Winter Weather Begins This Week

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by photon

The trucks are the worst, for most of them the only weight they have in the back is the light skiff of snow still stuck to the bumper.

Me: Waiting for light.
Light: Green!
Truck 3 Cars Ahead: Slide sideways spinning the wheels, stop, do it again, stop, do it again stop..
Light: Yellow!
Truck: Finally make it through the intersection...
Light: Red!
Everyone: FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU.......

I watched a bunch of front wheel drives doing the same thing. Weight doesnt matter much if the idiot doesnt know how to feather the gas. No offense to a certain demographic here, but women are terrible for this.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

I just can't figure out why anyone would think that shovelling onto the road is a smart idea. Some things grind my gears but I can understand the reasoning behind it. But this! This is beyond comprehension.

But I get lil rocks on my beautiful lawn. Thats about the only reason I can see.

[ken0042]

Actually it's just an example of how people just look at it as "not my problem anymore."

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

I just can't figure out why anyone would think that shovelling onto the road is a smart idea. Some things grind my gears but I can understand the reasoning behind it. But this! This is beyond comprehension.

It's because they're lazy. Instead of starting in the middle of the driveway and pushing snow to each sides of the driveway and onto their lawns, they start from where their garage door is and push it all the way down to the street. It defeats the whole purpose of shoveling snow, since put the build up where your car needs to go. I really just don't see the logic in this.

[You Need a Thneed]

Shovelling a little bit of slush onto the road on a warmer sunny day is just fine, the sun will melt the snow quite quickly on the black asphalt. Shovelling snow onto the road on a day like today is idiotic.

[amorak]

Originally Posted by C-Life

False. I drive about 100-150KM in the SW everyday and I wish what you said was true. Don't forget the Sw has ChinaTown, almost all of downtown, the native reserve, Woodbine, and areas like Strathcona, Cougar Ridge etc which are full of immigrants. It's brutal out there. So brutal in fact I stayed home today. Not worth risking my ass.

uhh, in a word - no.

Do a search for our mayor's famous TEDx speech, where he shows a graphic of neighborhoods by race - south of Crowchild is under 8% minorities, whereas North of Crowchild dis something over 20%, if I recall correctly.

Furthermore,

1) He shows that the West hill (Cougar, Strathcona, Aspen, etc) is the whitest area in town, and he made the observation that real estate agents red-lined these areas FROM immigrants who were house hunting.

Finally, I grew up in Strathcona and Christie Estates, and now own a home in Aspen hills and I can confirm that the hill is as WASP-y as ever.


My family has been here in Alberta alone for over a hundred years now on one side, and my grandfather always said that life was made easier for new immigrants when they lived in established neighborhoods, as it prevents new immigrants from shelling up with fellow immigrants and sheltering themselves as a crutch - I am not sure I 100% agree, but I see the point.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

Shovelling a little bit of slush onto the road on a warmer sunny day is just fine, the sun will melt the snow quite quickly on the black asphalt. Shovelling snow onto the road on a day like today is idiotic.

Its stupid all the time, slush freezes into a mass of icy crap overnight. I don't understand whats wrong with putting it on the lawn to begin with.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by amorak

uhh, in a word - no.

Do a search for our mayor's famous TEDx speech, where he shows a graphic of neighborhoods by race - south of Crowchild is under 8% minorities, whereas North of Crowchild dis something over 20%, if I recall correctly.

Furthermore,

1) He shows that the West hill (Cougar, Strathcona, Aspen, etc) is the whitest area in town, and he made the observation that real estate agents red-lined these areas FROM immigrants who were house hunting.

Finally, I grew up in Strathcona and Christie Estates, and now own a home in Aspen hills and I can confirm that the hill is as WASP-y as ever.


My family has been here in Alberta alone for over a hundred years now on one side, and my grandfather always said that life was made easier for new immigrants when they lived in established neighborhoods, as it prevents new immigrants from shelling up with fellow immigrants and sheltering themselves as a crutch - I am not sure I 100% agree, but I see the point.

Hilariously all of the clients I have in that area of the city are immigrants! (and fantastic people...although I've never given any thought to how they drive)

[burn_this_city]

Extra white washed interior.

[Jordan!]

This thread is now about immigrants

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Bouw N Arrow

This thread is now about immigrants

Maybe people living in +30c Phoenix shouldn't be commenting in this thread. hehe

[GirlySports]

I'm headed out to catch the bus home now, wish me luck!

[REDVAN]

I'll shovel my snow where I damn well please thank you.

My neighbour has a broken down truck, so when I was shovelling his sidewalk for him, I shovelled his truck under even more snow. It won't be moving until it gets a tow anyway.

But I shoevlled the street in front of my house into the middle, so that if I park in front of my house, I can get out. Mind your own business if you don't like it, since I wasn't obstructing any traffic while doing this snow management.

Of and my garage in the back alley has a small driveway, which I shovelled into the middle of the lane. SUCK IT if you don't like it.

As for driving: I almost went around someone who was being overly cautious today. If I had gone around them, it might have been dangerous, but the main problem was they didn't have winter tires and also were a WUSS . I have winters and am not a WUSS so... oh and the other one was the one that blew through a stop sign because he didn't want to even TRY to stop. Next time I won't brake and it'll be a good lesson for that person. And also a brand new front end to my car, which is going to be sweet.

[burn_this_city]

Its not a traffic congestion issue, its idiots adding more snow to an already snowy/icy street. I hope the plow comes by tonight and adds a 6 inch wall of crap to your sidewalk and parking spot.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

I just can't figure out why anyone would think that shovelling onto the road is a smart idea. Some things grind my gears but I can understand the reasoning behind it. But this! This is beyond comprehension.

Salt and other pollutants

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

Salt and other pollutants

Other pollutants on the sidewalk? Like what? Chewing gum?

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

Other pollutants on the sidewalk? Like what? Chewing gum?

are you telling me you never notice all of the crap that gets thrown onto a sidewalk from the road such as fenderbergs and exhaust fumes that make that lovely brown look and then you would like somebody to throw it onto their lawn

as a matter of fact there is a fenderberg on my sidewalk right now that my wife left when she came home, no way should that be put on a lawn where kids make snowforts and snowmen, yet alone what it would do to your lawn

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Its not a traffic congestion issue, its idiots adding more snow to an already snowy/icy street. I hope the plow comes by tonight and adds a 6 inch wall of crap to your sidewalk and parking spot.

a) I like how you got thanks from Dion, who doesn't even live in the city last I checked (I thought Dion lives in High River) so why is he concerned about a side street in Calgary?

b) there ain't no plow that comes down my street so I will manage the snow in and around my property as I see fit. I live between blocks, so if someone can't go straight and slow in front of my house, then too bad. Get some winter tires if you're concerned about icy conditions.

c) if the plow DOES come down my street and make a 6 inch snow wall, I will shovel that shat right back into the middle of the road where it belongs. This isn't a freeway, it's a residential inner-city street.

[Finny61]

Yeah Dion go tend to your harvest j/k

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

are you telling me you never notice all of the crap that gets thrown onto a sidewalk from the road such as fenderbergs and exhaust fumes that make that lovely brown look and then you would like somebody to throw it onto their lawn

Not sure what road you live on, but my sidewalk consists of nothing more than cement. If any "pollutants" have reached your sidewalk, they're already on your lawn as well. If a chunk of ice comes from a car that's one thing, but shovelling most of your clean, fresh snow onto the road? Idiotic.

I just don't see the point of throwing snow onto an already snow covered road. It does nothing but make the road more difficult to drive on and park on. Nobody's grass is going to die from a little snow being shovelled onto it. It might even like the moisture.