City workers destroy a Ford Explorer trying to free a snowbound front-loader in Brooklyn Heights

[BadKarma]

My moms friend was actually the guy who filmed that. I was dying laughing when I saw it.

[Ksandra]

Posting to brag it was 65 degrees in so cal like two days ago.


granted we may just finally fall into the ocean with this bizarro rain, BUT RAIN IS BETTER THAN SNOW AMIRITE?

[miokomioko]

I want hail. CA hail is always so lighthearted and fun.

[jmc]

lol for a second I thought Phoenix was listed under 'Location' for you before I realized it was FFXI server, I was like well yeah not everyone lives in nice-ass AZ weather...

Haha

Phoenix AZ is not for me....I love 20 degree weather more than 90+ degree weather lol

[Cantih]

That's one thing I have never complained about with Chicago is the streets are fucking plowed no matter the fuck what unless you're traveling the same direction as Callisto.

More accurate.

And while we're mentioning the LA rains
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/201...8-58471387.jpg
I can't find the big aerial shot that was in the local news, but that collapse goes down another hundred feet at least, hell of a sight.

Hopefully, all that rain will help make up some of the water lost with the chain of mains breaks we had over the past year and a half.

[Jonny]

Haha

Phoenix AZ is not for me....I love 20 degree weather more than 90+ degree weather lol

its nice right now about 40 with some rain but last week it was 80's didn't feel like x-mas at all.

[Xno Kappa]

I've had the pleasure of growing up in New York, lived in Germany for three years, and lived in Norway for one. As a native New Yorker I'll gladly admit we don't shit about winter.

Having said that the problem here, at least in 107th st., is that they're plowing like crazy but they just don't have anywhere left to plow the snow to without trapping people in their buildings by dumping it all on the sidewalk. Not mad though, got an extra two days of vacation because my original flight out of Newark got cancelled.

[miokomioko]

As for LA rains... on my first day of college down in Santa Barbara in January 2005, this crap happened nearby.

http://www.sbcag.org/newsletter-imag...anuary/154.jpg

http://landslides.usgs.gov/recent/ev...a_Conchita.jpg

http://geology.rockbandit.net/wp-con...sconchitas.jpg

and my school's Ventura campus was flooded with millions of dollars of damages (film/motion-picture/visual journalism campus)

[Brill Weave]

Wow.

[Makwa]

You get used to the cold after a while. I walk to work a lot, and while it isn't too far(bout 8-9? blocks) it's..."fun" when its below 0 with a -40 windchill in the middle of the night. Snow be damned. Still prefer it over shit like those landslides, or hurricanes/earthquakes etc.

But yeah, watching these guys try to tow the loader out, rofl. Don't think any of the workers actually put any thought into whatever the hell it was they were doing.

[Cleverness]

I don't think we even had a big snowfall last year till like January or February, it's generally been coming later and later until this year. I stopped bitching about snow after going to school in Rochester though, jesus fucking christ was that bad. Walking a quarter mile from the dorms to classes in that made me simply go 'meh' after seeing this snowfall. Doesn't change the fact that response rate has been ridiculous, dad has barely been able to work as a taxi driver apparently cause of the terrible condition of the streets and random giant snow mountains that could topple over and bury someone alive.

[Correction]

Haha someone asked Bloomberg:

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/131301/story

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city will most likely cover the damages to a vehicle that was hit by a snow plow during Monday's blizzard cleanup in Brooklyn Heights.

The incident, which was caught on tape, was shot from the window of a nearby apartment building and posted on YouTube.

The video shows a tow truck trying to extract a stuck snow plow, which repeatedly strikes what appears to be a Ford Explorer parked on the street.

"I'll leave it to the lawyers but I assume we probably are responsible if our plow hits them," Bloomberg said during a Tuesday press conference. "I don't know any reason why we wouldn't be, but it's a question for our lawyers and if you talk to our lawyer department, they'd be happy to give you an answer to that."

A spokesperson for the Department of Sanitation was not sure if a claim for the damages had been filed.

speaking of shit the city may have to pay for as a result of the street conditions:

http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york...zard-1.2574179

NEW YORK - (AP) — As a battering snowstorm stranded ambulances and hundreds of 911 calls piled up unresolved, Annie O'Daly knew she might have to wait for help after slipping and breaking her ankle on Sunday night.

