Snow shovels? Do Europeans know how to operate them?
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todd72173




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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 17:38    Post subject: Snow shovels? Do Europeans know how to operate them?
Gotta laugh when I see Europe can not deal with some snow..few inches and oh no maybe a foot? I know operating a snow shovel can be complicated, but really folks? Are you that incapable of shoveling snow off your airports and roads? Unreal the sad state of Europe in dealing with snow. You might think snow was just invented yesterday! Hahahahah


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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 17:40    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 17:46    Post subject:
Nalo wrote:
Yeah we (UK) pretty much shuts down after a little snow Laughing


Same here Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 17:48    Post subject:
Us Americans get out on the road like real men and make hilarious videos of cars slamming into each other.

My shovel broke last year in the shitstorm and forgot about it until it started snowing last week. Was running outside every hour with a broom trying to keep from getting buried
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Kristian




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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 17:58    Post subject:
I drove via Denmark and Germany yesterday, and it was quite surprising how horribly scared of snow they are.. Everyone was driving like some scared bitches in 30kph on the big highways just due to a tiny bit of whiteness..
I cruised at speeds between 80 and 130kph overtaking most cars and had no problem at all with traction.. The road conditions I had there is what we call great driving conditions in Norway.


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todd72173




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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 18:09    Post subject:
Where I live in a snow belt, we get about a few inches every day! We already got hit with storms of more than two feet at once! My trusty $10 snow shovel (snow blowers are for whimps!) removes all the snow each time. Our airport does not shut down for it. We do have delays when the sun shines too bright however.


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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 18:46    Post subject:
Curing aids is one thing, but shoveling snow?


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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 19:43    Post subject:
todd72173 wrote:
Where I live in a snow belt, we get about a few inches every day! We already got hit with storms of more than two feet at once! My trusty $10 snow shovel (snow blowers are for whimps!) removes all the snow each time. Our airport does not shut down for it. We do have delays when the sun shines too bright however.


Thats because your used to it, and by the sounds of it have it most of the year around, which makes it financially viable for the state/council/whatever to put more funds into coping with it. Other places which get it once or twice a year at most won't bother. It's not just EU though, I immigrated to Washington state this year and this place ain't any better than the UK when it comes to coping with the white stuff.
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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Dec 2010 19:53    Post subject:
its the same shit every year. its like theyre surprised by the snow . its fucking winter .december you dumb fucks. snow is expected !





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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 01:32    Post subject:
Unlike the US midwest, where everything closes, because there is a dusting of snow on the road's.. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 02:02    Post subject:
Living in Sweden, I have no idea what you're all talking about. In the last 7 days we have gotten an additional 15 inches/40cm of snow, which alone is much for other countries, here it's just "some more", kind of Razz


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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 02:32    Post subject:
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Living in Sweden, I have no idea what you're all talking about. In the last 7 days we have gotten an additional 15 inches/40cm of snow, which alone is much for other countries, here it's just "some more", kind of Razz


We're not really European though since we're not attached to the European continent like the rest. Scandinavia is an area all of it's own.


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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 02:36    Post subject:
Europe is not a continent Razz


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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 09:46    Post subject:
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Europe is not a continent Razz


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Last time I looked we were still a continent :\


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Kristian




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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 10:56    Post subject:
Americans thinks Europe is a country.


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Spazmotic
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 11:23    Post subject:
That's not saying much, We think parts of the ocean are continents.
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 11:49    Post subject:
from shovels to continents, ahhh great Smile
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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 13:01    Post subject:
iconized wrote:
Europe is not a continent Razz


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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 13:46    Post subject:
iconized wrote:
Europe is not a continent Razz


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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 13:47    Post subject:
Sigh some explanation needed I guess. Europe is an area that includes the UK, Ireland, etc.


As such it is not a continent, whatever continent model you prefer. Looking at continental Europe (regardless if you think mainland Europe is a continent or it's part of Eurasia), Scandinavia is very much attached. My comment was just a small correction to Frant's "we are better than them" story. End of geography lesson.

@Mussolinka: Guess again.

On topic: No use investing heavily in means to keep public transportation going and airports open if snowy conditions like these only occur one in ten years. BBC has a nice story about Helsinki airport.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12042213
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difm




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PostPosted: Sat, 25th Dec 2010 18:01    Post subject:
Judging by the news... I'd say most of USA and Western-Europe are panicking under higher levels of snow. Eastern europeans just pull the collars higher and life goes on.


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ffy




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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Dec 2010 13:45    Post subject:
the problem we have here atm is, that with about 60cm of snowfall, you can shovel the snow away from the road yes, but eventually you just run out of places to safely shovel it. as it stands right now, the windows of my room (staying at parents for xmas, living on ground floor) are half covered with mounds of snow that i have been shoveling towards the house from the sidewalk. meanwhile, on the roadside edge of the sidewalk there are tall and wide (like 1,5-2m high) mounds of snow. so, if you are driving along side streets and come to an intersection, you basically cant see what is happening on the road you are supposed to yield to, due to the huge mountains of snow. just a while ago a friend of mine got into a car accident because he was slowly creeping into the intersection to see if he can go or not, and the instant the nose of his car reached the intersecting road someone totally plowed into it.

so all in all, i dont really care about the snow in the airports etc. but the low visibility on the streets is such a fucking menace its not even funny. ive almost run over 2 people because they step out from behind the mountains of snow and think that drivers (driving on loose snow and ice no less) have fucking x-ray vision and can easily avoid pedestrians crossing at places without pedestrian crossings...
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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Dec 2010 14:01    Post subject:
Perhabs because we rarely, if ever, get as much snow as this(I'm from DK so thats where I'm relating this to). We have NEVER had 2 white christmas' in a row in Denmark since we started measuring(in 1870) but we just experienced now. As you can probably then deduce the infrastructure that is in place for dealing with snow is hardly as developed or funded as it is in countries used to being snowcovered several months of the year. The roadsalt stock allover Denmark was used about 2 weeks ago, we've had several blizzards

Even though Copenhagen Airport was owning that snow being one of the few places to get everyone off and the only delays we had was because they had no where to fly the planes(Heathrow nubs Very Happy)


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Kristian




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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Dec 2010 15:04    Post subject:
ffy wrote:
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Thats why they remove snow here.
Trucks, excavators, tractors, any type of machinery work 24/7 to remove snow.


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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Dec 2010 15:14    Post subject:
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ffy




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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Dec 2010 22:26    Post subject:
Stealth88 wrote:
ffy wrote:
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Thats why they remove snow here.
Trucks, excavators, tractors, any type of machinery work 24/7 to remove snow.


they have removed snow from the largest streets in the towns, but not the smaller (still often used) streets. seems that is changing though, i saw a truck and tractor removing snow down the street earlier, maybe they will get around to my house. sometime before the spring arrives.
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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Dec 2010 22:38    Post subject:
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