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Emlyn K Helicopter
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Member # 44

posted February 09, 2007 09:23

Drove to work this morning - yesterdays snow that gave me a day off but a distant, melting memory. 10am, it starts snowing again.

I left at 10.30am for home (normally 90 minutes drive) and it took me 3 and a half hours of hardcore angry, skidding, 5 or 20mph, expert (by now) snow-rallying to do it. Serious mountain snow! In fact, I left it wherever it finally skidded to a halt and treked the last mile on foot.

In Britain we get this two days a year and the whole bleedin' country grinds to a halt. How does this compare to those VVF's in Canada and Scandinavia?

Don't tell me Canadian drivers are just better. (you know who I'm talking about)

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Hellrider
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Member # 980

posted February 09, 2007 10:05

Emlyn, Hex,

London ground to a halt for slightly more than ONE INCH of snow for the second time in a month. The underground system gave up the ghost first, and hell, it's supposed to be under ground... *sigh*

I read somewhere that, Britain being a relatively warm country with only a few days of severe weather each year, it's more economically efficient to let the country grind to a halt for those few days than to get systems/structures in place to deal with severe weather - which wouldn't be required for most of the year. Global warming, you see...

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Seb YB1
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Member # 129

posted February 09, 2007 12:06

Live to die, eye to eye
Raise the chase, face to face
The dirty desperado goes black
At freezing point
Hail stones fall and fall again
Armed...Cold weapons in hand
Charged...Mangled corps on the land
Prisoners of ice wheeze in a sultry weather
This is the fate of the frozen agessors...

Curdled by frost
Too young to rust
Fight...Be wild
Warriors of ice
The hell fighters
Warriors of ice...

enough said !

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nia
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Member # 9

posted February 09, 2007 16:33

i'm moving to australia. fuck l'hiver and the horse it rode in on.

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Skul
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Member # 19

posted February 10, 2007 11:40

...and i'm NOT looking forward to the Gaz Metro bill for this month.

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Nuclear Vampire
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Member # 20

posted February 10, 2007 15:47

No shit, I'm sure my next gas bill will be massive. It's bee -30 to -40 for the last 3 weeks. No exaggeration either.

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vroomfondel
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Member # 139

posted February 10, 2007 16:30

A nice fresh evening today. -17 and only 10 cm of snow

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BlackCloud
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Member # 122

posted February 11, 2007 04:17

Well...There once was a t.v. series called "Little House on the Prairie", it sounds as though "Big House on the Tundra" is far more fitting!

Before I moved to Bremerton (an hour outside of Seattle) back in '83, I was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota until the ripe old age of 14...so "Yes", I definitely know about blizzards, snow drifts, and white-out conditions!!!

Thank goodness I'm soaking in the rain now!

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Juan87
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Member # 87

posted February 11, 2007 15:38

Wow guys, and here I was thinking I had it bad because we rent a real old house that doesn't have very good insulation and it easily gets down to 40F if you don't have the heat on. We have bypassed turning the gas heat on and just use these little ceramic heaters you plug in, much more conventional if you are mainly in one room. But the rest of the house you have to have 2 jackets on to go into LOL.

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Maldororz
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Member # 186

posted February 12, 2007 09:22

quote:
Originally posted by Emlyn K Helicopter:
How the hell do you Canadians manage?

A few things:
- Winter tires.
- Road management.
- We're used to it.
- BLOWERS!!!!

"Runs like a blower, eats like a grindaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!"

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schroeder
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Member # 5

posted February 12, 2007 11:26

NOW THAT'S AN AWESOME SNOW REMOVAL TRUCK.

Gotta admit I don't miss the white flakes one bit, or the traffic and stupid drivers that go with it, Ever since moving to the Eastern Shore of Delaware and Maryland, 13 years ago, I think I've only faced one of two horrible winter storms. Might get some flakes and rain tonite and tomorrow but it shouldn't be a big deal. We get humidity and some bad ass noreastern storms but overall, it's damn good.

Now, don't all of you freaks uproot and move here... I need to keep my property values high

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Hellrider
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Member # 980

posted February 12, 2007 14:35

Ha! We may be pretty risible on the snow front, but you can't beat the British rain - or London's property prices for that matter.

Wanna swap homes for a while?

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Nuclear Vampire
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Member # 20

posted February 12, 2007 16:41

quote:
Originally posted by BlackCloud:
I was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota

Cool! I'm only like 3 hours away. We drive down to Fargo and Grand Forks quite often in the summer to do some shopping.

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Maldororz
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Member # 186

posted February 13, 2007 08:13

quote:
Originally posted by BlackCloud:
I was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota

Yah!

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