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Snow

Like kids in BV go to public schools.


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Deacsfan27 said:
I've driven around the past two days. Today got significantly better, but the back roads are still icy as hell, and a few side roads off Country Club haven't even been touched. It's not surprising to me their still closed.

The bridges and overpasses are still extremely treacherous as well.
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It's surprising to me a wake grad doesn't know there, they're, and their ;)
 
What have the plows been doing if not getting side roads? just waiting for them to melt? All main roads that I travel are totally dry and safe. Seems ridiculous to cancel school again. I feel bad for the parents and teachers who are impacted by it. I ran through downtown last night and past the City Yard/WS Fleet Services, which looked to have a number of plows just hanging out.
 
I didn't get to run this morning, but not because of the streets. The vast majority of street surfaces in my area were fine. The problem was the sidewalk, where the plows threw all the snow.

Maybe it'll be cleared by this afternoon.
 
A plow hit our neighborhood mid-day Monday, but it made no difference. At that point, the compacted snow was just a sheet of ice.

Now what's left is slush - I think schools could've opened safely today with a delay.
 
I just ran in the streets this morning. Guess I'm lucky that my own little neighborhood road got brined ahead of the storm, and plowed after, as well as getting a good amount of sunlight on the hill where my house sits.
 
RollTheQuad06 said:
I just ran in the streets this morning. Guess I'm lucky that my own little neighborhood road got brined ahead of the storm, and plowed after, as well as getting a good amount of sunlight on the hill where my house sits.
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I saw a dude running at lunch yesterday bust his ass on Cloverdale in front of the hospital. Feet went right out from under him and he fell in the road. Pretty lucky traffic was moving slow.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Even if you believe that the north just adds plows or attachments to the same machinery that the south has, don't you think most northern cities have more plows and attachments around than the south?

Doesn't take long, or much critical thinking, to debunk another 2&2 falsehood.
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It's a plow. It is a bent piece of metal, not a nuclear reactor, I'm pretty sure they are readily available and/or buildable. Drive through the parking lot of any NC municipal worker facility and count the number of pickup trucks that are jacked up or otherwise modified/customized; you're telling me that these same workers can't figure out how to acquire/build a plow and attach it to a dump truck or parks & rec truck? The official state hobby is converting school busses into driveable NASCAR-viewing grandstands, but nobody can figure out how to attach a bent piece of metal onto a truck?
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
It's a plow. It is a bent piece of metal, not a nuclear reactor, I'm pretty sure they are readily available and/or buildable. Drive through the parking lot of any NC municipal worker facility and count the number of pickup trucks that are jacked up or otherwise modified/customized; you're telling me that these same workers can't figure out how to acquire/build a plow and attach it to a dump truck or parks & rec truck? The official state hobby is converting school busses into driveable NASCAR-viewing grandstands, but nobody can figure out how to attach a bent piece of metal onto a truck?
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This is another argument altogether. Deputizing citizens to plow with their own personal vehicles carries some liability for the city, not to mention cost, but it's definitely the right way to go in the South.
 
it's true, NC cities just have all of these plows sitting around their maintenance yards and are simply not attaching them to every able 4-wheel drive truck in the city limits
 
DeacHawk said:
it's true, NC cities just have all of these plows sitting around their maintenance yards and are simply not attaching them to every able 4-wheel drive truck in the city limits
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They basically do. Go to any scrap yard around and you'll find more than enough rusting metal and farm machinery that could be converted into plow attachments at little or no cost by workers already on the payroll. But we're too busy worrying about what bathroom 0.01% of the population pisses in to make the effort to do it.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
They basically do. Go to any scrap yard around and you'll find more than enough rusting metal and farm machinery that could be converted into plow attachments at little or no cost by workers already on the payroll. But we're too busy worrying about what bathroom 0.01% of the population pisses in to make the effort to do it.
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I love this idea of NC becoming a Mad Max wasteland when it snows. Grab some metal, strap it to your truck and maybe it can scrape a bit of the ice off the road. Surely that would be safe for everyone and wouldn't damage the roads, either.
 
redwing42 said:
I love this idea of NC becoming a Mad Max wasteland when it snows. Grab some metal, strap it to your truck and maybe it can scrape a bit of the ice off the road. Surely that would be safe for everyone and wouldn't damage the roads, either.
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Not any metal - metal ripped from farm machinery and fashioned into a plow by city workers.
 
More evidence of Roy Cooper just not doing his job that the 2&2 plan isn't in effect yet.
 
do plows get rid of sheets of ice? that's our real problem here....not snow.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
They basically do. Go to any scrap yard around and you'll find more than enough rusting metal and farm machinery that could be converted into plow attachments at little or no cost by workers already on the payroll. But we're too busy worrying about what bathroom 0.01% of the population pisses in to make the effort to do it.
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:plos:
 
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