My cousin showed up with a snow plow, he was out digging out all the neighbors. Woo! He got that sucker clear up to my door! Not kidding, he plowed the sidewalk with a truck. LOL! The city trucks are no where to be found. Awesome, dude, thank you!
Every second person in the drive thru feels they need to lecture us about the sorry condition of the lane. Do they really want us to post a staff member full time to clear the lane for them? It's fricken -22 windchill!! If it bothers them, why don't they get off their fat asses and come into the store!
The landlords don't not bother plowing much and the drive thru is impossible to maintain adequately with 160 cars an hour during peak times. I love the guys who drop the blades on their trucks while they head through the drive thru to grab a quick coffee. They get their order free for being so nice.
i just heard on the radio how in iowa snowplows have been sidelined due to the wind and drifting snow, state troopers and the guard are out and it is BAD!
we just have wind thus far with some rain....temp has dropped 10 degrees in one hour though and will continue dropping til it gets around 20 tonight....expecting just 1-2 inches of snow but we could get more with lake effect snow....
Connie, he plowed a path to the grocery store. If anyone's brave enough to try it, at least they now have a few streets clear. The city has not shown up yet at all.
Tim Hortons? I have read about that. We have a Tim Hortons Hardware store here! So, it's kinda weird. But yay! Snow plows! Good guy, your cousin. We have flurries all day here & 60 MPH wind gusts. Cold as a witch's hoo-haw too. Indiana isn't supposed to get it as bad as Iowa, not even close. Just wind. Cold. Stay warm & safe. rox
Around here, Indiana...if you are lucky someone will drive by while you are out digging & shoveling snow and offer to plow you out. We always let them! They will never accept anything for payment either. Just being nice guys and helping out a stranger in need. We have a long drive too. So, its pretty great when a nice guy drives up, unexpectedly!!! rox
No snow yet in NW PA. Still in the mid 30s, wind gusts of 50+ mph. Some rain, but the snow is supposed to start tonight/ tomorrow/ tomorrow night. Depending on which way the wind comes over the lake it might be 5-10" or 2+ feet.
Miss Tia - you mentioned lake effect ... how close to the Lake are you? I'm a half mile.
Frimmy - we have Tim Horton's in the lower 48. There are two in my town.
i live like 40 minutes via interstate from lake erie...now i've seen/heard this explained---cuz i mean how in the hell can lake effect snow hit miles away?! but i can't recall exactly how it works....(i'm from iowa and lived 6 blocks from the mississippi and we sure in the hell didn't have river effect snow!)....
Miss Tia ~ I'll try to make this short, but I tend to ramble ;) (first I'm about 15 miles from the state line, so we're close) Lake Effect is all the fault of either mid-westerners or Canadians. Depends on which way the wind is coming over the lake. If it's coming up the lake shore, we get dumped on - on the lake shore. If it's coming across the lake from Canada, then it dumps farther inland. Either way, the storm is picking up moisture from the lake & turning it into lots and lots of snow. Sometimes we're lucky and it goes straight up the lake and Buffalo gets dumped on. Weird thing. I can get 6" and 10 miles inland will get 30" or the other way around. If you are around Ashtabula/ Conneaut, they get dumped on. Eastern suburbs of Cleveland get dumped, western not so much. Winter is a strange critter around here. The airport here is the official reporting station, average is around 130", 10 miles south of me -their average is 100" MORE. If you're closer to Youngstown, they don't get hardly any snow. (probably more than you wanted to know)
There are over 3500 Tim Horton's with about 300 in the US. One just opened in Fort Knox. There is also a mobile Tim's in Afganistan. A couple opened recently in NYC as well. Tim's has a summer camp program for under-privileged children and one of the camps is in Kentucky.
Tim's is a very cool company to work for with initiatives and programs to help coffee growers in South America and various charities in each community they serve. They sponsor kids sports as well. They don't have coffee blends or Baristas. Think of them as Starbuck's unpretentious plain-jane Aunt.
thank you CJ!!! I live in Akron....so i'm like equal distance from youngstown and cleveland....
our snow reporting is at the akron-canton airport and they get less snow than we do up here (i live on north hill in akron which is up higher than the rest...hahaha, cuz it's NORTH HILL!)...northern summit county gets some good snow amounts!
thank you for the explanation!
i have gotten use to the term 'lake effect snow' but i will NEVER get use to the term 'squalls'....that term is not used in iowa....
Lake effect also has something to do with elevation, but I can't remember exactly. It's all elevation & wind direction. If the lake freezes the whole game plan changes! And, lake effect or squalls = too damn much snow. Always said my dream job was to be a TV weatherman in this area. The weather changes so many times in one day, they are never right. Only job where you can be constantly wrong, don't have to apologize and still go back to work the next day.
I'm in the heart of Chicago. Some of our worst snowfalls are the results of lake effect snow. We didn't get too much snow, maybe an inch or 2, but some of the burbs got hit pretty hard. I know Indiana has been getting hit hard with Lake effect snow in the past few years. The wind gusts are 40+ mph here right now. I'm amazed at how my 2 Labs run and frolic in the snow like little kids. They LOVE this weather.
Is this the same cousin that has your brothers car?
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Wow, what a sweetheart!
ReplyDeleteNo, this is Bitchy Lou's son. He's a great guy.
ReplyDeleteOK, then he's my hero!
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lol bitchy lou's son. Is he offering to take the stranded "survivors" to town?
ReplyDeleteEvery second person in the drive thru feels they need to lecture us about the sorry condition of the lane. Do they really want us to post a staff member full time to clear the lane for them? It's fricken -22 windchill!! If it bothers them, why don't they get off their fat asses and come into the store!
