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Feb 16, 2021 16:49:26 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Feb 16, 2021 16:49:26 GMT
Tomorrow I have another appointment to get another needle stuck in my eye (oh joy!) and because of the HUGE snow storm we are experiencing, we have to spend all day today digging our driveway out!
We haven't had a whopper snowfall like this in some time. About 12 inches of snow fell last night and it is still coming down! Added to that there are 30 mile an hour winds. Yuck!
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Feb 16, 2021 17:33:43 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 16, 2021 17:33:43 GMT
There was snow here, too. It's very weird for the region but sometimes very rarely happens. It was also unusually cold. Probably Canadians here would laugh if I say we were - 6 C but it was very damaging especially because there were/are problems with electricity, water system and gas. Thankfully, in our house it was only the electricity which was everywhere but seriously, what awful pair of days!
I love cold days and snow but I hate that we aren't prepared for it!Lol
It's the same storm that it's affecting Texas.
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Post by roverpup on Feb 16, 2021 21:26:26 GMT
We just spent about an hour and a half shoveling out our driveway and it would have been longer except our next door neighbour took pity on us and cleared the last bit out with his snow blower. Like you Mllemass, we are going to have a problem when it snows later on again because we have very little room to put it anywhere! Here's some shots of our handiwork... Attachment DeletedAttachment DeletedThe snow pile is almost up to the level of our kitchen and bathroom windows! The mounds on the side of our driveway is almost as high. Luckily we have a park across the road from our house so in a pinch we could cart it over there but that involves about twice as much walking! As far as the temperature, -6°C is actually pretty balmy for a low temperature. Our high today is -7°C and the low is going to be -20°C. With windchill today feels about -14°C as a high and I don't even want to think about how cold it will be tonight with the windchill factored in! But it makes great weather for outdoor skating/hockey rinks! We haven't had a day over 0°C in over a month and one of our neighbours built a beautiful big rink in the park across from us, so the kids have been out on the ice skating all day (and into the night) every day this past month. I love hearing the sounds of the skate blades on the ice (even in the dark because they have put up floodlights so the kids can skate after the sun goes down).
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Feb 17, 2021 4:13:08 GMT
Post by queenzod on Feb 17, 2021 4:13:08 GMT
Aw, what a cute amount of snow. 😂😂😂💅🏻
Be careful shoveling! It’s tough work and can be hard on your heart. Take smaller shovelfuls if necessary. It’s weird, isn’t it, how you run out of places to put it! There was just a case somewhere here in the states (the NE, I think), where someone put his snow on his neighbors lawn/yard b/c there was no place else to put it, and the neighbor was so angry he came out and shot him dead! Then went inside and killed himself. Horrible! What is wrong with people?
On a similar note (cold weather, not shooting people), I’ve been without hot water for 2 days. It went down to -25C the other night. 🌬💨 Luckily the cold water still works, so I’m good. Hopefully it’ll come back on when it warms up a bit. 👍🏼
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Post by mllemass on Feb 17, 2021 4:28:46 GMT
I can totally believe that a neighbour’s snow shovelling can make people angry! My mother is enraged when someone puts their snow on her property.
Many years ago, I used to park my car on the street, across from our house. Nobody else on the street parked there - just me. After each snowfall, I would shovel out my parking spot. I did it for years, and then one day I came home and found someone else’s car in “my” spot. The next day, my father told me he had spent hours looking out the window and saw who owned the car, and went out to confront her. It was a woman who lived down the street. She didn’t think she’d done anything wrong, but my father set her straight! He told her that her parking spot was in front of her own house, and on this street, each person shovels his or her own parking spot. But, since she had only recently moved to the neighbourhood, my father was easy on her because she didn’t know how things worked,
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Post by roverpup on Feb 17, 2021 5:07:22 GMT
Our neighbour (the one who helped us this afternoon with his snowblower) has always put the snow from his driveway on our property. I never minded. Where else is he going to put it? There's 10 tons of the stuff!
