Oh shit nevermind, we wrote this all down on a napkin and mailed it to ourselves so you can't do it, I'm already on kickstarter and GoFundMe.
Joke's on you, St. Bernards as working delivery animals has existed as prior art for centuries, there's no IP position possible here but I'll be filing lawsuits once a week until you close your business.
We’ve all heard by now that the East Coast weather has coalesced into an alarming bomb of spitting, tormenting cold, but how are the sharks going to handle this? After all, the ocean’s getting hit pretty hard! Well, here’s one indication.
On Tuesday, the Cape Code Times reported that on New Year’s Eve a fourth frozen thresher shark was discovered in an “ice pack” (an area of floating ice, not the thing you keep in your freezer, I just learned) near Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
According to that report, some scientists say the thresher shark is relatively ill-equipped to generate heat (it’s threshold is water below 44 degrees for an extended period of time, but it’s called a “thresher” because its tail resembles a scythe).
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It's unseasonably cold, yeah. We do usually have at least some stretches of really biting cold in winter but it's usually in late January/early-mid February, not December and early January. I'm sure critters are doubly confused after the unbelievably warm autumn, too.
people don't seem to grasp the concept of traction, so, like, going up a steep hill means you need to have speed to do it, you can't just put up it at 10 mph and expect to keep going up
Hope you all made it home okay too
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Got to work at 10am today. At 10:45, a manager came out and told us to call the people who were supposed to be in at 11:00am and tell them not to come since the road conditions were terrible. We didn't have enough staff on hand to handle all our inbound calls, so we closed the inbound call line and did outbound calls only with a staff of like, 14 instead of the 60 we normally have.
They let us go at 4 because the roads were going to start freezing over again, instead of just letting us go at 12:00 when the sun was out.
I. Hate. Snow. The bridge I drove in on didn't have the entrance lane plowed, so I had to jockey into place because the public transit buses weren't letting me in and my car was dangerously close to spinning out near a guard rail.
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Ugh, nasty day today. I'm about 20 miles west of Boston and... I'm not sure how you get enormous snow drifts with snow this heavy. That took a couple of sucky hours to shovel out of. But, hey, my power came back when I was out there, so I have heat again. Hooray!
Although I'm out of places to throw snow and it looks like we'll never get temperatures that can melt snow ever again so... no more storms please?
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Snow removal company wants $175 to clear our driveway (we did the walkway and cleared our cars ourselves). I don't really have $175 to be giving to people. Nice of them to wait until 8 in the evening to give us an estimate. I'm sure they expected us to just say okay because of how late it is.
Snow removal company wants $175 to clear our driveway (we did the walkway and cleared our cars ourselves). I don't really have $175 to be giving to people. Nice of them to wait until 8 in the evening to give us an estimate. I'm sure they expected us to just say okay because of how late it is.
If I was going to go through all the effort of laying a tarp down before snowfall, I'd just lay some tubing under the concrete driveway and use it with a boiler to keep the driveway in the mid 50's during the winter months.
Radiant heating, is there any life problem it can't solve?!
bowen on
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If I was going to go through all the effort of laying a tarp down before snowfall, I'd just lay some tubing under the concrete driveway and use it with a boiler to keep the driveway in the mid 50's during the winter months.
Radiant heating, is there any life problem it can't solve?!
If I was going to go through all the effort of laying a tarp down before snowfall, I'd just lay some tubing under the concrete driveway and use it with a boiler to keep the driveway in the mid 50's during the winter months.
Radiant heating, is there any life problem it can't solve?!
Wildfires?
Break the tube and let the water flow!
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Life pro tip: put a tarp out before it starts snowing. When you want your driveway clear, drag the away the tarp, and the snow on top of it.
This tip brought to you by my girlfriend's dad
Things we now know about Tossrock's girlfriend's dad:
- reasonably strong
- short driveway
More like The Hulk. On average, 1 inch of snow weighs 1 pound per square foot. If I had 6 inches of snow on even just a single 10x20 ft parking spot, much less my whole driveway, that's 1200 lbs of snow. Wet snow would be near 2000 lbs.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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We got a snowblower at a garage sale and used it once before something broke with it. :<
Still no snow here, but my worst fear as a dogsitter happened.
I always walk her with a harness. I don't think the owners actually use it, but when I'm here I prefer it for security's sake. However, the harness doesn't work with her coat (not a dog clothing fan, but she's a damn chihuahua and it's been sub 20 here). On a late night walk she put it in reverse and slipped right out.
Fortunately, due to the cold, her target was her own front door.
Yeah. I'm guessing that her breed;s territorial tendency and love of warmth aided me greatly.
On a side note, her wanting to be close by at all times makes her a great hot water bottle replacement, aside from the fact that she growls like I'm her worst enemy if I nudge her even slightly.
Life pro tip: put a tarp out before it starts snowing. When you want your driveway clear, drag the away the tarp, and the snow on top of it.
This tip brought to you by my girlfriend's dad
Things we now know about Tossrock's girlfriend's dad:
- reasonably strong
- short driveway
More like The Hulk. On average, 1 inch of snow weighs 1 pound per square foot. If I had 6 inches of snow on even just a single 10x20 ft parking spot, much less my whole driveway, that's 1200 lbs of snow. Wet snow would be near 2000 lbs.
IDK, all the numbers I can find suggest 3-7 pounds per cubic foot for freshly fallen snow. I will inquire further about his technique, though
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people don't seem to grasp the concept of traction, so, like, going up a steep hill means you need to have speed to do it, you can't just put up it at 10 mph and expect to keep going up
Hope you all made it home okay too
I had a three hour drive back from Syracuse the other day cause people don't know how to drive.
it was probably exactly the sort of torture I'll suffer in hell
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A cold snap has just hit Perth! It's twenty degrees.
