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MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Having a garage at home is nice, but very few work-goers have access to covered parking and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
Again this is prolly a regional thing. Lots of employers here have a garage or at least covered parking. The wife has never worked anywhere that didn't have covered parking.
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I spoke with more folks about this over the course of the day, and I have yet to find anyone that has ever seen one of these signs.
Most were of the opinion to ignore it.
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Left Seater wrote:Again this is prolly a regional thing. Lots of employers here have a garage or at least covered parking. The wife has never worked anywhere that didn't have covered parking.
What a wise investment. Texas with its diverse weather and all.
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I just drop my car off at the little Asian fullservice place every couple of months, for $35 your car is fully washed, vacuumed, polished/Armouralled inside & out, & tyres blacked all while I do my shopping, it would cost me more in products per year than paying for them to do it.
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88 wrote:
missjo wrote:Asian fullservice
:bode:
:bode: x infinity

Fukkin Asian fullservice goes for way more than that in these parts.
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Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work. My wife and I have never had indoor parking at our places of employment and there will never be parking ramps constructed there, just open parking lots and the street. A garage will protect your vehicles from high winds but there's nothing going to save them if you get hit by a tornado.
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Left Seater wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Having a garage at home is nice, but very few work-goers have access to covered parking and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
Again this is prolly a regional thing. Lots of employers here have a garage or at least covered parking. The wife has never worked anywhere that didn't have covered parking.
Good for her. I too once worked in a large office building with a parking garage. But those people comprise a small % of employees in America.
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Mace wrote:Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work.
So does not living in a freezer.
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MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
Left Seater wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Having a garage at home is nice, but very few work-goers have access to covered parking and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
Again this is prolly a regional thing. Lots of employers here have a garage or at least covered parking. The wife has never worked anywhere that didn't have covered parking.
Good for her. I too once worked in a large office building with a parking garage. But those people comprise a small % of employees in America.
It may not even be that big a place. I was in teeehas once and got to experience climbing into a car that was baking in the sun in , I think it was early june. Pretty sure an asphalt parking lot in texas in the middle of the day is hotter than the surface of the sun. It would make sense for employers to install carport type thingies in their parking lots. It would be even neater if they was PV like mikey's, but, fukk, I don't think I can afford to pay for any more.
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atomicdad wrote:
Mace wrote:Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work.
So does not living in a freezer.
Cold is merely a nuisance, nothing more. I'd rather deal with a windshield scraper than deal with hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornados, etc. Not that we don't get the occasional tornado up here, but nothing like what peeps in the south and central lowlands have to deal with.
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atomicdad wrote:
Mace wrote:Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work.
So does not living in a freezer.
Adapting to a few months of snow/ice/cold isn't a big deal......especially when you grow up with it. And it makes you appreciate the nice spring weather we're having right now and the summer and fall months.
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MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
atomicdad wrote:
Mace wrote:Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work.
So does not living in a freezer.
Cold is merely a nuisance, nothing more. I'd rather deal with a windshield scraper than deal with hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornados, etc. Not that we don't get the occasional tornado up here, but nothing like what peeps in the south and central lowlands have to deal with.
If that is the case why are we hearing so much about snow in Denver and the upper Midwest today.


Also, I don't think flooding is a regional thing. Fargo seems to deal with that on an annual basis.
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MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
atomicdad wrote:
Mace wrote:Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work.
So does not living in a freezer.
Cold is merely a nuisance, nothing more. I'd rather deal with a windshield scraper than deal with hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornados, etc. Not that we don't get the occasional tornado up here, but nothing like what peeps in the south and central lowlands have to deal with.
No freezes, blizzards, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, mudslides, brush fires, tornados, plagues of locust or any other natural disaster threats here. This is a weird place.
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Van wrote:No freezes, blizzards, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, mudslides, brush fires, tornados, plagues of locust or any other natural disaster threats here.
No, but Mexicans. Lots of Mexicans.
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MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
Van wrote:No freezes, blizzards, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, mudslides, brush fires, tornados, plagues of locust or any other natural disaster threats here.
No, but Mexicans. Lots of Mexicans.
You make that sound like a bad thing. Who else are you going to get to mow your lawn, clean your house and spawn ringers for your kids youth soccer futbol team?
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Left Seater wrote:[\If that is the case why are we hearing so much about snow in Denver and the upper Midwest today.


