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Hi everyone yet another storm comes LOL LOL will it ? I will seen when I dig out up to 18 inches they have been saying driveway is over 100 yards long I had it repaved just a few months ago very glad I did no more rutts holes and such makes shoveling less hard as i am prime caregiver for both parents I made sure i have power(gennerator) food dry milk 200 gallons gas 250 gallons propane 2 snowblowers a small snowplow wood and oil for heat did all but buy the gasoline in July filled the 200 gallon gas tank just before christmass put a half gallon of ethenol gas stableizer in it so worse case I not need to go to gas station till end of May LOL guess I will leave the lights up and out it looks so pretty in the snow LOL best to all and may you only get a inch or less
christi
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Looks As If You're Ready
Our paltry six inches paralized Interstate 30. It was nice to have a touch of winter. Now it is going to get very cold!
Portia
Portia
Law of unintended consequences
Time travel stories often use the "butterfly effect", and the "law of unintended consequences" is often used in magic stories and other fiction. Today I saw a real life case of it.
I was sitting patiently at a left turn intersection, and started to go when the arrow came on, but someone coming from the other direction clearly was not going to stop. I nearly got hit by him. Later, at lunch I saw why. The municipalities have been switching over to high-output LED lights on the traffic signals for a while now, and while they are brighter, use less electricity, and last longer than the old bulb style lamps, they don't generate much heat. So any traffic control facing into the prevailing wind is now much more likely to fill with snow and stay that way.
I don't know why that struck me as worth sharing but I found it interesting. I know I'll be more alert in the future!
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Carla
Not much of an excuse
The person coming the other way should _still_ have stopped. I know it's the law down here that if you can't see the signal, or the signals are completely out, then the intersection is an all-way stop sign.
They compensate for this by having two lights each direction at almost all intersections. That way, if a bulb (or light) gets broken, the other light is still visible.
Still, that is something to think about. I'd never put any thought into what snow, or rather ice, can do to a signal light. I've never had that problem while driving - the only times in snow, it wasn't in snowstorm conditions (well, once, in Ottawa, but then I turned the car into the rental agency and took the bus for the rest of that week)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.