Ah, a vigilante.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
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Ah, a vigilante.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I was at Camp Edgewood which is close to DeQuincy, LA so kind of further north. It got done to the upper-20's and we actually had ice on the ground. In fact there are large metal poles to keep vehicles from driving over a certain plot of land and inside the poles were frozen icesicles!!!
It was in the upper 70s yesterday. :D But today its cold down into the 60s with a big rain storm. :( Glad I patched up the leak around the skylight on my GF's roof.
You wouldn't want your GF's soffits to get soggy I guess...
So, you saw fit to hang out your shingle, or were you just getting caulky?
Nawh I think I sealed it quite well. No leaks or drips and shes quite happy now :D
Rain... in California?!
Yup! Go figure! Couple of days this week we will have some rain (not downpours like back east but still enough to create havoc for drivers lol).
Rain is to California as snow is to Louisiana!
Whats this snow you are talking about?
A mystical white, powdery substance that will not land you any jail time.
Or it's the mystical white, powdery substance that will land you jail time.
It's the mystical, white, powdery substance that landed me on my butt twice, yesterday. My boots were TERRIBLE for that snow. I should have just stuck with sneakers, despite the new snow being a bit deep. I had some good snow boots, but they disintegrated last year and I didn't bother replacing them because....snow in Boise is so rare.
Well, THAT wasn't a good plan.
Why not snow shoes?
I considered cross country skiis, but couldn't think what I'd do with them while in the store. The boots that disintegrated were my snow shoe boots, so until I replace those, snow shoes won't work quite so well....and I still wouldn't have a place to put them.
So, it got up around 40 degrees for a couple days, and rained steadily. That wasn't enough to melt the snow, but it was enough to turn it all to slush. Instead of several inches of hard packed snow and ice on the roads, we ended up with several inches of mushy slush that cars could easily sink into. Perhaps because of that, perhaps by chance, the city decided to plow my neighborhood yesterday evening. Since it was residential, with lots of vehicles parked on the street, they just did one pass in each direction, which left rows of massive slush/snow boulders lining the streets and blocking in all the cars. They didn't plow the cul-de-sac that I live on, so they left those snow boulders right across the mouth of the street. I saw some people moving them by hand to get their car into the road, but by the time I got some boots on, they had made it past.
Now the road is a bunch of deep canyons gouged into the saturated slush all the way down to the pavement. The ridges of snow can be eight to ten inches high, with vertical walls. Each car moves them a bit, or fills one while creating another. That would be fine, except that tonight the temperature will drop, and we'll not get up near freezing for the next week, with lows in the single digits. That will make the street pretty nearly impassable, as that slush will freeze to solid ice, trapping the canyons into whatever current configuration they happen to have attained.
A buddy of mine hasn't been in to work for a few days because he can't get his car past the end of his driveway. I may be in the same situation by tomorrow.
What a total mess.
I always wondered what do poeple do when they cant get in to work because of the snow. Do they lose a day of pay? Have to use sick day? Company has a snowey day fund?
They sent everybody home early twice so far this year. They do that when the roads are so nasty that people shouldn't be driving. Of course, folks are already at work by the time they make the decision, so you're kind of hosed anyways. Still, they do have a code for that. Who pays I couldn't say. Didn't matter to me. I saw that the roads were sure to be horrid and telecommuted each of those days. No special leave for me.
So being a west coaster I always figured it could be a hardship on a company if they had to pay employees to stay home and a hardship on employees if the company didnt pay them for snow days
If you are salary paid - like a weekly amount - the company takes a hit when there is a snow day.
If you work as a teacher you have a contract for 180 teaching days - you will make up that snow day with the kids. No extra $$'s in the long run - you signed a contract for your annual pay for the school year.
If you are a custodian at some school - you are paid for hours worked - you get nothing for the snow day and your employer does not lose anything either.
If you own a restaurant and you get 3 or 4 Friday/Saturday night snow events in a row you might actually find yourself in a bigger financial problem...
So it sucks to live where it snows lol.