I hate it when it snows just enough where you have to go out and shovelOriginally Posted by Hal-9000
Dammit it snowed just enough last night to make me look like the laziest guy in the block.
Just got the house warmed up and now I gotta go and get cold
Canadian winters would be okay if we never had to go outside
We have 24 hours after the snow stops to get our sidewalks shoveled or else you could be fined by the city.
Us too and don't get me started...you know the rant.I hate it when it snows just enough where you have to go out and shovel
We have 24 hours after the snow stops to get our sidewalks shoveled or else you could be fined by the city.
180 bucks if we don't clean our walks, but 200 car accidents per day because the streets aren't cleaned....grrrrrrrrr
I'm not sure what the fine is here...for some reason I'm thinking it's $100 per offense.
I think you're eventually going to see me in a news piece if I ever get ticketed for walks or parking on a snow route.
I'll lead the charge and gather a whole bunch of supporters who will only pay a partial amount of our city taxes, due to the poor job the city does on our streets during winter.
Our mayor said something last year about slowing down and/or buying winter tires and apparently the online/Twitter world was lit on fire with angry responses
I can't remember the exact phrasing, but some woman wrote our mayor and said - Excuse me? You're talking to someone who has driven through over 40 Calgary winters and while winter tires may help, they are not what's causing hundreds of accidents every snowfall. It's THE POOR CONDITIONS OF THE ROADS due to YOUR inactivity. We are tired of hearing about your budget concerns. You're the person who establishes the yearly snow removal budget and if you tell us one more time that you didn't foresee this much snow, then you must be a new immigrant to the city. Stop making excuses and start taking action.
Our mayor is East Indian and I could have kissed that woman after reading her rant
Teh One Who Knocks (02-13-2019)
I think you're eventually going to see me in a news piece if I ever get ticketed for walks or parking on a snow route.
I'll lead the charge and gather a whole bunch of supporters who will only pay a partial amount of our city taxes, due to the poor job the city does on our streets during winter.
Our mayor said something last year about slowing down and/or buying winter tires and apparently the online/Twitter world was lit on fire with angry responses
I can't remember the exact phrasing, but some woman wrote our mayor and said - Excuse me? You're talking to someone who has driven through over 40 Calgary winters and while winter tires may help, they are not what's causing hundreds of accidents every snowfall. It's THE POOR CONDITIONS OF THE ROADS due to YOUR inactivity. We are tired of hearing about your budget concerns. You're the person who establishes the yearly snow removal budget and if you tell us one more time that you didn't foresee this much snow, then you must be a new immigrant to the city. Stop making excuses and start taking action.
Our mayor is East Indian and I could have kissed that woman after reading her rant
I feel your pain. It starts with my street that my house is on. The city considers our street a 'tertiary' street meaning that no matter how much snow we get, there's never any room in the budget to do these neighborhood streets. And then my street intersects with what the city considers to be a 'secondary' street meaning that there needs to be more than 6 inches of snow at one time and then they will get to it only if they have the time/money/manpower for it. And then with all the primary strteets, half the time it looks like they've never plowed to begin with anyway.
Yeah we have the same format and understand about the side streets. Like I mentioned, our weather forecasters are pretty good on the whole and we always know days before something happens. How come the city treats it like a surprise?
I feel your pain. It starts with my street that my house is on. The city considers our street a 'tertiary' street meaning that no matter how much snow we get, there's never any room in the budget to do these neighborhood streets. And then my street intersects with what the city considers to be a 'secondary' street meaning that there needs to be more than 6 inches of snow at one time and then they will get to it only if they have the time/money/manpower for it. And then with all the primary strteets, half the time it looks like they've never plowed to begin with anyway.
I have good winter tires and have experience...and still yesterday I went to one of the busiest, largest malls on the west side of the city and I'm skidding through stop signs driving 25 kph. Part of me is glad I don't have a new job because I would lose it in the first two weeks due to being late every day.
I'm telling you man, if I ever win a substantial amount of money my next posts will be of a white sandy beach and my white sandy ass burning a bonfire made of snow tires
I typically won't bother doing my drive or walks if there's less than 2 inches of snow. This winters roller coaster of temps means it's usually gone in 48 hours anyway. 4 inches of snow I'll usually get out there, sometimes my neighbor beats me to it and does my walks. Sometimes I get out there first him and do his.
I'm in a large suburb of a big city, Usually the city makes at least a pass through my development within a couple hours of the end of snowfall or whenever they get ahead on the main roads.
Bleh
Only 4 more days until Monday!
Only 4 more days until Monday!
What?Monday is the best day of the week!
What?
Yeah, no need to be down, every minute that goes by brings us closer to Monday!
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