Bring on the snow damnit!!! - Page 4

Griff · 02-17-2003, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wolf
mental patients are NOT like pregnant women. They don't all blow in the snow ...

We were marching my very over-due sister-in-law around in the snow at yesterday's sledding party. This should be a great opportunity to put those Bradley classes to work, by having one at home.

elSicomoro · 02-17-2003, 08:45 AM

Tell me if this makes sense...

Big Ed declared a state of emergency in Pennsylvania. No one on the roads except for "essential personnel" (hospital workers and such). But yet, SEPTA is trying to run all its bus routes. I know SEPTA is important and all for trying to get people around, but essential? At this point, the only place you should have to go is a hospital...so no, SEPTA is not essential today. So, on behalf of residents in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, I want to thank SEPTA for completely fucking wasting our tax money by trying to operate today.

I might venture out later to clear the car off (for the fourth time) and start her up...maybe make some snow angels.

Another interesting note...all during the coverage, they keep mentioning the "Governor of Delaware"..."the Governor of Delaware issued a stern warning to those considering driving." Not once was her name mentioned, at least that I heard on NBC 10.

Her name is Ruth Ann Minner...she's been governor since 2000...just in case they all forgot.

wolf · 02-17-2003, 02:13 PM

The noon news on channel 3 posted a nice little chart, telling various towns and cities when the would be out of the snowline. They happily proclaimed that the snow would STOP ... around 1230.

Well, dammit, it's 1530 hrs now, and I do seem to see white flakes continuing to fall out of the sky. It's cold and wet, so I'm assuming it's NOT god's dandruff. (if we are made in god's image, and WE have dandruff, so does god QED. Of course, the supreme being probably has access to much better hair care products)

I spent the better part of the last hour attempting to unearth my car. As I slogged my way across the parking lot I could see most of the vehicle exposed. I made the mistake of thinking "hey, that's not so bad" before I was close enough to actually inspect the situation.

The rear of the car was mostly exposed, and the plow guys did a VERY nice job of not plowing me in. In fact, they cleared the snow to within THREE INCHES of my rear bumper.

Then I saw the front.

Up to the end of the front doors, my car was encased in a MASSIVE drift ... three to four feet high ... continued up to the roof!

I had to dig my way to the driver's side door, made all the more difficult by the lame-ass parkjob of some idiot neighbor with a volvo who parked illegallly next to me. (I use the end space in storms since it's usually the easiest to bust out of). I had about an inch of clearance on either side of the shovel blade. Trust me ... I shovelled a lot closer to his car than mine.

I dont' have a lot of patience for this kind of nonsense. I shovelled out enough to get the driver's door open ... fired her up, blasted out of the space. (Automatic Traction Control RULES peeps).

Then I cleared the snow off the front and back windows.

I'm ready to rock ...

Of course, I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I cleared a little bit more of the snow away from the parking space, put the Red Baron back into it and out of it a couple of times to make sure that I can get it out when I need to. I'm not driving until I have to. (which will be tomorrow, most likely)

The company jeep is on it's way to pick me up.

elSicomoro · 02-17-2003, 04:39 PM

You had that problem too, eh Wolf?

I went outside about 1:30 to try and clean off the car. Granted, I said my car didn't look bad...but that was only the back end.

The entire front of Putt-putt was completely buried in snow (a good deal of that most likely from the snowblowers cleaning off the sidewalk)...it was covered in snow up the windshield, and both doors were snowed over. The snow behind the car was about 2 feet deep.

So, I grabbed a broom and started sweeping it away. My neighbor was also out there shoveling out his van, and he and his family were nice enough to shovel out the back end.

My other neighbors are morons. Because a few of the spots are being used to pile up snow, two of them in my building decided to park in areas that are not normally parking spots, blocking several of us in.

I finally got Putt-putt free of the parking space, and decided (like a dummy) to go for a short drive. So, I headed up to the grocery store. The folks that live along Red Lion Road (on my block) were very cool; they actually shoveled off most of the snow on the street...I'm sure the ambulance drivers en route to Torresdale Hospital will appreciate it.

On the other side of East Keswick Rd. was another story. Morons were AGAIN shoveling snow into the street...fucking idiots.

The grocery store didn't have any soda, so I drove down to Wawa on Knights Rd. Knights Rd. was almost empty...packed with snow. The Wawa is at the bottom of a large hill, but it was easy down and easy up in first and second gear. There is a neighborhood behind Wawa that is built at the top of a 45-degree incline, on narrow streets...they won't be getting out for another day or two.

