Let The Snow Job Begin
Well, after constant nagging, I've decided to return. I have no idea what to start with. ABF seems to have the Global warming scam covered pretty good. Gayle has the you-all side covered. And everybody else covers everything else. Sigh.
Guess I'll just do a quikie on the Edmonton city snow-job. Yesterday morning the snow started falling in earnest, and by noon the heavy snowfall warnings were out. Yet the head turd for clearing our streets ( now there's an oxymoron in Edmonton in the winter) said they weren't going to get anybody out in large numbers until it had "accumulated a bit"! So at 6:00 PM, after 2 inches of wet snow had fallen, they decided to send out the word. Needless to say, the fight had already been lost.
At 5:30 this morning I was on the Whitemud, happily(?) scooting to work. You just know the road is crap when the semis are doing 50 KMH!!. And the intersections? The Oiler's can only dream they had ice that good at Rexall Place! The only blessing was that 91st Street southbound was still snow-covered, so traction was to be had.
Of course at 7 the excuses started from the city. The one I got the biggest kcik out of was that when they called for the contracted graders, only about 53 showed up, instead of the regular 90+. It was blamed on the fact that due to the booming economy, they had found better paying gigs. So now instead of the main drags being plowed and hopefully upgraded to fair winter conditions within 48 hours, it will take 96. Maybe all those contractors got jobs on city council, what with the nice 13% pay raise they are getting, not counting the added new perks also!
But be warned. YOU still have to have the sidewalk in front of your abode cleared to bare concrete within 48 hours, or bylaw will nab you. Something is clearing backwards here. Oh well. It is Edmonchuck. To bad the rodeo is over. At least a horse could get through the drifts easier than me!
So how come Winnipeg, with only 200 less kilometers of roadways, lanes and sidewalks then us, lower property taxes then us, and a smaller population then us, can have ALL their streets and sidewalks cleared within 72 hours of a major snowfall, and we can't even get our side streets done, UNLESS there is at least 10 inches of snowpack, and then only if there is a danger that emergency crews can't respond??? And remember, in the "Peg, a major snowfall is at least a foot in 24 hours. Something stinks in Edmonchuck when it comes to snow removal.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Guess I'll just do a quikie on the Edmonton city snow-job. Yesterday morning the snow started falling in earnest, and by noon the heavy snowfall warnings were out. Yet the head turd for clearing our streets ( now there's an oxymoron in Edmonton in the winter) said they weren't going to get anybody out in large numbers until it had "accumulated a bit"! So at 6:00 PM, after 2 inches of wet snow had fallen, they decided to send out the word. Needless to say, the fight had already been lost.
At 5:30 this morning I was on the Whitemud, happily(?) scooting to work. You just know the road is crap when the semis are doing 50 KMH!!. And the intersections? The Oiler's can only dream they had ice that good at Rexall Place! The only blessing was that 91st Street southbound was still snow-covered, so traction was to be had.
Of course at 7 the excuses started from the city. The one I got the biggest kcik out of was that when they called for the contracted graders, only about 53 showed up, instead of the regular 90+. It was blamed on the fact that due to the booming economy, they had found better paying gigs. So now instead of the main drags being plowed and hopefully upgraded to fair winter conditions within 48 hours, it will take 96. Maybe all those contractors got jobs on city council, what with the nice 13% pay raise they are getting, not counting the added new perks also!
But be warned. YOU still have to have the sidewalk in front of your abode cleared to bare concrete within 48 hours, or bylaw will nab you. Something is clearing backwards here. Oh well. It is Edmonchuck. To bad the rodeo is over. At least a horse could get through the drifts easier than me!
So how come Winnipeg, with only 200 less kilometers of roadways, lanes and sidewalks then us, lower property taxes then us, and a smaller population then us, can have ALL their streets and sidewalks cleared within 72 hours of a major snowfall, and we can't even get our side streets done, UNLESS there is at least 10 inches of snowpack, and then only if there is a danger that emergency crews can't respond??? And remember, in the "Peg, a major snowfall is at least a foot in 24 hours. Something stinks in Edmonchuck when it comes to snow removal.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
posted by Justthinkin at 7:13 PM
This is tooooooo Cooool! .. Welcome back!
I had no problems gettin to work, but at 4:30 a.m., there is only truck traffic, and they don't drive like all the dumb asses driving slow in the left lane.... takes me 15 min to get to work no matter how deep the snow is... LOL
Welcome back... I have called the city and explained to them that I have a injury to my elbow and therefore cannot shovel my walks. I have put out a call to the kids in my nieghbourhood, but they are busy playing xbox and the like and are not interested in shoveling. Strangely enough, the city will not give me an extension on the 48 hours to get my walks done. Hypocracy or what?
LMAO Tim... your just gonna have to go out and buy yourself a blow job...
Welcome back!!
Heh. Efficient government is an oxymoron, ain't it? ;)
Welcome back, Justthinkin! :)
You said: "Gayle has the you-all side covered." Thanks for the link, but what's the "you-all" side? However, you don't have to worry about covering something other people are covering; the more blogs that cover the same stuff the better, especially the important stuff like the Global Warming scam, the MSM scam, the liberal idiocy, etc.
I can't identify with the snow thingy; I haven't seen snow for so long I forget what it looks like. Is it white stuff?
GOD bless the corrupt! Without them, why ... the streets would be cleared, the trash would be picked up, our children would be educated! Can't have that! We need the Socialists to tell us how bad we'd have it under a Capitalist system, right? Oh, wait! We do have it lousy ... everytime a Socialist gets any power at all.
You Canadians have this Socialist crap spoonfed to you from birth. I'm amazed any of you get past it! GOD Bless ya, Justthinkin, for surviving!
Heheheee!
Gayle: I think he's alluding to us South of the Border. Y'know? Y'all down here? LOL
and take the chance of loosing my SUV....no way ABF....aint gonna happen! My SUV contributes to global warming in a big way. I want it to get really warm so I don't have to shovel the walks!