[Luther]

Who here is sending their men out to chase a little bit of blowing snow with air temps of -7 and a windchill factor of -40? And I’m not talking about any new accumulations

 

[Mark Oomkes]

We are not doing any residential sidewalks today. And we have significant new accumulation.

Non-tractor routes have been combined and we will clear once at this point. Crews are checking in every hour. I don't want anyone working alone in this weather as well as keeping an eye on each other.

Just trying to keep everything passable at this point. Clear and bare is unrealistic and stupid to think it can happen. A treated walk is covered again in 10-15 minutes.

 

[White_Gold11]

Had a loader out yesterday doing light drifting. Could not..Would not warm up. Winds were 20-30mph so we waited for wind to die down this morning and now Shovelors out.. Not my happiest day. Everything breaks and it's dangerous for the guys. Slow and steady as they say.

 

[Charles]

Finally Snows and y'all have to deal with below zero Maybe some dead batteries. Diesel equipment problems. Jelling fuel. I imagine lots of fuel treatment additives. Forget shoveling. Low visibility. What a nightmare!

 

[jonniesmooth]

I just finished site checks an hour ago. A couple slightly drifted sidewalks( they are walkable) and one parking lot with finger drifts that can be driven around. Nobody's going out today. Clean up tomorrow morning.

 

[Dogplow Dodge]

I'm thinking the fellas from Canada are chuckling right about now.

 

[White_Gold11]

I'm thinking the fellas from Canada are chuckling right about now.

Maybe. It's all about acclamation to a climate. If it's normally-20 everyday then -30 doesn't seem so bad lol.

 

[jonniesmooth]

It's -33° here,wind chill is -54°

 

[Dogplow Dodge]

News folks said it was " cold enough to freeze vodka"

Seems like fake news to me.

Lol

 

[Charles]

On the news they were talking about it being colder than Antarctica. Antarctica was only 9 below yesterday

 

[Dogplow Dodge]

It's the polar vortex!!!!!

Run while you can still move!!

 

[Luther]

We are not doing any residential sidewalks today. And we have significant new accumulation.

Non-tractor routes have been combined and we will clear once at this point. Crews are checking in every hour. I don't want anyone working alone in this weather as well as keeping an eye on each other.

Just trying to keep everything passable at this point. Clear and bare is unrealistic and stupid to think it can happen. A treated walk is covered again in 10-15 minutes.

That sucks. Keep that LE over there, don't let any of that reach us today. I don't want to deal with anything new with these temps.

All the public and private schools (colleges too) closed today and tomorrow, mail delivery cancelled, courts, libraries, all other state agencies cancelled, transport companies and numerous other facilities. The new Gov declared the state of emergency.

 

[Hydromaster]

On the news they were talking about it being colder than Antarctica. Antarctica was only 9 below yesterday

And it's summer there

 

[Charles]

And it's summer there

I think they failed to mention that in the news story

 

[Randall Ave]

Man, that's cold. Better to have an un happy customer, then a dead employee.

 

[Dogplow Dodge]

Man, that's cold. Better to have an un happy customer, then a frozen employee.

Fixed it for you..

Frozen people can be thawed out. Microwave, low power, about 45 seconds

 

[Mark Oomkes]

That sucks. Keep that LE over there, don't let any of that reach us today. I don't want to deal with anything new with these temps.

All the public and private schools (colleges too) closed today and tomorrow, mail delivery cancelled, courts, libraries, all other state agencies cancelled, transport companies and numerous other facilities. The new Gov declared the state of emergency.

I'll be happy to share...

 

[Brian Young]

We're finally getting the cold and this morning was 13F at 230am now -12 and windchill is something like -28. Luckily we haven't had much snow, it's all staying literally a few hundred yards of the shore of Lake Erie heading right up to Buffalo. I'm hoping this new additive works, I'm trying HotShot Secrets Winter anti-gel, it's supposed to lower the freezing temp. of diesel to -65.

 

[EWSplow]

I did some drift cleaning up yesterday morning.
Spent about 4 hours yesterday clearing a city block of snow and pushing it to a vacant lot in preparation of a street festival on Saturday. Bare pavement, concrete and grass when we left.
Drove past some sites and noticed some refreezing last night, so I hit them with salt.
The city was plowing and salting at 1am. They used wet salt. My street has about 1/4" of crust on it now. It was-15 at 1am, -20 at 7am. Can't wait for the "there's a windrow across my driveway" calls today.
Got a call from one of my sidewalk guys last night. His grandmother owns 2 little apartment buildings and her snow contractor was a no show this past event. He asked if I could plow them today. Told him I'd see what it looks like in the morning. I'm guessing they're rock hard. Even if I felt like beating up my plow, I doubt I could do anything.

 

[Defcon 5]

That sucks. Keep that LE over there, don't let any of that reach us today. I don't want to deal with anything new with these temps.

All the public and private schools (colleges too) closed today and tomorrow, mail delivery cancelled, courts, libraries, all other state agencies cancelled, transport companies and numerous other facilities. The new Gov declared the state of emergency.

Mark has made it clear to me in no uncertain terms that he Loves our new governor and her progressive thinking...