When I got back, my parking spot was waiting for me, so I put the car back there and called it a day.

It was kind of cool driving...almost no one on the road, except for a bunch of 4-wheel drive vehicles who thought they owned the neighborhood. Apparently, we're supposed to get a bit more snow overnight, so I'm concerned for Rho trying to take the Turnpike to work in the morning. Better that than the local roads, I guess.

At this point, I have every intention of getting up early tomorrow, then hiking up to Academy Rd. to catch the bus. I haven't seen the buses running through my neighborhood today, but the Route 1 bus runs over nothing but snow emergency routes, so things should be okay tomorrow...I hope.

wolf · 02-17-2003, 04:49 PM

Congratulations on being lucky enough to still have your space waiting for you when you got back from the store. The complex I lived in before this one, it would have been filled within seconds of clearing it and leaving it ... sometimes before you were able to pull your car back in, which had been left running in the middle of the lot. (there are numerous reasons i'm glad I'm no longer in that place. that would be one of them)

elSicomoro · 02-17-2003, 05:03 PM

Truth be told, I kinda planned it.

I was very concerned about losing the spot; however, I noticed that other people were either getting ready to leave or had just left. I figured at best, people were going to the grocery store or something like that. So, I tried to waste as little time as possible in heading out. I figured that the spot I dug out (which would really only fit Putt-putt, given that the spot had snow fill-in from the last couple of snowstorms) would be gone. But sure enough...there it was. Whoohoo!

juju · 02-17-2003, 08:41 PM

Hey folk, how about some pictures of all this? :)

wolf · 02-17-2003, 08:55 PM

I was too tired after all the shoveling to take pictures. :p I also didn't want to risk dropping the $300 digital camera in the snow.

Besides, it's not particularly photogenic snow. There's just a damn lot of it. I don't have the advantage of having an undersized cute pooch to photograph. I also lack "Don't Spill the Beans" pants.

Cam · 02-17-2003, 09:20 PM

Dang it, I need pictures of snow, I'm going crazy, we got about 2 inches here today but it's not enough, where is my 2 feet of snow.

elSicomoro · 02-17-2003, 09:47 PM

Look you lazy bastard, you want some pictures? Here...fetch:

CBS-3 (Philadelphia)

NBC 10 (Philadelphia)

NBC 4 (Washington, DC)

The Weather Channel

MSNBC

Cam · 02-17-2003, 10:42 PM

lol, thanks syc, didn't want to strain myself, my fingers are getting tired.

wolf · 02-17-2003, 11:45 PM

Now that the joy and childlike wonder of the snow has passed (you've seen one snow angel, you've seen 'em all) it's starting to irk me.

The snow's interference in the NUMEROUS things I have to get done is pushing me to the breaking point.

Not to mention the excreble job that the plow-guy at work has done ... there is still at least a foot and a half of snow in the parking lot and on the driveway. Apparently he showed up once during the storm and hasn't been seen since. I suspect that nothing more has been done about it because our fearless leaders were too chicken to make it in today. (The CEO is in Spain, the Administrator and the CFO were nowhere to be seen).

You can't get through the stuff in a four wheel drive jeep! (Our crew got stuck tonight, just trying to turn around to head back out the driveway ... a vehicle with less clearance than the jeep ain't making it.

They better do something about it tomorrow.

02-18-2003, 08:37 AM

I hear you. Fuck this snow. I'm one of five people stupid enough to come in today. I still can't get the car into the garage, which means I have more shoveling to do. Snow sucks.

russotto · 02-18-2003, 02:03 PM

This snow was a pain, but nothing compared to '96. Only 2 feet on my driveway.

I had the Miata out each day.

Yesterday I had to go into the city and was reminded yet again of Philadelphia's total incompetence. Suburban streets, while snow covered, at least showed evidence of having a snowplow go by once in a while. City streets outside Center City proper -- despite the snow having been stopped for 8 hours -- were largely unplowed. Spring Garden was plowed (unlike in the last storm) but Fairmount was a mess. The numbered streets were barely passable (plowed only by the passage of buses and other vehicles), the non-arterial cross streets impassable. There WAS a streets department vehicle out. A SURVEY vehicle. I guess the city had to look and see what a lousy job they were doing.

By some miracle, I was able to find a parking spot and forced myself in there. By another miracle, whoever had vacated it didn't come back and break every window in my car. But still, city snow removal sucks.

Griff · 02-18-2003, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dave
Snow sucks.