Life pro tip: put a tarp out before it starts snowing. When you want your driveway clear, drag the away the tarp, and the snow on top of it.
This tip brought to you by my girlfriend's dad
Things we now know about Tossrock's girlfriend's dad:
- reasonably strong
- short driveway
More like The Hulk. On average, 1 inch of snow weighs 1 pound per square foot. If I had 6 inches of snow on even just a single 10x20 ft parking spot, much less my whole driveway, that's 1200 lbs of snow. Wet snow would be near 2000 lbs.
IDK, all the numbers I can find suggest 3-7 pounds per cubic foot for freshly fallen snow. I will inquire further about his technique, though
The first few results I found said that a cubic foot of "light and fluffy snow" can weight 7 lbs, and "very wet and dense snow" can weigh up to 20 lbs per cubic foot, and "average" snow is around 12-15. Another place said 5 - 12.5 lbs. for light to dense snow.
In any case, having shoveled many a 'flake in my day, that shit gets fuckin' heavy. Especially when you're needing to shovel over 100 goddamn cubic feet of it. I can easily see that number going well beyond 7 lbs, and 3 lbs seems extremely light to me.
Disclaimer: I may be biased because I spent 80-90 minutes earlier shoveling 2-3 feet high snow dunes.
ahaha I just found a PDF from FEMA where they say "The weight of 1 foot of fresh snow ranges from 3 pounds per square foot for light, dry snow to 21 pounds per square foot for wet, heavy snow (Gooch, 1999). "
So there we have it, cited and all (though they didn't say "cubic" for some reason, even though that's clearly what they meant. I will give them a pass). We are all correct.
My commute wasn't bad, but clearing off my car and shoveling behind both our cars left me very wet and cold nearly up to the sensitive bits and unfortunately my drive in didn't really help that much. I'm debating going out during lunch and buying new pants/socks just to warm up or maybe just using my coat as a makeshift blanket over my legs.
With that said, it's a day I'm happy to be a renter. I'll come home to a plowed driveway and if the kid does his chores, a shoveled porch.
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I don't know what to think, now.
Joke's on you, St. Bernards as working delivery animals has existed as prior art for centuries, there's no IP position possible here but I'll be filing lawsuits once a week until you close your business.
Run
I hope I don't get trapped at work that'd be unfortunate
nice
people don't seem to grasp the concept of traction, so, like, going up a steep hill means you need to have speed to do it, you can't just put up it at 10 mph and expect to keep going up
Hope you all made it home okay too
They let us go at 4 because the roads were going to start freezing over again, instead of just letting us go at 12:00 when the sun was out.
I. Hate. Snow. The bridge I drove in on didn't have the entrance lane plowed, so I had to jockey into place because the public transit buses weren't letting me in and my car was dangerously close to spinning out near a guard rail.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
Although I'm out of places to throw snow and it looks like we'll never get temperatures that can melt snow ever again so... no more storms please?
Fuck that
You could buy a snowblower for a bit more
where are the urchins, dammit
Too cold for urchins.
Plenty of water for them, though! It's a nice environment for any aquatic creature.
My right hand locked up in the cold and still aches though I've been inside for an hour or two.
At least the tremors went away...
This tip brought to you by my girlfriend's dad
Did you miss the part about our frozen sharks?
Things we now know about Tossrock's girlfriend's dad:
- reasonably strong
- short driveway
My parents were convinced to buy one when I went to college and they've never looked back.
Radiant heating, is there any life problem it can't solve?!
Wildfires?
Break the tube and let the water flow!
More like The Hulk. On average, 1 inch of snow weighs 1 pound per square foot. If I had 6 inches of snow on even just a single 10x20 ft parking spot, much less my whole driveway, that's 1200 lbs of snow. Wet snow would be near 2000 lbs.
I always walk her with a harness. I don't think the owners actually use it, but when I'm here I prefer it for security's sake. However, the harness doesn't work with her coat (not a dog clothing fan, but she's a damn chihuahua and it's been sub 20 here). On a late night walk she put it in reverse and slipped right out.
Fortunately, due to the cold, her target was her own front door.
On a side note, her wanting to be close by at all times makes her a great hot water bottle replacement, aside from the fact that she growls like I'm her worst enemy if I nudge her even slightly.
IDK, all the numbers I can find suggest 3-7 pounds per cubic foot for freshly fallen snow. I will inquire further about his technique, though
I had a three hour drive back from Syracuse the other day cause people don't know how to drive.
it was probably exactly the sort of torture I'll suffer in hell
I've had to leave my socks on!
Satans..... hints.....
The first few results I found said that a cubic foot of "light and fluffy snow" can weight 7 lbs, and "very wet and dense snow" can weigh up to 20 lbs per cubic foot, and "average" snow is around 12-15. Another place said 5 - 12.5 lbs. for light to dense snow.
In any case, having shoveled many a 'flake in my day, that shit gets fuckin' heavy. Especially when you're needing to shovel over 100 goddamn cubic feet of it. I can easily see that number going well beyond 7 lbs, and 3 lbs seems extremely light to me.
Disclaimer: I may be biased because I spent 80-90 minutes earlier shoveling 2-3 feet high snow dunes.
So there we have it, cited and all (though they didn't say "cubic" for some reason, even though that's clearly what they meant. I will give them a pass). We are all correct.
Thanks Gooch!
so I said "why not cancel and close early then? They're going to cancel anyways"
With that said, it's a day I'm happy to be a renter. I'll come home to a plowed driveway and if the kid does his chores, a shoveled porch.
Thank fuck for 4wd