Snow=Evil

ordos45 · February 16, 2003

Snow is evil. I've shovelled 3 times so far in two days...there's 16 inches on the ground now outside. Idiot neighbors threw their snow into the area I had cleared around my parents' cars. Snow drifts from where I shovelled snow into piles are at about 5 and a half feet...

Anyone else feeling the snow pains?

nampigai · February 16, 2003

if my car could drive in it and it wasn't cold I'ld like it. but it looks good.

rogue1896 · February 16, 2003

you are insane. snow is the greatest thing since the machine that slices bread.....that is until we don't have off anymore. we're going to end up getting 20 inches by tomorrow eventing. so we get off for tomorrow, and possibly tuesday. LONG LIVE SNOW! WOOHOO!

and ordos, where do you live that you have that much snow already? there's that big ass snowstorm that's about to swamp us, and hence the 20 inches. ;D

nemafakei · February 16, 2003

Snow is a pain. It's occasionally picturesque...until it becomes mucky slush.

ordos45 · February 16, 2003

West Virginia. Its still coming down strong, and they've predicted it'll keep going for another ten or so inches by morning. I'm doubting I'll have school until Wednesday.

Vanguard3000 · February 16, 2003

Sometimes, I hate the snow (when shovelling, etc), but I realize that I would miss it if it were gone. maybe it's a Canadian nationalist thing. Meh.

Timenn · February 16, 2003

You guys are lucky. I wished I got so many snow.

Snow is good!

I had to work in the snow once, even though it was annoying, I didn't dislike it!

Dante · February 16, 2003

I love snow. Great stuff. Sometimes it keeps you off school, and you can have hours of fun packing it into a siblings face. Ahh, happy memories...

Terror · February 16, 2003

snow is ok, but ice is bad, very bad. I drove only 25 km/h and tried to take a left turn, what happens? I come in a weird spin and suddenly i'm on the road, but pointing toward the wrong direction. Ofcourse it can be worse. Like for instance when i had to bring around newspapers, and 1 house is like 200 yards from the normal road, and the way to that house is full of holes (a sand road, i dunno how you call that) the entire road was covered with ice. Now imagine me on a bike, with bags full with newspapers biking through holes that are like 20 cm. deep and covered with ice. So you get the picture, in those 200 yards i fell 3 times. And this happened 6 times a week, Ofcourse after 2 days i thought this was too hard and just walked those 200 yards. As biking is just undoable, not to forget lethal

SurlyPIG · February 16, 2003

Wow you guys in the US miss school because of like two feet of snow? It takes at least a couple meters of built up snow to bring my city down...It's hard when it's all at once though. I assume that the Northeast is getting a big dump.

I reccomend honing your shovelling techniques and strategies. Most people clear straight from the middle of their driveway right up to the edge. I reccomend doing a two-car driveway in four pushes.

Imagine O is snow and X is cleared driveway. First, shovel a small path right down the middle of the driveway to work from, then clear each side in two successions of pushes.

Step 1:

OOXO

Step 2:

OOXX

Step 3:

OXXX

Step 4:

XXXX

This allows you to move very quickly, as you can have a straddled stance with facing the house or away from it, depending on the side you do. If you shovel right handed, make sure you stand on the left side of the shovel and push the butt of the shovel with your right hand. Then, once you've cleared a section equal to 1/4 the width of your driveway, take a small step forward and do the same utnil you've cleared 1/4 of the driveway. Repeat this three times for each remaining fourth of the driveway.

I don't know if any of that makes any sense, as it's very difficult to explain without some sort of visual, but when I use this technique I can clear my fairly long driveway in about 5 minutes per foot/30cm of snow

rogue1896 · February 16, 2003

...nah i'll just use my snowblower. ;)

lost_child · February 16, 2003

I love snow. I just hate shoveling it. I've shoveled around 30 times this year. but i also enjoy sledding done big snow hills so in the end it evens out.

number6 · February 16, 2003

I am also feeling the pain Ordos. We have about 2 feet of snow here in Maryland as well and I have shoveled several times today. At least all you have to do is around a car. I have a long driveway that takes about 1.5 hours for me to shovel and completely clear the snow. I have so much snow piled up on either side of my driveway it looks like a trench. I think most people are off tomorrow because of Presidents day holiday. I do not have off, but I am taking tomorrow off as a vacation day if I have to. The State of Maryland issued a state of emrgency until 4AM tomorrow and the Governer has stated if the police sees you out on the road and it is not for an emrgency you will be fined $1000 and possibly face up to a year in jail. So I think I will stay home.

sneezer3 · February 17, 2003

I like snow!

All we've had here recently is rain rain rain. if it where snow there would be about 3-7 inches probbly.

I hate snow when i have to shovel it up. but besides that i like it cause it peacefull and quite like. you can slide down it, make a snow man, and most of all SNOWCREAM! man that stuff's good.

if only you could give us some of it ::) :)

slaphapy · February 17, 2003

Wow you guys in the US miss school because of like two feet of snow?

lol when my brother went to school in vermont

the rule of missing school was that if the school headmaster couldn't get to school then it would be canceled.... the thing is that the headmaster lives on campus ...LOL

i LLLOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEE SNOW!!!!

i think it is the greatest thing ever.... i remember when i visited my grandma in washington D.C. in '96 and they had like 5 feet of snow.. i was kind of short then cuz i was young and i dug a hole into the snow that i could sit in and it was like a little snow house :D

i live in new mexico, so we dont' get much, if any

and our stupid school doesn't like canceling school, so even if we get enough ice to slide all the way down the road to school (we actually have before) they don't cancel or postpone school because they want a stupid perfect attendence record :P

Acriku · February 17, 2003

I've never seen snow, so I have yet to decide if it's evil or not.

ordos45 · February 17, 2003

Oh I live on a corner house with about 500 feet of sidewalk, so it can take a while. Though at this rate, I'll have completed a scale replica of World War I trenches in snow. As for the State of Emergency thing, same here number6 there is a ban on non emergency travel, same fine range, etc.

SurlyPIG · February 17, 2003

Damn you Floridians...My cousin moved to Orlando and vowed never to wear a Jacked the whole time. He lived there for three years and the one exception he made was during a hurricane, and it was only a poncho.

Acriku · February 17, 2003

hehe :) It actually does get pretty cold here, but probably warm to you northern folk :P

zamboe · February 17, 2003

lol. How people can complain about snow ?, for sure they complain about grass in spring, probably about leafs in autumn....... just accept it.

number6 · February 17, 2003

Well maybe you never had to deal with snow down there in Chile. Have you? What's the biggest snow storm you had to deal with?

nemafakei · February 17, 2003

"there is a ban on non emergency travel"

How do the police catch you to fine you, if they can't travel unless in an emergency?

Caid Ivik · February 17, 2003

Send some snow to Bratislava, there is whole winter still cold under freeze point, but it won't snow!

zamboe · February 17, 2003

Well maybe you never had to deal with snow down there in Chile. Have you? What's the biggest snow storm you had to deal with?

Lots of snow.

Huge amounts of it. Specially in the southern parts of the country.

In the main city of the Patagonia the main issue is not snow (which is a big issue) but the wind.

Biggest snow storm, I think occurred in the Patagonia area, about 1.5 meters of snow in plain areas about 10 years ago, the problem was that in winter there is only about 5 hours of daylight so there was not much time to clear the driveways.

rogue1896 · February 17, 2003

Behold my house

the white stuff is snow ;)

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