Author Topic: Winter is coming...and that means ice. (Read 2264 times)

Frosty · « **on:** October 14, 2005, 12:42:35 pm »

Sure, it won't get cold enough in NY until about December, but if anyone's around Long Island....

...the ice goes down around Christmas.

Frosty · « **Reply #1 on:** October 14, 2005, 12:43:11 pm »

.....

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 14, 2005, 12:46:01 pm »

haha thats awesome, what do you do just throw a bunch of buckets of water out there when it gets cold?

mr.Curmudgeon · « **Reply #3 on:** October 14, 2005, 12:53:20 pm »

What is that crazy sport they are playing? I think I remember it being on national tv...maybe I'm mistaking it with something else that has come back recently....hmmmm...weird.

mrC

Stingray · « **Reply #4 on:** October 14, 2005, 12:56:01 pm »

BYO skating rink. Sweet!

-S

Frosty · « **Reply #5 on:** October 14, 2005, 01:03:29 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on October 14, 2005, 12:46:01 pm

haha thats awesome, what do you do just throw a bunch of buckets of water out there when it gets cold?

It's all about the mist...

A fine layer of mist from the hose freezes faster than buckets of water.

ChadTower · « **Reply #6 on:** October 14, 2005, 02:07:53 pm »

That's right before your pipes burst and your whole house and yard are covered in similar ice.

mccoy178 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 14, 2005, 02:30:16 pm »

That is cool. Literally.

ChadTower · « **Reply #8 on:** October 14, 2005, 02:39:04 pm »

The lighting effect is mighty cool.

Stingray · « **Reply #9 on:** October 14, 2005, 02:48:41 pm »

My wife would love it if I did that at my house, but sadly it only gets cold enough for it work a few non-consecutive days of the year.

-S

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #10 on:** October 14, 2005, 02:53:29 pm »

Last year it snowed for only a day here in Corpus

Harry Potter · « **Reply #11 on:** October 14, 2005, 02:58:05 pm »

The only ice we get in Australia is in our Scotch 'n Coke.

RayB · « **Reply #12 on:** October 14, 2005, 03:02:27 pm »

I didn't know NY was in Canada!

ChadTower · « **Reply #13 on:** October 14, 2005, 03:08:23 pm »

Gets cold like that for months in New England too.

Frosty · « **Reply #14 on:** October 14, 2005, 03:09:12 pm »

Thanks...

Yeah, it takes a pretty good cold snap to get a good sheet down.

ChadTower · « **Reply #15 on:** October 14, 2005, 03:11:07 pm »

I would have done this too, but my yard is not level enough.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 14, 2005, 03:13:29 pm »

thats awesome, you win the cool dad award

MajorHavoc · « **Reply #17 on:** October 14, 2005, 06:37:06 pm »

Well done! I grew up In Northern NY. First snowfall and Halloween
usually were neck and neck. We had a conveniently located pond we could clear off and skate on. Kind of Norman Rockwellish in retrospect but it was kinda neat.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #18 on:** October 14, 2005, 11:10:30 pm »

Was that the Zamboni parked next to that building?

duffjr · « **Reply #19 on:** October 15, 2005, 02:23:52 am »

i have to say that's the first joke of yours i didn't think was funny. it was more like forced, polite humor from the truck observation although i was laughing at the joke attempt probably more than i would have laughed at a funny joke.

the rink is cool. i'm more of a do stuff that takes no more than a minute kind of person, so i can appreciate the dedication.

Bones · « **Reply #20 on:** October 15, 2005, 02:32:40 am »

I was watching TV last night with the little woman and in the show it was Christmas eve and it was snowing. We both commented of how foreign the idea seems. Christmas day here is usually hot, bloody hot.

A white Christmas must be heaps of fun for the kids.

ChadTower · « **Reply #21 on:** October 15, 2005, 11:04:14 am »

A white christmas actually is a small cause of stress for a lot of people. If there is not snow, they get upset about it... and about a week before christmas start to get all stressed out about there being no snow.

Weird, but I see it in a lot of people here.

Frosty · « **Reply #22 on:** October 15, 2005, 11:14:39 am »

Zamboni? Almost. Of course, the rule is--you skate, you sweep...

ChadTower · « **Reply #23 on:** October 15, 2005, 12:09:16 pm »

We didn't even do that in Canada, we used to just pour more water over it. The dust combines with the water and makes a new sheet.

Stingray · « **Reply #24 on:** October 17, 2005, 09:42:23 am »

Bones, I live in a part of the US that doesn't get a whole lot of snow, so a white xmas is pretty foriegn to me too. I can count the number of times it's happened on one hand. Fine by me, I hate the stuff. I have too much driving to do over the holidays to worry about the roads being slick anyway.

-S

Harry Potter · « **Reply #25 on:** October 17, 2005, 10:03:41 am »

White Christmas: 20 below zero, radiators freezing up, icy roads, heaters breaking down, lost fingers from frostbite.

Aussie Christmas: 40 above zero, day on the beach, nice breeze blowing through the house as we get yet another ugly sweater. And air-conditioners breaking down.

Take your pick.


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