Official OT Thread pt. II

[Basti]

Nope. I've got someone coming by tomorrow with a grader to push the snow back. Right now I have a tunnel for a driveway. Another windy day and I'll be housebound again.

Can you please take a picture of that?

[Devilzsidewalk]

if anybody doesn't know what that is, google "grader" to get an idea of how much snow he has

[Basti]

Upon further research, the duck and chicken ones ore false according to this website. hey don't mention the sleeping naked one, though. Back to research...

http://www.minnesotafunfacts.com/folklo ... ange-laws/

Hey, I like that public drunkenness law. Finally there's a progressive US state

[C.lupus]

Nope. I've got someone coming by tomorrow with a grader to push the snow back. Right now I have a tunnel for a driveway. Another windy day and I'll be housebound again.

Can you please take a picture of that?

Dude didn't show up today.

[Basti]

I want to see a picture of the tunnel in your driveway

[C.lupus]

He came by this afternoon...

[Basti]

That doesn't look too bad, IMO.

I think we had slightly more over here until it began raining the other day. I'm surprised I haven't slipped on the ice, though.

[C.lupus]

Yeah, it's a bit deceiving. The side piles were equal to my side mirrors on my car and it was just wide enough to drive through. The major problems were that it is very open and we get a fair amount of wind so it just fills in with drifts and those side berms were fairly hard and compacted so it took that grader to move them (and he had to work at it).

[Klomp]

I was expecting closer to this

[C.lupus]

Haha, no but it is more than it looks in those photos. How do they cut those straight walls that high, btw? that's crazy.

[Basti]

They use similar drilling machines like when they dig tunnels, as far as I know. Never seen crazy snow tunnels like that myself but I know some people from southern Norway who get crazy amounts of snow each year. When the winter is over and the roads are open to traffic again it must be crazy awesome to drive through that.

[Devilzsidewalk]

Haha, no but it is more than it looks in those photos. How do they cut those straight walls that high, btw? that's crazy.

industrial hydrostatic snowblowers that clear 10 million lbs of snow per hour

[southern wolf]

That is in Japan, now that would take some plowing.

[Basti]

Holy Moly, that gotta be at least 30 feet of snow. Then again, I've heard that amounts of snow like those aren't uncommon in Northern Japan.

[john2jer]

I haven't shoveled my driveway yet this winter. Instead I just went and bought a new SUV. My driveway is pretty gnarly looking. Ok, so I had to shovel a little of the end out because the darn city plows tried to block me in.