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Post by Fishooked on Jan 25, 2016 9:54:42 GMT -5
They said we were getting 4-8 max. Ended up with 14" We got 30+ out here in Staten Island. Spent 3 hours yesterday and another 3 today shoveling/snowblowing mine, my in-laws, my two octogenarian neighbors and the one and only neighbor who lifts a finger to help out. I'm fucking done. I've got a neighbor like that. He has neighbors on both sides of him that don't have snowblowers, and I have never seen him help anyone. One of which is an older woman who lives alone. He's also the same fucking guy that pulls his cars into the street, then pushes off all of the snow in the street. I'm not ashamed to admit that I have ratted him out more than once.
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Post by Big L on Jan 25, 2016 10:37:19 GMT -5
Ratted him out to who?
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Post by Fishooked on Jan 25, 2016 10:38:48 GMT -5
Police He's been caught before doing it, and still does it Once the plow guy caught him doing it and it got ugly, I thought he was going to slug him.
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Post by quantum on Jan 25, 2016 16:53:26 GMT -5
Got about 30", but the plow left alomst 4ft at the end of my driveway (those fuckers) buying a Snowblower? best investment since central air I spent WAY too many hours standing behind a snowblower in my life. When are you taking the Camaro out? drove to train station this morning. more like slid to station. and fuck that Stabilitrak "traction control"
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Post by quantum on Jan 25, 2016 16:56:32 GMT -5
We got 30+ out here in Staten Island. Spent 3 hours yesterday and another 3 today shoveling/snowblowing mine, my in-laws, my two octogenarian neighbors and the one and only neighbor who lifts a finger to help out. I'm fucking done. I've got a neighbor like that. He has neighbors on both sides of him that don't have snowblowers, and I have never seen him help anyone. One of which is an older woman who lives alone. He's also the same fucking guy that pulls his cars into the street, then pushes off all of the snow in the street. I'm not ashamed to admit that I have ratted him out more than once. we have hoodrats a few doors down that used to throw the snow from their driveway into the street, like they do in the city. everyone yelled at them. I told some of the other African/American neigbors I created a hashtag #mystreetsowhite they started shovelling faster.
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Post by PK on Jan 25, 2016 17:52:01 GMT -5
I spent WAY too many hours standing behind a snowblower in my life. When are you taking the Camaro out? drove to train station this morning. more like slid to station. and fuck that Stabilitrak "traction control" Traction control is horrible. Can you disable it? I disabled it in my van...much better in the snow now.
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Post by Jets Things on Jan 25, 2016 18:27:37 GMT -5
Worked from home today and word is the LIRR was woefully unprepared for this. Guy I know said it took about two hours from Mineola, after two trains were cancelled. Girl I know waited two hours at New Hyde Park. Three trains passed, none stopped, she said fuck it and went home. Service on my line, Hempstead, is still suspended and probably will be again tomorrow. I question every week if being close to family is worth all the shit living on Long Island brings.
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Post by 32Green on Jan 25, 2016 18:37:15 GMT -5
Worked from home today and word is the LIRR was woefully unprepared for this. Guy I know said it took about two hours from Mineola, after two trains were cancelled. Girl I know waited two hours at New Hyde Park. Three trains passed, none stopped, she said fuck it and went home. Service on my line, Hempstead, is still suspended and probably will be again tomorrow. I question every week if being close to family is worth all the shit living on Long Island brings. Dropped my wife off at the station this morning and went back to pick her up 50 minutes later when every train pulled in packed. She worked from home. Problem with the LIRR is that they are so concerned about saying service is restored that they do whatever they can do to get some trains going...then tell everyone service is restored. ITS NOT. If they were just truthful, people could plan, work from home etc. without the charade of showing up to stand on a packed platform with all the other impatient, p*ssed-off be-suited penguins only to turn around and go home. On the bright side, we had a liquid lunch in an empty restaurant that is usually fvcken packed when we hit it.
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Post by Jets Things on Jan 25, 2016 19:18:59 GMT -5
Worked from home today and word is the LIRR was woefully unprepared for this. Guy I know said it took about two hours from Mineola, after two trains were cancelled. Girl I know waited two hours at New Hyde Park. Three trains passed, none stopped, she said fuck it and went home. Service on my line, Hempstead, is still suspended and probably will be again tomorrow. I question every week if being close to family is worth all the shit living on Long Island brings. Dropped my wife off at the station this morning and went back to pick her up 50 minutes later when every train pulled in packed. She worked from home. Problem with the LIRR is that they are so concerned about saying service is restored that they do whatever they can do to get some trains going...then tell everyone service is restored. ITS NOT. If they were just truthful, people could plan, work from home etc. without the charade of showing up to stand on a packed platform with all the other impatient, p*ssed-off be-suited penguins only to turn around and go home. On the bright side, we had a liquid lunch in an empty restaurant that is usually fvcken packed when we hit it. Exactly. "Look, we're running trains after a blizzard so we're doing a good job!" I'm sure those who get on at Port Jeff or Ronkonkoma and those close by made it into the city eventually, but going to New Hyde Park isn't going to get me on the first train that passes and I don't feel like freezing my dick off for two hours waiting. Might come down to that tomorrow and I'm sure it won't fly two days in a row, especially since another guy on my desk got stranded in fucking Detroit last Friday and made it to the office this afternoon.
