Rant; Winter 2013/14

[jim]

My son lives in Chicago and they don't get to the side streets for days.

This morning was the first time in at least a week where my car wasn't used as a motorized sled to get to work. Side streets still iced up but the main roads are better.

[Freed Roger]

The STL city neighborhood side streets sound like a war zone. They don't have a strategy for dealing with the parked cars.

It clobbers the restaurants and bars too. Trivial inconvenience for us - A few years ago, we went to breakfast down near Tower Grove - the highways and streets by our house had been completely clear of snow for a a full week, and it was still snowpacked everywhere on the streets there.

I'm guessing Luke could fill us in on the dangers if they have a fire or need an ambulance.

[jim]

Luke only knows how to evacuate stadiums hosting large events such as a World Series and such in the event of a fire. That's his expertise. And they apparently pay him for this.

[tlombard]

I know that there is absolutely no way that they could plow the street I live on. My street is a narrow, one way street that is lined by apartment buildings (4 apartments to each building) and the vast majority of the people living on the street have to park on the narrow one way street because with each building there is a choice of either a back yard or parking off of the alley behind. My building has parking but most went with the back yard. There literally isn't anywhere within five blocks (which are all the same as mine) where people could park before snow and that would be the Botanical Gardens lots which couldn't handle everyone in the neighborhood and then they wouldn't have any parking. Even if people could do something with their cars, once the snow was plowed to one side or the other, nobody would be able to park on the street until the huge snow banks melted. I saw this morning that this was the 5th worst snow storm since WW I in St. Louis. People just need to calm the heck down and deal with it for another couple of days.

Thankfully people in my neighborhood seem to have some sense (and it is flat) because cars have been able to get around since the beginning. The only people I saw that got stuck were stuck because they are complete idiots who don't have a clue how to drive in the snow and do stupid things. One person shoveled their car out Monday morning and then couldn't get out of their spot BECAUSE THEY SHOVELED THE SNOW TO THE ROAD INSTEAD OF THE CURB SIDE!!! Then they had to spend another 20 minutes moving all of the snow from the middle of the road to the curb so they could get out. I wanted to go outside and point out just how stupid they were but it was way too cold for that.

[Secret Weapon]

So apparently enough people are pissed off that 4 days later the mayor has finally ordered the trucks to plow the side streets.

[Freed Roger]

I had to facepalm watching my stepdaughter trying to get going down our street fishtailing, and seeing her panic and trying to go straight with turned wheels. Since I dug her street-parked vehicle out, and not to mention, I taught her how to drive well enough to pass MO's driver's license test, which really isn't well enough at all - I feel responsible for turning her loose today. But she made it to work and back by some miracle.

Sorry world - I try. I gave her a scraper and the subtle advice. How can I help that she can't find the scraper, or remember ever having it, yet manages to keep her car well-stocked with whatever supplies she needs for going tanning?

A middle-aged man's lament.

[TimeForGuinness]

I had to facepalm watching my stepdaughter trying to get going down our street fishtailing, and seeing her panic and trying to go straight with turned wheels. Since I dug her street-parked vehicle out, and not to mention, I taught her how to drive well enough to pass MO's driver's license test, which really isn't well enough at all - I feel responsible for turning her loose today. But she made it to work and back by some miracle.

Sorry world - I try. I gave her a scraper and the subtle advice. How can I help that she can't find the scraper, or remember ever having it, yet manages to keep her car well-stocked with whatever supplies she needs for going tanning?

A middle-aged man's lament.

This post made me laugh...sorry.

[ghostrunner]

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[jim]

I had to facepalm watching my stepdaughter trying to get going down our street fishtailing, and seeing her panic and trying to go straight with turned wheels. Since I dug her street-parked vehicle out, and not to mention, I taught her how to drive well enough to pass MO's driver's license test, which really isn't well enough at all - I feel responsible for turning her loose today. But she made it to work and back by some miracle.

Sorry world - I try. I gave her a scraper and the subtle advice. How can I help that she can't find the scraper, or remember ever having it, yet manages to keep her car well-stocked with whatever supplies she needs for going tanning?

A middle-aged man's lament.

This post made me laugh...sorry.

Likewise.

[planet planet]

I had to facepalm watching my stepdaughter trying to get going down our street fishtailing, and seeing her panic and trying to go straight with turned wheels. Since I dug her street-parked vehicle out, and not to mention, I taught her how to drive well enough to pass MO's driver's license test, which really isn't well enough at all - I feel responsible for turning her loose today. But she made it to work and back by some miracle.

Sorry world - I try. I gave her a scraper and the subtle advice. How can I help that she can't find the scraper, or remember ever having it, yet manages to keep her car well-stocked with whatever supplies she needs for going tanning?

A middle-aged man's lament.

This post made me laugh...sorry.

Likewise.

I'll admit, I'm a crappy snow driver. Like last night I got stuck in an intersection and had to get pushed. I had know idea about turning your wheel back and forth so you don't create rivets. And I'm from NE Ohio.