A weather question.
Nov 10th 2008 | 4:37 am
#31
Thinking the unthinkable.
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From: Guelph, Ontario
Nov 10th 2008 | 9:48 am
#34
No time for muppets!
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From: Alliston, ON
Re: A weather question.
It's a fence, typically made of sticks wired together or plastic mesh, that you put up for the winter to catch or divert snow. The idea being to keep the drifts out of the driveway. Maybe I should be putting ours up.
In answer to the original question I hate it. Since the clocks went back I don't see daylight on weekdays. Every evening two morons bang their inconsquential rice burners together blocking the highway. Soon every second day will be disrupted because I or someone I know fell on the ice and everything will be covered in salt; no one has clean clothing in winter in Canada, avoid black trousers. Escape is difficult because the airport becomes even less organized when faced with drizzle or worse, several times I've been on planes that got stuck in snowbanks. All in all, it's horrible.
In answer to the original question I hate it. Since the clocks went back I don't see daylight on weekdays. Every evening two morons bang their inconsquential rice burners together blocking the highway. Soon every second day will be disrupted because I or someone I know fell on the ice and everything will be covered in salt; no one has clean clothing in winter in Canada, avoid black trousers. Escape is difficult because the airport becomes even less organized when faced with drizzle or worse, several times I've been on planes that got stuck in snowbanks. All in all, it's horrible.
I detect a hint of pessimism there!
Nov 10th 2008 | 10:25 am
#36
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Re: A weather question.
Nov 10th 2008 | 10:26 am
#37
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Re: A weather question.
Nov 10th 2008 | 10:28 am
#38
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From: Ontario
Re: A weather question.
Nov 10th 2008 | 10:30 am
#39
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Re: A weather question.
Hope you're well, bypassed or not.
Bypassed that is.
Nov 10th 2008 | 10:41 am
#41
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Re: A weather question.
I've dumped a tractor loader bucket of shale around the base of all the troughs, packed the interiors with insulation and fitted a low watt light bulb for ambient heat (saves a few days of the heating elements needing to come on). Fingers crossed this year should be trouble free. I'll need all the time I can get for evening ploughing now that I'm off-site all day.
Nov 10th 2008 | 10:47 am
#42
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Re: A weather question.
That's a bugger. The day with the snowfall is always the day with the problems at work and the slow trip home so clearing can't start until it should be time for bed. Virginia; that's the place to keep horses!
Nov 10th 2008 | 3:32 pm
#43
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Re: A weather question.
i have just endured a day of ice rain.thats no joke with a cutting wind.
my work just happens to be up a 'hill' and we didnt see the gritter til 16.00hrs.
painfull start to the winter
my work just happens to be up a 'hill' and we didnt see the gritter til 16.00hrs.
painfull start to the winter
Nov 18th 2008 | 9:42 pm
#44
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Re: A weather question.
i live in Halifax, NS and have only had to plow my 160' driveway about 4 times in the last 3 years. We really haven't had much snow, but however seem to have more mixed weather with freezing rain etc. which makes driving more trecherous.
