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By pintoplumber - 15 Years Ago
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When I built my garage in 1990, I put radiant heat in the floor heated by a boiler. I also thought it would be neat to have heat in the sidewalks to melt snow. So I did the sidewalks and the driveways also. I don't have a big enough boiler to melt everything at once, but when you have a 20" snow just having the sidewalks melt is a big help.
That was this morning as are the next two.
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By Glen Henderson - 15 Years Ago
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Hey Dennis, that looks like a postcard. All we get down here is rain and cold. Rained yesterday, 25 degrees this morning, more rain coming Thurs and Fri.
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By 55vickey - 15 Years Ago
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What we would give for that snow in northern Wisconsin is unbelievable. All the snow tracks south and we need all we can get for our winter sports......weatherman in the north must drive a scrub......can't do nuttin right.
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By pintoplumber - 15 Years Ago
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We're getting our share of snow this year. We have 2 corner lots, a lot of sidewalks. I wish the lot with the house had heat in the sidewalks too.
We're not working today, we don't need to be out in it.
I have a 1961 cub cadet lawn tractor with a snow blower on it. Something's not right with the clutch. I must look at it today. I can run it in low range and shift without using the clutch, when it's this deep you end up going slow anyway.
Should have a y block to run that blower.
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By Ted - 15 Years Ago
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Dennis. I’d expect no less from a plumber than heated sidewalks and especially one whose last name is “Leeking”. Great piece of work.
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By pegleg - 15 Years Ago
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See, Global warming. The side walks are getting warm first!
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By yehaabill - 15 Years Ago
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Y-Guys: Brrrrrrrrrr! I saw where one of the news agency's said it was going to snow in D.C. until Al Gore cried "UNCLE"!!!! Springs on its way....... Bill
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By pintoplumber - 15 Years Ago
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Wow, they've closed interstate 81, 83, 176 and 78. We got 20" on saturday and it looks like we're going to get at least that again today.
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By Daniel Jessup - 15 Years Ago
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Out here down just a little south from Dennis, we had 33" this past weekend, and another 14" last night and today. A record to say the least...anybody seen Al Gore? I would like to have a few "words" with him...anyway, a few photos... As the storm began this past weekend 
yep, we're getting buried!!!  that's ok - my kids dig it! 
What pushes it all and does the job of moving it around where I want it? The trusty snow"plow"!!! 
Well, as long as I can stay on top of it, anything over 8" and it's just too heavy to move. I plowed 4 times during the first snow, and 3 times during this one. Hate to say it, but I needed a lot of help from my next door neighbor with a front end loader  Out our front window today... 
Dennis - think you can come down and install some of that Global Warming Sidewalk plumbing????
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By GREENBIRD56 - 15 Years Ago
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My Wyoming experience (living in Lander) was .....that after a while it gets heavy enough to cause you to wonder about your roof....My neighbor had a little electric snow thrower we used on a couple of occasions where it snowed for days - but it didn't blow, really piled up high. Sounds scary but...when you slip and fall off while shoveling, the snow around the house is so deep you can't get too hurt. My kid loved it.... We finally put on raised edge steel roofing - no gutters - and the snow would only pile so high before it just slid off! Dennis..... those heated sidewalks are "cool".....great idea.
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By Glen Henderson - 15 Years Ago
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I know that it's not 20" but I just watched the weather and they say that we will be getting 4" or 5" of the white stuff Friday here in "LA". That will shut us down for awhile down here, been the coldest/wetest winter we have had in years. Global warming, my ass!
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By Flying Jester - 15 Years Ago
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Up here in Alaska we had the snow almost six feet tall for a few weeks! It isn't colossally cold, but it's snowing from mid October to early April.
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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Yep. I do not miss the Montreal winters at all.
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By LON - 15 Years Ago
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Global warming has come to Australia as well . After all the "experts " told us that the sea was rising , the sky was falling ,how hot we would be and how scarce water would be , we have had one of the wettest summers on record ??? I for one believe in climate change .About every 3 months ,it changes ???.Summer ,winter ,spring & fall ?????. It's been changing for millions of years ,and will keep on doing so .There seems to be a lot of money to be made on the "Global Warming " gravy train ??? Just my opinion . Lon
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By pegleg - 15 Years Ago
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Glen Henderson (2/10/2010)
I know that it's not 20" but I just watched the weather and they say that we will be getting 4" or 5" of the white stuff Friday here in "LA". That will shut us down for awhile down here, been the coldest/wetest winter we have had in years. Global warming, my ass!I dunno Glen, You had one hell of an ice storm last year. I remember driving thru it with a motor home on the way to Florida. Cars and trucks EVERYWHERE except on the pavement!!
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By Glen Henderson - 15 Years Ago
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Like I said ,shut them down. The last big snow we had was 1993, my National Guard unit was sent to B'ham and we had to run the median for about 30 miles north of Montgomery because both north bound lanes were blocked, cars and trucks everywhere. This one looks like it will be in south/central part of the state, we don't have all the hills that they have in north AL so maybe it want be as bad. Want be as bad for me anyway, as I don't plan on being out in it. I saw enough snow in Bosnia in 1996/1997 to last me a life time.
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By rmk57 - 15 Years Ago
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The winter Olympics are here in a couple days and we don't have any snow, even on the local mountains. they have been trucking it in from the interior for the past week with dump trucks.This is about a 8 hour round trip and their bragging about this being the "greenest" Olympics ever.
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By Glen Henderson - 15 Years Ago
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Started around 06:00 this morning and still coming down. 
One hundred fifty miles north of Mobile, AL. About four or five in's, alot of it melted before it ever started sticking.
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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Snowing here, too.
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By MoonShadow - 15 Years Ago
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And its NOT snowing here and hasn't in the last couple of storms! Weird weather. Chuck in NH
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By Hollow Head - 15 Years Ago
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I red that it's raining bullets in Alabama  . Sad things happen, but that's life. Even here in Finland. What in earth launches those lunatics?
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By Glen Henderson - 15 Years Ago
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Seppo, I assume that you are talking about the shooting at the UAB campus in Huntsville. Who knows? According to the news it was a female professor who just found out that she would not have a job next term. You expect it in the drug neighborhoods, but not in a college.
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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No Atlanta mail box is safe this morning. The road in front of my house is a sheet of ice! Let me see if I can find my skates... and if they still fit.
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By Bob's 55 - 15 Years Ago
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Like the heated sidewalks, don't care much for the Plumbing truck, SBC/GMC??? ha,ha
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By Hollow Head - 15 Years Ago
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Hey folks, ain't it just nice that you also have snow this year? What I did this evening was that I was at Sauna in +80 degrees celsius and hopped out all naked and did a dive to powder snow at my backyard. Yes it is -8 degrees celsius outside here  . It was kind of a funny feeling when I came back inside and when I watched myself from the mirror, my head and hairs was still all covered with snow . Been over ten years since I did that thing last time...You all should try that at least once in the life time...
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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I ran outside and rolled around in the snow in my boxers several times when I was in Canada. Very invigorating! I fell through the ice on the Saint Lawrence, but only up to my knees, one time. It was not nearly as bad as I had expected. It was minus something outside so the 32 degree water felt alright. The mile or so walk home was not so fun.
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By Glen Henderson - 15 Years Ago
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Someone break out the straight jackets, You Guys are NUTS!!!!
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