Blizzard 2016

[Oz.]

 

[Baltimore Bachelor]

It would really suck to be a business owner right now.

My friend owns a bar that's only open on the weekends and the poor guy tried to his best to get people to come to no success.

 

[Roosh]

For those of you not on the East Coast, here's what it looks like:

 

[polar]

Hurricanes are just really bad thunderstorms.

Snow tires are a requirement if you live in the north east. I would never go through a winter without them.

 

[mack_hand]

why did i ever leave rayong/koh samet?
i’m a moron

fuuuuuuuuck this east coast white out shit

ps
i applaud that guy here who named himself
wna
winter never again
I wonder if he is sticking to it?
I am overdue to bail......

 

[CleanSlate]

Visiting my mom for the weekend in NOVA.

About 30" maybe more. Snowplow got stuck multiple times on this street. Supposed to fly back to Texas tonight, but looks like that's not going to happen.

 

[Days of Broken Arrows]

Advice needed from car experts:

My car has now been sitting out in the parking lot for two days. I live in a condo community and don't have a garage.

It gets below freezing here at night so I'm worried about the battery dying.

Can anyone tell me if it will help the battery to start it up tonight and let it idle for a minute or two? Or will simply starting it and not driving it drain the battery for when I really need it?

I get conflicting answers online, so I figured someone here should know. One thing I have learned is that to keep a battery charged, you need to take long highway drives. I did this during the days before the storm. Maybe that was enough.

 

[Quintus Curtius]

^^^^

DOBA:

I'm far from being a car authority, but I would think that starting the vehicle and letting the engine run for little bit would be a good idea. I can't see how that would hurt you at all. Especially in cold weather.

 

[Uzisuicide]

Not bad... Good food, wine, vodka and curled up with my girlfriend on the couch watching Netflix. Pretty cool weekend here in Maryland for me. Let it smow.

 

[Hotwheels]

Advice needed from car experts:

My car has now been sitting out in the parking lot for two days. I live in a condo community and don't have a garage.

It gets below freezing here at night so I'm worried about the battery dying.

Can anyone tell me if it will help the battery to start it up tonight and let it idle for a minute or two? Or will simply starting it and not driving it drain the battery for when I really need it?

I get conflicting answers online, so I figured someone here should know. One thing I have learned is that to keep a battery charged, you need to take long highway drives. I did this during the days before the storm. Maybe that was enough.

Start it and let it run for ten minutes. Should be plenty.

Actually, it should be just fine leaving it sit for several days unless it's getting old and weak.

But if you are concerned, 10 minutes running will be fine.

Edit-If by some chance you need to jump it, let it run a while longer. Long highway trips are not necessary to charge a battery.

 

[MidJack]

Advice needed from car experts:

My car has now been sitting out in the parking lot for two days. I live in a condo community and don't have a garage.

It gets below freezing here at night so I'm worried about the battery dying.

Can anyone tell me if it will help the battery to start it up tonight and let it idle for a minute or two? Or will simply starting it and not driving it drain the battery for when I really need it?

I get conflicting answers online, so I figured someone here should know. One thing I have learned is that to keep a battery charged, you need to take long highway drives. I did this during the days before the storm. Maybe that was enough.

Unless the battery is very old, don't worry. It is rated for sufficient cold cranking amps to start the motor in winter conditions.

If the battery is older than the warranty, it may not perform. Car battery manufacturers often engineer their batteries to fail soon after the warranty expires.

 

[The Beast1]

DOBA,

Midjack's advice is gold. Whatever you do don't start your car up and let it idle unless you plan on driving it. Cold weather is rough on cars and if the engine doesn't get up to operating temp you can introduce moisture to the oil which degrades it making your engine work harder.

Your car is fine. If it dies and you need a jump it's high time to buy a new car battery anyway. They're super cheap and easy to install.

 

[Moma]

And the worse the UK ever has is few inches

Its actually warm here where I am.

You see FG, England is a tropical paradise in comparison to New England.

Think of it, England sent over its undesirables to the new world. Folks like the puritans and other religious separatists lived in a veritable frozen hell. England in comparison is wet, but incredibly mild.

Any time I hear someone complain about how miserable and dreary English weather is, I want to air drop them into New England and then the snow belt in late January. Idiots don't know how good they have it.

Is the weather overcast in New England?

 

[RexImperator]

Is the weather overcast in New England?

It often can be, though I've lived in Ireland also, and Ireland was more overcast. The British Isles are further north, so while they have the mild Gulf Stream climate, it gets very dark in the winter time. The winter sun at high noon feels like 3pm in New England. On the plus side, summer has those super long days.

I also add that Ireland is a lot greener even in winter time, whereas in New England the landscape by and large turns a dreary grey/brown, unless covered by snow, except for a few places right on the seacoast.

 

[Hotwheels]

DOBA,

Midjack's advice is gold. Whatever you do don't start your car up and let it idle unless you plan on driving it. Cold weather is rough on cars and if the engine doesn't get up to operating temp you can introduce moisture to the oil which degrades it making your engine work harder.

Your car is fine. If it dies and you need a jump it's high time to buy a new car battery anyway. They're super cheap and easy to install.

Letting it idle for 10-15 minutes isn't going to hurt a damn thing.

Moisture in the oil doesn't make the engine work harder. Where do you hear these things? It degrades the oil faster, but no different than short trips do. His oil isn't going to turn into sludge from letting it idle.

There is a reason oil change intervals change for how you drive your car. Lots of short trips and you change more often, on a mileage basis, than if you drive long highway distances.

If Mech wasn't on sabbatical he would agree with my statements.

And yes, a battery has a cold crank rating. However it doesn't go from full to dead at the snap of the fingers. Sitting for a long period will weaken it. As I said earlier, if it is already older and weaker, sitting for several days in the cold may discharge it enough to not start the car. Letting it run for a while will get it back to full charge.

