It's like powder and sometimes it can be like thick and icey. Rent where I am is 600 on average so it's not too bad living here because at least everythings cheap even if you have to walk to work somedays
>Moved from deep Michigan to the middle of Illinois.
Kill me. I'm missing all the fun weather.
I'm already snowed in. I literally can't use my car lol
You have fresh snow that's nice and powdery and what you see in movies. Then if it rains and freezes again you have a hellscape of hard daggers that will tear you up if you fall on it
>No Menards shit in there?
I worked at Lowe's for a few years in contractor sales while I finished my engineering degree. I'd never set foot in a Menard's in my life up to that point. When I graduated and found a better job, I moved somewhere with a lot of Menard's.
Lowe's is absolute dog shit compared to Menard's. Literally everything about Menard's is better. Even the employees are happier, and there are a lot more of them; and I'm in a position to judge, because I worked at Lowe's.
Not sure how Lowe's even still exists other than inertia.
Lowes is cleaner than home depot, but home depot usually has people with a clue working, so that's probably why they're one of the largest companies on earth.
Menard's is best, but they're rarer and you have that annoying jingle to deal with every 2 minutes
I disagree. I worked in a Menards for a couple years, and there are some things I try to avoid buying. >Tools - John Menard owns most of the brands in the store, and often won't stock competitors items. Without the competition, these brands are inevitably shittier. This holds true from screwdrivers to power tools. Also, old man Menard is a cheap bastard and buys surplus carts from other closing stores, then repaints them in Menard colors. >Plants - often infected with mites or just a week from dying at the time of sale. None I've bought from there have held up particularly well. >Sales - the rebates are borderline scams. Nobody turns those in, and a few years back Menards was successfully sued for making the rebate redemption process so convoluted.
Paint, lumber, holiday decorations, and everything else is fine. Also unrelated, but they used to have an unofficial policy where they exclusively hired women for cashier and front-end customer service roles. Think they may have relaxed it in recent years.
>Also unrelated, but they used to have an unofficial policy where they exclusively hired women for cashier and front-end customer service roles.
That's unofficial policy at Lowe's as well. It is changing, even in small towns, but it's changing very slowly. Actually, I support hiring gigantic black men to be cashiers so that your average insufferable flabby Gen Xer or Boomer will keep his or her mouth shut while buying their shit.
Your post triggered an early childhood memory. I remember I really had to pee and me and my dad were at a Menards, can’t remember why, probably to save big money. Anyway, we finally found a bathroom and when we opened it up there was shit everywhere, and tons of it, like literal shit. The shape of the shit was confusing though, it didn’t appear to have just recently dropped out of an ass, but rather it looked like someone had like a bucket of shit that they mixed up into a softer consistency and then smeared on the seat and every other surface of the bathroom like a jelly. My dad then helped cover me as I peed on one of their baby trees in the nursery. Love you dad, and frick you Menominee Falls Menards Poop-Smearer.
I'm ready for snow to stay on the ground instead of going away from subsequent warm-ups and rains. The bombardment of lake-effect snow that hit Western NY last month didn't last long at all.
Wore my new snowshoes (MSR Lightning Ascent) for the first time this morning. Didn't really need them, but wanted to try them on flat ground before using them in the mountains.
>Live in Kentucky >power goes out >No AC, no loud ass TV, nobody taking a shower >can hear the wind blow against the apartment >It's quiet for the first time in years. I feel peaceful. >About to fall asleep >the second the power comes back on, neighbors start blaring thier fricking TV again and the noisy AC drowns out the sounds of wind >gets a headache and insomnia comes back
Frick this society shit ima live in a cabin. Michigan Montana or Alaska?
If you've been living in a sardine can for your entire life up 'til now, you've got an uphill battle ahead of you on all fronts: >limited finances >limited to nonexistent experience living in remote areas >it's harder to employ/self-employ/self-sustain in remote areas >likely limited knowledge of homesteading, subsistence, husbandry, woodcraft, survival, etc. >likely limited knowledge of hunting, fishing, trapping, etc.
If you're the type of person who isn't generally handy, can't clean a fish, can't dress a rabbit or deer, can't read a map, can't start a fire, can't build a chair (let alone anything more substantial), never chopped wood, never cellared provisions, can't swim, never climbed a tree....
Ugh, I’m trying, anon, I’m trying. I can’t help that I was born a citygay. I’m passable at about half of those things though so I feel pretty good starting from nothing.
Don't get down on yourself, ask yourself if it's truly what you want and what you're willing to give up for it. Anyone can learn to live out on their own if they are dedicated enough. There's also quite a few programs that would help a lot for stuff like this. There's "volunteer" type programs to live on farms in exchange for labor, mostly targeted towards people in recovery. It'd get you out of the city, and there'd be a lot of overlap with homesteading.
