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I shoveled today. Did you?

I saw h's comment about light fluffy snow.  Maybe he lives in a different city?  That was some heavy wet snow made worse by those people who inconsiderately walked on it before I got home. ;-)  

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Markus on March 6, 2013 at 3:07pm

Well being unemployed and needing to feel useful on Tuesday I hit the walks 3 times the last after the snaow stopped. When I looked out this morn the 35degree temps had cleared it down to concrete so YEAH.

The street is messy but I'm off any bike thruofares (Peterson is only 3 blocks long here) but the SUV's have rutted so deep that I will have to be wary if I take my Civic out before the center hump shrinks down a bit. I wish drivers would get the idea that they shouldn't groove deep ruts...just ride off the ruts and break'em down...but that would mean the drivers are thinkin' and we know better than that...

Jeff

Permalink Reply by Craig S. on March 6, 2013 at 4:12pm

I believe in snowblowers.

Permalink Reply by blair on March 6, 2013 at 4:51pm

I've shoveled after these last two snowstorms.  Landlord just had back surgery, and the neighbor that gets a cut in rent to do the salting/shoveling doesn't do it.

Karma points for me.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 6, 2013 at 5:02pm

Someday you'll have a tenant who's not allergic to snow shovels.


122782_ said:

I've shoveled after these last two snowstorms.  Landlord just had back surgery, and the neighbor that gets a cut in rent to do the salting/shoveling doesn't do it.

Karma points for me.

Permalink Reply by knowbody on March 6, 2013 at 10:52pm

get one of these...

...best wovel evar!!!

sure makes shoveling snow fun again.

1zt7hr8qm0y90Permalink Reply by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on March 7, 2013 at 2:40am
There have been people in this thread that said they observed steam. Not possible. Steam is dry and invisible. What you see is condensed water vapor. Steam at sea level happens at 212 deg F and instantly condenses unless contained. Think about a steam locomotive with 300 pounds of boiler pressure per square inch. That is ancient technology but it blows away diesel/electric locomotives. Your breath or clouds are not steam, not 212 D. F at sea level. I have never seen steam in my life and neither have you. If it were possible to put a pinhole in a high pressure boiler the escaping steam as it condenses into water vapor would incenerate you.
1zt7hr8qm0y90Permalink Reply by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on March 7, 2013 at 2:41am
Sorry h', Just trying to help.
Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 7, 2013 at 8:47am

How about "mist?"  Can I say "mist?"

Anyways, we will never have to discuss snow shoveling again this year! Woo hoo!

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on March 7, 2013 at 8:58am

Promise?  It's Chicago and it's only March 7.

h' 1.0 said:

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Anyways, we will never have to discuss snow shoveling again this year! Woo hoo!

Permalink Reply by grayn8 on March 7, 2013 at 10:26am
It is like a zen koan. The bell is what we see but we hear the sound because of the air in the bell.

I think most of us just equate the water vapor with the steam. Transition states and sublimation and all other goodies asides, I (no sarcasm) biked through a wonderful single track maze made by a combination of melting, manual shovelling, and snow plowed drifts. Today my chaotic fun path is clean and no more. I will miss some things about winter as much as I'm waiting for spring.

h' 1.0 said:

How about "mist?"  Can I say "mist?"

Anyways, we will never have to discuss snow shoveling again this year! Woo hoo!

Permalink Reply by Jason W on March 7, 2013 at 3:35pm

Thanks for mentioning this. I am so tired of renters with a sense of entitlement that they don't have to do anything and can complain about everyone else.

David crZven 10.6 said:

The law says that the responsibility of shoveling falls on both owners and tenants.  Thus even if you rent, you are supposed to shovel.    I (unfortunately ;) ) missed much of the recent snow, having to go to Naples Italy on a business trip.   My wife did the shoveling, but I don't think she did the bike lane.  But I was back for yesterday.   It was nasty and heavy.  I managed to get the sidewalk and the bike lane in front of our place.  It really did not take much time.   We should really encourage everyone to shovel both their sidewalks, and if they live next to the bike lane, the bike lane.

Permalink Reply by Crazy David 84 Furlongs on March 7, 2013 at 3:43pm

Someone's about to have a loss of fecal material.   Near my kid's school is a house that always is on the phone complaining to the alderman about one point or another and apparently is one of those privileged jerks that need to be taken down a peg.  Its a big corner lot.  I noticed today that her sidewalks are not shoveled.   They are the only unshoveled walks on the block and are quite slick.   I have photos.    I am sending a letter to the alderman today with a certified return receipt copy to her.   The sum and substance of the letter:

1.  She is always invoking the help of the alderman and demanding behavior from others

2.  Shoveling is a basic duty of being a neighbor and the law.  

3. I am particularly concerned because my son slipped on his way to school and broke his arm.  (true)

4.  He slipped on an unshoveled sidewalk.  (true).  

5. It was a costly experience (true).

  

6. Failure to follow the law may create legal liability when the harm arises out of failure to perform the required duty.  (True). 

Now as it happens, the slip was not on her walk and I am not going to sue anyone.  But that's not in the letter.  Its just too hard to prove.   But the recipient, I suspect, will be concerned that a law suit may be on the way.  

I might add, I am a lawyer and the certified letter will thus be from a law firm....

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