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We usually just shovel, plough and blow it out of the way. That particular approach gets used in cities where there is no room to pile the snow.
Also, in my town, there;s a snowcross event every winter, they take all the extra snow out of the down town to load up into trucks and turn into jumps.
Jefffar wrote: We usually just shovel, plough and blow it out of the way. That particular approach gets used in cities where there is no room to pile the snow.
Also, in my town, there;s a snowcross event every winter, they take all the extra snow out of the down town to load up into trucks and turn into jumps.
Dude... that's wicked.
A "snowcross"... is that with dirt bikes and snowmobile (snowmachines)?
No idea what you guys are talking about: there is no snow in the fabled land of make believe, where maple syrup is a form of currency, and the only useful thing to ever come out of it was a 3-clawed (per hand) mutant.
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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Spiky tires are not generally allowed in Canada aside from Quebec, they chew the crap out of a road if the road isn't just a mass of packed snow.
Personally we have an old Ford Tractor with a snowblower the width of a 4 person couch, (I think that's a two person couch in America, but I digress ) It clears our lane, parking area, and road to the barn in about 15 minutes to two hours depending on how much snow was dumped since it was last blown.
In Calgary they dump all of the cities snow into one large mound outside the city. It's so large that it doesn't melt fully by the end of the year if it was left by itself, so in the summer they use it to make Snowmobile courses, ala the other Canadian above.
Heck they've even had snow in the middle of July....
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Not all of Canada is a freezing wasteland. Where I live it snows two inches every other year and the whole city shuts down in a panic. It's wonderful.
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Yeah, in recent years we only get about an inch of snow annually in Vancouver, which is a drastic shortfall from the 3-4 inches we used to get. I remember two or three years where there would be a foot of snow on the ground, but those were always the exceptions.
feeder wrote: Not all of Canada is a freezing wasteland. Where I live it snows two inches every other year and the whole city shuts down in a panic. It's wonderful.
You're from victoria aren't you feeder? I'm originally from Nanaimo, and it's almost that bad.
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feeder wrote: Not all of Canada is a freezing wasteland. Where I live it snows two inches every other year and the whole city shuts down in a panic. It's wonderful.
Same here, but we're about as likely to get icy roads as we are ice, and Houston isn't really prepared for either because of the rarity. It's a day or two off for me.
feeder wrote: Not all of Canada is a freezing wasteland. Where I live it snows two inches every other year and the whole city shuts down in a panic. It's wonderful.
Same here, but we're about as likely to get icy roads as we are ice, and Houston isn't really prepared for either because of the rarity. It's a day or two off for me.
Heh... ya'll a bunch o sissy with regards to ice/snow.
But, I don't blame ya either... driving on ice ain't fun when you can't stop.
feeder wrote: Not all of Canada is a freezing wasteland. Where I live it snows two inches every other year and the whole city shuts down in a panic. It's wonderful.
Same here, but we're about as likely to get icy roads as we are ice, and Houston isn't really prepared for either because of the rarity. It's a day or two off for me.
Heh... ya'll a bunch o sissy with regards to ice/snow.
But, I don't blame ya either... driving on ice ain't fun when you can't stop.
I learned to drive in NW Michigan. Lived about 15 miles inland from Lake Michigan, so we'd get wrecked with lake effect snow. There was many a time where I would just end up sliding through a red light. You quickly learned to look both ways before going through a green light during the winter time.
feeder wrote: Not all of Canada is a freezing wasteland. Where I live it snows two inches every other year and the whole city shuts down in a panic. It's wonderful.
Same here, but we're about as likely to get icy roads as we are ice, and Houston isn't really prepared for either because of the rarity. It's a day or two off for me.
Heh... ya'll a bunch o sissy with regards to ice/snow.
But, I don't blame ya either... driving on ice ain't fun when you can't stop.
I learned to drive in NW Michigan. Lived about 15 miles inland from Lake Michigan, so we'd get wrecked with lake effect snow. There was many a time where I would just end up sliding through a red light. You quickly learned to look both ways before going through a green light during the winter time.
Yup.
Ice on ground is about as lethal as it can get. In St. Louis last year, my brother ROLLED is car over... (note, not flipped... ROLLED is rental car onto his roof). It was really cold, but a warm front was coming thru... no real snow or sleet, just warm misty air. The resulting condensation provided some slick ice covering EVERYTHING. This all happened really quickly too...
So, my bro was literally going less than 5 mph (a cop even witnessed this!) and was going down a slight hill with a severe right turn... as the road banked, his car couldn't stop and slide off the banked road, hit the soft side and promptly rolled to his side, then to the roof. The witnessing cop said that he had never seen/heard what he had saw. o.O
That must have been the one snowfall we had last year. Two years ago we got a bad freezing rain event, half an inch of ice in about 12 hours. It was horrible.
And I've got one of those wonderful jobs that require me to be here no matter what weather conditions.
feeder wrote: Not all of Canada is a freezing wasteland. Where I live it snows two inches every other year and the whole city shuts down in a panic. It's wonderful.
You live in Texas?
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Hell, in '96 (I think it was anyways) Victoria sold most of their snow plows. They never use the damned things, so why not? that year was a record breaking year for snowfall. They had 2 snow plows for a capitol city. It was shut down for 2 weeks. We were only slightly north (about an hour and a half drive) and we got over 4 feet in 2 days.
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Jefffar wrote: We usually just shovel, plough and blow it out of the way. That particular approach gets used in cities where there is no room to pile the snow.
Also, in my town, there;s a snowcross event every winter, they take all the extra snow out of the down town to load up into trucks and turn into jumps.
Dude... that's wicked.
A "snowcross"... is that with dirt bikes and snowmobile (snowmachines)?
Ah yes, living in Charlotte, and now Wilmington, NC, I can attest to how everything shuts down the minute that snow threatens. We had about eight inches of snow in Charlotte once; schools were closed for a week, as well as a lot of government buildings and agencies and private businesses.
We had 45-50 cm of snow in montreal last week, in one day. Not too much wind, not too cold, and yet about everybody called in sick for work. They called it an 'historical storm'.
I come from a small town north of Quebec City, and this happens yearly, much to our delight, as my family are all avid skiers.
I was thus left with the ingrate but nevertheless essential responsibility of making accusations of lack of manhood to just about everyone at work. Wusses.
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Kovnik Obama wrote: We had 45-50 cm of snow in montreal last week, in one day. Not too much wind, not too cold, and yet about everybody called in sick for work. They called it an 'historical storm'.
I come from a small town north of Quebec City, and this happens yearly, much to our delight, as my family are all avid skiers.
I was thus left with the ingrate but nevertheless essential responsibility of making accusations of lack of manhood to just about everyone at work. Wusses.
Please tell me you strapped on your Cross Country skis and when flying down those sweet Montreal hills? My Dad did that back in the 60's or so. Said it was awesome, snow was so high you could ski right over the parked cars and not notice they were there.
) It clears our lane, parking area, and road to the barn in about 15 minutes to two hours depending on how much snow was dumped since it was last blown.
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