Say what you will about midwest cities but the farm and forest folks are peak Americans. Im a Britbong living in Wisconsin and without fail some farmer or redneck will gladly stop and give you a tug out of the ditch for free
>wtf is road salt? Is that another word for sand?
It's salt, AKA NaCl, AKA sodium chloride. It comes in pea gravel-sized chunks. Substantially lowers the freezing point of water and large amounts of it will slush it out even when it does manage to freeze.
Sand is mostly used in areas where salt can affect ecologically sensitive locations (though road salt leaches into the soil and water table and is generally harmful to the environment regardless).
Sand is used in the real man's midwest where it's so assfrick cold outside all winter that salt is nearly or completely ineffective due to low temps. I'm sorry sweaty, but you're not really in the midwest, you're in the salt belt, enjoy your car loans.
>I'm sorry sweaty, but you're not really in the midwest, you're in the salt belt, enjoy your car loans.
I'm not a fan of using massive amounts of salt on the roads, but I'm also not a fan of winter in general. I'm completely okay with not being surrounded by heaps of snow and ice for three months out of the year, and have zero interest in ice fishing, ice climbing, or alpinism. Also, I own my car outright and keep it washed and maintained, no significant corrosion since I bought it in 2015.
>big blizzard heaves its way through the Plains and Midwest >retail workers dumb enough to drive on bald tires to keep a shit job get snowed into their cars, freeze to death >countless Grandpas once again insist on shoveling snow for hours, have heart attacks >completely unprepared trailer trash and noggers instantly freeze the second the electricity goes out >probably housefuls of scientifically illiterate dumbfricks who used an outdoors heater indoors and died of CO poisoning waiting to be discovered >massive highway pileups kill and injure dozens because they refuse to slow down in whiteout conditions in their inadequate vehicles
Based blizzard doing God's work.
I feel bad reading about all these people dying in winter weather but it is amazing how ill-prepared the average dumbfrick is for any kind of challenge. If you at the very least make sure your car has decent tires in preparation for winter and then don't drive like a total fricktard in the snow you're doing way better than at least 50% of people out there
every year there are people who think cloudseeded weather is normal and realize that real weather still exists between times of cloudseeding then freaking out about "climate change" and so on when everyone who lived in these cold places that experience snowfall for longer, knows its just normal winter weather
i dont get it personally
A long time ago, mankind was completely at the mercy of the elements.
Nowadays, that's still actually the case. More so, really, because we now rely on electricity for everything, and that's the first thing to go whenever shit gets real.
what does snow feel like, i've never seen it
It's like powder and sometimes it can be like thick and icey. Rent where I am is 600 on average so it's not too bad living here because at least everythings cheap even if you have to walk to work somedays
I'm already snowed in. I literally can't use my car lol
Where do you live? Is most shit still open if you're willing to walk a few miles to it? I've been getting priced out of the place I was born
You have fresh snow that's nice and powdery and what you see in movies. Then if it rains and freezes again you have a hellscape of hard daggers that will tear you up if you fall on it
the media lies, it's actually warm to the touch. don't ask me to explain the science i'm not neil degrasse tyson homosexual
like bags of sand
A mixuture of cold infinate void, dread and bliss
Serendipity and hostile
Soft, wet, firm and painful
Like a bag of sand
Buy instant snow as a chore one time and you could experience this, my fren.
can't wait
>Moved from deep Michigan to the middle of Illinois.
Kill me. I'm missing all the fun weather.
>Moved from Northern IL to Hawaii
Endless summer gets old real quick.
Moved from Maine to Alabama, I know how you feel
Frick do I wish I had Taco John's rn
No Menards shit in there?
>he isn't 11 percentpilled
>No Menards shit in there?
I worked at Lowe's for a few years in contractor sales while I finished my engineering degree. I'd never set foot in a Menard's in my life up to that point. When I graduated and found a better job, I moved somewhere with a lot of Menard's.
Lowe's is absolute dog shit compared to Menard's. Literally everything about Menard's is better. Even the employees are happier, and there are a lot more of them; and I'm in a position to judge, because I worked at Lowe's.
Not sure how Lowe's even still exists other than inertia.
I just went to one for the first time in Missouri a couple weeks ago. Idk how they haven't taken over the country.
Lowes is cleaner than home depot, but home depot usually has people with a clue working, so that's probably why they're one of the largest companies on earth.
Menard's is best, but they're rarer and you have that annoying jingle to deal with every 2 minutes
I disagree. I worked in a Menards for a couple years, and there are some things I try to avoid buying.
