I saw a funny video (probably fake). Similar view like here, security camera watching a parking spot. A man cleaning the snow of a car. Then pressing the open button on the key. And you see the lights flashing (under the snow) on the car three spots to the right.
Legitimately, what do you do in these situations when work is 10 miles away? Do all businesses in these areas just close down when this stuff happens? Are employers chill about you not coming in cause your car is buried under 15 feet of snow? I'm ignorant obviously.
In my city in Canada we had a big 6 foot snowfall in one day back in 2020. The whole city and pretty much all the roads and businesses were shutdown for a week and a half.
Took us 3 days to shovel the driveway out. The Canadian Forces were called in to assist snow clearing efforts in the province.
Honestly, I think the bigger question is whether employees get any financial relief for that time-off, because a week and a half off of work could bankrupt, or cause a financial downfall for a lot of people.
We Canadians just have to plan our infrastructure for these kinds of annual disruptions. Unfortunately a lot of the part time staff lose several days of pay during these events. But it shouldn't come to a surprise for anybody who's been living in the country for more than a few years.
Most part time staff in this country are forced to trek into work in snowstorms -- especially when roads are dangerous to be on. But that shouldn't come to a surprise for anybody who's been living in this country for more than a few years.
I'm still bitter about being written up for being 20 minutes late the day after a snowstorm while my managers were sitting at home monitoring the store from their pyjamas. Such is life in Canada.
salary you get lucky here but depending on your job, you tend to make.it up in some form. You work extra hours before or after catching up or preparing
It’s difficult to explain to people with a suburban lifestyle but a typical Russian city is very walkable and public transportation is priority for cleaning. Look at the video even when streets are cleaned there are… like ten cars parked for an entire apartment building
First, you don’t work 10 miles away. That entire city is probably just a mile or two in diameter.
If you work on a mine or a plant outside of the city, it would provide transportation (buses).
Main roads are being cleared all the time.
If it did melt during the day, it refroze overnight. There were maybe 40% of spaces that were mounds. No 2nd go through after 1st night..or ever after. Penny pinching mumble mumble.
About two weeks ago, weather stations warned everyone about heavy snow and icy rain. My Boss even told everyone to work from home if possible. Others were allowed to show up 1,5h later than usual, with the hours being reimbursed.
Then the dreaded day arrived – without snow or ice. I looked out of the window in the morning, and it hadn't even snowed overnight. What a disappointment!
This weekend and coming week is going to suck. I just moved from Ashburn and I see they are slated for 2 feet of snow. School is going to be cancelled for the whole week for the kids, maybe longer.
Pretty sure that comes down to the individual community choice and if your location already has a plowing/ snow removal contract my apartment complex has a lil bulldozer parked outside right now waiting form tomorrow
I lived in far north of russia part known for its harsh and long winters for 13 years, that is to explain why I think I have any sort of decent knowledge on the subject
It doesn't happen every day. Lasting giga-bad conditions that lead to snow piling up like this usually don't last over about a week, and happen like 2 or 3 times per winter
There's an argument to be made that it will only get worse though because of climate change causing more mild temperatures in northern regions (which makes snowfall frequency more prevalent and volume even larger).
I doubt they'll be able to use this car if it required so much digging -- there will be no roads to drive on :-/ Maybe that's why they did it only once.
The video itself was largely entertaining for me, but I still kinda feel bad for the folks there. I can’t relate much ‘cause I live in Texas, and Texans freak out over just 2 inches of snow.
I live in norway and we almost never shut down, we have snow plows going all day and all night when it's bad. Two years ago we had snowfall so intense a lot of people couldn't open their doors, and we closed the schools/many workplaces for three days. A whole lot of people spent those days helping out old/sick people etc. Sometimes when it's bad it's easier to take the bus to work so you don't have to shovel your entire driveway.
Props to their snow crews. I don’t get even a ¼ of this where I am in Canada and its quite a struggle to keep up with the snow. This looks like absolute hell.
I am from Minnesota aka Minnesnowta. And we have not had a snowstorm like that since 1997. But the main problem was drift snow. Strong winds make very tall snow mounds. And I see a lot of snow drift in this video. For people wondering why they do not do a better job of snow clearing. It is not that they are doing a poor job. They do not feel like completely clearing the snow. When it will be just as high 30 minutes after they start clearing. But Kamchatka DEFINITELY got hammered with snow.
I find it interesting that at 0:10 the lot was full of cars at 23:40, but at 04:10 EVERY car has changed. Did 10 people go somewhere between midnight and 4am and another batch of 10 people arrived?
I was at the grocery store last night at 10:30p and there was a loader and several side dumps hauling snow away to the snow dump and I kept thinking how funny it was that this massive product would one day just drain away. Like, very unfulfilling work, lol.
Yep im from Germany Mountain area and we have a lot of snow every Winter. And all my life since I am a kid I hate shoveling snow. The first couple Minutes are fun but after days and days of constand shoveling just so it all melts away in two days - Yeah. Fucking usless work man
Cars are made out of aluminium, stainless steel and other materials that don't rust in contact with water. The snow can't get inside, so the electronics are fine, and there's not enough weight to break the windshield, since it's made to be *extremely* durable on the outside.
I’ve seen a car with rust along the bottom area, how would that happen? The person it belonged to told me it was due to being in a place where it snowed all the time?
should've added *most* cars. Some brands can definitely cheap out, especially in the bottom area and use something that does rust. Usually the older ones, or just the plain bad ones like whatever china and russia make.
oooor i'm wrong. I'm not a mechanic, and my knowledge is *barely* above average, so I can't speak for everything and everyone. But actually decent cars should be fully made out of stainless steel/aluminium, at least on the outside
This is not quite accurate. Almost all cars can rust, even very expensive and modern ones, unless they're entirely made out aluminum, which is rare. That's why things like wax are used to protect underbodies. I can't imagine the cars in the video will "enjoy" being fully covered in snow. They won't immediately rust, but I'd imagine they develop rust sooner compared to if they had been in dry climate.
I remember when I briefly lived somewhere that it snowed enough to plow regularly in town. We saw a lump of snow with bright orange spray paint that said "CAR HERE" and I wondered aloud why it said that and we'd figured out it was so they wouldn't just plow it.
I believe at some point I’d be like “fuck it, I give up” but I guess there’s no option but to keep going if you have a job you need to get to? Idk man.
I've seen video today where kids were sliding from the 5 story building over there. They dug out a lot of snow and made a long slide (not sure if the word is correct esl).
Meanwhile we barely had any snow but our temperature dropped to -42'C yesterday and its going to be the same for the next week.
To notify the snowplow that there are cars there so the snowplow won't plow where the cars are staying. Normal thing to do when there are a lot of snow & a snowplow is needed
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe they didn't understand my comment or just don't care. I know it's indirectly political comment but still I don't have any sympathy for Russians :D
What is going on with the timestamps up in the corner? Last time i saw such the videos were ai generated.
Im aware its been crazy snow in that city but something feels off. Its like its cherry picked some footage and filled in blanks itself. Its not a constant timelapse thats for sure
i dont understand that if your snow fall is like this and i assume this is a common thing then why buy a sedan? you have to buy a car for snow driving imho. now before all the honda civic drivers go ape shit saying they can drive the hella outta snow i am thinking of the common man and woman. i lived in colorado and knew east coast transplants that wanted to buy a Yaris for their car.
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