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Minnesotans Still Arguing About the Weather...

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DaveStPaul said:
Dang it all, you guys are good: I *did* have to turn off the choke. But it was *oil* I had to add. So close! :D Or should I say :o
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Got the call from my wife while I was in Florida and the boy was out using the snow blower that it was sounding funny and not really throwing the snow.

"Tell him to turn off the choke!"

Bingo.
 
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FreshFish said:
While it was years ago, I still remember driving after an ice storm once. Pulled up to a stop sign, stopped...and started to slide sideways. The street was crowned. :eek:
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Almost every road I use is crowned to one degree or another for water runoff purposes. It's pretty standard.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Morons is right. Yesterday morning, taking the dog up to Cambridge, I was turning north on 65 from Crosstown. In the left turn lane, green arrow lights up, I start to go, and check quick to make sure no one is still coming. Sure enough there is a van that looks to have no intention of stopping, going about 30 mph. They lady goes through the intersection a good 10 seconds after the light turned red, blaring on the horn, at 30 mph. That lady deserved to be t-boned, if only I didn't care about my truck. She was so late going through the red light, that by the time I waited for her dumb *** to go through, my light was yellow.
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RaceBoarder said:
It's times like these I wonder what would happen if you had video of something like this from a dash-cam and took it to the cops... That's flat out reckless endangerment...
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Throw in a large animal walking across the street in the background and it sounds like something you would see on one of those Russian dash cam videos. Those people are nuts!!!
 
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St. Clown said:
Almost every road I use is crowned to one degree or another for water runoff purposes. It's pretty standard.
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Yes, crowned roads are pretty standard. sliding sideways downhill on one when you are otherwise standing still is pretty rare.
 
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I've had enough of this ****ing snow shoveling 4 ****ing times a week, dammit. :mad:
 
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FreshFish said:
four times a week? yesterday we had to shovel four times in one day.
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one big snowfall doesn't bother me. it's winter - it's going to happen.

it's all the little snowfalls, multiple times a week, every week, that **** me off.
 
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jen said:
one big snowfall doesn't bother me. it's winter - it's going to happen.

it's all the little snowfalls, multiple times a week, every week, that **** me off.
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If it were only as simple as one big snowfall...."the snow has stopped but freezing rain will start soon. Get the snow up quick before it starts raining."

"The slushy rain mix has stopped. Get the slush up quick before it freezes solid."

"ah, now it's snowing again....."

"I just finished shoveling the bottom of the driveway clear, and now a snow plow has made a second pass down the street, leaving a big pile of snow across the bottom of the driveway again? better get that up before it freezes solid and can't be moved."
 
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FreshFish said:
If it were only as simple as one big snowfall...."the snow has stopped but freezing rain will start soon. Get the snow up quick before it starts raining."

"The slushy rain mix has stopped. Get the slush up quick before it freezes solid."

"ah, now it's snowing again....."

"I just finished shoveling the bottom of the driveway clear, and now a snow plow has made a second pass down the street, leaving a big pile of snow across the bottom of the driveway again? better get that up before it freezes solid and can't be moved."
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It is called winter. If you don't like it, move to Belize.
 
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FreshFish said:
If it were only as simple as one big snowfall...."the snow has stopped but freezing rain will start soon. Get the snow up quick before it starts raining."

"The slushy rain mix has stopped. Get the slush up quick before it freezes solid."

"ah, now it's snowing again....."

"I just finished shoveling the bottom of the driveway clear, and now a snow plow has made a second pass down the street, leaving a big pile of snow across the bottom of the driveway again? better get that up before it freezes solid and can't be moved."
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Now expand that over the course of three to four months. We deal with it at least every third week. And we just deal with it. Especially since clearing the snow isn't even the bad part of it all.
 
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ah, it's nice to see karmic justice in action.


The state passed a law effective 1-1-14 that requires drivers to clear snow off the roof of their vehicle before driving, since there was a spate of highly-publicized accidents last year in which snow flying off the roof of one vehicle blinded people driving behind, resulting in some pretty bad crashes.

So I am watching an SUV with snow-covered roof pull up to a traffic light and stop. The snow on the roof slides forward, completely covering the windshield. So the genius driver turns on the windshield wipers, which pushes some snow aside, allowing even more snow to slide down from the roof onto the windshield, and now it is piling up on the hood as well.

Better your window than anyone else's, pal!
 
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Once the boy is done playing HS, I'll be just fine in a climate with no hockey. I'll be pushing 50 by then, so could retire from playing myself and just watch on TV.

Belize sounds wonderful.


Can't play hockey today? Well, I'll just have to go snorkeling or diving instead. ;)
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Once the boy is done playing HS, I'll be just fine in a climate with no hockey. I'll be pushing 50 by then, so could retire from playing myself and just watch on TV.

Belize sounds wonderful.


Can't play hockey toady? Well, I'll just have to go snorkeling or diving instead. ;)
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After I get my ankle replaced, I could go back to windsurfing. Maybe even pick up a few extra bucks teaching - I was a pretty good instructor back in my day.
 
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state of hockey said:
Belize is nice. They speak English in Belize.
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Reuben: Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it.
Danny: That was our pleasure.
Rusty: I'd never been to Belize.
 
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