****ing snow
 

****ing snow, ****ing work, ****ing stupid me for going in :cuss:

We had at least 8 inches of snow in the last 24 hours and 11 inches in the last 48. We were told that if the weather was bad enough work would be closed today. No such luck.

Manufacturers, service businesses and even the university were closed today. The police said don't go in unless you have to. Of course, we (a service industry) are open.

I had to dig out of some 1-1/2 foot drifts on my driveway, had to rock the car back and forth to get momentum to plow through the neighborhood street and onto a main road. The end of my road was buried because the plows pushed snow off of the main road and onto the ends of neighborhood streets. While the side streets are terrible, the main roads are fine and I finally get onto it.

Two blocks from my home on the main road I had a choice of running into oncoming traffic at a stop light or running into a 4-5 foot snow bank because while the road had been plowed, there was no salt or sand to provide traction. I chose to slide into the snow bank and spent a good bit of time digging out. Thankfully I carry a shovel in my car and thankfully a couple of guys came by to help push me out.

So here I am at work with probably 15-20% of the staff. I am and idiot for coming in and I am pissed that I was asked to.

Yeah, I'm thinking you should've prolly stayed home.

So, can a company be held liable for requiring their workers to come to work during this type of weather, if one of them is in an accident? Probably not, I suppose.

well, consider it lesson learned

I think that would make my weiner kinda cold. I'll pass.

lots of people injured today in the snow, be careful out there allow yourself more time, and use your head. Sometimes that extra cash isn't worth getting injured over :(

I blame Global Warming.

Damn you Al Gore!

Serious question here and I'm not knocking anyone. But, do people not know how to drive in snow? Or are the road crews spread thin?

In all my life I've never missed work because of snow/weather and the only time school was shut down was because of Mt. St. Helens erupting. And, IIRC, that was for only one day.

yeah, I probably woulda told my boss to eat my ass.

Send it to me you big pussy.

We only got about 1/2" where I live. :cuss:

76 degrees here

A foot and a half drifts? You're lucky, the city plowed the hell out of my street last night and the shit is piled up at least 4 or 5 feet at the end of my driveway. I won't be going anywhere anytime soon because I am not going to go out in the 30 mph winds and fight that shit.

**** off.

Do you seriously think that "global warming" actually stands for "warmer weather everywhere"??

JFC.

algore says it should be sunny and 70 here right now. I feel cheated.

Look out for manbearpig...
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we got a little bit of snow today. road crews were no where to be seen, and the roads had not been cleared at all. when that snow gets packed down by cars, guess what, it turns to ice.

everyone else was driving around like they were delivering pizza on a summer night. if I got any momentum, my car slipped and slid around like a reeruned kid trying to ice-skate. its a miracle there weren't more accidents.

or burn it down

Do you seriously think that natural shifts in weather patterns over the billions of years of history of the earth stands for "global warming"?

JFC.

i called the road crews this morning because pflumm a busy road hadn't been touched cars all over the ****ing place. Had to leave a message.

I got up at 7 and fired up the snowblower and cleared a few paths,there were a few drifts that took 2-3 swipes.Now,I've shit,shaved and showered and have to hit the streets because I'm on my January print deadline,I hope all the idiots who don't know how to drive in this stuff are at home.

Good luck with that.

ROFL

No, I don't. I'm fully aware of the natural shifts. I'm also aware that burning a ton of CO2 producing shit has probably affected the current shift to a certain extent. Even my Environmental Studies professors in school weren't 100% sure to what extent exactly, but the trend is there.

My main pet peeve is uneducated people claiming shit like "it's so cold outside, I thought there was global warming durrr..." Just ****ing stop already.

FYP :evil:

ROFL

the sucky thing in st joe is if someone is an idiot an slams into your car, you are going to know the person, and they probably aren't going to have insurance and will pay you off with whatever st joe product they are dealing with at the time. Still recieving payments of cherry mashes to this day

Appreciate that. TCU and Cincinnati have zero shot as well. No way the AP crowns anyone other than Texas or Bama.

Yea I know. As soon as Texas made that kick at the end I knew it was over.

The foot and a half was on my drive way. It was considerably deeper on the street and at the end of the street. Of course the big boss has a 4 wheel drive and lives in a nice neighborhood where things are plowed. No problems for them.

Not enough people here to make a difference.

Well, the whole global warming bit is just about completely played out. Next phase is the "pretend it never happened" phase where we won't hear the phrase again for several years.

I'm guessing with the economy sucking and all the budget cuts that winter road maintenance will not be what it has in the past.
this will probably mean less plowing than usual and less salt/sand treatment amounts as well.

This is my second winter here, but from what I gather, the road crews here generally do a bad job. They were spread thin though because of blizzard conditions. They would plow the main streets which would immediately be covered due to blowing snow.

Kinky.

It's just a joke people make dude.

Nice to know that in addition to being an overall noxious ****wad you're also a mindless liberal idiot. ROFL

they dont plow my road till 3 days after a heavy snow. Got granny low in the p/u so its all good.

