Over 2.5 hours to go 18 miles.
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And yet I live up north and drive between Meadville and Erie, and neither place got more then 2-3 inches. It was an unusal storm.
It's not, although I've yet to meet anyone up your way who was aware of the south tracking snow storms that feed off the warm moist air from the gulf and dump the heaviest loads just north of the rain line (typically in NC/TN, or VA/KY) and progressively less the farther north you get.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Ed.Poore wrote:
Never get stuck again...[^]
Provided you don't leave the farmyard! Surely no front number plate means you can't (legally) drive it on the public roads? For real fun in the snow get a couple of these[^]
Electron Shepherd wrote:
Provided you don't leave the farmyard!
http://images.pooredesign.com/strataflorida/[^] There's the number plate for you, that photo is reasonably old I took it when I'd put the new tyres on. You have to have a front number-plate but it's orientation on old vehicles is debatable, for example the Jag E-Type physically can't have the number plate vertically because there's nowhere to put it. New vehicles have to follow all kinds of rules whereas because that one's from 1983 it dodges quite a few of them (although not emissions or road-tax). Since then it's had another set of tyres (road ones but aren't on it by default), 3 new doors (the old ones were rusting up and someone I helped out of a shooting ground when it froze over reversed (tow point on the back) into my spare wheel carrier which ended up buckling the back door, luckily without smashing the glass), a roof-rack, HiLift jack and alternator (that managed to arc-weld itself together because of some mud shorting the rectifier together!). You'll actually notice in the final picture in that directory that I no longer have the number plate on, it's actually held on by velcro so it doesn't get damaged when working with the vehicle (smashed the previous one while clearing some trees with the winch). Also in the last photo is a vehicle which we rescued while doing that track, stupid people for trying to do the famous (or infamous depending on how you view it) Strata Florida route, in a blizzard, on road tyres, no recovery equipment and on their own. To cap it all off when they got stuck there were 3 men and 1 woman in the vehicle. What do they do, the four guys go off to find a tractor and leave the girl on her own in the vehicle 6 miles from the nearest house in a blizzard... God knows what would have happened if they hadn't have got stuck where they did because it only got more "interesting" shall we say after that point, in addition to the 7 river crossings (only get dangerous / high if it's rained a couple of nights before[^]).
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As I helped the neighbor across the street finish shoveling a large enough path on his driveway to get one car through we discussed that. I mean how do you manage the amount of snow you get. For us this the 4th storm on record (that goes back into the 1800s) that was over 20 inches.
John
When we get it we just pile it high and live with it :) I remember years when the piles were 6-7 feet high on each side of my driveway. The rest we just push out in the street and the plows take it away. When we get it it does not seem to last though. We will get pummeled for one or two days, then it stays cold for a week and then it goes away when the temps rise a bit.
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It's a real pain for us (in the UK). The front plate often ruins the lines of a beautiful car. :(
Electron Shepherd wrote:
The front plate often ruins the lines of a beautiful car
Awww, thanks :-\. If it's a classic I'm not 100% sure what the rules and regs are about that, mine isn't particularly old for a classic but there are certain things such as: if it didn't have seat-belts fitted as standard then they are not required. The main differences are on emissions and so on and tolerances are often quite a bit different. For example steering play, mine was very slack but still passed the MOT (have tightened up most of it, just a couple of ball-joints on the way out so will be replaced when I return back to Wales).
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When we get it we just pile it high and live with it :) I remember years when the piles were 6-7 feet high on each side of my driveway. The rest we just push out in the street and the plows take it away. When we get it it does not seem to last though. We will get pummeled for one or two days, then it stays cold for a week and then it goes away when the temps rise a bit.
We thought that you all have plows or at least snow blowers or access to such equipment. I actually went to buy a snow blower on the second week of January since it snowed for 8 or so days in a row and the SO Kathy was tired of having to shovel the driveway to get in the garage (driveway slopes upward). Anyways back then all of the stores were sole out and told us that they were not getting any more shipments in for the rest of the year.
