Topic: Winter Storm Assrape 2,010
started by: GORDON
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 12 2010,10:25
Damn, glad I changed the oil in the snow blower yesterday.
No end in sight.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 12 2010,10:27
Check the NFL thread. We got that beat, easy. Which means this is probably the worst snowstorm Minneapolis has seen since winter of '81, at least.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 12 2010,10:31
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Check the NFL thread. We got that beat, easy. Which means this is probably the worst snowstorm Minneapolis has seen since winter of '81, at least.
We're in the same storm here in Toledo, just a day later.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 12 2010,10:35
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(Malcolm @ Dec. 12 2010,13:27)
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Check the NFL thread. We got that beat, easy. Which means this is probably the worst snowstorm Minneapolis has seen since winter of '81, at least.
We're in the same storm here in Toledo, just a day later.
Have fun with your five-foot snowdrifts. We are.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 12 2010,10:35
Awwww cheeseburgers.
Posted by thibodeaux on Dec. 12 2010,11:59
Suckers!
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 12 2010,12:20
So now that I've seen this....Pretty much a complete design failure on the engineers, or was there some "de icing" procedure that wasn't being followed?
Posted by TheCatt on Dec. 12 2010,13:21
Football was meant to be played outside. Even the snow knows this.
Posted by WSGrundy on Dec. 12 2010,13:30
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Football was meant to be played outside. Even the snow knows this.
I always thought it was strange when looking at Tampa Bay and Miamis end of season road record why Minnesota and Detroit would give up an advantage by playing inside. I would think that San Diego would relish the idea of traveling across the country to then play outside in Detroit or Chicago either.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 12 2010,13:41
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(TheCatt @ Dec. 12 2010,13:21)
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Football was meant to be played outside. Even the snow knows this.
I always thought it was strange when looking at Tampa Bay and Miamis end of season road record why Minnesota and Detroit would give up an advantage by playing inside. I would think that San Diego would relish the idea of traveling across the country to then play outside in Detroit or Chicago either.
Trying to make more money by getting butts in the indoor seats instead of out in a blizzard?
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 12 2010,14:36
Well shit. I think I'm going to need to run the snowblower tonight if the wife is going to have any chance of getting the car out of the driveway tomorrow. Still going to snow all night. I'm guessing no school tomorrow.Hope they plow my road, too.
Posted by unkbill on Dec. 12 2010,14:53
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(WSGrundy @ Dec. 12 2010,16:30)
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(TheCatt @ Dec. 12 2010,13:21)
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Football was meant to be played outside. Even the snow knows this.
I always thought it was strange when looking at Tampa Bay and Miamis end of season road record why Minnesota and Detroit would give up an advantage by playing inside. I would think that San Diego would relish the idea of traveling across the country to then play outside in Detroit or Chicago either.
Trying to make more money by getting butts in the indoor seats instead of out in a blizzard?
Nope I have seen idiots pack the stadium in Buffalo for playoff games when they had to shovel 3 feet of snow off the seats for people.
Chicago is having to shovel the lines off the field and restripe every 15 minutes so all the fans in the place can watch today.
Posted by TheCatt on Dec. 12 2010,14:56
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Suckers!
Hey now, we did get that 1" of snow a week ago.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Dec. 12 2010,20:40
You would even bother clearing that? I can still see grass! There won't be school, but it will be because of the ice, not the snow. There's not that much snow. At least, not up here. I started shoveling the driveway, and then stopped because it was stupid. All of our cars can drive through it. We got 4, maybe 5 inches I'm guessing. Roads were ice though. One 100 yard stretch of 75 had 11 cars in the ditch. People are stupid.I went skiing today.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 12 2010,23:03
Six man-hours to clear our driveway over a two days. I felt like I was digging trenches more than shoveling snow.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 13 2010,05:00
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You would even bother clearing that?
Dude, that was after the first couple hours. 8 hours later with nonstop snow, I went out and cleared it so the car could get out; the drifts on the driveway were a foot deep in places. Then it snowed all night, and I am going to go out and clear the sidewalks at some point today because the kids need to get to the bus stop tomorrow and I don't like seeing them walking the wheel ruts in the middle of the road because my shithead neighbors don't clear their sidewalks.
