Monday, January 15, 2007

murk and sludge

Brain firing at 20 percent today, head full of gunk. Not a head cold, just full sinuses?
The rather nasty winter storm predicted has not AT THE MOMENT done much here: pouring rain, and the temps are maybe one degree too warm for the awful ice so many others are facing. We slept in anyway.
B52s again, 'Love Shack'.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

We got a couple of centimetres of snow overnight and are expecting 10-15 more (4-6 inches) today. PLus 5cm of ice pellets AND a risk of freezing rain. Wheee ... The joys of living along a lake, I suppose.

gary rith said...

Yeah, that's predicted too. We have steel studded snow tires to help with this stuff.
I didn't know you folks spelled centimeter that way!

Anonymous said...

Storm here today, too. I'm tempted to work from home but I figure one of us has to show up and I'm the closest.

Anonymous said...

I'm tempted to work from home, too, cm.

Anonymous said...

Studded tires are great, I'm told. They're illegal in Ontario, though.

Anonymous said...

WHAT! I've never heard of that, it's ridiculous! In New Hampshire you can use them year round, in NY there are on and off dates. They save lives! My wife was number 5 in a 5 car pileup on a icy highway in January of 99, and I swore never again. The same little car has covered thousands of miles since, in snow 18 inches and deeper...

Anonymous said...

I just checked the reg, Gary. They're illegal in southern Ontario at all times. They're OK (October - April) for residents and businesses of Northern Ontario (basically North of Sudbury) and visitors if they';re staying less than 30 days. So you're good. :-D

It's incredibly dumb, yes. We're the ONLY that outright bans them. Some have calendar limits, some have no limits at all.

Our roads are so terrible, we don't need the extra wear, I guess.

Anonymous said...

I have heard that the state of Virginia bans them, and likely others too, but I could give a carp about the wear on the roads--that's what we pay taxes for, and when your wife is in the middle of a five car pileup at 65 miles per hour but is OK, you think 'we were lucky this time, and will do what we can for safety so maybe it can't happen again'. My parents live in the woods absolutely nowhere and were amazed at our little car zipping up their drive, with more than a foot, and their 4-wheel drive suv could barely handle it. Our other vehicle is a subaru, of course, pretty good without studs.

Anonymous said...

There's no excuse, really. It's not like Ontario fixes the roads all that much.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps you have seen the roads in QC? Awful!
NY has high taxes and superb roads. Our house sits on a state highway, and is magnificent, and well plowed and salted. Many of New Hampshire's roads were good, but it varied widely by locality. Massachusetts, because of the big dig tunnel, had zero bucks left, and the rest of the state has terrible roads.

Anonymous said...

Kingston likes to spend our tax dollars on just about anything but infrastructure. Or making the transit system usable.

Anonymous said...

LaLaLaLaLaLa...what't that I hear about hockey arenas...LaLaLaLaLa...I think we saw a new one on the north-west side of Kingston, and an ice-less hockey arena too...