John
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When we get it we just pile it high and live with it :) I remember years when the piles were 6-7 feet high on each side of my driveway. The rest we just push out in the street and the plows take it away. When we get it it does not seem to last though. We will get pummeled for one or two days, then it stays cold for a week and then it goes away when the temps rise a bit.
I've got a 6 or 7 foot tall pile this year (a personal record) but that's about 3/4ths of the snow that fell on/around my parking space. Having needed to bust apart old/halfway to ice snow when I needed one of the 'spare' spaces I'm reluctant to dump extra snow on them even if throwing snow 12-15' doesn't do my back/shoulders any favors later. My WAG is that I moved between 2 and 3 tons by hand over the weekend. I have a good estimate of volume, but not a scale suitable for measuring the weight of a small sample; which unfortunately varies widely.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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There should be a bubble around Washington large enough to shield all the East Coast if that were true...
ROFL!!! :laugh: :laugh:
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I left home a 9:20 AM and arrived at work at 12:04PM. The first 16 miles was okay that only took 30 minutes. The last 2 was less than a crawl. The roads are a mess in the city Pittsburgh specifically near the Pitt campus. There are many disabled vehicles, 0 to 4 inches of hard compacted ice topped with some slush on the streets and large piles of snow on the main roads blocking off parts of the lane so you have to merge back into fewer lanes. I would have thought the main roads would be clear of snow and disabled vehicles by now.
John
I guess there are a few benefits to living in Florida. ;P
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I guess there are a few benefits to living in Florida. ;P
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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I guess there are a few benefits to living in Florida. ;P
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You got that right, but it's been pretty cold and rainy up here in the panhandle. I would love to have one significant snowfall sometime, just for the simple reason I actually still have a snowshovel in my attic from when I lived in IL and VA. I might be the only person in my development with one (maybe not though since we have a lot of transient military folks) and it might be quite the novelty... :-)
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I left home a 9:20 AM and arrived at work at 12:04PM. The first 16 miles was okay that only took 30 minutes. The last 2 was less than a crawl. The roads are a mess in the city Pittsburgh specifically near the Pitt campus. There are many disabled vehicles, 0 to 4 inches of hard compacted ice topped with some slush on the streets and large piles of snow on the main roads blocking off parts of the lane so you have to merge back into fewer lanes. I would have thought the main roads would be clear of snow and disabled vehicles by now.
John
I lived on LI my entire life and hated it whenever we got more than 2 inches of the white stuff. Traffic becomes a nightmare and everyone forgets how to drive. I know how fast a 40 minute ride can become two hours of hell. I have been living in Arizona for the last two years (This is my third winter) and not regretting the move one bit. 65F and sunny almost every day this year so far. We did get record rain last month, but that was only three or four days out of the month. :)
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I left home a 9:20 AM and arrived at work at 12:04PM. The first 16 miles was okay that only took 30 minutes. The last 2 was less than a crawl. The roads are a mess in the city Pittsburgh specifically near the Pitt campus. There are many disabled vehicles, 0 to 4 inches of hard compacted ice topped with some slush on the streets and large piles of snow on the main roads blocking off parts of the lane so you have to merge back into fewer lanes. I would have thought the main roads would be clear of snow and disabled vehicles by now.
John
Several weeks ago it only snowed a couple inches in the lower New York - Conn. area and only having to travel a mere 33 miles I felt that I would only be slightly delayed. To sum it up: 33 miles in 5 hours and 15 minutes. I would like to thank the developers of such mobile Apps as Pandora for BlackBerry, and even Facebook Mobile. Also, thank you for the recline function of the driver side seat, these small things kept me from losing my sanity during this extra long commute. Mike
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I left home a 9:20 AM and arrived at work at 12:04PM. The first 16 miles was okay that only took 30 minutes. The last 2 was less than a crawl. The roads are a mess in the city Pittsburgh specifically near the Pitt campus. There are many disabled vehicles, 0 to 4 inches of hard compacted ice topped with some slush on the streets and large piles of snow on the main roads blocking off parts of the lane so you have to merge back into fewer lanes. I would have thought the main roads would be clear of snow and disabled vehicles by now.
