I was sitting here with my dway drifted over this winter thinking snow removal is perfect for a robotic snowblower. Imagine the beauty of hitting the remote and watching pull out of the charger and start blowing. A roomba for your dway.
OT: Blizzard of 2022
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SensibleGuy
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- Nov 26, 2011
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luckily we shut down for the day. No point opening up as there's not going to be any business anyway. But driving conditions once the storm is done are likely to be pretty crappy for a few days on side roads. This winter was the worst I can ever remember for road conditions. Even main thorough fares were badly rutted and iced over for much of the winter. It was super-treacherous, as can be evidenced by the array of car parts littering the roads now.
Further to all the Pavlov's Dogs...
Ring a bell and they salivate...
I also had a list knowing the snow was coming... started it Monday...
Covid sure has done a number on people... they really get into the end of times activities...
Yesterday, first thing in the morning I called Shoppers Drugs and asked for My insulin prescription to be filled...
The lady on the other end goes...."When do you need it"... "Today, tomorrow"...
And I'm like... it's two boxes of Humalog, how difficult could that be...
She goes pleadingly, "Could it be tomorrow"... and I'm like thinking if you are even there never mind Me...
She says "Will you be okay with that" and I am tempted to say "I'm a severe diabetic... I can't live very long without insulin"... but I don't and say... "I can pick it up tomorrow"...
Seems people didn't just clear out the TP, Milk or Bread this time...
Good thing I didn't have to go to the Cilantro Store... all the gummies would have been sold out...
Ring a bell and they salivate...
I also had a list knowing the snow was coming... started it Monday...
Covid sure has done a number on people... they really get into the end of times activities...
Yesterday, first thing in the morning I called Shoppers Drugs and asked for My insulin prescription to be filled...
The lady on the other end goes...."When do you need it"... "Today, tomorrow"...
And I'm like... it's two boxes of Humalog, how difficult could that be...
She goes pleadingly, "Could it be tomorrow"... and I'm like thinking if you are even there never mind Me...
She says "Will you be okay with that" and I am tempted to say "I'm a severe diabetic... I can't live very long without insulin"... but I don't and say... "I can pick it up tomorrow"...
Seems people didn't just clear out the TP, Milk or Bread this time...
Good thing I didn't have to go to the Cilantro Store... all the gummies would have been sold out...
Jetfaninflorida
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Live Blizzard Cam for us watchers from afar.
www.youtube.com
Blizzard Cam LIVE 720p
If the cam goes down during the storm I will put it up again, but each time Youtube creates a new address, so be sure to like and subscribe so you can easily...
www.youtube.com
I just commented to My lady in our living room looking out...Live Blizzard Cam for us watchers from afar.
Blizzard Cam LIVE 720p
If the cam goes down during the storm I will put it up again, but each time Youtube creates a new address, so be sure to like and subscribe so you can easily...
"This is what Bay Windows are for"...
Charleswood... only thing moving is the wind and the snow...
Beautiful in a way actually....
We are truly paying for last year, no snow, no rain, no mosquitos , early golf season and played my last game November 3rd. This year not so much. Apropos song .
bustamente
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Conditions outside the city out in the open, yup had a few of these this year
nobody imp0rtant
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Well, the can of beer nuts that Amazon Prime was supposed to deliver today still hasn't shown up. So annoyed. 
sipowicz
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PaulPooley
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No milk, true, but plenty of beer and cilantro to sustain me throughout this historic snow event…
@Ducky10 where do you live if my power goes out? Seeing as you have a generator.
kanadalainen
A pint of dark matter, please.
Work - do thy worst to steal myself away,
For term of life thou art assured blizzards and snow,
And life no longer than thy tasks on mine desk will stay,
For it depends upon that work of thine average Joe.
Then need I not to fear the cilantro’d throngs,
In Superstore in the least of them my path hath end.
I see a big glass of beer to me belongs
Than that of my view - which on my humour doth portend;
Snow, thou cans’t not vex me with my 4-wheel grind,
Since it may melt soon and on ye farm’d crops doth depend.
O, what a happy shyte do I find herein,
Happy to have thy HF boardsfolk, happy to share!
But what's so blessed-fair that fears no winter shot?
Thou mayst be nasty, and yet I know it not.
- A Joe off to work
bustamente
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DudeWhereIsMakar
Bergevin sent me an offer sheet
I don't even think we should bother shovelling our driveways.
The wind is shoveling it for me.
None
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Unless a drift forms I'm probably not going to shovel, it'll probably melt in 2-3 days
So odd in that I really don't remember 97 being all that bad. We'd just moved into our first house and yeah, we shoveled like mad but I still feel like 86 was worse. Maybe because I got "stuck" at work for three days and nights. But work was The Keg, so really, it was a blessing. But we legit couldn't get home until the roads were plowed and even then it was single lane on Pembina, Bishop, St. Mary's, etc. Too young to recall 66 at all.
Was at Stupidstore on Monday as that's my normal shopping day - I can usually still get loss leaders and don't have to fight weekend crowds. It was insane even then. I was there for perishables as 90% of what I bought - fruit, veggies, milk, cream.
I'm no prepper (in my mind, my wife might say different) but I have always had food stores stocked up in the house. We have a nice sized pantry in the kitchen and another cabinet in the basement. We've had a freezer since we got married (now an 18 ft3 vertical jobby) so I'm never out of food. I've always had excess toilet paper in the house because when its on sale, I buy it. Meat? Yep. Canned goods? Yep. Dry goods? Yep. Whisky? Yep. Beer? Yep. (vodka, tequila, rum, gin too)
The three day thing is laughable to me. I'd guess I could go three weeks, if not three months. In those three months we'd likely run out of food by the end, but maybe not. Variety would suffer for sure. I'd definitely run out of beer (usually 12-15 craft tall boys on hand at any time and a 15 pack of Standard lager), but no chance I'd run out of whisky.
Costco gas bar? Never have seen it that nuts in my life. No, it's not ok to block the intersection to secure your place in line. To me the time in line would have been easily worth the $0.10/liter to fill up anywhere else.
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Yup, you have them in the right order, 66>86>97.
It seems to me we used to have at least 1, often 2 smaller blizzards every year. Now, there has been very little since 97. There are 25 YO Manitobans who have never seen a real blizzard and near 30 YO ones who can't really remember one worth mentioning.
oldunclehue
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I was alive for 97, I remember getting ripped off for snow shovelling by old people. "5 bucks to shovel my sidewalk" and it was a 7 foot drift.
We really havent had a bad blizzard since 97.
2014 was the worst winter I've been alive for, coldest in 130 years or so.
We will survive this and muster on because we chose to live here....for some reason.
wpgfishfan
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