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Jan 30th 2018, 12:20 pm

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Re: Winter 2017-18

When we were first here we had a driveway full of snow and inadequate means to displace it (maybe a quarter mile, three feet deep). A passer-by slowed his car, saw the situation and, a while later returned in -umpteen temperatures on an open station tractor with a two stage blower. He had it cleared in no time explaining that he was a neighbour and it's what neighbours do. We bought beer and went looking for the house with that tractor, it's three miles away.

Jan 30th 2018, 1:15 pm

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Re: Winter 2017-18

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We rent a snow shelter for our driveway. The guys come and put it up and then come back a few months later to take it away.

This time, the guys were putting mine up and watching our neighbour try to put his own up. He was struggling. They took pity, strolled across the road and had his up in about ten minutes.

What's a snow shelter?

Jan 30th 2018, 1:18 pm

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Re: Winter 2017-18

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What's a snow shelter?

An Igloo.

Jan 30th 2018, 1:26 pm

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An Igloo.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/25...262254.jpg?v=0

Ah those tent garage things. You can rent them? And just have them up for the winter? Most people have them up permanently until they are ripped apart.

Jan 30th 2018, 1:29 pm

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Ah those tent garage things. You can rent them? And just have them up for the winter? Most people have them up permanently until they are ripped apart.

I think there are by-laws limiting when you can have them up.

Jan 30th 2018, 1:41 pm

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I think there are by-laws limiting when you can have them up.

I think there are also called Tempos and they are very popular in QC. The only part of Ottawa you see them often is in Vanier which has a high francophone population.

Souvy is becoming quite assimilated if he has a Tempo.

Jan 30th 2018, 5:45 pm

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Ah those tent garage things. You can rent them? And just have them up for the winter? Most people have them up permanently until they are ripped apart.

Yes you can here. Mine, like the ones in the photo, abuts the garage. Souvette can get from the house to the ice-free and snow-free car.

I like that. I don't have to bust my gut at an unearthly hour in the morning.

It's well worth a few hundred bucks a year.

Jan 30th 2018, 5:48 pm

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Ours blew away.

Jan 30th 2018, 5:51 pm

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Re: Winter 2017-18

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Ours blew away.

I think expected lifespan of such a construction here in Newfoundland would count in single digit minutes before it blew away.

Jan 30th 2018, 5:56 pm

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I think expected lifespan of such a construction here in Newfoundland would count in single digit minutes before it blew away.

With 2-foot bits of rebar holding it down?

Jan 30th 2018, 5:58 pm

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With 2-foot bits of rebar holding it down?

In our case the frame stayed, it was just the material that shot off into another field. It came from TSC, maybe that was the problem.

Jan 30th 2018, 6:07 pm

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In our case the frame stayed, it was just the material that shot off into another field. It came from TSC, maybe that was the problem.

So just not attached properly then?

Or you had one end closed and the other open. Instant balloon.

Jan 30th 2018, 6:31 pm

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So just not attached properly then?

Or you had one end closed and the other open. Instant balloon.

I believe the wind got under the edges, despite the breeze blocks on the horizontal flaps. It took off like an unchained barbecue.

Jan 30th 2018, 6:37 pm

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With 2-foot bits of rebar holding it down?

Yes. See below:

Jan 30th 2018, 8:15 pm

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I believe the wind got under the edges, despite the breeze blocks on the horizontal flaps. It took off like an unchained barbecue.

Mine is held down by the rebar sunk into the driveway (same holes every year) and I let snow/ice seal the flaps.

That photo suggests little or nothing holding the thing down.

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