No tip though, cause I don't support the tipping culture.
I just got this beauty of an alert.
That's -34.44 Celsius for those not in the USA.
Sounds like a perfect time to have a minimum-wage worker bring you food!
(jokes aside I hope you're ok)
30 below expected? What was expected?
"30 below [zero]" expected
0 degrees, clearly.
Funnily enough meteorologists have all sorts of short phrases like that that I find equally confusing, it's like half broken English but it works
30 below is expected.
I’d be curious if I could find enough clothes to be able to withstand these temperatures for half an hour. The coldest I’ve ever experienced was −20°C some 15 years ago.
There are research stations in Antarctica where it has like -60°C or lower on a typical day. There's an interesting post on stackexchange referencing the US Antarctica programme on about what clothing for these conditions should look like.
Easily. They cost a small fortune unfortunately. Look up Canada Goose parkas. Or Outdoor Survival Canada.
It isn't the amount but the quality of the clothes. My wife and I were skiing yesterday at -8°f without issue. So that's temp plus actual wind chill and windspeed while riding.
Time to move city lmao
In 20 years, it’ll be a temperate climate.
It irks me when people order delivery when the roads are unsafe - no one should have to put their life on the line like that. I know some people rely on it, though. The snow has been terrible here for days and Meals on Wheels has been canceled so I cooked a big pot roast today to share with elderly neighbors. We've all gotta look out for eachother.
I mean theres nothing that unsafe about the roads in the picture. Thats like regular for a lot of places and people don't just stop living. I worked as a delivery driver and had to drive in way worse conditions, whats shown wouldnt even have registered as a hazard at all.
I don't see how that's the customer's responsibility. The order should be rejected by door dash if they can't safely deliver.
If youre driving for doordash you already aren't in a good financial situation. If they tip large (keep in mind on doordash a good tip is anything above $5 because tips on doordash are fucking garbage) youre going to be incentivized to take it to feed your family another day.
Source: I was a DD driver for 2 years and it sucked shit.
There's always someone else we can blame. Door Dash execs can just say if they don't deliver then one of their competitors will. Everyone's being shitty and it's no one's fault.
I mean, it's still optional, per driver. Once it snowed so much my little sedan was stuck at work. Tried hard to dig/push it out with no luck. Ordered a ride share even though it was snowing, icy, and late at night. Driver was genuinely happy for the work. There were obviously less of them on the road, so he had his pick of rides and I'm sure got bonuses for them. Ironically, he showed up in another small sedan (but with chains and 4-wheel drive)...
I mean, the delivery people need to get paid, right?
Those dollars won't mean much when they're being buried. I lost an employee many years ago when the company insisted we go into the office during an ice storm and he swirved into a tractor trailer. It was an entirely senseless and avoidable death.
That's kind of the cruelty of capitalism. You can coerce people do unsafe or unpleasant things, but it gets framed as a favour because hey they're getting paid.
Whereas if the person you were paying was truly comfortable and didn't need money for survival, there is a chance that they would forego working on that kind of night.
We did do that once as bored teenagers on an off day back in maybe 2006. Though the pizza shop let us know it was going to take about two hours, which we were totally cool with, and tipped the driver like 20 bucks (on top of a $15 order) because we knew it was probably hell getting there.
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, I get that. But if you're gonna be doing that, please tip your drivers very generously and give them plenty of time and don't be an asshole to them :)
I used to run a pizza place. Bad snow was some of the worst. Half the staff would call off and we'd have double the orders. We were in a mostly flat city on a grid, so we would cut delivery down to just the grid. People would be furious to be denied delivery pizza. "I just drove up the hill an hour ago! It's fine!" Yeah in your truck. My delivery driver is in a beat up twenty year old four cylinder.
One day I tried to take our car to work and immediately put it in a ditch. I called my boss while I walked to work. I said we can't do delivery today this is too extreme. He said oh just do the grid like usual. The only driver who showed up that morning wrecked his car on his third delivery. We always told them, take the topper off your car and hide it in your trunk. If insurance finds out you were doing commercial business they will not pay.
Remember, if you drive your own car for work, and they aren't insuring it, you are double subsidising your employer.
Technically it's not the power of the engine but the AWD/4WD. You can floor your engine and just skid on ice. Subarus are pretty cheap 4 cyl boxer engines known for great handling in snow with some clever differential systems they have (viscuous coupling diffs, active torque split, etc.) But yeah a Ford Focus or Honda Civic or whatever with FWD only will leave you stranded. Not your main point I know.
One time it snowed a foot or two in Seattle. I had a set of studded tires on a little Toyota Tercel and I swear I was the only fucker driving around. Uphill, downhill, cruising down the lumpy hard-packed freeway, didn't have any problems. Besides, if you get stuck in a Tercel you can just lift the whole rear of the car out of the snow with a second person. I really miss that car.
I just shake my head at people that think if you're spinning out on the ice, just press the throttle harder. Fucking idiots.
With that said, a beater with snow tires and chains on the trunk (and a driver that knows how to put them on before they are needed) will do better than a Subaru with all season tires.
Source: Subaru forums, even a RWD like a BRZ/FRS with snow tires can be safe if driven with the car’s limitations in mind.
Man where do you live that an inch of snow is enough to call off going out?
And how much is rent?
A few weeks ago Georgia (the state) got an inch and a half of snow and the whole state shut down for two days. It's for the best honestly no one has snow tires or snow driving experience, and very few places store salt for the roads. It used to only snow every couple years and that's turned into about 1 in 5 now so it's best to just shut down for a bit tbh.
Gonna likely be Houston about this time tomorrow. Good luck and godspeed to whoever braves the roads.
I’ve seen an ad on German television (yea, yea, I still do watch it) whose whole point was that Saturday should be a [Edit:
free dayday off], but it’s marred by having to do grocery shopping. The climax of that ad was a woman shouting “Let’s take back our Saturdays” Braveheart style.The ad is for a service that has people shopping for you. I wonder when their busiest day will be…
Ain't no one delivering to me out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere anyway.
We have someone in one of the neighbouring villages that delivers some burgers and local stuff (e.g. aligot) if you order before 6pm.
Running a winter-hardened rally car isn't cheap. They better get hazard pay.
Most of the time its +$1 per delivery. Not because its hazardous, but because they dont have enough drivers.