ReplyDeleteThe landlords don't not bother plowing much and the drive thru is impossible to maintain adequately with 160 cars an hour during peak times. I love the guys who drop the blades on their trucks while they head through the drive thru to grab a quick coffee. They get their order free for being so nice.
Glad you got freed!
i just heard on the radio how in iowa snowplows have been sidelined due to the wind and drifting snow, state troopers and the guard are out and it is BAD!
ReplyDeletewe just have wind thus far with some rain....temp has dropped 10 degrees in one hour though and will continue dropping til it gets around 20 tonight....expecting just 1-2 inches of snow but we could get more with lake effect snow....
Connie, he plowed a path to the grocery store. If anyone's brave enough to try it, at least they now have a few streets clear. The city has not shown up yet at all.
ReplyDeleteFrimmy, where do you work? People are so stupid, I know..they drive me crazy.
ReplyDeleteTim Horton's..it's Canada's coffee shop.
ReplyDeletethat's nice.it was probably nothing to him but helps everyone else tremendously. that's the best kind of nice thing to do for someone.
ReplyDeleteTim Hortons? I have read about that. We have a Tim Hortons Hardware store here! So, it's kinda weird. But yay! Snow plows! Good guy, your cousin. We have flurries all day here & 60 MPH wind gusts. Cold as a witch's hoo-haw too. Indiana isn't supposed to get it as bad as Iowa, not even close. Just wind. Cold. Stay warm & safe.
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Around here, Indiana...if you are lucky someone will drive by while you are out digging & shoveling snow and offer to plow you out. We always let them! They will never accept anything for payment either. Just being nice guys and helping out a stranger in need. We have a long drive too. So, its pretty great when a nice guy drives up, unexpectedly!!!
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Rox, Hoosier Hospitality at it's best!!! (Born in Indiana so I know what you are saying)
ReplyDeleteNo snow yet in NW PA. Still in the mid 30s, wind gusts of 50+ mph. Some rain, but the snow is supposed to start tonight/ tomorrow/ tomorrow night. Depending on which way the wind comes over the lake it might be 5-10" or 2+ feet.
ReplyDeleteMiss Tia - you mentioned lake effect ... how close to the Lake are you? I'm a half mile.
Frimmy - we have Tim Horton's in the lower 48. There are two in my town.
I've heard of Tim Hortons too. It must be pretty famous.
ReplyDeletei live like 40 minutes via interstate from lake erie...now i've seen/heard this explained---cuz i mean how in the hell can lake effect snow hit miles away?! but i can't recall exactly how it works....(i'm from iowa and lived 6 blocks from the mississippi and we sure in the hell didn't have river effect snow!)....
ReplyDeleteMiss Tia ~ I'll try to make this short, but I tend to ramble ;)
ReplyDelete(first I'm about 15 miles from the state line, so we're close)
Lake Effect is all the fault of either mid-westerners or Canadians. Depends on which way the wind is coming over the lake. If it's coming up the lake shore, we get dumped on - on the lake shore. If it's coming across the lake from Canada, then it dumps farther inland. Either way, the storm is picking up moisture from the lake & turning it into lots and lots of snow. Sometimes we're lucky and it goes straight up the lake and Buffalo gets dumped on. Weird thing. I can get 6" and 10 miles inland will get 30" or the other way around. If you are around Ashtabula/ Conneaut, they get dumped on. Eastern suburbs of Cleveland get dumped, western not so much. Winter is a strange critter around here.
The airport here is the official reporting station, average is around 130", 10 miles south of me -their average is 100" MORE. If you're closer to Youngstown, they don't get hardly any snow. (probably more than you wanted to know)
There are over 3500 Tim Horton's with about 300 in the US. One just opened in Fort Knox. There is also a mobile Tim's in Afganistan. A couple opened recently in NYC as well. Tim's has a summer camp program for under-privileged children and one of the camps is in Kentucky.
ReplyDeleteTim's is a very cool company to work for with initiatives and programs to help coffee growers in South America and various charities in each community they serve. They sponsor kids sports as well. They don't have coffee blends or Baristas. Think of them as Starbuck's unpretentious plain-jane Aunt.
link to mobile Tim's in Kandahar
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thank you CJ!!! I live in Akron....so i'm like equal distance from youngstown and cleveland....
ReplyDeleteour snow reporting is at the akron-canton airport and they get less snow than we do up here (i live on north hill in akron which is up higher than the rest...hahaha, cuz it's NORTH HILL!)...northern summit county gets some good snow amounts!
thank you for the explanation!
i have gotten use to the term 'lake effect snow' but i will NEVER get use to the term 'squalls'....that term is not used in iowa....
Miss Tia ~ Hi Neighbor!
ReplyDeleteLake effect also has something to do with elevation, but I can't remember exactly. It's all elevation & wind direction. If the lake freezes the whole game plan changes! And, lake effect or squalls = too damn much snow. Always said my dream job was to be a TV weatherman in this area. The weather changes so many times in one day, they are never right. Only job where you can be constantly wrong, don't have to apologize and still go back to work the next day.
I'm in the heart of Chicago. Some of our worst snowfalls are the results of lake effect snow. We didn't get too much snow, maybe an inch or 2, but some of the burbs got hit pretty hard. I know Indiana has been getting hit hard with Lake effect snow in the past few years. The wind gusts are 40+ mph here right now. I'm amazed at how my 2 Labs run and frolic in the snow like little kids. They LOVE this weather.
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