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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-23-2014 12:42 PM

Luckily that one missed us... Even the snow on the peaks is just about gone around here.

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-23-2014 12:46 PM

I suppose Frank's situation is about the same as it is here, which is that sometimes it's virtually impossible to have the sidewalks completely clear and dry during the winter. Especially if it rains and then snows a foot on top of it during the night, which it did here several times this year.

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Frank Cox
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From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada
Registered: Apr 2011

posted 05-23-2014 02:15 PM

The sidewalk in the photo I posted actually IS cleared off as much as it reasonably can be. A lot of what you see in that photo isn't really snow but rather water vapour that condenses out of the air and creates a layer of frost on everything from sidewalks to power lines. Sometimes the frost build-up on power lines can get so heavy that the line or the pole breaks; that's a common cause of power failures in the winter.

The city public works crew actually removes the snow from the sidewalks in the downtown area here after big snowfalls. They have a machine that they use to brush the snow from the sidewalks onto the street and then they plow the street and truck the snow away.

Sidewalk sweeper:

They use the same sweeper in the summer to clean dirt and trash off of the sidewalks as needed, and I think they have a grass mower attachment for it too.

Outside of a really big snowfall or an emergency of some kind, sidewalk and street snow removal here starts at around 3am. I sometimes hear lots of diesel engines revving and loader buckets slamming on the ground in the middle of the night in the winter.

I shovel the sidewalk myself if it's snowing just before showtime, and of course I have to keep my fire exit on the side of the building clear as well.

We get enough snow around here that the emergency services require specialized equipment for dealing with it, like a "snowbulance":

Other things like fire trucks and road ambulances are all set up with tow hooks so they can be dragged behind the plows if needed.

Winter is no joke in this area.

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Gordon McLeod
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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-23-2014 03:05 PM

Frank said "Winter is no joke in this area"

that is no joke spent to much time servicing theatres on the prairies in the winter

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John Eickhof
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From: Wendell, ID USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 05-23-2014 08:17 PM

That story reminds me of around 1999, I was home from traveling on service calls for a few days, we had a video rental store in our lobby, I came back from having lunch with my tech Phil Housh, parked in front and was greeted by my employee working the video store in hysterics saying there's a truck sticking through the wall of my left side theatre aud.! (a twin) I went around the corner into the alley and there was the back 80% of a pickup truck sticking out at an angle across the alley! (through a 16" brick wall)There was no one in the truck, so I looked over to the bank drive up window across the parking lot the truck obviously came from and they were flagging me in. By time I entered the bank, the police arrived, the manager pointed us to an elderly man waiting in line to do his banking, the officer approached the man to take him out of the line and talk to him, the guy replied "just a minute sonny, I have to do some banking" so we waited, he finally came over and was asked about his truck sticking out of the building across the alley!He was kind of unclear but replied "I don't know, I just remember parking and hitting the brakes and then 'boom' I stopped suddenly!" He was out of it so an ambulance was called to take him to be checked out, he was 89 years old! And apparently hit the concrete curb and mashed down on the gas instead of the brakes because there were acceleration skid marks all the way across the alley! My building insurance covered the whole thing and he apparently recovered but the Police recommended his driver's license be revoked due to his age and coherency! Meanwhile Phil and I wheel barrowed the bricks and rubble out of the theatre and put a 4ft x 8ft plywood patch on the outside wall and our 4 pm show went on! A couple days later I formed up the wall and poured it full of concrete! If he was a few hours later, we would have had customers showered with bricks and mortar! They were thrown a good 10 feet into the auditorium! Just another day in the theatre life!

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