car that slid off the road on the hill tonight" and a minute later, he was stuck on the other side of the road over the bank by the neighbor's driveway.

His friend is mocking him, because I pulled him out with a "soccer-mom minivan." (Though a grand caravan is a pretty heavy vehicle, plus with a few hundred pounds of extra weight in the van.)

 

[DrPizza]

And, despite there being at least 15" of snow, roads are clear this morning & I was able to go the speed limit (65) on the highway. *Ahhhhhh* It's nice to live in a region that can quickly cope with weather like this. I can't imagine how much commerce is lost in areas where everything closes for a dusting (compared to the cost of the equipment to keep roads clear.