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Post by Nth on Jun 27, 2021 23:58:24 GMT
Crippling heat wave today with heat warning. Did nothing but stayed in my room and watched tv.
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Post by BakFu on Jun 28, 2021 1:19:51 GMT
Same on this end of Canuckistan,today is 32C, 35 C mon, 39 C tues, 40 C wed, and 37 C thurs with no reprieve in sight. Talked to my new neighbours from Brazil who asked if this was normal and said this feels like Brazil. Great. 🙄 so glad I opted out of an expensive AC unit when I had the chance. Crazy thing is in feb it was -39 C one morning on my way to work
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Post by BakFu on Jul 19, 2021 11:56:29 GMT
Well, the heat wave is over, we’re getting down to 11-12C (52-54 F) at night, but now it’s SMOKE season. For the past five or six years consistently, we will get weeks at a time of thick smoke rolling in from wild fires in BC. Most of the fires are apparently caused by lightning strikes, but a lot are caused by cigarette butts tossed out of vehicles, sparks from hot exhaust systems on recreational vehicles, and even sparks from train wheels. Regardless of the ignition source, the problem is lack of moisture and tinder dry conditions caused by unseasonably hot weather, which seems to be less unseasonable and more normal. Gotta love climate change. 🥳
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jul 20, 2021 5:22:24 GMT
Between this and the awesome meteor video you posted a few months back, I'm beginning to think of Canada less like an icebox and more like the world of spontaneous combustion and aerial phenomena 🔥
Stay safe and hydrated (like head to foot...24/7) there!! 🤽♂️
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Post by Nth on Aug 27, 2021 3:22:47 GMT
Hopefully this is our last heatwave of the year. So hot I didn't even bother doing any walks on my days off, even after dark. It's after midnight here and we're getting heat lightening right now. This weather usually caps off the summer just before the fall change though. Leaves already starting to fall off and another week or two the first trees will start changing colors.
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Post by El Marsh on Aug 27, 2021 18:04:34 GMT
Yeah it's been 95 degrees Fahrenheit every day this week. Not exactly unusual for this time of year but highly uncomfortable nevertheless. I guess it really is not too bad considering the flooding, fires, and coastal storms ravaging various regions. Here's hoping that those of you (and your families) in the path of those stay safe.
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Post by Timberwolf on Sept 2, 2021 13:32:20 GMT
There's quite a few New Yorkers here. How are you guys doing with the floods?
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Post by Nth on Nov 18, 2021 11:22:29 GMT
First day with snow on the ground. Usually we just get flurries into late December and then get snow. Not much though, if things warm up any it will melt. I actually bought one of those windshield foils for my car. I always thought they were probably some garbage scam item, but I've found the thing actually works. Strap it on the windshield at night and in the morning, take it off and you have a pristine windshield regardless of snow and ice. No standing in the parking lot scrapping my windshield clean after a night shift anymore. I can actually get out of the place before the traffic jam at the plant parking lot exit. A couple guys I work with didn't believe it works as good as I said it did, but I showed them in the morning and waved to them driving out while they were still scrapping their windshields. Got my appointment to get the winter tires on November 26th.
Also getting cold enough in my room again that my computer won't turn on until things warm up, so now I just leave it on all the time. Hopefully this will be the last winter I have it, then I can get a new one and give this one to my father, whose current computer must be at least ten years old.
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Post by BakFu on Nov 18, 2021 14:02:07 GMT
We got our first big dump of snow for the year Monday night /Tuesday morning with the corresponding “I forget how to drive” and “the laws of physics don’t apply to me because I have all wheel drive and winter tires on my 2000 lb plus vehicle on a near frictionless surface” joy of a new winter.
As bad as that is, British Columbia, our westernmost province, is in a state of emergency due to extreme flooding and even evacuation of many towns in the south of the province. Vancouver is cut off by road from the rest of the country as it has WASHED AWAY. It’s effecting supply chain stuff for the rest of the country as Vancouver is a major port city, so the next bit should be interesting (a BC based grocery chain in town is starting to look like stores did around lockdown at the start of the pandemic). I’ve been reading that much of the Pacific Northwest is being effected by the same unseasonable weather system, so if any of you are in that area, stay safe and I hope it passes soon!
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Post by Nth on Dec 5, 2021 13:24:54 GMT
Had my first snow storm drive to work this morning. As soon as I arrived it stopped snowing.