1) Stop crying Mary.
2) Pull up your skirt.

02-17-2003, 02:13 PM	#48
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The noon news on channel 3 posted a nice little chart, telling various towns and cities when the would be out of the snowline. They happily proclaimed that the snow would STOP ... around 1230. Well, dammit, it's 1530 hrs now, and I do seem to see white flakes continuing to fall out of the sky. It's cold and wet, so I'm assuming it's NOT god's dandruff. (if we are made in god's image, and WE have dandruff, so does god QED. Of course, the supreme being probably has access to much better hair care products) I spent the better part of the last hour attempting to unearth my car. As I slogged my way across the parking lot I could see most of the vehicle exposed. I made the mistake of thinking "hey, that's not so bad" before I was close enough to actually inspect the situation. The rear of the car was mostly exposed, and the plow guys did a VERY nice job of not plowing me in. In fact, they cleared the snow to within THREE INCHES of my rear bumper. Then I saw the front. Up to the end of the front doors, my car was encased in a MASSIVE drift ... three to four feet high ... continued up to the roof! I had to dig my way to the driver's side door, made all the more difficult by the lame-ass parkjob of some idiot neighbor with a volvo who parked illegallly next to me. (I use the end space in storms since it's usually the easiest to bust out of). I had about an inch of clearance on either side of the shovel blade. Trust me ... I shovelled a lot closer to his car than mine. I dont' have a lot of patience for this kind of nonsense. I shovelled out enough to get the driver's door open ... fired her up, blasted out of the space. (Automatic Traction Control RULES peeps). Then I cleared the snow off the front and back windows. I'm ready to rock ... Of course, I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I cleared a little bit more of the snow away from the parking space, put the Red Baron back into it and out of it a couple of times to make sure that I can get it out when I need to. I'm not driving until I have to. (which will be tomorrow, most likely) The company jeep is on it's way to pick me up. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-17-2003, 04:49 PM	#50
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Congratulations on being lucky enough to still have your space waiting for you when you got back from the store. The complex I lived in before this one, it would have been filled within seconds of clearing it and leaving it ... sometimes before you were able to pull your car back in, which had been left running in the middle of the lot. (there are numerous reasons i'm glad I'm no longer in that place. that would be one of them) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis Last edited by wolf; 02-17-2003 at 04:51 PM.

02-17-2003, 08:55 PM	#53
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I was too tired after all the shoveling to take pictures. :p I also didn't want to risk dropping the $300 digital camera in the snow. Besides, it's not particularly photogenic snow. There's just a damn lot of it. I don't have the advantage of having an undersized cute pooch to photograph. I also lack "Don't Spill the Beans" pants. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-17-2003, 09:20 PM	#54
Cam dripping with ignorance Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Grand Forks ND Posts: 642	Dang it, I need pictures of snow, I'm going crazy, we got about 2 inches here today but it's not enough, where is my 2 feet of snow. __________________ After the seventh beer I generally try and stay away from the keyboard, I apologize for what happens when I fail.

02-17-2003, 10:42 PM	#56
Cam dripping with ignorance Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Grand Forks ND Posts: 642	lol, thanks syc, didn't want to strain myself, my fingers are getting tired. __________________ After the seventh beer I generally try and stay away from the keyboard, I apologize for what happens when I fail.

02-17-2003, 08:45 AM	#47
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Tell me if this makes sense... Big Ed declared a state of emergency in Pennsylvania. No one on the roads except for "essential personnel" (hospital workers and such). But yet, SEPTA is trying to run all its bus routes. I know SEPTA is important and all for trying to get people around, but essential? At this point, the only place you should have to go is a hospital...so no, SEPTA is not essential today. So, on behalf of residents in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, I want to thank SEPTA for completely fucking wasting our tax money by trying to operate today. I might venture out later to clear the car off (for the fourth time) and start her up...maybe make some snow angels. Another interesting note...all during the coverage, they keep mentioning the "Governor of Delaware"..."the Governor of Delaware issued a stern warning to those considering driving." Not once was her name mentioned, at least that I heard on NBC 10. Her name is Ruth Ann Minner...she's been governor since 2000...just in case they all forgot.