Also, I don't think flooding is a regional thing. Fargo seems to deal with that on an annual basis.
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that it snows in the mountains in April. No snow in Iowa but, if it does, it will be the first one I've seen with 76 degree temps. We'll get their snow in the form of much needed rain tomorrow. Forty years ago today we had a 12" snow with high winds and 10' drifts, but that was before global warming. :)
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No snow here. 50 degrees and t-storms, but I love a good thunderstorm so I'm not complaining.
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One will find a few garages in downtown Seattle, but hardly any in the outlying areas. Garages are for weather pussies.
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Mace wrote:Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work.

So does a couple of pieces of newspaper... but apparently, that's a U&L secret or something, since a 40+ year Boston resident I fuck know was pretty pissed to have first learned that after moving to a place where it snows about once every 3 years (which is down the road from the snowiest place on earth).
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Dinsdale wrote:
Mace wrote:Having a garage saves you from scraping snow/ice off the windshield twice a day if you park outside at work.

So does a couple of pieces of newspaper... but apparently, that's a U&L secret or something, since a 40+ year Boston resident I fuck know was pretty pissed to have first learned that after moving to a place where it snows about once every 3 years (which is down the road from the snowiest place on earth).
Cardboard works too.
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Mace wrote:
Dinsdale wrote:
So does a couple of pieces of newspaper
Cardboard works too.
Who does this? This is the second time I've read that on here. Here's an idea, cover your walk in newspaper. You won't have to shovel it.
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MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
Van wrote:No freezes, blizzards, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, mudslides, brush fires, tornados, plagues of locust or any other natural disaster threats here.
No, but Mexicans. Lots of Mexicans.
In SoCal and all throughout the Central Valley, definitely. Up here in Gold Country? Not really.
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Dr_Phibes wrote:Here's an idea, cover your walk in newspaper. You won't have to shovel it.
Marvelous idea, Phibes.

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I'm guessing you all have heavier newsprint than we do... :meds:
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You're the other one that does it, I'm baffled. Why would you bond a newspaper on your windsheild under a 1/4" of ice? It would take half an hour to get the frozen pulp off. And how do keep it from blowing off before it freezes? Duct tape or spikes?
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Yeah, tarping your ride with yesterday's news certainly seems more laborious than starting your car 5 minutes early and waiting for the ice to melt. Plus, it's nice and toasty by the time you get in.
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Truman, looking at that photo, if that's where you live then you really need to move. What sort of grand penance are you serving that compels you to stay in such a barren wasteland?
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Van wrote:Truman, looking at that photo, if that's where you live then you really need to move. What sort of grand penance are you serving that compels you to stay in such a barren wasteland?
I've always figured that those who think that's living well deserve to live that way.

I've never shoveled rain. And we get less annual precip than the shithole pictured.

I'll take this:

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and


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You go ahead and take:


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Pretty close comparison.

But all the more elbow room for me.
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Dinsdale wrote:
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Dins,

Last summer for family vacation we drove the Oregon coast from Cape Disapointment WA to Arcada Ca after spending the 4th in Bend and looping around Mt Hood,

where is this pic from?
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A Stephen King novel?
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Willamette Falls in Oregon City, south end of the Portland area.
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I don't need to go out to Oregon to be on the water under a depressing sky surrounded by dilapidated industry. Detroit's not that far. Hell, the "barren wasteland" pic has more sunshine. :lol:
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Showoff.
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Van wrote:Showoff.
:lol:

No raging rivers around here (besides occasionally the Santa Margarita after a winter storm) but we got other stuff.
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Well, at least you get brushfires and the occasional mudslide.
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and don't forget at the north end of the county we have our defunct nuclear power plant...

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MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
Okay? You're suggesting every business owner build garages/carports/parking structures for all their employees? That's a fairytale world I'd like to live in.
If you worked at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, OR that would be pretty much the norm. About 70% of the parking is covered, with covered walkways to the buildings. Of course since the majority of the people working there are transplant weather pussies from dry climates, they might melt in the rain or have a problem wearing a rain coat or carrying an umbrella.

Since damn near everyone that works there makes more than 100K a year, they feel a bit entitled. Spaces are assigned by closest to the building, type of structure needed and model of ride.

Now since Intel just has fabs here, there are no covered parking at all.
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atomicdad wrote:and don't forget at the north end of the county we have our defunct nuclear power plant...
Thanks for reminding me.

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