Yeah, Dan and I are always very careful when we shovel snow. My shovel is kind of small so I can only take little amounts at one time. Dan is the one who handles the big shovel! We take our time and take plenty of pauses.
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Post by queenzod on Feb 17, 2021 6:27:03 GMT
I figure if you’re not putting it in anyone’s driveway what does it matter where it goes? It’s just water and where I live having extra water on your lawn or garden is a good thing. I can’t imagine killing someone over it. 🤷🏻♀️
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Feb 17, 2021 22:15:06 GMT
Post by dickens38 on Feb 17, 2021 22:15:06 GMT
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Jan 17, 2022 15:21:45 GMT
Post by mllemass on Jan 17, 2022 15:21:45 GMT
We’re in the middle of our first big snowfall of the winter. The Winter Storm Warning has now been replaced by a Blizzard Warning, and I’m not sure which one is supposed to be worse. It started last night, and should continue until 5 pm today.
Today is also our garbage day, when I usually go out before 7 am to put out our garbage and recycling. The snow was up to my knees and our front steps had disappeared. I had to kick my way through the snow to get to the garage to get a shovel. I cleared (sort of) a path going from the garage to the front door, and from the front door to the street, where I put the garbage. None of our neighbours do that. They just take their garbage to the curb and leave it on a huge pile of snow - something the city has told is not to do. Even if I wanted to do that, it’s not possible because our property slopes down towards the street. Our garbage and recycling would just slide down into the street if I leave it on a pile of snow.
Unless I have to drive somewhere (which I don’t), I don’t shovel anything else until the snow stops - so tonight or maybe even tomorrow.
So here’s a question for those of you with children! Do you have your children shovel snow or do any other outdoor work at home, like mow the lawn, sweep the walkway, rake leaves, pull weeds? The reason I ask is I’ve never seen the kids on our street do anything. I’ve only ever seen the parents - actually only one parent, the dads - do anything. It was so different in my family! My father never once shovelled our snow. It was something my mother did, and she made me and my sister do it, too. Not only that, she had us also shovel the sidewalks for the elderly neighbours who lived on either side of us.
I’ve lived in this house more than 15 years, so I’ve seen children grow up and become adults without once picking up a snow shovel. I find it interesting that these parents have their children enrolled in lots of sports and activities - baseball, hockey, karate, ballet - but they spare their children from physical work that’s useful, practical and helpful. Last summer, I was shocked to see the teenage boy across the street washing their family’s van! His parents stood watching him from their front door, so it was something unusual for them, too. But after a few minutes, the father went out and took over, and the boy went inside. I loved cleaning and washing my father’s filthy car when I lived at home! Is it common with today’s parents and children that children do nothing to help out at home?
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Jan 17, 2022 16:13:32 GMT
Post by mllemass on Jan 17, 2022 16:13:32 GMT
Is it common with today’s parents and children that children do nothing to help out at home? That can't be right. It makes no sense. Wouldn't you want to instill a sense of responsibility, discipline and work ethic into them? What happens when they go off to Uni and can't do their own laundry? I grew up like you did- doing tons of chores, not just for our own family, but for elderly neighbours around us. Oh, just noticed you were asking people with kids, and I don't/won't have any lol, so my opinion is pretty worthless, lol. No - you’re opinion is valid! I know for a fact that my (non-Italian) friends didn’t have to do anything at home. We never discussed it, of course, and I always figured that we were like everyone else. But we weren’t! Not only didn’t they do anything, but they also got an allowance, which we never did. My father did give me and my sister $3 each for washing and cleaning his car, because he said it was how much it would have cost him at the car wash. I remember when I was in university and I was at a friend’s house. We were on our way out, when my friend’s mother called her back and handed her $10. I asked her what it was for - maybe her mother wanted her to buy something while we were out? But no! My friend said her mother was paying her for washing the kitchen floor. Her mother had had a headache earlier, and had asked her adult daughter to do it for her. And she paid her! For cleaning a floor in the house where she lived! I guess she saw my surprise/shock/disgust, so my friend explained it by saying that washing the floor was her mother’s job. There’s no way Italians grew up that way!
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