Damn snow crushed my car
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John Cardinal wrote:
Last night we got about 2 feet of snow
I'm going to get pummeled for saying this by anyone else that lives in the region but SEND IT MY WAY, PLEASE! I love it when it snows that heavy.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
I do too; when car crushing is not involved and collapse of a brand new 5,000 dollar garage, and power going out every day for hours or overnight etc etc. This is all on the heels of torrential rain that caused massive flooding. It hasn't been too pleasant around here for the last couple of weeks.
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote:
Insist on welded tubing (rectangular) next time
That's exactly what it is unfortunately.
John Cardinal wrote:
That's exactly what it is unfortunately.
I am missing something. Your first post said "U Shaped". Which is typical for the construction down here, but we seldom get any snow. [edit] just reread your post again, now I understand what you have. I read it as a car port type stucture. [/edit] -- modified at 17:01 Thursday 30th November, 2006
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Go wombat hunting. Not to kill them. I love wombats...
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Yeah, as a kid I love the muddle headed wombat books. I love them. Never seen one in the wild tho. Seen plenty of echidnas, they also rock.
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I do too; when car crushing is not involved and collapse of a brand new 5,000 dollar garage, and power going out every day for hours or overnight etc etc. This is all on the heels of torrential rain that caused massive flooding. It hasn't been too pleasant around here for the last couple of weeks.
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Anywhere in the appalacians is possible for snow, but even ~12hrs north of you, we only have a white christmas every few years. Your best bet would be to fly to somewhere in the rockies, northern plains, or the shore of the great lakes.
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dan neely wrote:
Anywhere in the appalacians is possible for snow, but even ~12hrs north of you, we only have a white christmas every few years. Your best bet would be to fly to somewhere in the rockies, northern plains, or the shore of the great lakes.
Thanks Dan.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
where we can enjoy a white Christmas at.
You've written books, right ? :P
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You've written books, right ?
:laugh::laugh::laugh: Have you read his book? *** Actually, the book was remarkable for the lack of diction and grammar errors. I expected a first book by a non-native English author to be a disaster and was pleasantly surprised.:)
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Ouch, yea dealing with all of that doesn’t sound like fun at all. Best of luck to you and your family. Btw, where about do you live?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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John Cardinal wrote:
That's exactly what it is unfortunately.
I am missing something. Your first post said "U Shaped". Which is typical for the construction down here, but we seldom get any snow. [edit] just reread your post again, now I understand what you have. I read it as a car port type stucture. [/edit] -- modified at 17:01 Thursday 30th November, 2006
Yeah, it's considered a portable shelter. It's pretty hefty steel tubing, but it's square, about 3 inches one way and two inches thick and bent and cut into 4 pieces that make up each upside down U and bolts to the square base frame. And also there are traditional round tubing "rafters" that go lengthwise and fit into them. the whole thing is screwed together with "Tek" screws that bight into the metal and screw in. It's a pretty serious structure, but the snow was just too much for it I guess. Plus the load was probably disproportionate since the back end that didn't collapse is under some 50 foot fir trees so the majority of the snow was probably on the front end that collapsed. Just got it dug out of the snow, now the tricky bit is removing the bent steel so we can get the car out.
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Yeah, as a kid I love the muddle headed wombat books. I love them. Never seen one in the wild tho. Seen plenty of echidnas, they also rock.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP 'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
Yeah .. echidnas are awesome. When you see one, move very slowly to get close to them and with a quick move try to get your hand under its front legs and pick it up. You can then play with them. Very cute animals. Just don't scare them :)
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Christian Graus wrote:
You've written books, right ?
:laugh::laugh::laugh: Have you read his book? *** Actually, the book was remarkable for the lack of diction and grammar errors. I expected a first book by a non-native English author to be a disaster and was pleasantly surprised.:)
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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