Has enyone else got six inches of snow on their driveway?
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Hey I wake up with almost a good eight inches everymorning .....it melts by the time coffee is ready...
I remedy that you get rid of your driveway
I remedy that you get rid of your driveway
..........................................8O:-(LOL! And people say that EB is bad.
theres aprox 7-8" of snow on the ground here (100 mile house area) current temp is -12.. the coldest temp so far -18, tuesday calling for a temp of -25>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ah that time of year hot totties
Minus 17 here but at least the wind has stopped blowing. We had probably 5-6 inches. For some reason all the snow in town tries to blow into my driveway. Fortunately, I got to use the municipality's loader to clean it out because the driveway is big enough to fit 5 or 6 cars and it was 18 inches deep.
I should have used the shovel this morning....
The snow-blower that I had tested a month ago and started good then...wouldn't start...and it dawned on me that when I had it going before, I hadn't run it long enough...and it had only caused condensation in the cylinder and on the spark plug, so out with the spark plug and a hair blower aimed at the cylinder for ten minutes, replace the plug and away she goes...(Half an hour wasted)
As I'm finishing up with the snow removal, I decide to clean the clothes dryer exhaust because I could see some lint sticking out...and of course, since this isn't my day.... as I'm lifting one of the louvers to clean one of the plastic hinge pin on one of them breaks.
I can see myself having to change the whole vent in this kind of weather so off I go to try and find a matching one at the local hardware store... (This is a 20 year old vent model)
We have only three hardware stores in town (Counting Canadian tire which is a stone's trow away from my place) but of course I find the match at the third one and the furthest one at that so now I will have the simple ten second job of replacing one louver and I'll have two spares....
When I get home....The snow plow has been down my street and has left me a deposit in my driveway....
Not a good day...............
I tend to agree. Last year we didn't get any snow. Maybe we are going to make up for that....:roll:;-):smile:
I was going to crack wise this morning, about the lack of snow here, and the green grass. Well it's up to 3 inches now! Ripley had a blast. His pug tail straightened out and he sprinted in big circles with his mouth open, the Ripley Snow Plow...
I had a good deal more than six inches in most places, thanks to the arrangement of trees and buildings around my driveway that causes the wind to pile up great heaps of snow on top of it. In a major snowfall I routinely get a drift a couple of feet high across the half of the driveway nearest the house, while the half nearest the street blows almost clear. Normally I shovel, but for that drift I get out the snow blower. And while I have it out I clear off the driveway for the lady next door. She's well into her 80s, still pretty spry but not up to clearing snow like that. She gets even bigger drifts than I do, the wind comes down across her roof and drops vast amounts of snow between our houses, where her driveway is. And for those of you who wish you had a snow blower.... manhandling that great roaring clumsy machine isn't really much easier than shoveling, it's just faster and less aerobic. It's fine going in a straight line on a smooth level surface with the wind behind you, but that hardly ever happens and the #!@# thing corners like a boat in quicksand.
But #juan, be grateful you at least have a plow come by. I don't see a plow down my street more than once or twice a winter. The city clears the major roads fairly quickly, but the 100 meter trip from my driveway to the nearest one can be quite an adventure.
But #juan, be grateful you at least have a plow come by. I don't see a plow down my street more than once or twice a winter. The city clears the major roads fairly quickly, but the 100 meter trip from my driveway to the nearest one can be quite an adventure.
Snow??? What's that, doesn't take long to forget. ;-)
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Snowin out and your neighbour comes into heat. Nice.
No snow here yet. I can phone my neighbour and see it he's in heat
.....................And the dickhead who owned the house on my left, cut down his cedar hedge, then sold the place, and moved away.
Makes for interesting times when a North wind is pushin the snow.
Other neighbour has a blower and he does our drive after a biggie. Otherwise "we':roll: use a man-powered scooper-dumper.
Ever day she don't snow makes the winter one day shorter...................you heard it first, right here..........eh.
One of the reasons I moved north to Vernon out of Grand Forks. LOL Should have gone the other way 1500 miles to Yuma. :lol:
I think if you want life expectancy of more than 15 minutes best to stay right the hell out of Mexico.
And when your girl friend measured it? :lol: We're talkin' snow aren't we?
Dex, whenever I complain about the snow, it is at least partially tongue in cheek. We have so little to complain about over a winter in that regard that is is more a topic of conversation. I was born on the prairies and I worked in Winnipeg for several years before making my home on the west coast. People in southern B.C. have never seen a two or three week stretch of minus thirty with the smoke from chimneys going straight up.
Frankly, I think when you live in Nanaimo and it snows, you're entitled to complain.
Not quite that bad #Juan, but I was in grade one at Shawnigan Lake the winter of '49-'50 and that was a long 3 months with temps as low as minus 25C. Apparently at the time the worst winter in 75 years. '68-'69 was another bad one but didn't hold a candle to '49-'50.