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Post by BakFu on Mar 24, 2019 15:02:08 GMT
BakFuI hope your area didn't have serious car accidents if the fog was thick as you described. Last month in my area, we had a 131 vehicle pile up due to white out conditions in a snow storm. It was insane. Seeing the photos of the wreckage was surreal. That’s terrible, it must have rolled in fast to have caught that many people. I didn’t hear about too many, it was early enough on a Saturday morning with appropriate warnings and even some road closures, so traffic was minimally effected. But yeah, it was crazy fog, I don’t think I’ve seen it like that before. We get some dinger snow storms up here and the roads get terrible, but we do have the infrastructure for cleaning up and maintaining the roads, plus a lot of people have winter tires and are used to driving in poor conditions so accidents are minimized thankfully. That said, I’ve been caught in spring and fall storms on one of our major highways and seen semis with 52’ trailers flipped over in the ditch and gas tankers jackknifed across the highway, so yeah, it gets bad here (OT: I have seen snow here every month except July...). |
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Post by Timberwolf on Mar 24, 2019 15:24:30 GMT
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Post by Nth on Mar 24, 2019 17:19:49 GMT
And that's why I call in sick rather than drive to work in something like that. |
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Post by Timberwolf on Mar 24, 2019 17:43:25 GMT
And that's why I call in sick rather than drive to work in something like that. I don't have to worry about that where I live, Nth. Even though I live in the snow belt, my commute is only 3 miles, all on a main city road that is usually plowed, not a highway. I have an AWD SUV. I've yet to miss work due to a snowstorm and got lucky that the worst ones were on my days off anyways. I'm a keyholder and therefore, I'm considered an essential employee, so I HAVE to go in as scheduled, no matter the weather conditions. It's one of the reasons I got my house. I took into consideration the route to work. If the house was on a secondary road, which is not likely to be plowed or a bit further away from work, I would not not bought the house. So sounds like you yourself have a much longer commute than I do, judging from your stories about having to drive in bad winter weather and having to take a long vacation at the peak of winter storm season. I don't blame you for that and actually envy you for being able to take a long vacation like that. Being a keyholder, I'm lucky to take time off for a few days and no longer.
I'm hoping to change that someday. But for now, it is what it is.
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Post by BakFu on Mar 24, 2019 17:46:28 GMT
Wow, that’s friggin horrible. What a nightmare, imagine being involved in that as a driver, or a first responder, or in clean up! Even if your vehicle was okay, you would have to abandon it till the rest of that shit got cleaned up! Wow. Thanks for the pics. |
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Post by Nth on Apr 2, 2019 22:56:36 GMT
It looks like spring here, but we are still getting winter temperatures. They're even calling for snow this week, but it's supposed to turn to rain. As I've been easing back into my spring workout routine I still have to wear my winter jacket when I do my walks.
Only two weeks of doing walking so far and I've already noticed a change.
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Post by Nth on Apr 8, 2019 23:29:53 GMT
Oh good, a snow storm happening now. At least I hadn't taken my winter tires off yet.
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Post by BakFu on Apr 9, 2019 3:33:08 GMT
Oh good, a snow storm happening now. At least I hadn't taken my winter tires off yet. Are you on the east coast? The rest of the country is like 10 C-ish. Good luck and stay safe! |
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Post by Nth on Apr 10, 2019 0:01:26 GMT
Oh good, a snow storm happening now. At least I hadn't taken my winter tires off yet. Are you on the east coast? The rest of the country is like 10 C-ish. Good luck and stay safe!
Yep. It wasn't that bad and is over now. But there's snow on the ground again that hasn't melted.
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Post by BakFu on Apr 27, 2019 11:52:10 GMT
It has been nice out here as of late, temperatures above zero over night and highs around 10-17 C, everything is greening up, and leaves are sprouting on the trees.
That said, it is April in Alberta, Canada, and today we’re getting 5-10 cm of snow (its all melting as it hits the ground, but it is blowing sideways right now!), but to the south of us in the fabled birthplace of he Hart family, Calgary, Alberta, they’re getting rain with thunderstorms changing to heavy snowfall with accumulations anywhere from 10-20 cm (up to 30 cm) and winds gusting to 90 km/hr. Welcome to the prairies in April! Yee haw!🙂
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Post by Nth on May 23, 2019 7:39:34 GMT
We're having a spring that is going to be a repeat of last year's. No warm weather until late June. When I went out walking yesterday I could see my breath and looks like I'll be walking this morning in my winter coat again.
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Post by El Marsh on May 24, 2019 15:30:15 GMT
Yeah, that's no fun.
Also not fun: a month straight of rain.
I think there have been like 5 days in the last 30 where it DID NOT rain.
Kind of puts a damper on the ol' spirit.
Least we have avoided tornadoes in this part of the state, for the time being.
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Post by Nth on May 24, 2019 16:14:44 GMT
I actually don't mind rain and even prefer it. Back in my landscaping days rain usually meant the day off work so when I was a kid rain meant getting to stay in and play SNES all day. When I drive to or from work in the rain I always listen to my Blade Runner music as well.
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Post by El Marsh on May 24, 2019 17:14:47 GMT
My city is on the Missouri River. When I was 9, we had some terrible flooding in the city (that was nothing compared to the utter devastation of countless rural communities, yet significant nevertheless). One entire neighborhood in the city was completely underwater and several others were nearly halfway. When you're seeing an unusual 4-6 inches of rain per week for a month, it makes you a little leery of history repeating itself. I live about 5 minutes from Brush Creek which runs through the Plaza and near East Side of the city; the water in it is over the banks. Thankfully, it's well below street level but it's still not the greatest sign. People who live in the lower lying areas of the city have already seen extensive flooding in their homes. This isn't just nonstop dreary, it's not too far from being very dangerous. Hopefully we'll see some reprieve from it during the next few days.
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Post by El Marsh on May 25, 2019 1:42:41 GMT
So yeah, 3 flooded roads on the way home and a tornado warning later......
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