Or how about instead of getting your information from the radio, you actually go take a class or open up a textbook. You thinkining that global warming has something to do with the temperatures in Chicago, pretty much gives away that fact that you're just another uninformed dumbass screaming "MINDLESS LIBERAL IDIOTS!"

Let's talk about how the people who teach the classes are strong-armed into the global warming agenda (teach this or you're fired, teach this or your funding goes away) or how the companies who produce the text books are strong-armed into printing the global warming agenda (add this or we'll buy our text books elsewhere). Let's talk about all the data that is ignored and twisted by these charlatans to clown simple-minded ****s like you into thinking the world's going to end.

ROFL

Not one of my professors ever said that GB was 100% caused by humans, neither did the textbooks. Then again, that was in 2005. Maybe things have changed since then, but I doubt it.

Personally, I can't fathom how a logical person can say with complete certainty that burning all that fossil fuel has had absolutely no affect on the Earth's climate, but then again, a lot of people have no idea about global patterns.

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That is f***ing insane. It's 5 miles to downtown from that point, all highway, after half a f***ing inch of snow. I was driving around last night around 10, and the roads were okay. I was going 40-45 down 169, which is 10-15 under the speed limit, but still, no major issues.

Take it to DC, Chicken Little. There's a lovely thread about climate fraud that you should check out. Enjoy.

ROFL

3 of them.......

You still think your profs were the ultimate knowledge source. How cute.

They knew more than anyone on here, that's for sure.

Once again, I'm not here to argue about GB, I just really don't like when people use cold weather as evidence against global warming. It's so asinine, it makes me lose faith in humanity.

Exact same thing with people doubting evolution by bringing up the argument of "well how come humans aren't evolving from monkeys NOW??" Two of my biggest pet peeves.

Maybe you were just a tad sensitive about the joke, don't you think?

Maybe so. But people do really bring up cold weather as means to dismiss any possibility of global warming.

i don't need a professor to go to outside and in the cold and realize global warming is a joke

A lot of people dismiss the existence of the Tooth Fairy and lepricons as well.

Ooops http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-climate-data/

Bastages! :cuss:

Well done, penz. :clap:

its really cold here and i live in la, something has to be going on

While at the Hy-Vee the other day I noticed that they now sell coffee in a decaffinated form.

So what do you give when you hit someone, free advertising space in the Atchison Times?


Well the trade off for nicely plowed streets is that they ****ing bury you at the end of your driveway, even if I had a 4WD I wouldn't be going anywhere for a while. The difference with your boss is he probably had someone plow his driveway for him bright and early this morning.

Easy, easy. Take a tip from the Dude and try to just abide for a while. It feels good and you live longer. :toast:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Dude, himself, said that "...this aggression will not stand, man..."

:)

:D


She's not my special lady, she's my ****ing lady friend. I'm just helping her conceive, man!

ROFLROFL

That posters comment was a friggin joke. Don't take the shit posted here so damn seriously.:shake:

Wise choice picking the snow bank.

It would probably help if he wasn't a complete douche.

:cuss:

Good news: work is cancelled, whole city (DSM) is basically shut down with only police, service workers, road crew, and the national guard out.

Bad News: My driveway, which looks really cool in the summer, has steep 5-foot rock walls on both sides that naturally has this canyon effect leading to 4-foot piles of snow.

Woke up this morning to a monster 4-foot drift on my garage door. I've been at it for over 2 hours with a couple coffee breaks and I'm only halfway done.

victory. 5 hours, 4 coffee breaks.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/pictu...&pictureid=662

No snow here in wichita, but cold as a bitch.

I think you win the ChiefsPlanet SUCKS TO BE ME Award for the day. Ugh.

Snowblowers 9months old and I blow a f***ing belt 5 mins into my NINTY ONE FOOT LONG DRIVEWAY
Any idea how much f**king shoveling 22cm's of snow is????
LOTS!!!

(ok alnorth still wins, just say'n)

Whoa, where the hell in Iowania did that happen?

Des Moines. The picture is a little bit deceptive because you cant see the rock walls and hills, but it was still a good 3+ feet of snow just because of the geography of my driveway. Most of my neighbors only had to deal with a foot and a half.

49 here. I sure don't miss that white mess one damned bit.

it's getting freaking cold around here now


6 degrees and falling like a rock ... light wind doesn't help :cuss:

Hell it was 8 degrees here last night with 22 MPH winds which made the wind chill -14 degrees.

Friggin' cold here today. High of 16. Flurries, but no accumulation.

Anyone know what's in store for the KC area on Sunday?

Down to +4 here now. Can't wait for trash morning. ugh

3 degrees in Chicago, headed up to a balmly 12. Windchill around -17, and it felt colder than that walking down Clark Street just now. ****.

-1 here this morning. I hate the ****ing winter. I wish I lived in San Diego.

That's what it was here in overland park this morning, too, although our windchill was a balmy -10.

Heat wave, baby.

Checking in at -5 here. I don't even want to know what it is with the wind chill.

Weather.com says the wind chill is -10.

Ur welcome. :p