If it isn't obvious, I get really tired of people regurgitating bullshit they heard from some buddy that doesn't know shit.

So start your car and let it run for a while DOBA. It will not hurt it one damn bit.

Edit-Have a new car dealership in the family and have been in and around the business my entire life. I know WTF I am talking about.

 

[la bodhisattva]

Scenarios like this are great examples of the patriarchy at work.

All I see are men braving hazardous conditions driving snowplows, husbands shoveling their driveways, neighbors with snowblowers helping neighbors with shovels, boyfriends walking to their girlfriends to shovel for them, facebook statuses of fat girls saying "woke up to to the sound of a shovel scrapping my sidewalk. thanks ______!", more neighbors clearing the way for other female neighbors. The oppression must be suffocating in times like this.

In all honesty, these times do bring out a lot of good in people. I even had my older neighbor do the lion's share of clearing my property. Granted, he had a snowblower and I had the shovel, but still. What I do see, however, is a dearth of women lending a helping hand to their husbands, let alone mere neighbors. Imagine what a sorority row without outside help would look like.

 

[Days of Broken Arrows]

Scenarios like this are great examples of the patriarchy at work.

All I see are men braving hazardous conditions driving snowplows, husbands shoveling their driveways, neighbors with snowblowers helping neighbors with shovels, boyfriends walking to their girlfriends to shovel for them, facebook statuses of fat girls saying "woke up to to the sound of a shovel scrapping my sidewalk. thanks ______!", more neighbors clearing the way for other female neighbors. The oppression must be suffocating in times like this.

In all honesty, these times do bring out a lot of good in people. I even had my older neighbor do the lion's share of clearing my property. Granted, he had a snowblower and I had the shovel, but still. What I do see, however, is a dearth of women lending a helping hand to their husbands, let alone mere neighbors. Imagine what a sorority row without outside help would look like.

Good points. But one thing.

You don't want them to help. When women get injured, they stay injured -- sometimes permanently, sometimes for long, long periods of time.

So if your woman throws her back out, for example (as mine did), you could be possibly looking at both your lives being turned upside down. Whereas if you or me get injured, we're usually back out there in a few days.

Have you ever stopped to think why men have beards and women do not? Beards are to protect the face from the elements meaning...men were biologically built to brave the elements. Women weren't. Hence their lack of beards.

Biology doesn't lie. They should teach this in school. It's so basic, yet people miss the obvious.

For the last few decades, our society has been pushing women into sports only to learn that when they get injured it's often harrowing, unlike with men.

The New York Times did an article in 2008 on how when women get soccer injuries, it totally screws them up because their ligaments are more fragile. Their headline? Get this: "The Uneven Playing Field."

Yeah, guys that's it. God was "uneven" when he made men and women.

Now if we could only get women with full beards and rippling muscles we'd all be "even." If only they had dicks! Then we'd really be "even!!" Dumbass fucking intellectuals can't see what's right in front of their faces.

Tl/dr: Have your woman make hot chocolate while you shovel. As a man whose ex-wife stayed injured for five long, long years, this is not a road you wanna go down.

 

[la bodhisattva]

I definitely agree. I'll be damned if I let my mom, and my girlfriend to a lesser extent, toil away shoveling snow that is probably 4x heavier to them than to me. But those are the exceptions. And I have strong suspicions that over the past two days many husbands heard a harpy screeching from the living room sofa (certainly not from over the stove) to "SHOVEL THE DRIVEWAY!!!!" without hot chocolate waiting for him when he finished.

Times of hardship, not unlike this storm, should be a time where these "amazonian warriors" take stock in the reality and necessity of their "overlords" and understand that without them their lives as they know it would cease to exist.

 

[MdWanderer]

And the worse the UK ever has is few inches

Its actually warm here where I am.

You see FG, England is a tropical paradise in comparison to New England.

Think of it, England sent over its undesirables to the new world. Folks like the puritans and other religious separatists lived in a veritable frozen hell. England in comparison is wet, but incredibly mild.

Any time I hear someone complain about how miserable and dreary English weather is, I want to air drop them into New England and then the snow belt in late January. Idiots don't know how good they have it.

English weather is similar to that of the Pacific Northwest. When I lived in Seattle and people complained about the weather, being from Maryland, I just laughed. Even the rain there, which it's notorious for, is a relief in comparison to the torrential downpours we have on the East Coast.

The best was when during the summers, the locals would say it's 'humid' during 70 degree and sunny days, although humidity doesn't really exist in Seattle. I didn't have central air in my apartment when I lived there and got through the summer pretty comfortably. I live near D.C now and would die without air conditioning during the summers here.

I definitely agree. I'll be damned if I let my mom, and my girlfriend to a lesser extent, toil away shoveling snow that is probably 4x heavier to them than to me. But those are the exceptions.

A lot of the women in my family aren't married and ride and die by the feminist "I can do bad all by myself" mantra, so during winters like these they are stuck shoveling snow when there should be a man there doing it. I legitimately worry about them because when I was in high school my stepdad (who is no longer my stepdad) and I would go around doing all the shoveling for my mom, aunts, grandmothers, etc. and we wore it as a badge of honor. Due to my military job I can no longer lend a helping hand either because I'm always away.

With that being said, there should be a law requiring all feminists to shovel snow and work construction, for all of the pain they have caused our families by making women think they can do a man's job.

 

[Mother Russia]

Don't think a seperate thread for this is needed so I will just leave this here:

The Walk of Shame in 30inches of snow. If anyone runs across whoever kicked this sloot out into the snow give them a high five from me plz:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...est-Virginia-snowstorm-no-pants-shoes-on.html