When i was just a wee lad, walking 10km to school uphill both ways, i remember how the city (not this one) would, after a significant snow-fall, pull out the industrial snow blower and drive down the curb line and chew up the banks and blow the snow onto the front yards (over the sidewalk).
This morning i saw a line of dumptrucks, a 4-yard front-loader, a 2 yard front-loader.
This seems like a tremendous waste of resource. They appeared to only be clearing the intersection corners.
Why not invest in a cost saving resource? —Tired of watching my tax dollars wasted on outdated solutions
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2015.
If you absolutely, positively have to live in Edmonton in the winter, then live in P.M.Q.s next to a military airbase. The same heavy metal they used to keep the runways operational also kept the roads clear. It made Transformers look like nothing but a grandiose toy commercial.
You sound like you would be an excellent “cost savings device.”
no idea what op is trying to say. what were the dump trucks doing? driving through the snow mashing it down? were the loaders scooping up snow?
were you recommending the old snow blower method or saying its old fashioned and wasteful (although it doesn’t seem to be same as loader and dump trucks)
are you just missing your tonkas?
giant snow blower trucks (like they had in Winnipeg when I was growing up) that blow snow into accompanying dump trucks, which them dump it on the rivers, handle cold, powdery snow. I can’t imagine they would do well with the icy sludge we have here. maybe in the valley where crispy lives… my neighbour has not been able to use his snow blower in this mess.
I suggest that the parking enforcement people be equipped with flame throwers that they can use to melt snow as they trudge around the city. Every bit helps and you wouldn’t have to worry about trucking snow away. 🙂
Anyway, as it is, I don’t see how they could be issuing tickets because most of the parking meters are inaccessible unless you are accompanied by Sherpa guides with ropes to get you up and down the snow banks.
Let’s face it. The people the city have hired were ready to handle a typical Nova Scotia winter as we’ve had over the last decade or so maybe. Certainly not the 800 lb gorilla the last three or four weeks have brought. Maybe they’ll get better as time goes on and will be more prepared next winter but, in the meantime we’ll just have to live with it.
Sidewalks be like:
http://on.aol.com/video/girl-struggles-to-…
“Maybe they’ll get better as time goes on and will be more prepared next winter but, in the meantime we’ll just have to live with it.”
Live with it? I guess that’s how it is in Nova Scotia. Safety is at risk but let’s just learn to live with it. Risk breaking a limb walking down the street but I guess I’ll learn to live with that. Some disabled people can’t even leave their homes, learn to live with it because this is Nova Scotia: Take it or leave it. Why try to improve? Learn to live with it and watch as the standards keep dropping.
Halifax. It’s the way it is because this is Halifax…
Pretty sure I saw Narwhals in the parking lot of the Gulag when I got in this morning.
http://assets.worldwildlife.org/photos/590…
And now I have that F@#$%^&g song shawshanking it’s way through my head.
FAAAACCCCKKKK!
Next thing we’ll be using ‘sneckdowns’ to design our road infrastructure just because some asshole saw it on the internet and thought it ‘made sense’.
On a happier note, anybody remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zREwdYvd75…
SOMEONE DISLIKES NARWHALS???????????
Oh, you’ll pay for that you anti-mono-dentite bastard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbby9coDRC…
in Vancouver when the temperature drops below zero the doors on the skytrain freeze, so they shut it down. you live with it and take the bus for 90 minutes instead of a 7 minute skytrain whisk. they also shut down oak street with actual barriers.
in Winnipeg around the middle of November the ice ruts on the roads become sentient and will guide your car to its destination while you sleep, read or play with yourself on the way to work.
Calgary floods. Toronto gets 70 car pileups on the 401. snowmobiles carry food and meds to the housebound in saskatchewan. neighbours help dig out neighbours on pei.
live with it. the goal is not to have a climate controlled environment 365 days a year with no accommodation for the earth’s cycles, with standardized food stuffs in a grey, homogenous slurry piped into your mouth as you glide along wired in, tuned out and wrapped in your bubble of artificiality.
Apparently the city used to have this type of equipment but got rid of it because the winters were getting milder with less snow…….
Yours truly.