Last year i helped some people get unstuck and i was prepared to pull anyone in my truck if situation were to come up, but this year i said fuck it. Im not helping anyone. This shit happens every year yet everyone loves to make it someone elses fault but there own. But i shouldnt be surprised though, its the Vancouver Way

man i'm looking forward to saturday when we have 8C highs, and for entire following week.
I think flooding might be pretty serious though, tons of built up snow, 20+mm of rain every day, temperature swing of over 15 degrees.. we work sorta half inside half outside so these -15C days have been really hard on everyone

huge snow dump and then freezing rain, this weekend is going to be exciting lol

When ramps off hwy are icy and there is an incline or decline ... does anything help ... even snowtires?

Drove out to Richmond from tri cities, pretty clear roads and fast moving.

Only hairy part was black ice at the end of the highway at alderbridge and shell when it slows down from the overpass.

If they're little patches of ice with some pavement, then winter tires will definitely help. If it's one big sheet of ice nothing except studded tires will help.

Going up, you need momentum. Going down, you just need to pray lol

Never seen this much ice forming before with any snowfall I can remember

During the day all the snow on the roof and gutters melts a little and my whole front porch and stairs are a 2” sheet of ice

another day driving through hwy 1 in the morning... burnaby lake area is another stretch of ice.

its literally driving on patches of ice rink. rest of the highway is clear though.

have they treated all main roads in east van/burnaby areas yet or are they just letting cars drive over it in hopes it melts stuff on it's own?

i would think by now the main roads are 'ok' but this is vancouver after all

Hung out with this guy all Tuesday morning. He hung out around for a couple hours eating all the grass clippings after I plowed the snow. Just a nice way to take a break and watch nature.

https://youtube.com/shorts/XppM3__6PHA

Winter Storm Warning issued

Back to airline hub talk:

Pearson Airport in Toronto is total chaos as stormy weather approaches

Is that sarcasm? :lol

$21 isn't much in this city. Working at the airport isn't a breeze either, security clearance and all that crap can be a pain in the ass, it's also not the closest commute.

I can see why they have issues attracting workers.

I've said it many times on this forum, via the cost of housing in this city -- we've essentially fucked ourselves, get used to this kind of crap in the future.

21$ after tax is minimum wage lol...

Not looking forward to the storm tonight/tomorrow. Supposed to have Christmas Eve dinner at my parents in Surrey, but not going to take the kids through a mess even with snow tires.

I have a feeling it won't be cleaned up by Saturday even if it begins to slowly warm up.

Yea sarcasm Sorry lol

It seems like a pretty shit job all around and they had a hiring campaign a while back touting their $21 an hour pay scale.

People always whine here about “well then you’ll pay more taxes!!!”

If services actually work, I don’t think about how much more I have to pay. Just get the services to work. If it means another $50-$80 a plane ticket so I can land, get to a gate, and get my luggage in a reasonable amount of time, I wouldn’t bat an eye.

The issue becomes when you keep paying more and more for worse and worse service. Ie. garbage and recycling and pickup.

Snow followed by freezing rain that turns roads to ice. Maybe I can use my hockey skate to work lol

kingsway and 12th was sketchy. lots of black ice this morning.

Was hoping the rest of my packages would arrive today, but I'm guessing yvr for cargo is a mess too :/ dang and with the storm tonight, guess I won't see the packages til next week

I just finished another round of recruiting at work, $30/hr start for a City of Vancouver job and we had the worst turnout ever. But sarcasm not sarcasm $30/hr once upon a time sounded aight now sounds low WutFace

Well, you won't hear anyone here complaining because YYZ in chaos didn't/doesn't affect them. YVR should have been better prepared. /sarcasm

Lol. Starting pilot wage at AC is ~40k a year. That’s close to $20 an hour isn’t it? I can see it now “you get paid the same as the pilots” lol

I flew in and out of YVR yesterday without delay. Rumour says there is a de ice fluid shortage. With the rain coming I wouldn’t expect to many issues this weekend… tomorrow… Err…

Drove all around east side to UBC and back and forth yesterday, random roads would be ploughed and some other routes would be just "ploughed by cars"

Some smaller emptier streets on the west side were more ploughed than certain sections of Kingsway by Boundary

lol pooling water

Are you serious ?!! Holy friggin crap that’s depressing.