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Post by Zealot on Jan 20, 2022 21:52:51 GMT
I should mention that names for winter storms are like 1000x more creative than tropical storms. Izzy and Jasper are great names. Just not so great weather lol.
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Post by BakFu on Jan 20, 2022 22:15:28 GMT
The winter storms get names? That’s awesome! We’d have used every name in every language known to man in the last five years up here if we named our winter storms! As shitty and cold as it gets here, I’d take our winters in my neck of the woods in Canada than deal with the ice storms and lack of winter infrastructure you guys have down south. Our winters are long, dark, and very cold, but that ice that takes down power lines and breaks trees and shit looks terrible. Stay safe everyone!
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Post by Nth on Jan 26, 2022 10:45:32 GMT
Oh good, just got a weather alert on my phone that another big storm is due to hit us this weekend. Could be some more call in days coming up.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jan 26, 2022 19:00:40 GMT
Back to single digit temperature tonight into tomorrow and then snow in a day or two 🤷♂️
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Post by Zealot on Jan 26, 2022 19:24:34 GMT
Arctic blasts are just sooooooo fun
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jan 26, 2022 19:50:19 GMT
Every day is a York Peppermint Patty commercial 🥶❄
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Post by BakFu on Jan 26, 2022 23:03:03 GMT
Arctic blasts are just sooooooo fun When I read “arctic blast”, all I could hear in my mind was Cyclops from Marvel vs Capcom saying that instead of “Optic Blast”. Hopefully the storm isn’t THIS bad… |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jan 27, 2022 5:36:17 GMT
If the storm is as bad as Zangief facing Cyclops or Blackheart in that game, we're all in deep trouble!!
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Side note: I've logged more arcade hours with MSH vs. SF than I did with any other game ever 💡
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Post by Zealot on Jan 28, 2022 16:54:18 GMT
Main water pipe burst in the house last night. Fire burnt a house down a block away. A bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh.
I'm officially done with winter this season.
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Post by Nth on Jan 29, 2022 0:25:54 GMT
Main water pipe burst in the house last night.
Had that happen as well. Fortunately not the main water pipe, just the one running up to the bath tub in my upstairs washroom. But I still had to shut down water to half the house. This happened back in the 90's and I never bothered fixing it because my 200 year old house currently has no main heating system. In the winter I literally heat one room with a space heater. However this year we may be installing an oil furnace that could heat the entire house enough that I can turn the water back on and not worry about pipes freezing and bursting in the winter. Still never fixed the part of the kitchen ceiling that the water poured through either, but if we get heat through the house I can actually start using some of the other rooms in it.
Now I'm just waiting for the big weekend storm that is supposed to start tonight. Have a little bit of snow and slippery roads right now. Leaving work a big transport truck had slid sideways and was blocking the lanes of oncoming traffic. Fortunately I was going home in the other direction and didn't get held up. I haven't 100% committed to calling in yet tomorrow, will wait to the last minute and see what the weather says. It's not the driving in to work part I am concerned about, it's the driving home part which would take place during the roughest part of the storm with snow, high winds, ice pellets and freezing rain all predicted to be happening starting tonight and going all the way into Sunday morning.
I think the plant already knows a lot of people will be calling in tomorrow day shift and tomorrow night shift from the rumors I was hearing around the shop today.
We actually asked our shop supervisor if we could come in and work until about 3pm before the roughest part of the storm rolled in and then leave early. The company has done this in the past before. But we couldn't get an answer out of him before he left early. Those guys don't work weekends so it probably doesn't matter to him. Worst part is they could be sending people home early anyway due to lack of product to build with. Still getting between 20 and 30 call ins for covid or covid isolation every shift. Today they sent a bunch of people home in our shop early because they didn't have enough product to run some of the machines all shift and needed to save some for the night crew to build with. Only reason I didn't leave early today is because I figured I might be calling in tomorrow.
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Post by Nth on Jan 29, 2022 9:44:35 GMT
The worst part about calling in due to a blizzard is when you wake up and it's perfectly fine outside. Like I told them at work yesterday, it's not the drive in I'm worried about, it's the drive home. I was literally contemplating just going in and hoping they would let us leave early, but I did a quick weather check and the storm is still on track to start in an hour or two with warnings of possible road closings and power outages and an advisory for non-essential traffic to be off the roads, so that ticked enough check boxes for me and I made the call just now. Fortunately it's supposed to be over tomorrow morning.
EDIT: Glad I stayed home now. It's a mess at this point and this is supposed to go on the rest of the day and overnight into tomorrow morning. I should be able to get in Sunday morning though.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jan 29, 2022 21:54:23 GMT
Main water pipe burst in the house last night. Fire burnt a house down a block away. A bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh. I'm officially done with winter this season. That completely sucks. I hope that you don't have a (frozen?) flood at this point and can get it fixed soon. Had that happen as well. Fortunately not the main water pipe, just the one running up to the bath tub in my upstairs washroom. But I still had to shut down water to half the house. This happened back in the 90's and I never bothered fixing it because my 200 year old house currently has no main heating system. In the winter I literally heat one room with a space heater. However this year we may be installing an oil furnace that could heat the entire house enough that I can turn the water back on and not worry about pipes freezing and bursting in the winter. Still never fixed the part of the kitchen ceiling that the water poured through either, but if we get heat through the house I can actually start using some of the other rooms in it. Hope that you can get that oil furnace installed. These winters seem to be getting more brutal. The worst part about calling in due to a blizzard is when you wake up and it's perfectly fine outside. Like I told them at work yesterday, it's not the drive in I'm worried about, it's the drive home. It's amazing how many people don't understand: "It's okay now but it will be horrible later." I've gotten so many strange looks carrying an umbrella to work when rain is forecast for later. Yeah, I get that it's not raining now but I checked and the future is still scheduled to arrive!! So many people just don't get it. I've had to stay home from work before for the same reasons only to get: "The weather is fine now." Sounds like you made the right choice in staying home 😎 |
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Post by Nth on Feb 2, 2022 12:04:17 GMT
Another massive storm coming this Friday and lasting into Saturday. Finally a storm hitting when I'm not at work. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday is my long weekend off. 9 shifts left to vacation.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2022 16:32:54 GMT
We got seven inches of snow yesterday. That's a lot for us.
I'm sitting here at work (I live close) watching some guys plow our parking lot and now I've got the Zamboni music from NES Ice Hockey in my head.
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Post by El Marsh on Feb 4, 2022 18:14:40 GMT
Tbh, I think it's silly to expect people to report to work when there's ice all over the roads. Snow sucks but it's mostly manageable. Ice on the road can fucking kill you. Might as well have people drive during a tornado.
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