John
To paraphrase a certain political figure; How's that global warming working out for you? :)
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To paraphrase a certain political figure; How's that global warming working out for you? :)
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It was doing very well for most of 1990s and 2000s. Who would not want cooler summers and warmer winters? But this winter not so much.
John
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I left home a 9:20 AM and arrived at work at 12:04PM. The first 16 miles was okay that only took 30 minutes. The last 2 was less than a crawl. The roads are a mess in the city Pittsburgh specifically near the Pitt campus. There are many disabled vehicles, 0 to 4 inches of hard compacted ice topped with some slush on the streets and large piles of snow on the main roads blocking off parts of the lane so you have to merge back into fewer lanes. I would have thought the main roads would be clear of snow and disabled vehicles by now.
John
Lucky you ... where I live we had 2 and a half hours of raining ... bullets .... major collide between gangs and soldiers ... :sigh:
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I've got a 6 or 7 foot tall pile this year (a personal record) but that's about 3/4ths of the snow that fell on/around my parking space. Having needed to bust apart old/halfway to ice snow when I needed one of the 'spare' spaces I'm reluctant to dump extra snow on them even if throwing snow 12-15' doesn't do my back/shoulders any favors later. My WAG is that I moved between 2 and 3 tons by hand over the weekend. I have a good estimate of volume, but not a scale suitable for measuring the weight of a small sample; which unfortunately varies widely.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Here in Minneapolis we are below average for snowfall but it's been so cold that all the snow that has fallen all season is still here. It's been below 20 degrees almost every day since Christmas. We just had a two-day snowfall of over eight inches on top of the 24 we already had on the ground. I cleaned off the driveway three times in the last two days. I now have a pile of snow six feet or more tall on both sides of the driveway. This is the most snow we've had on the ground at once since I moved into this house thirteen years ago. The snowblower can't throw over the piles of snow any more and my back can't take all that shoveling either. The next option is to just let the piles expand into the driveway and narrow it down. Maybe it will melt a little before it gets to be too much that I have to park my car behind my wife's.
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Here in Minneapolis we are below average for snowfall but it's been so cold that all the snow that has fallen all season is still here. It's been below 20 degrees almost every day since Christmas. We just had a two-day snowfall of over eight inches on top of the 24 we already had on the ground. I cleaned off the driveway three times in the last two days. I now have a pile of snow six feet or more tall on both sides of the driveway. This is the most snow we've had on the ground at once since I moved into this house thirteen years ago. The snowblower can't throw over the piles of snow any more and my back can't take all that shoveling either. The next option is to just let the piles expand into the driveway and narrow it down. Maybe it will melt a little before it gets to be too much that I have to park my car behind my wife's.
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ugh. No handy supply of teenagers looking for pocket money to chop the tops off the piles so your snow blower can crest them again either I assume...
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
No, not really. It's a neighborhood of retired and close-to-retirement (like me) couples and singles with no kids still at home. My kids live too far away and have too many of their own problems to help out right now. All I can do is hope for an early spring.
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Just for your information, we have another 5-10 inches coming tomorrow till Wednesday. It may break the all time record for DC area.
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Just north of you in the Philly suburbs and they're calling for 18-24 in my area. That's on top of the 25 we got last weekend. More shovelling tomorrow.
Mike Devenney
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You got that right, but it's been pretty cold and rainy up here in the panhandle. I would love to have one significant snowfall sometime, just for the simple reason I actually still have a snowshovel in my attic from when I lived in IL and VA. I might be the only person in my development with one (maybe not though since we have a lot of transient military folks) and it might be quite the novelty... :-)
You could get rich offering to shovel the 1-2", if only because you're the only shovel on the block!
Mike Devenney
