The Coffee House

[limr31]

It's a disagree fest!

Okay boys, enough bickering. I just hit 500 miles! Hit me with some Likes!!!

 

[limr31]

Yay, I'm a winner!

 

[snowbear116 47]

Yay, I'm a winner!

always.

 

[tirediron]

Well, duh, them, but how can you leave Snerd out of the party?

Throw a banana out the window?

 

[Gary A.]

Just a FYI ... it is raining like hell here.

 

[Warhorse]

-11 degree's here.

 

[pgriz]

Just a FYI ... it is raining like hell here.

That "should" help with the drought, as long as it doesn't immediately all run out into the ocean. But according to this article, the relief may be temporary: Worst Megadroughts in 1 000 Years Threaten US.

 

[Designer]

Just a FYI ... it is raining like hell here.

That "should" help with the drought, as long as it doesn't immediately all run out into the ocean. But according to this article, the relief may be temporary: Worst Megadroughts in 1 000 Years Threaten US.

What they really need is 12 feet or more of snowpack in the Sierra-Nevada Range.

They're nowhere near that for several years in a row now.

Sierra snowpack dismal for January fourth year of drought looks likely The Sacramento Bee The Sacramento Bee

Winter s first measurement of the Sierra Nevada snowpack shows more snow this year than last Fox News

 

[pgriz]

Just a FYI ... it is raining like hell here.

That "should" help with the drought, as long as it doesn't immediately all run out into the ocean. But according to this article, the relief may be temporary: Worst Megadroughts in 1 000 Years Threaten US.

What they really need is 12 feet or more of snowpack in the Sierra-Nevada Range.

That and the rethinking of precipitation => drainage to precipitation => catchment.

 

[bribrius]

good morning peeps! Looking like i have it better than at least one of you it is a phenomenal 12 degrees or so here. i think we are about to go back into the zero degrees or less area though... Good thing i live in a house i always think how much it would suck to sleep outside!

 

[KenC]

Morning, hosers! Having my coffee at work. Got in later than usual because when I left the house I almost slid down the sidewalk to the next corner (all downhill), so I went into the basement, got salt and sand and dealt with the sidewalk and parts of the front steps. I checked last night and it looked OK and at that point everything was freezing over - there must have been some water that managed to seep out just before everything froze completely. After I was done salting/sanding I walked to the train and almost fell on a couple of other sidewalks.

 

[bribrius]

Morning, hosers! Having my coffee at work. Got in later than usual because when I left the house I almost slid down the sidewalk to the next corner (all downhill), so I went into the basement, got salt and sand and dealt with the sidewalk and parts of the front steps. I checked last night and it looked OK and at that point everything was freezing over - there must have been some water that managed to seep out just before everything froze completely. After I was done salting/sanding I walked to the train and almost fell on a couple of other sidewalks.

you don't drive to work? That must be kind of nice. Best i had it is when i lived across from where i worked once so i could just walk across the street. It was great. No commute.

 

[KenC]

Morning, hosers! Having my coffee at work. Got in later than usual because when I left the house I almost slid down the sidewalk to the next corner (all downhill), so I went into the basement, got salt and sand and dealt with the sidewalk and parts of the front steps. I checked last night and it looked OK and at that point everything was freezing over - there must have been some water that managed to seep out just before everything froze completely. After I was done salting/sanding I walked to the train and almost fell on a couple of other sidewalks.

you don't drive to work? That must be kind of nice. Best i had it is when i lived across from where i worked once so i could just walk across the street. It was great. No commute.

Yeah, I like it. I've had many years of driving commutes, some of them pretty long, but for the past few years I've been walking distance from a train. When there's a lot of snow sometimes I take a few days to clear my car off.

 

[limr31]

Best commute I ever had was downstairs and across the courtyard.. In Istanbul, I lived on the top floor of the elementary school/admin offices of the school. The other building across a small courtyard was for the middle school, high school, and teachers' room, and that's where I taught.

 

[sm4him]

When I first starting work for public transit, I actually still took my car quite a bit, because the closest bus stop to me was about 3/4 mile, and there was a pretty steep hill included in that. Plus it was a route along a main road, which meant lots of stops. Took about 20 minutes, AFTER the walk to the stop for a commute I could drive in about 7 minutes.

But a couple of years ago we started a new neighborhood route. The stop is just about two houses away from me. And because I'm really at the beginning (or end, depending on which way you're headed) of the route, and most of the riders live further out, there are usually very few passengers, if any at all, between my stop and the transit center, so the whole trip takes at most a couple of minutes longer than if I drove. BUT, really, it's faster, because if I drive, I have to park in the garage across the street then walk in. The bus takes me right up to the platform, I hop off walk across the platform (which only employees can do), in through the second-floor door and I'm about 15 feet from my office.

Oh, and then there's the fact that, since I'm an employee, the ride is also free.

The only reason I drive to work now is if I have plans for after work that I can't get to on the bus.