Any car that can be crushed by snow falling off a truck isn’t particularly sturdy. You buy a shitbox, you get a shitbox.
Here in Buffalo I’ve yet to fire up the snowblower this year. Very odd feeling.
I would like to have roof snow fall on the fucktards with snowplow blades on their trucks who don’t stay in their lane. The blade is often wider than your truck give a little more care when somebody is coming the other way.
It’s well less than half of them but dammit in my semi rural area the roads aren’t that wide to begin with. I’ve a full size truck and don’t want to hit a mailbox. STAY ON YOUR SIDE OF THE PRETTY STRIPE IN THE ROAD.
Yes, well, that’s an airtight argument right there. Sorry velveeta, you got what you deserved.
We had an inch here in Ohio.
It melted today.
Last year at this time, I think we had a ton of snow on the ground, snow drifts on the side of the road, and icy sidewalks. sigh. I miss that.
As far as brushing the snow from the roof - do none of you people have garages? I haven’t done more than a rudimentary ice scraping after work for quite awhile now.
I’m disappointed. I was hoping for another 90’s era catchphrase.
It appears that you don’t know shit about snow. I broke the cowling on the underside of my front bumper of my old Sundance by running into a snow booger from an eighteen-wheeler a couple of winters ago. Can we hear from some Vancouver Dopers about how much damage snow does to roofs there, that aren’t engineered for it? I’ve seen for myself the damage a wet snowfall does when the trees haven’t dropped their load of leaves yet. And perhaps the guy killed in an avanlanche on Sunday could also tell you how heavy snow can be. Velveeta is obviously not talking about a little snowball’s worth of snow.
Elza, my next house will have a garage. I swear it.
And I was hoping you’d realize that even if someone has a shitbox of a car, it doesn’t mean they deserve to have it damaged. However, if you’d prefer we all look away from that man behind the curtain and focus on my stunning lack of originality, we can do that. To wit, I’m too sexy for your shitbox. Yeah, your shitbox. Too sexy by far. And so on.
Nope, it never snows here in Pennsylvania. I don’t know shit about it. Now, if you’ll excuse me I think I go out and pick a few of the riper mongoes off the tree in the backyard.
and then, after I’m done with the mongoes, I will see what the mangoes look like.
excellent argument, Luke. I guess it makes sense that when there is enough snow on the roof of a car to cause a hazard, it only takes 30 seconds to remove what is necessary from the rest of the car, get in, and drive off.
- Brush snow away from door with gloved hand
- Reach in, start car, remove snow removal tool
- While car idles, shovel walk or wait a minute or two if you have no shoveling duty.
- While waiting, remove bulk of snow from roof, then windshield, hood, front, sides, back
- Re-open door, make sure heat is on, defroster is on.
- Continue with removal of ice/snow from windshield, side windows, rear window
- Get into car, drive off while chatting away on cell phone.
For those recommending the use of a push broom for the top of the car, you might want to check just to see if there are bolts holding the broom part to the handle. Don’t want to make that mistake. Nope. Not again…
Garages? For cars? Silly rabbit!
Now that was actually quite funny. I applaud you, sir.
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excellent argument, Luke. I guess it makes sense that when there is enough snow on the roof of a car to cause a hazard, it only takes 30 seconds to remove what is necessary from the rest of the car, get in, and drive off.
/QUOTE]Just snow, yes. Point is, some localities have problems with cars getting stolen while they’re being warmed up and that car in front of you with all the snow & ice on top just might be one of them.
OK, these numbers are only approximate, because there are a few things I don’t know, such as the density of the snow, the width of the truck, the speed of the truck, and the trajectory of the snow from the roof of the truck to velveeta’s car.
It says here that dry snow has about a 3% water content and wet snow has about a 20% water content. I’ll pick 10%, because it’s a nice round number and easy to work with.
velveeta says that the snow was a “10” high, 12’ slab". Let’s assume that the truck was more or less of standard truck type width, say about 8’. So that gives us plays with calculator about 80 cubic feet of snow. At 10% water, we’ve got about 8 cubic feet of water. Water weighs 62 pounds per cubic foot, so the sheet of snow that hit velveeta’s car weighed in at around 496 pounds.
So we have close to a quarter ton of material landing on a car at an unknown speed. Sadly, I don’t remember enough physics to calculate the force it might have landed with (any of the math geeks want to weigh in?), but I think we can say it was considerable. I doubt any standard production car is built to handle that kind of impact without being damaged, so Scumpup’s assertion that the velveeta’s car wasn’t sturdy enough is without basis.
Scumpup, I don’t know what part of PA you live in, but I saw a news story yesterday about a man whose car was hit by a slab of snow off the roof of a car that was traveling in the opposite direction from him, and it completely destroyed his windshield. A turkey dropped from an overpass killed a woman in her car a few months back. You (and anyone who thinks clearing snow off a car roof isn’t necessary) might want to reconsider just how dangerous snow is when there’s a mass of it traveling at speed.
With God as my witness, I thought they could fly.
So you do know about snow, and you were just being an ass. Got it.
Yes, that pretty much sums it up. I’m still rather pleased with the jackass-in-a-sturdy-car line.
It would be wise for you to bow out while you have yet to surpass “moron” status. My mother, who grew up in Union City, PA (a place that gets more snow than any town in the lower 48) talked about cars being seriously damaged in the 1950’s. I’m guessing the piece of shit you currently own isn’t quite as sturdy as the cars of that era.
Oh do please go fuck yourself.
How long did it take you to copy/paste that little gem?
“Ummmm…Uhhhhh… okay… Go fuck yourself!!! Yeah!!! I have no response, especially to someone who treated me in the exact same manner I treated an earlier poster, but… here’s a real zinger for you!!!”
For the remainder of this thread, and based on your earlier responses, I’ll assume you’re “sleep-typing” from here on out.