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[missroserose]

Thanks to a series of snowstorms and the associated maintenance and removal tasks, it's been a solid month since any of the crew have had more than a day off here or there. Most of them have been working seven days a week.

The crew captain and second-in-command have been putting in 12-hour days trying to get everything squared away before the next big dump. (As you might imagine, they both look tired as hell.)

The weather report's predicting 12 to 21 inches of snow over the next 36 hours. And it's warming up, so it'll be the heavy, wet stuff, too.

I believe the atmosphere in the shop could be accurately described as a "Sense of Impending Doom."

Comments

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Yikes. The splatting of snow on you guys is brutal this year.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's been pretty crazy. Kit (the captain) keeps threatening to install a Kegerator under his desk. I'm halfway tempted to make a "Keg-o-Meter" and put it on his office door - a little slider with a picture of a keg on one side. Move it towards the keg a bit for every weekend like this, and away a bit for each day off. :)

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Idea: equip snowplows with flamethrowers for faster snow melting!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't think our liability insurance covers that. Not to mention the fuel would be hella expensive.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

That is a problem, yes.

But hey, they could film it and put it on TLC!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

And the royalties would probably be just enough to cover the lawsuits from angry parents whose kids got set on fire.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Not if they enter into a cross-licensing deal with McDonald's for new "Children McNuggets"!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

"Flame-broiled and seasoned with the delightful flavor of Darwinism!"

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

"Mostly white, but some African-American and Native, meat!"

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

It needs to be a keg, unburying from a pile o snow.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Appropriate, but a bit messy for under the desk.

[onionhead.livejournal.com]

Zoinks! I don't envy those guys at all. Hopefully the OT makes it all worthwhile, but I wouldn't want to feel that burnt out, tired, cold and reviled by us angry villagers, waving our shovels at them as we shovel our berms.
I like the keg-o-meter thing. :)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Actually, there've been a lot of complimentary calls today. I'm not sure if folk are just realizing exactly how much work the guys have been doing lately, or if (as Kit thinks) they're sucking up to us in hopes that we'll plow their streets first this weekend. :)