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Dec 20th, 2016, 11:06 AM
#62121
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Dec 20th, 2016, 11:10 AM
#62122
Re: Post Race!
After half a century of shoveling snow I have finally caved - buying my first snow blower.
dclamp will be needing one of these in his new digs!
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Dec 20th, 2016, 11:43 AM
#62123
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Dec 20th, 2016, 11:54 AM
#62124
Re: Post Race!
One of my boys has a hover board - I've never been on it and know a whole lot better then to see how badly I might fall!
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Dec 20th, 2016, 04:25 PM
#62125
Re: Post Race!
How does the battery last in the cold?
Shoveling snow is never that smooth and easy for me. Right now, my walks are covered with an ice/snow mix. I was away for two weeks and didn't shovel (of course). By the time I got home, the snow was partially converted to ice. At this point, I think it's better to leave it as is, because if I were to remove the snow, I'd just have an ice coated sidewalk. As it stands, the ice bonded to the snow makes for pretty good, though uneven, footing.
Fortunately, snow is generally not a long term thing where I am. A few days of warm weather and the snow could all be gone. Then I can shovel the next round. Unfortunately, there is currently a freezing rain falling, so the walks will be in pretty odd shape by morning.
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Dec 21st, 2016, 11:44 AM
#62126
Re: Post Race!
This, folks, is why drink and rollerskates don't mix:-
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Dec 21st, 2016, 12:36 PM
#62127
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Dec 21st, 2016, 12:50 PM
#62128
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Dec 21st, 2016, 12:51 PM
#62129
Re: Post Race!
That was really weird. It took forever to post that, then it posted twice. If it wasn't the Post Race, I might actually remove the duplicate.
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Dec 21st, 2016, 01:23 PM
#62130
Re: Post Race!
They were hairy already. I was Elijah Wood's foot double on Lord of the Rings. True Story.
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Dec 21st, 2016, 01:37 PM
#62131
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Re: Post Race!
Aw, rub some dirt on it, you'll be fine.
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Dec 21st, 2016, 02:28 PM
#62132
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Dec 23rd, 2016, 09:38 AM
#62133
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by szlamany
After half a century of shoveling snow I have finally caved - buying my first snow blower.
dclamp will be needing one of these in his new digs!
Can I come by and borrow yours?
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Dec 23rd, 2016, 12:50 PM
#62134
Re: Post Race!
Quite unusually, I might actually have a use for one, too. It's currently snowing pretty hard, and is supposed to continue all day. We're still only at normal snow pack for this area, while northern Idaho is down around 80% of normal.
Out here, snow in the winter means water in the summer. At this point, we're doing ok, but the last few years has followed a solid November and December with a dry January and February. Hopefully this will keep on for a few more weeks.
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Dec 23rd, 2016, 07:12 PM
#62135
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Dec 24th, 2016, 12:23 PM
#62136
Re: Post Race!
Got about as much of it last night as I have ever seen in the Boise area. May get more today, too.
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Dec 25th, 2016, 11:29 AM
#62137
Re: Post Race!
No snow here. In Brizzle we get Drizzle.
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Dec 26th, 2016, 12:45 PM
#62138
Lively Member
Re: Post Race!
Happy Boxing Day - the day we celebrate our ability to convert data types into objects.
Or something like that.
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Dec 26th, 2016, 01:18 PM
#62139
Re: Post Race!
That is absolutely why we celebrate Boxing Day.
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Dec 26th, 2016, 05:53 PM
#62140
Re: Post Race!
I'm going to go convert an integer into an object, just for that.
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Dec 26th, 2016, 06:22 PM
#62141
Re: Post Race!
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Dec 27th, 2016, 10:03 AM
#62142
Re: Post Race!
Thank you!
Believe it or not, but she is already sleeping through the night.
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Dec 27th, 2016, 11:02 AM
#62143
Re: Post Race!
I wish I could say the same.
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Dec 27th, 2016, 11:29 AM
#62144
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Dec 27th, 2016, 12:49 PM
#62145
Re: Post Race!
I had risen for to pee.
(that's a quote from great literature, by the way)
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Jan 4th, 2017, 10:46 AM
#62146
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I had risen for to pee.
(that's a quote from great literature, by the way)
Urine in a lot of trouble if that isn't true...
Please remember next time...elections matter!
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Jan 4th, 2017, 11:00 AM
#62147
Re: Post Race!
Well, I assure you that I don't have any streaming video.
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Jan 4th, 2017, 03:59 PM
#62148
Re: Post Race!
It's currently snowing to beat hell out here. This is the most impressive storm I have seen in the 15 years I've been in this valley. I'm not sure whether I can get my car out of the garage, at the moment, and even if I could reach the road, it hasn't been plowed, and probably can't be. The city only got some plows a couple years back, and they only hit the main roads. The street I'm on had the most snow on it that I had seen even before this storm hit, and now....I'm already planning to ski to the gym tomorrow morning, because it's just the best way to get there in these conditions. We were forecast to get 3-6 inches out of the storm here in the valley. I'd say it's beaten the spread already, with a forecasted 10 hours yet to go.
