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iannis · Feb 3, 2014

Yeah, American cities are mostly a collective of towns.

I'm thinking of a small city (it's too small to even be called a city in a more populated state) called Winston-Salem. It was obviously two towns that merged. But the interesting thing about that city is that, and maybe it's changed recently, there's only one road that goes from "downtown" winston into downtown salem. It's bizzare how partitioned that entire county is. You can see that in almost any "city" you drive through in the south if you look for it but in some towns you have to try to miss it.

Burnesto · Feb 3, 2014

200k+ population is a small city now?

Itzena_sl · Feb 3, 2014

Sabbat_sl said:
Sure... lets dance.

January 2014 Total 610.2mm 23 day(s)

There's areasonwe colonised America but sent our convicts Down Under, you know.

Chukzombi · Feb 3, 2014

This weather is keeping me in the house more than usual. i ended up going back to everquest. :/

iannis · Feb 3, 2014

Burnesto_sl said:
200k+ population is a small city now?

Yeah, well, these fuckin yankees will be talking about derp mayberry and "herherher that's not a city" if you don't qualify it.

Make your state sound completely shitty, even the parts that aren't shitty -- you won't have to lie often, just to keep those assholes where the fuck they belong.

Big Phoenix · Feb 4, 2014

Alex_sl said:
SF is a 7x7 square mile block. There's no suburban sprawl. Sure, it's built in a grid, but that's much more efficient than the bullshit road system in old European cities. Most people who live here don't even own a car.

The suburban sprawl of SF are other major cities; oakland, san jose, berkley etc.

Everything I've ever read on Atlanta (and really, most large, suburban American cities that developed after the advent of the car) leads me to believe that there were many, many terrible decisions made in the decades after WW2 that resulted in them being massive, spread out, balkanized cities that are far too dependent on cars and freeways and have little or no centralized decision making on transit or other infrastructure. It's mind boggling to me that the city of Atlanta is actually only something like 10% of what the Atlanta metro area, population wise.

Well we also have a hell of a lot more land compared to Europe to work with so its only natural to get more spread out. Secondly, the majority of cities here have absolutely retarded ass backwards zig zag layouts and tons of intersecting roads at odd angles for no reason.

Falstaff · Feb 4, 2014

Yeah that's what I love about Chicago. Other than about a half dozen major streets that run diagonally, the entire city is a grid.

BrutulTM · Feb 4, 2014

That's because that part of Illinois is as flat as a tabletop. Phoenix is really well laid out that way also, although that and Filliberto's are Phoenix's only redeeming qualities.

San Francisco is a freaking disaster as far as layout goes even considering all the hills.

Noodleface · Feb 4, 2014

Fucking New England. Got snow monday, getting another 6-10 inches Wednesday, and talk of snow on Saturday too. FUCK!!!

At least I can work from home

mkopec · Feb 4, 2014

My shitty Toro 620 is not cutting it anymore. The walls of snow on the sides of my driveway and walkway are just too tall for the thing to shoot the snow above them. I need a good 2 stage where it shots the snow into my neighbors yard. Were also supposed to get like 4-6 more tonight.

The thing that I heard though is that if you buy a good snow-blower, you dont get snow for 5 yrs. after you buy it. Is this true?

Noodleface · Feb 4, 2014

mkopec_sl said:
My shitty Toro 620 is not cutting it anymore. The walls of snow on the sides of my driveway and walkway are just too tall for the thing to shoot the snow above them. I need a good 2 stage where it shots the snow into my neighbors yard. Were also supposed to get like 4-6 more tonight.

The thing that I heard though is that if you buy a good snow-blower, you dont get snow for 5 yrs. after you buy it. Is this true?

I've found this to be true. Can you please buy one so the rest of us can stop suffering.

BrutulTM · Feb 4, 2014

mkopec_sl said:
The thing that I heard though is that if you buy a good snow-blower, you dont get snow for 5 yrs. after you buy it. Is this true?

This also works with snowmobiles.

Chanur · Feb 4, 2014

Snowing pretty good in Woodward Oklahoma. Stuck working from the hotel. Oh joy.

Eomer · Feb 4, 2014

Send some snow to the rockies please. Going cat skiing in Revelstoke next weekend (15-17), and it's hardly snowed the past 3 weeks and doesn't look like there's much in the forecast. I don't want to pay $400 a day to ski moguls for fuck's sake.

Falstaff · Feb 4, 2014

We are supposed to get another 4-6 inches overnight tonight and then more snow Saturday into Sunday. News keeps reporting that we had 50+ inches this winter (or maybe in January alone) compared to less than 4" last year.

lurkingdirk · Feb 4, 2014

Snow just started again, up to another 10 inches. I love it. The roads and driveways are getting narrower and narrower...

Chukzombi · Feb 5, 2014

10 inches of snow over 2 days+ rain and sleet= mashed potatoes snow. shit gets on everything and its a a fucking pain to drive though. doesnt help that the plows and salt spreaders seem to be fucking off somewhere. looks like i will be working on lv 71 today.

Falstaff · Feb 5, 2014

Took me 2 and a half hours to drive 20 miles to work this morning.

Grayson Carlyle · Feb 5, 2014

Toronto is a goddamn traffic nightmare right now. But it's still moving, so at least it's not Atlanta.

Tuco · Feb 5, 2014

Eomer_sl said:
Bro, do you even winter? Salt doesn't do sweet fuck all in the Real North. Then again, we generally don't have the icing problems either, because it's so goddamn cold the snow doesn't have a chance to melt and turn in to ice. Although I'm not sure hard packed snow is much better.

packed snow is much, much better than ice.

The worst is when it snows and melts in the day then freezes at night and snows again. You then have snow on ice which means you don't get any meaningful traction but can also get enough resistance in poorly plowed areas to get stuck easily. We had that happen a couple days ago, but the plow-workers are very good in this area.

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