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Post by Jetworks on Jan 25, 2016 19:49:01 GMT -5
We got 30+ out here in Staten Island. Spent 3 hours yesterday and another 3 today shoveling/snowblowing mine, my in-laws, my two octogenarian neighbors and the one and only neighbor who lifts a finger to help out. I'm fucking done. I've got a neighbor like that. He has neighbors on both sides of him that don't have snowblowers, and I have never seen him help anyone. One of which is an older woman who lives alone. He's also the same fucking guy that pulls his cars into the street, then pushes off all of the snow in the street. I'm not ashamed to admit that I have ratted him out more than once. Neighbor like wha??!?!? I did the complete opposite of that guy. WTF, Fish? WTF?
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Post by Hotman on Jan 25, 2016 20:28:28 GMT -5
Worked from home today and word is the LIRR was woefully unprepared for this. Guy I know said it took about two hours from Mineola, after two trains were cancelled. Girl I know waited two hours at New Hyde Park. Three trains passed, none stopped, she said fuck it and went home. Service on my line, Hempstead, is still suspended and probably will be again tomorrow. I question every week if being close to family is worth all the shit living on Long Island brings. If you eve have to leave/get back to long island it is just NOT worth it at all. Fucking nightmare. And fuck trying to get to Jones Beach for a show in traffic. I'm getting road rage just thinking about it.
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Post by Jets Things on Jan 25, 2016 20:41:22 GMT -5
Worked from home today and word is the LIRR was woefully unprepared for this. Guy I know said it took about two hours from Mineola, after two trains were cancelled. Girl I know waited two hours at New Hyde Park. Three trains passed, none stopped, she said fuck it and went home. Service on my line, Hempstead, is still suspended and probably will be again tomorrow. I question every week if being close to family is worth all the shit living on Long Island brings. If you eve have to leave/get back to long island it is just NOT worth it at all. Fucking nightmare. And fuck trying to get to Jones Beach for a show in traffic. I'm getting road rage just thinking about it. My last gig I was on the road a ton. It certainly sucks. And get to the lot by 5pm and you'll be fine. Concerts at Jones Beach are easy.
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Post by quantum on Jan 28, 2016 11:49:06 GMT -5
Worked from home today and word is the LIRR was woefully unprepared for this. Guy I know said it took about two hours from Mineola, after two trains were cancelled. Girl I know waited two hours at New Hyde Park. Three trains passed, none stopped, she said fuck it and went home. Service on my line, Hempstead, is still suspended and probably will be again tomorrow. I question every week if being close to family is worth all the shit living on Long Island brings. Dropped my wife off at the station this morning and went back to pick her up 50 minutes later when every train pulled in packed. She worked from home. Problem with the LIRR is that they are so concerned about saying service is restored that they do whatever they can do to get some trains going...then tell everyone service is restored. ITS NOT. If they were just truthful, people could plan, work from home etc. without the charade of showing up to stand on a packed platform with all the other impatient, p*ssed-off be-suited penguins only to turn around and go home. On the bright side, we had a liquid lunch in an empty restaurant that is usually fvcken packed when we hit it. I got on a 6:55am train monday morning that had 10 people per car. Only problem was no service to Brooklyn, so I went thru Penn. Not bad.
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Post by quantum on Jan 28, 2016 11:49:52 GMT -5
drove to train station this morning. more like slid to station. and fuck that Stabilitrak "traction control" Traction control is horrible. Can you disable it? I disabled it in my van...much better in the snow now. yes, but it re-enables after every new startup.
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Post by timmy on Jan 28, 2016 20:06:15 GMT -5
How the fuck is this even possible? I drove last week, in 6 inches of unplowed snow, in a rear wheel drive van, with no weight in the back, on all season tires and managed to drive 40 miles up into the mountains and back without sliding off the road? Different types of snow - powdery... heavy with water...greasy. Heavy snow is actually the easiest to drive in. You can slide on the dry powdery stuff . Greasy is the worst. Had some greasy snow the other day and slid through a stop sign as if I never touched my brakes. Greasy snow was invented in Italy from what I've been told.
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