I was sorely tempted to reply to a less-than-polite admonishment, but decided it would be best if I simply ignored it. Instead, I'll stay with the topic of the thread by saying that I hope those of you who have been negatively affected by the weather come through safe and sound. Our biggest snowfall this year was only 9", and it prompted the declaration of a state emergency. I can only imagine what those of you farther north are experiencing. I wish all of you the very best.
BTW, your children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and their great grandchildren will thank you for making possible the crushing, economy-destroying debt that you saddled them with when you subserviently voted for the "historic" Kenyan Marxist and his fellow dictators.
One other point: snow-plowing budgets are set by the local governments, not by the f**king vampire in DC that is sucking the economic lifeblood of America and that is the target of the TEA Party and every other American whose head is not buried in his rectum.
As aDittohead, it must just gaul you that our president is as American as you and I and just happens to be black. I suggest that you get over it.
If my children, grand children and great grand children are saddled with debt,it might be due to two unneccessary wars, and a failureof theprevious POTUS toreact to a financial crisis which started in December 2007 but was not acknowledged until September 2008? Problems left unaddressed usually only get worse and are ultimately more expensive to fix. What some call limited government others call a failure to govern. I believe future generations will look back on this period favorably. Health care will have become a right,not a priviledge and the umbrella of civil right will have been spread a little wider. They'll look back at this timeand see two groups, one that wanted to take the country back but they'll be glad there was another that choseto take it forward.
While snow plowing budgets may be set by local governments, emergency disaster relief is funded by the federal government. Several states have already applied for this assistance to help with the cost of recovery from these storms. So while your point may have been technically correct, it missed the bigger picture and ignored the purpose and services provided by DC to it's citizensduring natural disasters .
Thanks for taking the time toconsider these points, but you can put your head back where the sun don't shine as I'm sure it's not accustomed to seeing the light of day very often. As aside note,when you choose to respond to others who hold differring views of the world, you do yourcause no favor bystooping to theusegutter language. A fact based response is usually more effective in changing minds and policy. Just saying.
1st of all, You CAN pay as much as you like for a lightbulb, but we get our compact flourecent lights from the dollar store, for yes, a dollar.
Secondly, these bulbs use 30 to 80% less electricity... a compact flourecent with the same light-output as a 100 watt conventional bulb uses only 2o watts... that means you could run 5 of these things for the price of ONE 100 watt lightbulb. A 60 watt equivelant uses only 15 watts, for even more savings. I could light nearly 3 rooms for the same cost as the refrigerator or oven light.
I am a master electrician and I have been throwing away flourescent tubes for 30 years, and I throw these away as well when they go bad. Not PC, but Oh well.
For you global warming zealots/debunkers/advocates/denyers/champions/foils: You shoould read a book by Robert felix, called : "Not by fire but by ice" which explains how global warming will cause the next ice age.
As the oceans warm, more moisture is deposited in the form of snow in the Northern regions.
During the last so-called ice age, the average global temperatures were only a few degrees cooler than they are now.
it is the CURRENTS of the oceans which determine climate for any particular area. The UK benefits from the Gulf Stream, which pumps warm water to the west coast of Europe. Without that warming flow, Britain would be as cold as northern canada.
Climate change is cyclical and inevitable, but to deny that human industry, waste and polution have a negative effect on the enviroment is to say its ok to piss in the public well, just because you don't drink from it.
So people are saying that global climate change can't be real because it's snowing in the middle of winter? Really? That's the big argument against global climate change? That and making fun of Al Gore's name?
Well... okay. I'm gonna just leave this here, then.
Well, more snow coming tonight and tomorrow, but only 4" or so. The good news, finally got the snowblower up and running. Two broken auger belts (well, broken and MELTED due to a frozen auger and my temper). Changing the belts out was tricky, three tensioners to deal with, but between the two of us we got it done. Took me over 3 hours to clear snow that had built up during the snowblower's hiatus, could only shave a little bit off at a time. The snow depth was above the tops of the drift cutters.
Oh, and yesterday morning we woke up to no water. Frozen pipes. If we were American, we'd move down south in a heartbeat.
My blower's wheel drive died in the middle of a snow job. Took $150 to learn that it was a broken bolt. But as the old joke goes:1. Replacing bolt -- $1.002. Knowing how to replace bolt -- $150We got a dusting yesterday, half an inch or so. Just enough to be annoying. But winter ain't done with us yet. Not by a long shot. And Punxatawney Phil can kiss my old aft cheeks. In these parts, winter MIGHT be over in late April.
No one who knows me will ever accuse me of being mechanically inclined....but I'm learning the hard way as far as the snowblower is concerned. A tip for anyone out there reading this......if you're considering a do-it-yourself job like this, do a search on YouTube. We found a couple of homemade videos on just this....changing auger belts on an MTD snowblower. He included invaluable tips such as time savers dealing with the tensioners, how to keep them out of the way while installing the news belts. I'm sure there are videos for changing wheel drive belts too, and I watched one made by the same guy for changing the auger gear drive, that metal component dead center in the maw of the scoop between the blades. In a winter like this, snowblowers lead a very abusive life, even when care is used. Ideally, they should be serviced each year, preferably in the summer when it's much more pleasant to do so. I know I know, who wants to think of winter when it's 90 degrees, but these things do need annual maintenance. They can be your very best friend this time of year.
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