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Post by Nth on Jan 6, 2022 12:30:49 GMT
We're supposed to get a big 35cm snow storm starting Friday and going into Saturday. Fortunately I am off that weekend, including my on-call Sunday shift after I received an official "unofficial" heads up from my shop manager that while they are not publicly saying it, the company isn't using the on-calls as the new covid outbreak increases in our area.
They are pretty much taking it week by week at the moment as to whether or not they are going to use the on-call and this week they aren't using it, so weekend stress completely gone. Also thanks to covid I was able to renew my drivers license online instead of having to drive 30min to the DMV. Another bonus.
Only bad thing is I missed out on getting a PS5 this week. Got a heads up from a friend of a friend one was in stock locally but it had to be during the two weeks I have to make a car payment, pay rent, pay phone, pay car insurance, drivers license renewal fee and power bill. I actually texted Jeremy and let him know there was a PS5 available and I think he's picking it up. His youtube channel has increased exponentially since he left the plant and his latest youtube video has 15 "million" views which I didn't believe until I looked myself. I imagine that video alone could pay for his PS5.
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Post by Nth on Jan 15, 2022 12:43:47 GMT
Brutal snow storm last night while I was at work. We were hoping it would knock the power out but the most we got was the lights flickering once. We had 30 people call in before the storm even started and the stupid shop supervisor wanted to use the call in. No one should be told they have to not only lose their night off, but lose it and come in during a blizzard. Fortunately his boss texted him and told him not to use it even after I complained to him that he shouldn't even be considering using it and if he did I hope whoever was on call told him to fuck himself because I would have.
On the way out this morning I heard 140 people had already called in for today which means work tonight could be very slow if no one is in to make product for us to build with tonight. Drive home wasn't that bad until I got to my backroad which hadn't been plowed. Managed to get home and get the car wedged into the end of the driveway just off the road. Pretty much going right to bed and will wake up early enough to dig out the car to head back to work tonight. Weather is supposed to be clear. Monday it's supposed to be warm enough that it will melt everything. Also hoping I didn't do any damage to the underside of the car bulldozing through snow drifts on the way home.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jan 15, 2022 13:05:48 GMT
It really is/going to be a brutal winter.
I hope you didn't mess up your car. Bad winters are like "death by a thousand cuts" for cars.
How can your plant expect people to be even able to physically come in during a Canadian blizzard? 🤦♂️
When is your time off this year? February/March? I'm sure it can't come soon enough!
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Post by Nth on Jan 15, 2022 20:25:59 GMT
It really is/going to be a brutal winter. I hope you didn't mess up your car. Bad winters are like "death by a thousand cuts" for cars. How can your plant expect people to be even able to physically come in during a Canadian blizzard? 🤦♂️ When is your time off this year? February/March? I'm sure it can't come soon enough!
I've heard stories of the "old days" in the plant where if people couldn't make it in during snow storms the company would round up anyone with a four wheel drive truck and send them out to pick people up. Nowadays I think people would just laugh if someone from the plant came to pick them up in a blizzard and tell them to get out of there.
If enough people call in during a storm the plant will forgive the absenteeism, which is good. I can't remember what the actual number of absentee call ins for a weather related event is, but when I left 140 had already called in so they will be fine as far as absenteeism goes.
I'm off mid February to the end of March and will hopefully miss out on any more major winter events in that time period.
I think the prospect of the plant shutting down early tonight is a possibility, if they didn't have enough people on the day shift to make product for the builders on the night shift there could be a lot of sitting around twiddling thumbs; and I know Sunday night the plant had already planned on shutting down from 3am to 11am. Fortunately aside from the cold the snow has stopped but we still have some high winds. I just woke up and see my father had been by with his tractor and plow and cleared the driveway and moved my RAV up into its normal spot. If I was still driving my Pontiac I don't think I would have made it all the way home on the unplowed backroad.
EDIT: Well, woke up to an RCMP weather advisory stating all non-essential traffic should stay off the roads due to drifting from high winds. That's all I needed to hear. Just called in to work. Tonight off and only 8 hours tomorrow night.
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Post by BakFu on Jan 15, 2022 21:52:19 GMT
5 C and sunny here, our mountains of snow (we’ve had a LOT this year, not anywhere near what Nth’s neck of the woods can get, but way more than usual) are melting! Nice reprieve after nearly a month straight of -25 to -30 C temperatures! 😁
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