Hi All,

Spent the majority of yesterday digging out from wild dumping of snow.

On the road there was just over 1ft (30.5cm) of snow, but near the house
there were snow drifts just above my waist, so about 3ft (91cm).

Schools were closed because of the weather. We weren't affected by any of
the power outages. Yesterday was the first day our lockdown ended, though we're still in the red zone. Perhaps this was mother nature's way of
keeping us in quarantine.

I was out at 6am and spent an hour clearing the driveway & then went in to
take a break & warm up. A little while later I went back out to clear the sidewalk and dig my car out which took another 45 minutes.

A little later in the day the snow plow went by walled in driveway with an impenetrable wall of densely packed snow, so grab the shovel and back at it.

Our next door neighbours were out shoveling as well helped us which was
really nice of them.

Here's a 360 shot from my driveway. We're used to snow here, but this is A LOT, even for us:

https://flic.kr/p/2kCwXdR


Jay

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^^^^^^^^^^^

That is wrong, but *should* be fixed on this message.

Jay

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Re: Lots of snow
By: Warpslide to All on Wed Feb 17 2021 07:41 am

Here's a 360 shot from my driveway. We're used to snow here, but this is A LOT, even for us:
https://flic.kr/p/2kCwXdR

Wow!

BTW:
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Hello Warpslide!

** On Wednesday 17.02.21 - 07:41, Warpslide wrote to All:

Here's a 360 shot from my driveway. We're used to snow here, but this is
A LOT, even for us:

https://flic.kr/p/2kCwXdR

Interesting 360§ shot. I suppose your place is #51 ?

You really cleaned it right down to the asphalt. What surprises
me the most is that there is hardly any snow on any of the
roofs!

Also had a big accumulation over Sunday night too. I have 100m
of driveway from road to house. I spent about an hour (and 3
changes of gloves) to just skim enough top-layer of snow (using
a simple snow-shovel) so that I could at least plow through
better with my Rav4 all-wheel drive.

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*** Quoting Ogg from a message to Warpslide ***

You really cleaned it right down to the asphalt. What surprises me
the most is that there is hardly any snow on any of the roofs!

I suppose that could be because of how windy it was? There's a small
section of roof by my office above the garage that has a big snow drift on
it.

Also had a big accumulation over Sunday night too. I have 100m of driveway from road to house. I spent about an hour (and 3 changes
of gloves) to just skimenough top-layer of snow (using a simple snow-shovel) so that I could at least plow through better with my
Rav4 all-wheel drive.

We have a snow blower, but most of the time it's easier just to push a
shovel across the driveway because we don't get very much snow. It's in the garage under a small pile of junk with no gas in it. Hasn't been used since the 2018/2019 winter season.

Needless to say we're going to have someone come by and give it a good
tune-up & have a gas can ready for the next storm.


Jay

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Warpslide said to All <-

Hello Warpslide!

Spent the majority of yesterday digging out from wild dumping of snow.

On the road there was just over 1ft (30.5cm) of snow, but near the
house there were snow drifts just above my waist, so about 3ft (91cm).

Schools were closed because of the weather. We weren't affected by
any of the power outages. Yesterday was the first day our lockdown
ended, though we're still in the red zone. Perhaps this was mother nature's way of keeping us in quarantine.

I was out at 6am and spent an hour clearing the driveway & then went in
to take a break & warm up. A little while later I went back out to
clear the sidewalk and dig my car out which took another 45 minutes.

A little later in the day the snow plow went by walled in driveway with
an impenetrable wall of densely packed snow, so grab the shovel and
back at it.

I can understand how this can be a lot of snow for some people / places. Sadly for us in central Ontario in Canada, what you described is just a typical winter day for us. No wonder Canadians like to take vacations in warmer climates. I once had to explain to someone that each year there are news reports of some poor sob who has a heart attack as a result of shovelling snow.
I had to explain it as.. wear a fur coat, and shovel wet sand...

Warm weather wishes!



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Warpslide wrote to Ogg <=-

*** Quoting Ogg from a message to Warpslide ***

You really cleaned it right down to the asphalt. What surprises me
the most is that there is hardly any snow on any of the roofs!

I suppose that could be because of how windy it was? There's a small section of roof by my office above the garage that has a big snow drift
on it.

My family has a cabin near Lake Tahoe. It originally had a shingle roof, and every year the snow on the roof (6-10 feet!) would freeze, and when it came off, take off the lower row of shingles. My parent's insurance paid for a metal roof, and all of the snow slid off the roof. The only problem was that one year, 12 feet of snow accumulated on the high side of the cabin and knocked it out of plumb! Insurance came through again, and bolstered up some of the interior walls to help support the weight.



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*** Quoting poindexter FORTRAN from a message to Warpslide ***

My family has a cabin near Lake Tahoe. It originally had a shingle
roof, and every year the snow on the roof (6-10 feet!) would freeze,
and when it came off, take off the lower row of shingles.

I remember getting that much snow when I was a kid. My sister and I would climb up on the roof of our house with my Dad & help shovel off the snow.

Once the most of the snow was off & if the snow was high enough from the side of the house, we'd then grab our sleds (a GT Snow Racer) and go back on the roof and slide down. It really is amazing that I've never broken a bone.

Jay

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Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

** On Thursday 18.02.21 - 06:36, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Warpslide:

My family has a cabin near Lake Tahoe. It originally had a
shingle roof, and every year the snow on the roof (6-10
feet!) would freeze, and when it came off, take off the
lower row of shingles. My parent's insurance paid for a
metal roof, and all of the snow slid off the roof. The only
problem was that one year, 12 feet of snow accumulated on
the high side of the cabin and knocked it out of plumb!
Insurance came through again, and bolstered up some of the
interior walls to help support the weight.

That's amazing - wrt insurance coming through for ya. These
days, insurance will look for anything "unusual" that may have
caused damaged and deem the whole matter uninsurable.

My house has a metal roof too. The snow has been sliding off
during early years of its life for decades. On one side of the
house, I have beams extending from the side of house - intended
for a future balcony/deck. Over time, the sliding snow and ice
hitting the beams has caused damage to them. Insurance said no
due to back roof design.


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Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

That's amazing - wrt insurance coming through for ya. These
days, insurance will look for anything "unusual" that may have
caused damaged and deem the whole matter uninsurable.

Now, if you call them about a question on your policy, they'll open a
"claim", saying they can't answer hypotheticals, and use that as a strike to raise your rates.

It's quite the racket.


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Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

** On Thursday 25.02.21 - 06:00, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

That's amazing - wrt insurance coming through for ya.
These days, insurance will look for anything "unusual"
that may have caused damaged and deem the whole matter
uninsurable.

Now, if you call them about a question on your policy,
they'll open a "claim", saying they can't answer
hypotheticals, and use that as a strike to raise your
rates.

I didn't know that. Just a couple weeks ago I called in for
some clarification on a part of the policy. I asked "What
if..", and the agent replied, "That depends.." :/ Great.

I was pretty specific about "how" the loss would occur. But they
refused to give me a clear answer.

It's quite the racket.

In this case paying for insurance certainly seems like a waste
of money if they can opt to void a claim based on a teeny tiny
thing they did not mention. "Oh.. it's not mentioned in the
policy of terms, .: sorry, not applicable."


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