Posted by Leisher on Dec. 13 2010,07:31
Where the hell do you live? Alaska? I'm 20 minutes from you and we got about 3 inches, maybe 4. No 4 foot drifts. I shoveled the driveway last night and overnight we got an additional inch, but I think it was due more to blowing snow than actual snowfall.
I did, however, have a bad driving experience. Ran out to get some pizzas last night and slid through a stop sign, took an entire light cycle to get enough traction to drive through a green light, and later went off the road to the right while turning left (doing 20 MPH). Got home and checked my treads. Didn't realize how worn my tires were. Getting a new set tomorrow.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 13 2010,07:41
Who said anything about 4 foot drifts?
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 13 2010,11:17
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Who said anything about 4 foot drifts?
There's several places in my own front yard where there's at least five-foot-high piles.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 13 2010,11:57
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(GORDON @ Dec. 13 2010,09:41)
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Who said anything about 4 foot drifts?
There's several places in my own front yard where there's at least five-foot-high piles.
Well, I think he was referring to me.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 13 2010,12:21
Thinking of just getting a flamethrower or mixing napalm or something. How long would, say, ten square feet of napalm burn in the dead of winter up here?
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 13 2010,12:51
Depends on how many people you are using as a wick.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 13 2010,13:18
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Depends on how many people you are using as a wick.
Plenty of wood stashed away and no fireplace, so could theoretically build a small pile in the middle of the yard and light away.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 13 2010,16:45
10F out, wind chill of -10F (which doesn't affect me anyway since I have no bare skin exposed out there, but it sounds cool), and in the off chance the kid has school tomorrow, he now has a clear sidewalk to the bus stop.Fuck the north.
Posted by thibodeaux on Dec. 13 2010,16:47
Suckers!
Posted by TPRJones on Dec. 13 2010,16:58
Send some of that down here. It was over 70 today. Blah.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 13 2010,19:17
Welp, school is already delayed 2 hours. Salt doesn't work when it is this cold; peeps are going into ditches on the road by the school.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 13 2010,21:54
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Send some of that down here. It was over 70 today. Blah.
When global warming chills the planet, you're shoveling your own damn driveway.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 14 2010,05:08
(Malcolm @ Dec. 14 2010,00:54)
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(TPRJones @ Dec. 13 2010,18:58)
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Send some of that down here. It was over 70 today. Blah.
When global warming chills the planet, you're shoveling your own damn driveway.
Is that what global warming is doing, as of this month? So hard to keep track.
Anyway, school's closed.
Posted by thibodeaux on Dec. 21 2010,15:18
83 degrees today, beeches!
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 21 2010,15:20
Hasn't gotten above freezing since the storm. I still have ice on the driveway.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 21 2010,16:49
Iced over like an ex-wife this past night. Only a half assload of snow got dropped this time, but enough to warrant another two hours of fucking shoveling.By the by, anyone know about weaseling around non-compete clauses in IT recruiter contracts? I'm being fucked by both my actual and technical employers and the technical one looks like a lot easier target.
Posted by TheCatt on Dec. 21 2010,17:22
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83 degrees today, beeches!
Where the hell are you? Florida?
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 21 2010,19:09
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83 degrees today, beeches!
Where the hell are you? Florida?
He did mention "RDU."
Posted by thibodeaux on Dec. 22 2010,14:57
I'm in the 318, yo.
Posted by TPRJones on Dec. 23 2010,08:01
That explains your username, I guess.
Posted by TheCatt on Dec. 23 2010,08:21
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I'm in the 318, yo.
Just a little surprised that even LA would have those temps this time of year.
Apparently there's a chance for 3-4" of snow in Raleigh for the first possible white Christmas since like 1949.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 23 2010,19:37
More snow up here tonight.
Posted by thibodeaux on Dec. 24 2010,07:03
ATL is supposed to get azzraped this weekend, stranding us. Geez.
Posted by Paul on Dec. 24 2010,09:28
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ATL is supposed to get azzraped this weekend, stranding us. Geez.
(thibodeaux @ Dec. 13 2010,16:47)
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Suckers!
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 24 2010,09:32
Zing!Or, is it "bazinga," now?
Posted by Paul on Dec. 24 2010,10:38
I think you had it right and "bazinga" is the proper spelling though.
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 25 2010,13:12
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ATL is supposed to get azzraped this weekend, stranding us. Geez.
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83 degrees today, beeches!
Know what we got plenty of in the north?
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Snow plows, beeches!