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Okla-homey
12/1/2006, 09:05 AM
Don't be a statistic. Many people will go to the hospital today complaining of chest pain after they over-exert while clearing their driveway/sidewalks. Others will pull or strain backs and/or muscles.

It's hard work and if you ain't used to hard physical labor, you can hurt yourself. Take it easy.

That is all.
Newbomb Turk
12/1/2006, 09:13 AM
I used an old 3'x2' metal cabinet door to shovel a path on the sidewalk at work this morning. Not the ideal show shovel.
crawfish
12/1/2006, 09:52 AM
Why would one shovel a quarter inch of snow?
Okla-homey
12/1/2006, 11:02 AM
Behold what one determined Okie and a shovel can do!

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/3295/1blizzard011xt0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
JohnnyMack
12/1/2006, 11:34 AM
Behold what one determined Okie and a shovel can do!

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/3295/1blizzard011xt0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

My flag looks like your flag. Same spot on the side of the garage. Only I refuse to provide photographic evidence as I haven't finished my shoveling and I have "driveway envy".
yermom
12/1/2006, 11:59 AM
it will melt soon enough :D

i just drove over mine
Okla-homey
12/1/2006, 12:09 PM
it will melt soon enough :D

i just drove over mine

slacker!;)
dolemitesooner
12/1/2006, 12:11 PM
slacker!;)
lol
sanantoniosooner
12/1/2006, 12:24 PM
No snow here.

Just feels like Jack Frost farted.
1stTimeCaller
12/1/2006, 12:25 PM
looks like you had a visitor

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h30/scottdixon/house.jpg
SoonerInKCMO
12/1/2006, 12:45 PM
Behold what one determined Okie and a shovel can do!

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/3295/1blizzard011xt0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Man, you'll do anything to avoid studying for finals. ;)
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 12:51 PM
See, everyone laughs at me for owning a townhouse. I ain't shoveled snow in YEARS.
whatsername
12/1/2006, 12:55 PM
Don't you have any kids that you could have put to work doing that? :)

Oh yeah, I seem to remember a girl and Auburn? Or am I getting posters mixed up?

I'm sending my son out in his big boots to stamp down a path in the backyard for our little doggie. She gets buried out there.
Okla-homey
12/1/2006, 01:07 PM
Don't you have any kids that you could have put to work doing that? :)

Oh yeah, I seem to remember a girl and Auburn?

There is no way that kid of mine would shovel snow, even if she were here. Not even at gun-point.
GrapevineSooner
12/1/2006, 01:11 PM
I don't think I've seen snow drifts like that since our vacation in Tahoe four years ago.
NormanPride
12/1/2006, 01:50 PM
When I got home from work yesterday:

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3137/grill1uc3.jpg

This morning:

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1986/grill2hx6.jpg

I apologize for the crappy images; it's a camera phone.
GottaHavePride
12/1/2006, 01:55 PM
That's why you're supposed to put the dang lid back on your grill when you're done. Now how are you supposed to enjoy tasty grilled food until all that melts?
NormanPride
12/1/2006, 01:58 PM
That's why you're supposed to put the dang lid back on your grill when you're done. Now how are you supposed to enjoy tasty grilled food until all that melts?

Heh. It's not my grill actually. It's the nice little-old-lady-who-lives-next-to-me's. She just leaves it there because she doesn't have a patio and I do. :D
Norm In Norman
12/1/2006, 02:05 PM
Whenever I see people clean off their sidewalks on TV, it always looks pretty easy. This morning I cleaned the snow off my driveway, but I can't figure out how I'm supposed to get the 2" of ice off. The plastic snow shovel probably wasn't the best choice.
Norm In Norman
12/1/2006, 02:08 PM
Speaking of flags, here is mine:

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/6969/ouflagzt8.jpg
Ike
12/1/2006, 02:10 PM
Here at the lab, we have a crew that comes around and shoves our drive.


usually with one of these:
http://www.wyadutilitycontractors.com/images/bobcat.gif


however, sometimes it takes em a few days to get around to us, so I usually do it before they get a chance.
skycat
12/1/2006, 02:11 PM
Forget the overextertion. The real danger is when you lean against the back of the shovel to help push, and then you hit a seam in the concrete.

OUCH!

Of course, I don't even own a snow shovel anymore, and the ice scraper in my car might be the only one in a 6 mile radius.
Ike
12/1/2006, 02:14 PM
Whenever I see people clean off their sidewalks on TV, it always looks pretty easy. This morning I cleaned the snow off my driveway, but I can't figure out how I'm supposed to get the 2" of ice off. The plastic snow shovel probably wasn't the best choice.


thats what the old school metal snow shovels are for. you use the edge to kinda chop up the ice a bit and knock it loose, then shovel it right up.



either that or you could throw some gasoline over the ice and light it to loosen it up.
Norm In Norman
12/1/2006, 02:34 PM
I tried that and it didn't work.
skycat
12/1/2006, 02:35 PM
The gasoline and fire trick?

I would think that your neighbors would get very nervous if they saw that happening.
Norm In Norman
12/1/2006, 02:52 PM
I was just joking. I assumed he was too. Luckily, few of the neighbors I had last time I burned their yards down live here any more.
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 02:55 PM
Won't work. The gasoline will flash-burn and won't melt the underlying ice. Even if some of the ice does melt, the gas will float on the water, which will insulate the ice below.

In case any of you f'in hillbillies were about to try it.

