Over 2.5 hours to go 18 miles.
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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.
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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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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...
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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
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Lucky you ... where I live we had 2 and a half hours of raining ... bullets .... major collide between gangs and soldiers ... :sigh:
Edgar Prieto Software Engineer
Ouch... I'd say that beats our snow complaints. :omg:
Mike Devenney
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Ouch... I'd say that beats our snow complaints. :omg:
Mike Devenney
well I was far enough to hear them as pop corn pops... but some bazookas sounded a little bit higher.... oh and it was from 1 am thru 3:30 ... aprox ... so ... not easy to get sleep... sadly ... no news reported a single thing ... they are very scared of gangs ...
Edgar Prieto Software Engineer
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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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Ugh. Good luck with that. I'm guessing they're also the sort who'd object to the profligate use of combustibles to accelerate the melting process. :rolleyes:
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Probably ... but that's not a bad idea. I've seen people hook a garden hose to their hot water heater to clean ice off the driveway.
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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
It once took me 7 hours to travel 40 miles...this was in Dec 2000 in Chicago. I'll never forget the leg cramps, ended up listening to the George Bush - Al Gore "Hanging-chad" recount results for most of the trip.
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The sad part is a little more is coming tomorrow or Wednesday. Only a few inches but they are far from finished clearing the 21 that hit over the 24 continuous hours of snow..
John
A good reason for a company to have a telecommute policy (work at home). On those days, they wouldn't loose valuable employees to bad weather.
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A good reason for a company to have a telecommute policy (work at home). On those days, they wouldn't loose valuable employees to bad weather.
I should have just taken off Monday through Wednesday. I have full access to the source code at home its not like I would be that much less efficient at home.
John
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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.
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Dan Neely wrote:
.... I have a good estimate of volume, but not a scale suitable for measuring the weight of a small sample; which unfortunately varies widely.
What you need is a long tube to take a top-to-bottom core sample. This will let you average out the density differences between the compressed snow at the bottom and the lighter fluffy stuff on top. With a known volume of varying density, you can take a pretty reasonable crack at calculating the average weight.
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Dan Neely wrote:
.... I have a good estimate of volume, but not a scale suitable for measuring the weight of a small sample; which unfortunately varies widely.
What you need is a long tube to take a top-to-bottom core sample. This will let you average out the density differences between the compressed snow at the bottom and the lighter fluffy stuff on top. With a known volume of varying density, you can take a pretty reasonable crack at calculating the average weight.
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That would allow a more accurate measurement; but the lack of a scale to weight it is still a showstopper. :doh:
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That would allow a more accurate measurement; but the lack of a scale to weight it is still a showstopper. D'Oh!
Oh, I see. When you said "Scale" I first thought you were referring to a point of reference to determine the volume to weight, like a chart. I guess you are actually referring to a physical device to perform said weighing. ;P
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