11-24-2025, 11:07 AM
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#7681
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Originally Posted by calf
Kids are in school, my wife is at work, and I'm not working at the moment. Is it weird for a middle aged dude to just go tobogganing for the afternoon?
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Toss a metal spreader shovel in the trunk along with a toboggan. After the fun, go and find a few vehicles or two to help dig them out?
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11-24-2025, 11:16 AM
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#7682
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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I'm gonna dig out the hot-tub and we're going to enjoy the snowfall tonight.
Enjoying a snowfall is completely foreign to me (I hate winter), so here goes nothin'.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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11-24-2025, 11:20 AM
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#7683
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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Happy 'find the cracks in the concrete day' to all the snow shovelers!
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11-24-2025, 11:31 AM
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#7684
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Happy 'find the cracks in the concrete day' to all the snow shovelers!
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Pfff, that's why you push the blade at an angle. 
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11-24-2025, 11:32 AM
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#7685
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Today is a great day to have a snow thrower.
A good steel spreader shovel in a trunk is a good winter habit. I've dug out plenty of people with it over the years. Many times also helping people whose little plastic or aluminum shove is too small or just ineffective against frozen snow banks, or shattering ice so that their tires can reach the asphalt for some traction.
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11-24-2025, 11:38 AM
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#7686
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I'm gonna dig out the hot-tub and we're going to enjoy the snowfall tonight.
Enjoying a snowfall is completely foreign to me (I hate winter), so here goes nothin'.
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My favourite first snows were always back in Canmore. From age 16 up, the first snow meant calling 2 close friends and we'd meet at the Sherwood House, sit in the front of the fire and drink pints. It was usually a mid week evening with no one else there, like being in our own wood cabin watching the snow build up outside, talk about ski plans for the winter.
That was back before they renovated and made it way less cozy.
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11-24-2025, 11:50 AM
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#7687
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by calf
Kids are in school, my wife is at work, and I'm not working at the moment. Is it weird for a middle aged dude to just go tobogganing for the afternoon?
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i'll see you at St Andrew Heights!
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11-24-2025, 07:29 PM
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#7688
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Does anyone have one of those electric show shovels? I mean not really a shovel but basically a mini snow blower. My 2 car garage size driveway and side of the house don't feel big enough to warrant a full blown snow blower but looking at some reviews of the electric shovels they look pretty helpful.. the biggest part being maybe I could blow the snow out onto the street instead of piling it all up onto my front yard.
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11-24-2025, 07:35 PM
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#7689
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Remember kids, when they say 'no strenuous activity' after medical procedures, they're not kidding around. It looks like I murdered a small animal on my front lawn...just blood everywhere from shoveling this heavy, wet white BS!!
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11-24-2025, 07:40 PM
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#7690
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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On the bright side, rather than those chinook overcast days we've had for weeks, now we get a couple of days of proper sunshine to follow that snow dump.
I've missed full on blue skies east to west.
I hope it melts that layer of ice before more snow comes down.
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11-25-2025, 01:33 PM
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#7691
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Originally Posted by photon
Does anyone have one of those electric show shovels? I mean not really a shovel but basically a mini snow blower. My 2 car garage size driveway and side of the house don't feel big enough to warrant a full blown snow blower but looking at some reviews of the electric shovels they look pretty helpful.. the biggest part being maybe I could blow the snow out onto the street instead of piling it all up onto my front yard.
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I do. Bought it years ago and used it a couple of times, now it just sits in the garage. Unless the one you are looking at is cordless I found it to be more of a PITA than it was worth.
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11-25-2025, 02:44 PM
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#7692
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Does anyone have one of those electric show shovels? I mean not really a shovel but basically a mini snow blower. My 2 car garage size driveway and side of the house don't feel big enough to warrant a full blown snow blower but looking at some reviews of the electric shovels they look pretty helpful.. the biggest part being maybe I could blow the snow out onto the street instead of piling it all up onto my front yard.
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Don't think you are allowed to do that...
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11-25-2025, 04:29 PM
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#7693
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electric boogaloo
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Originally Posted by Locke
Remember kids, when they say 'no strenuous activity' after medical procedures, they're not kidding around. It looks like I murdered a small animal on my front lawn...just blood everywhere from shoveling this heavy, wet white BS!!
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The hell medical procedure would cause that? If blood existing any orifice should prob head to the hospital. Anywhere else, should also head to a hospital.
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11-25-2025, 04:44 PM
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#7694
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by fotze2
The hell medical procedure would cause that? If blood existing any orifice should prob head to the hospital. Anywhere else, should also head to a hospital.
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Its nothing to do with the procedure itself, but the blood-clot didn't hold while I was shoveling the heavy as hell snow, so the blood just ran down my arm and into the snow.
I got it under control later though.
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11-25-2025, 04:53 PM
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#7695
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
Its nothing to do with the procedure itself, but the blood-clot didn't hold while I was shoveling the heavy as hell snow, so the blood just ran down my arm and into the snow.
I got it under control later though.
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yuck gross
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11-25-2025, 05:00 PM
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#7696
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
yuck gross
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What?? You of all people dont like the sight of blood? Its natural man, it is the elixir of life...embrace it!
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11-25-2025, 05:01 PM
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#7697
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Originally Posted by Nufy
Don't think you are allowed to do that...
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You're right: https://www.calgary.ca/bylaws/snow-ice.html
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Pile snow from their private driveway or walkway on their property (e.g. front lawn). Snow from a public sidewalk or pathway may be shoveled onto another public property, such as a road.
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11-25-2025, 06:52 PM
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#7698
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Nufy
Don't think you are allowed to do that...
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Psh, it all came from the sidewalk!
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11-25-2025, 07:27 PM
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#7699
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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The Ongoing Super Mega Weather Thread v3
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Originally Posted by Nufy
Don't think you are allowed to do that...
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Not allowed for the driveway, but I believe sidewalk is fair game to shovel off the to the parking lane.
Edit: Yeah, what Mazrim said. There’s basically a PSA every year about where to shovel it, when it needs to be shoveled by, etc.
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