That may not seem like so much to some folks, but Boise is in a desert valley where most precipitation gets wrung out by the surrounding mountains. For this much to reach the valley floor, the mountains are getting a good dose.
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Jan 4th, 2017, 04:16 PM
#62149
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Jan 4th, 2017, 04:22 PM
#62150
Re: Post Race!
My office just got sent home for the second time in as many weeks. They determined that the conditions were getting too bad. I determined that yesterday, though, and already said I was telecommuting. One of my coworkers decided the same thing after digging out his wife's car this morning.
Those folks who went home early get to claim a few hours of paid leave above and beyond normal leave, but since I was telecommuting, all I did was take a break from coding to go shovel my sidewalk, and that of my neighbors. It's snowing hard, at the moment, though, so my efforts will only mean that there will be less to do this evening, or tomorrow morning.
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Jan 5th, 2017, 09:34 AM
#62151
Re: Post Race!
It's sunny here
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Jan 5th, 2017, 09:44 AM
#62152
Re: Post Race!
It is cold(50*) and rainy(10%) here. Hell it's like I'm in the UK.
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Jan 5th, 2017, 11:37 AM
#62153
Re: Post Race!
I spent the first hour of the day pushing cars around on the street. People were getting stuck on flat ground, largely due to a combination of very low clearance and inadequate tires. The former seemed the bigger issue. I measured 15 inches of snow in my yard. My bumper measures 9.5 inches off the ground, and that's not the lowest point on the car. While I have good tires (studded snow tires) and all wheel drive, the city won't plow the side streets, so I'm not sure I won't end up like a post turtle.
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Jan 5th, 2017, 11:43 AM
#62154
Re: Post Race!
By low clearance you mean that the snow is too tall for the vehicle?
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Jan 5th, 2017, 05:00 PM
#62155
Re: Post Race!
Yep. Good thing it is light powder, because I essentially plowed my way out of the garage. Still not inclined to shovel the driveway, though, because the car did fine.
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Jan 5th, 2017, 05:39 PM
#62156
Re: Post Race!
Did you see the YouTube video of the hoverboard plow?
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Jan 5th, 2017, 07:21 PM
#62157
Re: Post Race!
Yeah, I did. Seemed pretty crazy, to me.
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Jan 7th, 2017, 04:17 AM
#62158
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Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
the city won't plow the side streets
Not even when they're done plowing the main roads?
We had a big lake effect storm here two years ago that rendered my street impassable for two solid days, but eventually the city got around to clearing it. Things got kind of desperate for a while... I had to use one of my dirt bikes just to get to the liquor store!
Edit: currently 6 degrees F here. My 77 year-old house is making those creaking noises again like it always does when it's really effing cold.
Last edited by homer13j; Jan 7th, 2017 at 04:22 AM.
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Jan 7th, 2017, 09:40 AM
#62159
Re: Post Race!
I am at Boy Scout camp for vigil night.
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Jan 9th, 2017, 11:54 AM
#62160
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by homer13j
Not even when they're done plowing the main roads?
We had a big lake effect storm here two years ago that rendered my street impassable for two solid days, but eventually the city got around to clearing it. Things got kind of desperate for a while... I had to use one of my dirt bikes just to get to the liquor store!
Edit: currently 6 degrees F here. My 77 year-old house is making those creaking noises again like it always does when it's really effing cold.
Yeah, you live in a place that knows how to deal with snow. I don't think my city even had plows until a couple years ago, and if you watch people clearing snow around here, you realize that they are pretty much making it up as they go. I watched a guy plowing the Wal-Mart parking lot. If he had a plan, I sure couldn't figure it out....unless it was that he was paid by the hour. He'd do one pass in one direction, then go push other snow in a different direction, leave a ridge in the middle of a road, push snow into the place he had just cleared, and generally wander around aimlessly.
However, somebody DID plow my street on Saturday. I don't know whether it was the city, or some local on an ATV with a plow on it. The job was...indifferent, at best, and they plowed the snow up onto the sidewalk I had been keeping cleared. Since it happened at night, the snow had a chance to re-freeze, and a few more inches fell, so when I tried to shovel the walk, it was a hard packed mess. I gave up on the part that the plow had hit the worst, but managed to clear the rest, which is the part most heavily traveled anyways. Oddly, they appear to have plowed the cul-de-sac, while skipping the somewhat more main street it connects to. It also wasn't so much plowing as leveling, as the packed snow/ice on the road is still a few inches thick.
Then it snowed more, then turned to rain, and the temperature topped 40 this morning. That hard packed snow on the road is starting to melt and reform into wet ice, which has a friction coefficient around 0. I saw a guy in a truck who was unable to get traction on the flat ground. He wasn't sinking in, his wheels just couldn't get enough purchase to move the truck forwards.
What a fine mess.
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