The Ongoing Super Mega Weather Thread v3

[Paulie Walnuts]

The weather agency said “stagnant weather conditions are creating elevated pollution levels,” as of 1:20 p.m.

[Slava]

Inversion.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by activeStick

I recently moved to Toronto form Vancouver and it's wild how differently the two cities manage snow fall. For obvious reasons of course but man, last weekend, over 30 cms fell overnight and by 10am, the small street at my friends place was plowed and according to friends who were out earlier, major arteries were clear by 8 (likely earlier). 5 cm falls in Vancouver and the only roads plowed are Knight, Kingsway, Lougheed and a handful of others while everywhere else is just loaded up with snow.

Toronto still trying to erase the memory of calling in the army to help with snow back in '99.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Speaking of road's and snow plowing the city sucks at that but now that the snow is melted a bit on roads holy crap the pot holes are out of control its like trying to dodge landmines.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Speaking of road's and snow plowing the city sucks at that but now that the snow is melted a bit on roads holy crap the pot holes are out of control its like trying to dodge landmines.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by Jacks

Toronto still trying to erase the memory of calling in the army to help with snow back in '99.

Try as they may, it shall never happen.

That city should, and will, be mocked in perpetuity for that debacle.

[Paulie Walnuts]

More trash weather heavy blowing snow

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Speaking of road's and snow plowing the city sucks at that but now that the snow is melted a bit on roads holy crap the pot holes are out of control its like trying to dodge landmines.

Yep they are really bad but we have got a lot of snow and sustained cold periods this winter as it came in November with a bang and is leaving with a bang in late February/March as we are going to enter April with more snow on the ground than I can remember in recent memory so it's likely going to get a lot worse once things start to warm up. I have seen some pretty nasty ones on my commute and I just try and make mental notes to avoid them.

[Looch City]

God I’m so tired of this white ####.

[InglewoodFan]

On the snow removal front, I was amazed to drive through my neighborhood last night at about 10:00 and the city had a decent sized operation going to remove snow from the street by the schools. Grader, loader, dump trucks - they have the whole street cleaned down from curb to curb including all the windrows along the sides. The only thing I can think of is parents complained that the built up snow made drop-off hell even more hellish.

[Flabbibulin]

My freaking driveway attacked me this morning.

[Ashasx]

why is it when the weather channel says <1 cm of snow it's actually 5 cm of snow and when they say 5 cm of snow it's actually 15?

[InglewoodFan]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

why is it when the weather channel says <1 cm of snow it's actually 5 cm of snow and when they say 5 cm of snow it's actually 15?

Under-promise and over-deliver.

[Jiggy_12]

Every day I’m shovellin’

[Fuzz]

-11 overnight, gonna be greasy tomorrow morning.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

Every day I’m shovellin’

I see a Juno in your future

[Reggie Dunlop]

Anyone else with the problem of spring melt from the road flooding the sidewalk?



I've been throwing down buckets of "pickle mix" road gravel (available from the nearby fire station) and trying to scoop up the ice as it forms...

Even chiseled out a route for the water to get to the storm drain.

I put in a 311 ticket to see if it's something the City can plow out, but I'm not hopeful...

[timun]

I have the same problem. Grade on my front lawn rises about three feet from the sidewalk at about a 30° slope, so there's a pretty steep little hill upon which most of the snow from my shovelling ends up. The depth of the snow and ice on the street is higher than my sidewalk too, so there really isn't anywhere for the water to go as the snow melts.

I salt the #### out of it and hope for the best.

[Jacks]

I've been dealing with that for a month now (minus the cold snap). Need to go out every day about 1/2hr before sunset with a shop broom and push all the water off and then after sunset check for bad patches to toss some salt on. Getting pretty damn sick of it to be honest.

Finished digging a drainage trench today so hopefully it gets better.

[btimbit]

Is there a storm drain anywhere in all of that? If so then the city will indeed come and try to get that draining again