02-17-2003, 04:39 PM	#49
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	You had that problem too, eh Wolf? I went outside about 1:30 to try and clean off the car. Granted, I said my car didn't look bad...but that was only the back end. The entire front of Putt-putt was completely buried in snow (a good deal of that most likely from the snowblowers cleaning off the sidewalk)...it was covered in snow up the windshield, and both doors were snowed over. The snow behind the car was about 2 feet deep. So, I grabbed a broom and started sweeping it away. My neighbor was also out there shoveling out his van, and he and his family were nice enough to shovel out the back end. My other neighbors are morons. Because a few of the spots are being used to pile up snow, two of them in my building decided to park in areas that are not normally parking spots, blocking several of us in. I finally got Putt-putt free of the parking space, and decided (like a dummy) to go for a short drive. So, I headed up to the grocery store. The folks that live along Red Lion Road (on my block) were very cool; they actually shoveled off most of the snow on the street...I'm sure the ambulance drivers en route to Torresdale Hospital will appreciate it. On the other side of East Keswick Rd. was another story. Morons were AGAIN shoveling snow into the street...fucking idiots. The grocery store didn't have any soda, so I drove down to Wawa on Knights Rd. Knights Rd. was almost empty...packed with snow. The Wawa is at the bottom of a large hill, but it was easy down and easy up in first and second gear. There is a neighborhood behind Wawa that is built at the top of a 45-degree incline, on narrow streets...they won't be getting out for another day or two. When I got back, my parking spot was waiting for me, so I put the car back there and called it a day. It was kind of cool driving...almost no one on the road, except for a bunch of 4-wheel drive vehicles who thought they owned the neighborhood. Apparently, we're supposed to get a bit more snow overnight, so I'm concerned for Rho trying to take the Turnpike to work in the morning. Better that than the local roads, I guess. At this point, I have every intention of getting up early tomorrow, then hiking up to Academy Rd. to catch the bus. I haven't seen the buses running through my neighborhood today, but the Route 1 bus runs over nothing but snow emergency routes, so things should be okay tomorrow...I hope.

02-17-2003, 05:03 PM	#51
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Truth be told, I kinda planned it. I was very concerned about losing the spot; however, I noticed that other people were either getting ready to leave or had just left. I figured at best, people were going to the grocery store or something like that. So, I tried to waste as little time as possible in heading out. I figured that the spot I dug out (which would really only fit Putt-putt, given that the spot had snow fill-in from the last couple of snowstorms) would be gone. But sure enough...there it was. Whoohoo!

02-17-2003, 08:41 PM	#52
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	Hey folk, how about some pictures of all this? :)

02-17-2003, 09:47 PM	#55
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Look you lazy bastard, you want some pictures? Here...fetch: CBS-3 (Philadelphia) NBC 10 (Philadelphia) NBC 4 (Washington, DC) The Weather Channel MSNBC

02-17-2003, 11:45 PM	#57
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Now that the joy and childlike wonder of the snow has passed (you've seen one snow angel, you've seen 'em all) it's starting to irk me. The snow's interference in the NUMEROUS things I have to get done is pushing me to the breaking point. Not to mention the excreble job that the plow-guy at work has done ... there is still at least a foot and a half of snow in the parking lot and on the driveway. Apparently he showed up once during the storm and hasn't been seen since. I suspect that nothing more has been done about it because our fearless leaders were too chicken to make it in today. (The CEO is in Spain, the Administrator and the CFO were nowhere to be seen). You can't get through the stuff in a four wheel drive jeep! (Our crew got stuck tonight, just trying to turn around to head back out the driveway ... a vehicle with less clearance than the jeep ain't making it. They better do something about it tomorrow. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-18-2003, 08:37 AM	#58
dave Guest Posts: n/a	I hear you. Fuck this snow. I'm one of five people stupid enough to come in today. I still can't get the car into the garage, which means I have more shoveling to do. Snow sucks.

02-18-2003, 02:03 PM	#59
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Small storm This snow was a pain, but nothing compared to '96. Only 2 feet on my driveway. I had the Miata out each day. Yesterday I had to go into the city and was reminded yet again of Philadelphia's total incompetence. Suburban streets, while snow covered, at least showed evidence of having a snowplow go by once in a while. City streets outside Center City proper -- despite the snow having been stopped for 8 hours -- were largely unplowed. Spring Garden was plowed (unlike in the last storm) but Fairmount was a mess. The numbered streets were barely passable (plowed only by the passage of buses and other vehicles), the non-arterial cross streets impassable. There WAS a streets department vehicle out. A SURVEY vehicle. I guess the city had to look and see what a lousy job they were doing. By some miracle, I was able to find a parking spot and forced myself in there. By another miracle, whoever had vacated it didn't come back and break every window in my car. But still, city snow removal sucks.

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