Winter Weather Begins This Week

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

Not sure what road you live on, but my sidewalk consists of nothing more than cement. Maybe a little dust. If any "pollutants" have reached your sidewalk, they're already on your lawn as well.

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.

Well than you have some magic sidewalk cause when a plow goes by everything that is on the road now goes to my sidewalk and also from car splashes. If you think that your sidewalk snow is fine then ok but I bet the colour of your sidewalk snow in January is not the same colour snow as what is in the middle of your yard.

If snow is clean I'm happy to put it on my yard but it rarely is.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

Well than you have some magic sidewalk cause when a plow goes by everything that is on the road now goes to my sidewalk and also from car splashes. If you think that your sidewalk snow is fine then ok but I bet the colour of your sidewalk snow in January is not the same colour snow as what is in the middle of your yard.

If snow is clean I'm happy to put it on my yard but it rarely is.

Fair enough. Nobody is asking you to put the road's slush onto your lawn. Usually when I shovel it is after a recent snowfall, and all of that goes onto the lawn. Sure, if there's crap that fell off of someone's car I'll kick it back into the gutter. If there's a bunch of slush that originated on the road, it'll go back there. I'm referring to people that, on a day like today, shovel their pristine powder onto the road that already has too much snow on it.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

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?

I like how you got uptight when I though someone made a good comment.

Shoveling snow onto the street happens "everywhere" in any town or city.

[C-Life]

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.

M'eh. I can believe some speech by some random public figure, or I can believe what I see. I do disconnects in those areas and I can tell you like 75% of the c/o's I do are immigrants. Not like it's a big deal I'm just sayin.

[woob]

Drive home was pretty decent. Anyone take the C-Train today? How was service? I'll be back to taking it tomorrow.

[TylerSVT]

Originally Posted by 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.

Wow, you are just the worst kind of neighbour... i hope someone calls city bylaw on you...

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by TylerSVT

Wow, you are just the worst kind of neighbour... i hope someone calls city bylaw on you...

If not for this, for blaring Nickelback all of the time.

[C-Life]

Originally Posted by 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.

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by TylerSVT

Wow, you are just the worst kind of neighbour... i hope someone calls city bylaw on you...

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

If not for this, for blaring Nickelback all of the time.

Why am I the worst kind of neighbour? I'll bet my neighbours like the fact that I clean out the snow so well that my visitors never have trouble parallel parking, and thereby never accidentally on purpose give them a little nudge. And show me the bylaw I am breaking and I might re-consider how far I shovel the snow LOL

Oh right, because all the jackasses who use my street, and cut through the residential neighbourhood, to avoid a 2 light wait deserve NOT to drive on the small patch of ice I may or may not have caused? It's like a snow-made speedbump for those self-important fata-ers who rip down my street in the winter or summer.

[CaptainCrunch]

Deerfoot is incredibly slippery tonight.

Saw a car do a 360 in the fast lane.

[The Yen Man]

Stoney Trail in the NW also has stretches where its slippery. I hate coming up behind a car who constantly taps their brakes during the downhill section. It freaks the hell out of me because its so hard to judge how much the driver is slowing down. Before I know it, I'm coming up too fast behind the person because he braked hard on a certain stretch.

[chalms04]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

Stoney Trail in the NW also has stretches where its slippery.

NE Stoney needs a snow fence along the west side of the north-south run. The snow from the greenbelt between the houses and the road just blows and accumulates ONTO the road.

Oh, and to fence in the immigrants.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

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

If only all the asians were like you and stayed on public transit instead of clogging the white folks' streets. Good work girly!

[pepper24]

With weather like this I am thankful I walk to work and not tied to a vehicle. I can only imagine the stress and traffic in this weather. A lot of folks late to work today.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

Not sure what road you live on, but my sidewalk consists of nothing more than cement.

Well, there certainly is also the sand, gravel, and water, that are the other ingredients that make up your concrete sidewalk.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

Well, there certainly is also the sand, gravel, and water, that are the other ingredients that make up your concrete sidewalk.

I know, I know. And it cures as opposed to drying, etc. Not my most articulate post in recent memory...

[HotHotHeat]

Originally Posted by TylerSVT

Uhhh... how?

With a rwd vehicle which is what 90% of Infinities and Mercedes are, all the car can do is limit power to the rear wheels through application of the rear brakes... I can do that in my 1996 Truck too...

Seriously people who rely on stuff like ABS and Traction control scare me more than anything... Learn to Threshold brake and learn how to apply throttle and steering input to get where you want to go.

Driving in Calgary=Scary.

90%? WTF did you pull that number from? Every car in Infiniti's lineup last year was available AWD.

[TylerSVT]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

Why am I the worst kind of neighbour? I'll bet my neighbours like the fact that I clean out the snow so well that my visitors never have trouble parallel parking, and thereby never accidentally on purpose give them a little nudge. And show me the bylaw I am breaking and I might re-consider how far I shovel the snow LOL

Oh right, because all the jackasses who use my street, and cut through the residential neighbourhood, to avoid a 2 light wait deserve NOT to drive on the small patch of ice I may or may not have caused? It's like a snow-made speedbump for those self-important fata-ers who rip down my street in the winter or summer.

The fact that you cleared a part of the road so you could park your car and obstructed the road for EVERY OTHER USER dosent seem wrong to you?



I'll look up the bylaw tomorrow.

[CaptainCrunch]

Ok, if you are so terrified that you have the 10-2 death grip on your wheel, you won't go any faster then 20 on the deerfoot and your heater doesn't work and your frantically clearing the inside of your windshield, GET THE FRAK OFF OF THE ROAD AND NEVER DRIVE AGAIN!!!!!!

[Meelapo]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

90%? WTF did you pull that number from? Every car in Infiniti's lineup last year was available AWD.

They were if you bought the AWD version. The G37 is a real wheel drive car. The G37X (or whatever) is an AWD car.