Post #137,671
1/25/04 2:08:04 PM
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How to make a mess of roads
Start with a week of cold temperatures at ground level. Lightly baste with a covering of warm moist Gulf air, producing freezing rain. Gradually replace with colder air, making a middle layer of an inch or so of sleet pellets. Finally cover with a blanket of soft wet snow, hiding the ice and round-pellet frictionless layers. Season to taste with crashed SUVs.
-drl
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Post #137,674
1/25/04 2:21:27 PM
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Even the MODOT salt trucks overturned
Looks like I will be staying home today. Tomorrow I have a quiz and a class, hope I can make it there without crashing.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #137,680
1/25/04 2:34:40 PM
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Yep, two of them in a few hours time.
And they are the people who are supposed to know the best way to drive in this stuff, so hey, when they start flipping over, it's time to stay off the road!
And I'm doing just that. Church was cancelled, and I didn't budge any farther than the driveway to feed the cold birdies.
Nightowl >8#
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Eric Hoffer
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Post #137,682
1/25/04 2:36:12 PM
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Re: Yep, two of them in a few hours time.
How sweet! I saw an extremely fat cardinal yesterday - was thinking how he managed to stuff himself to that extent. This dude looked like a red softball.
-drl
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Post #137,685
1/25/04 2:44:57 PM
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It's been a funny show
The squirrels are running out on the branches and losing their balance, so they grab at anything to keep from sliding.
The sparrows and juncos are hopping around on top of the bushes, but they can't get much of a foothold so they are losing their balance and falling into the bushes or flying.
And all of them discovered John was drying clothes, and the vent was putting out steam on the patio, so they were diving in and out of the steam like a birdie sauna. Hehehe. Then he finished, so they were looking at it like, "where did it go?"
It's a huge hive of activity out my window right now.
Nightowl >8#
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Eric Hoffer
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Post #137,687
1/25/04 2:51:19 PM
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ROFL!
Animals are funnier than people - my favorite TV show is "Planet's Funniest Animals".
One time we had like 10 inches of snow - my bulldog had a ground clearance of about 5. To do her businesss she'd just plow a rut in the snow - pretty soon the back yard was criss-crossed by poop channels :) This dog was like a submarine. She'd get the cold snow on her belly and seemed to really like it - after business she'd just romp around throwing snow everywhere, and then waddle back in with this really happy look. Watching her in this would be a scream!
-drl
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Post #137,677
1/25/04 2:26:29 PM
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You forgot the biggest ingredient
Add overaggressive drivers who are not equipped mentally or physically to drive in snow. Mix in a city which doesn't have sufficient resources to deal with snow.
I pity you. But note that the initial physical conditions would not be dangerous in a better prepared part of the country.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #137,678
1/25/04 2:31:45 PM
1/25/04 2:32:59 PM
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Yep, the drivers
Add overaggressive drivers who are not equipped mentally or physically to drive in snow. Mix in a city which doesn't have sufficient resources to deal with snow. I pity you. But note that the initial physical conditions would not be dangerous in a better prepared part of the country. Well they have been out all night but they couldn't start salting until the rain stopped. I don't know how equipped St. Louis is to deal with this, but we have known about it for hours and they seemed prepared to me. It's the drivers who are not slowing down and not realizing they need to, I think, that are causing the biggest headaches. I have a Dr. appt tomorrow I really need to get to, but if my car won't come out of the garage, I might not... guess we'll see. John is gonna try and salt or shovel it, but it's a sheet of ice, so it might not come up easily, if at all. And I have a rear-wheel drive car, plus have to back out, so if I can't get any traction, I don't come out of the garage! ;) Nightowl >8# Edit: changed Subject line.
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Eric Hoffer
Edited by Nightowl
Jan. 25, 2004, 02:32:59 PM EST
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Post #137,693
1/25/04 3:45:28 PM
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If you have a lot of clorox, best de-icer
same old crap, con artists ripping off fools. Ah, hell, Catholic Church it start off that way. They All do. Jesus probably had three walnut shells one pea, then he's dead and can't be questioned,
Gabriel Dupre
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Post #137,705
1/25/04 5:45:28 PM
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Hot Chocolate Time!
Nah, that's ok Boxley. John and I just finished shoveling and "salting" the driveway. The ice isn't that thick, which is lucky, and the deicer we sprinkled on it is melting it pretty fast.
Of course it still might sleet a bit more tonight, but the worst is off the driveway so hopefully I can get the car out. Might "salt" again right before bed if enough stuff comes down.
Anyway... it's Hot Chocolate Time!!!
Ross, I hope you don't have to go anywhere in this stuff, it's treacherous to walk on, even with deicer.
Nightowl >8#
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Eric Hoffer
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Post #137,679
1/25/04 2:33:30 PM
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Re: You forgot the biggest ingredient
I don't think Evel Knievel could drive on this stuff. You can't even walk on it. We get a fair amount of snow on average so there are trucks that handle most snow situations - when the snow trucks are crashing one is advised to stay home.
The worst thing of all is lots of sleet with the ground temperature well below freezing. It's like walking on marbles.
-drl
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Post #137,683
1/25/04 2:39:34 PM
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That is bad stuff - I've seen it
But it was more dangerous in Victoria than New Hampshire.
Better prepared local population. Better prepared city.
(Incidentally not all "snow trucks" are created equal.)
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #137,686
1/25/04 2:46:54 PM
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Re: That is bad stuff - I've seen it
At my previous job we handled the plows for the MODOT trucks - these are BIG trucks with 400hp engines and 15 foot blades, and cavernous sand bins - basically a large dump truck with a massive plow. This is the slickest stuff I've ever seen. There isn't enough material to bite into, and what is there is just absolutely slick. I haven't seen a car on my street in hours.
-drl
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