She didn't think she'd be waiting for 30 hours.

Help finally arrived at the 58-year-old woman's Brooklyn home Tuesday morning at 2:30 a.m., said her husband, Jim Leonhardt, who described her ordeal. Three emergency medical technicians — themselves recovering from being stranded earlier in an ambulance for eight hours — and Leonhardt carried her out on a gurney onto the unplowed street, wheeled her down the block and lifted her over a snowbank, he said.

O'Daly was among hundreds of New Yorkers left waiting for help during the blizzard and its aftermath, as emergency responders grappled with snow-clogged streets, many blocked by cars that had been abandoned mid-storm. At one point, 911 operators had a backlog of 1,300 calls.

Dozens of ambulances got stuck in the storm, and on Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said ambulance drivers probably erred in driving on unplowed roads. Instead, they should have stayed on cleared roads and walked down snowy streets to respond to calls, he said.

O'Daly, a Bay Ridge resident, passed the hours after her 8 p.m. fall lying on the floor of her home, pale-faced and screaming in agony whenever anyone tried to move her leg or adjust a pillow. Her daughter, grandson, husband and neighbors took turns keeping her company, while she took some old prescription pain medication that wasn't nearly strong enough. Her family improvised a splint for her ankle. At times, she just lay there crying, Leonhardt said.

"She just said it was agony," Leonhardt said. "She'd never felt anything like that. Even when she'd had her baby she never felt that."

"Constant pain will make you crazy after a little while," he said.

[*Shinzon*]

The Emergency service backup was caused by fucking retards and not the snow by itself, because EMS vehicles get chained up for winter ( at least some do). People were warned not to be driving when the snow started and during the following morning because the storm was predictably getting worse. People ignored the warning and ended up getting stuck on pretty much every major roadway all throughout the city instantly slowing down the cleanup. I mean how dumb can you get.

[Souj]

I'll leave it to the lawyers but I assume we probably are responsible if our plow hits them," Bloomberg said during a Tuesday press conference.

He really has to talk to lawyers about needing to pay the damages of those vehicles?
Unless he's talking about the tow truck driver/tow truck driver's company paying the damages vs the city.
This is of course not taking into consideration that the city doesn't outsource to any company and has their own drivers and trucks.

[Eggroll]

We don't really get a lot of snow here because of a rainshadow effect from the Cascade mountains, but if there is so much as a light dusting the plows so it's really rare to hit any patches of black ice. Fires on the other hand...

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ll/vv_fire.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...QUNRw_ph-1.jpg

[Airenn]

Oh god oh god oh goddddddd

fuck the car look at that goddamned SNOW

I've lived in FL all my life (except 1 year in Va and snow was never that bad) but I moved to NYC April of this year

I left NY 21st snowed sometime inbetween there and Christmasish

I go back Friday, fuck me fuck fuck fuck I'm scared.

[Kais]

Oh god oh god oh goddddddd

fuck the car look at that goddamned SNOW

I've lived in FL all my life (except 1 year in Va and snow was never that bad) but I moved to NYC April of this year

I left NY 21st snowed sometime inbetween there and Christmasish

I go back Friday, fuck me fuck fuck fuck I'm scared.

should be somewhat fine when you come back, New Years weekend is going to be 45+ degrees

[Uzor]

Well, speaking of snow chaos, this is how the isle of Bornholm (part of Denmark) handle the snow situation:

http://www.dn.se/images/2010/12/29/Bornholm-2-660.jpg
http://www.dn.se/images/2010/12/29/Bornholm-660.jpg

They're all snowed in - some have not been able to leave the house for 6 days - and it's forbidden to drive unless it's an emergency.

There's some similar images from the south of Sweden as well. Quite amusing.

[Mohoss]

City workers destroy a Ford Explorer trying to free a snowbound front-loader in Brooklyn Heights

And nothing of value was lost.

^This x1000. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned sooner lol.

[Moss]

Um, my Ford Explorer is beast tyvm