If you've got time on your hands and REALLY don't want to chip away at ice, a hairdryer will melt ice pretty well.

Best way to deal with it, though, is to shovel the snow up before it packs into ice.
skycat
12/1/2006, 02:59 PM
Won't work. The gasoline will flash-burn and won't melt the underlying ice. Even if some of the ice does melt, the gas will float on the water, which will insulate the ice below.

In case any of you f'in hillbillies were about to try it.

If you've got time on your hands and REALLY don't want to chip away at ice, a hairdryer will melt ice pretty well.

Best way to deal with it, though, is to shovel the snow up before it packs into ice.

Yeah, I'm going to need pictures before I believe that.
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 03:01 PM
Yeah, I'm going to need pictures before I believe that.

http://www.johnlewis.com/jl_assets/product/230198348.jpg

I can't believe you've never seen a hairdryer before.
skycat
12/1/2006, 03:03 PM
I've certainly never seen one that looks like that!

Dean wouldn't approve.
Ike
12/1/2006, 03:26 PM
Won't work. The gasoline will flash-burn and won't melt the underlying ice. Even if some of the ice does melt, the gas will float on the water, which will insulate the ice below.

In case any of you f'in hillbillies were about to try it.

If you've got time on your hands and REALLY don't want to chip away at ice, a hairdryer will melt ice pretty well.

Best way to deal with it, though, is to shovel the snow up before it packs into ice.

there you go, messing up jokes again.


yeah, I know that TECHNICALLY I should shovel the drive before anyone drives over the snow (since that what usually does the ice packing for me), but that would mean that I can't just fly out of bed and go straight to work...there would have to be a pause in between waking up and getting to work, and I'm not about that.
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 03:38 PM
there you go, messing up jokes again.


yeah, I know that TECHNICALLY I should shovel the drive before anyone drives over the snow (since that what usually does the ice packing for me), but that would mean that I can't just fly out of bed and go straight to work...there would have to be a pause in between waking up and getting to work, and I'm not about that.

Dude, I knew you were joking. You knew you were joking. I think Norm knew you were joking.

I wouldn't put it past some of these other yahoos to try it.

(I know I did once. Fortunately it was a very small section of driveway.)
sanantoniosooner
12/1/2006, 03:44 PM
I wouldn't put it past some of these other yahoos to try it.

(I know I did once. Fortunately it was a very small section of driveway.)
The truth comes out.

Mike got his F'n Hillbilly badge at an early age.
skycat
12/1/2006, 03:44 PM
(I know I did once. Fortunately it was a very small section of driveway.)

This post is worthless without pics.:mad:
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 03:47 PM
The truth comes out.

Mike got his F'n Hillbilly badge at an early age.

Yeah, mom wasn't too amused at that whole thing.

I tried straight unleaded and two-cycle. Neither one of 'em worked.

On the bright side, I was smart enough to do it near the road, not the house.

There ain't no hillbilly like Alaska hillbilly. It was considered mighty swanky 'round these parts if'n you had a paved road to your house or were connected to city water.
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 03:48 PM
This post is worthless without pics.:mad:

I'm sorry, I will go back in time at some point, invent the digital camera in the late 80s, sell one to myself, take some pictures, then store them on 5.25" discs (since that's all they had) so I can post them for you today.

I'll be getting right on that. :D
sooner_born_1960
12/1/2006, 03:51 PM
Just draw one. She'll be happy.
skycat
12/1/2006, 03:52 PM
I'm sorry, I will go back in time at some point, invent the digital camera in the late 80s, sell one to myself, take some pictures, then store them on 5.25" discs (since that's all they had) so I can post them for you today.

I'll be getting right on that. :D

Dude, just use film, store the pictures in an envelope, and then scan it sometime in the last 5-10 years.

duh
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 03:53 PM
Well, I figure since I'll be inventing time travel, I might as well invent the digital camera at the same time.

Heck, I'll just invent mass storage devices while I'm at it. Problem solved.
skycat
12/1/2006, 03:54 PM
That's going to be a long time sitting in a box in a climate controlled warehouse facility.
sanantoniosooner
12/1/2006, 03:55 PM
If Mike were able to go back in time, he'd more likely spend his effort ..................

To Be Continued.
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 03:58 PM
If Mike were able to go back in time, he'd more likely spend his effort ..................

To Be Continued.

That's completely easy. I'd tell my younger self to spend less time trying to get laid and more time doing his homework. The "trying to get laid" didn't work out so hot anyhow.
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 03:59 PM
That's going to be a long time sitting in a box in a climate controlled warehouse facility.

Like I've got anything better to do.
sanantoniosooner
12/1/2006, 04:00 PM
If we could go back in time, we might be able to convince Mike to move to a time zone where it limited his ability to annoy us even more.
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 04:04 PM
If we could go back in time, we might be able to convince Mike to move to a time zone where it limited his ability to annoy us even more.

If I could go back in time, I'd concentrate on making sure I had something better to do than interact with you all day.
sanantoniosooner
12/1/2006, 04:06 PM
If I could go back in time, I'd concentrate on making sure I had something better to do than interact with you all day.
Don't kid yourself.

I'm the best thing you've got going.

There's a toaster in the kitchen if you're ready for a bath.;)
Frozen Sooner
12/1/2006, 04:29 PM
That's why I said I'd go back and ensure that you wouldn't be.

And thanks, I'm going to use the hair dryer to warm my bath up. I'm WAY too smart to fall for the toaster trick.