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[hennible]

Dont dont do it .... Step back from the ad....

deb

lol
I cant find it now any way

 

[vehve]

That harness reminds me, I saw an interesting quick DYI for making a chicken shirt. You grab one of those beanie hats and cut holes for the head and wings and voila!

Something amazing has happened here. We had about half an hour of sun! It was snowing a bit at the same time, though. but look, blue sky!

 

[Outpost JWB]

What is sun?

Yes @minihorse927 , we are buried in white cold snow. Lots of snow. Packed down snow. No one has driven on our road. Who am I to mess up the pretty snow? LOL! Little girl's school is on 2 hour delay. Hoping they go ahead and close it. She doesn't feel good. Coughing, sore throat. Poor kid. Her school probably won't close though since they already are over their limit. So, we already have days to make up at the end of the year. But I'll probably keep her home anyway. It's a good day to clean inside....and take naps.

On the Lorax conversation, little girl & I went to the movies to see that when it came out years ago. Loved it. I love Dr. Seuss anything! The kids are celebrating his birthday this week at school.

 

[vehve]

I don't understand the concept of snow days. Especially in places that regularly get snow. Shouldn't there be infrastructure in place to handle that sort of thing? Or airports closing down? Helsinki Vantaa is a pretty large airport, they handle about 500 flights daily and 16 million passengers annually. In the past decade, the airport has been shut down due to snow for a total of 30 minutes. I saw pictures from Heathrow when they were shut down due to snow, they had an inch on the taxiways. The runways were clear, but apparently you can't drive an airplane through an inch of snow.

 

[vehve]

Whoa, the sun is out again!

 

[Amberjem]

Whoa, the sun is out again!

but but but but but if we didnt have snow days we wouldnt have an excuse to stay home when it snows!

 

[Beer can]

Vehve, our school doesn't call off school unless they have to, they want the $. We have a lot of rural back roads, and mountains the buses have to travel on. When it comes down a inch a hour plows can't keep up. My 20min trip from work takes a hour even with studed snows and 4wd, going down hill is the scary part. State roads might be plowed, but that doesn't help much. County and town roads don't get plowed as often.

 

[Outpost JWB]

We have over a foot of snow and it's still coming down. Snow trucks do not come down our road usually. Last year they fell off the road in the neighbor's yard and this year, the truck went off the road on the other side. Both times required a huge tow truck to get them out. We live on flat ground, but it's continually icy. We have 4x4 a vehicle. But on ice, 4 wheel drive means 4 wheel slide. They closed her school. I'm glad-- seeing all the wrecks on the news.

Look who didn't make it to the coop last night.


Poor guy. That's after he shook most of it off. I picked him up and put him in the coop. He's fine. Just froze.

 

[vehve]

Yeah, driving in 6 inches of snow can be pretty interesting. But still doable. I don't know, maybe our snow is just different.

Okay, I just did some quick math. NY state and Uusimaa, Finland have about the same population density, but you've got about three times more public roads per person compared to Uusimaa. Here we have about 30 meters of public roads per person, while you've got about 90 meters (so that's about 33 and 100 yards). That will make a bit of an difference. I can't find data on private roads.

 

[vehve]

Sorry, decimal point error in my math. 3 meters and 9 meters of road per person, respectively. In comparison, Lapland, the northernmost part of Finland has about 40 meters of road per person. It's very sparsely populated, only two people per square kilometer (about two thirds of a person per square mile). They don't close schools either, though. But I think a kid would just hop on a skidoo there.