>Tools - John Menard owns most of the brands in the store, and often won't stock competitors items. Without the competition, these brands are inevitably shittier. This holds true from screwdrivers to power tools. Also, old man Menard is a cheap bastard and buys surplus carts from other closing stores, then repaints them in Menard colors.
>Plants - often infected with mites or just a week from dying at the time of sale. None I've bought from there have held up particularly well.
>Sales - the rebates are borderline scams. Nobody turns those in, and a few years back Menards was successfully sued for making the rebate redemption process so convoluted.
Paint, lumber, holiday decorations, and everything else is fine. Also unrelated, but they used to have an unofficial policy where they exclusively hired women for cashier and front-end customer service roles. Think they may have relaxed it in recent years.
>Also unrelated, but they used to have an unofficial policy where they exclusively hired women for cashier and front-end customer service roles.
That's unofficial policy at Lowe's as well. It is changing, even in small towns, but it's changing very slowly. Actually, I support hiring gigantic black men to be cashiers so that your average insufferable flabby Gen Xer or Boomer will keep his or her mouth shut while buying their shit.
Your post triggered an early childhood memory. I remember I really had to pee and me and my dad were at a Menards, can’t remember why, probably to save big money. Anyway, we finally found a bathroom and when we opened it up there was shit everywhere, and tons of it, like literal shit. The shape of the shit was confusing though, it didn’t appear to have just recently dropped out of an ass, but rather it looked like someone had like a bucket of shit that they mixed up into a softer consistency and then smeared on the seat and every other surface of the bathroom like a jelly. My dad then helped cover me as I peed on one of their baby trees in the nursery. Love you dad, and frick you Menominee Falls Menards Poop-Smearer.
Poop
Who is this man and how do I get his excrement in my mouth?
>Menards
supposeldy you save big money
I miss that old white haired fat bastard.
I'm ready for snow to stay on the ground instead of going away from subsequent warm-ups and rains. The bombardment of lake-effect snow that hit Western NY last month didn't last long at all.
Wore my new snowshoes (MSR Lightning Ascent) for the first time this morning. Didn't really need them, but wanted to try them on flat ground before using them in the mountains.
counts as New York, or Amish country
>counts as New York
Not biting at that bait
just facts
>Live in Kentucky
>power goes out
>No AC, no loud ass TV, nobody taking a shower
>can hear the wind blow against the apartment
>It's quiet for the first time in years. I feel peaceful.
>About to fall asleep
>the second the power comes back on, neighbors start blaring thier fricking TV again and the noisy AC drowns out the sounds of wind
>gets a headache and insomnia comes back
Frick this society shit ima live in a cabin. Michigan Montana or Alaska?
If you've been living in a sardine can for your entire life up 'til now, you've got an uphill battle ahead of you on all fronts:
>limited finances
>limited to nonexistent experience living in remote areas
>it's harder to employ/self-employ/self-sustain in remote areas
>likely limited knowledge of homesteading, subsistence, husbandry, woodcraft, survival, etc.
>likely limited knowledge of hunting, fishing, trapping, etc.
If you're the type of person who isn't generally handy, can't clean a fish, can't dress a rabbit or deer, can't read a map, can't start a fire, can't build a chair (let alone anything more substantial), never chopped wood, never cellared provisions, can't swim, never climbed a tree....
Well, start learning.
Ugh, I’m trying, anon, I’m trying. I can’t help that I was born a citygay. I’m passable at about half of those things though so I feel pretty good starting from nothing.
Don't get down on yourself, ask yourself if it's truly what you want and what you're willing to give up for it. Anyone can learn to live out on their own if they are dedicated enough. There's also quite a few programs that would help a lot for stuff like this. There's "volunteer" type programs to live on farms in exchange for labor, mostly targeted towards people in recovery. It'd get you out of the city, and there'd be a lot of overlap with homesteading.
Nah, don't learn nuthin.
Just die when shtf.
Leaves more resources for the rest of us.
Fortune favors the prepared.
Say what you will about midwest cities but the farm and forest folks are peak Americans. Im a Britbong living in Wisconsin and without fail some farmer or redneck will gladly stop and give you a tug out of the ditch for free
Got to drive from NE Wi to an hour north of Duluth on Thursday night.
Aside from the temperature (-31F), it really wasn't that bad.
Perfect weather for Skyline coneys with the habanero cheese
wtf is road salt? Is that another word for sand?
>wtf is road salt? Is that another word for sand?
It's salt, AKA NaCl, AKA sodium chloride. It comes in pea gravel-sized chunks. Substantially lowers the freezing point of water and large amounts of it will slush it out even when it does manage to freeze.
Sand is mostly used in areas where salt can affect ecologically sensitive locations (though road salt leaches into the soil and water table and is generally harmful to the environment regardless).
Sand is used in the real man's midwest where it's so assfrick cold outside all winter that salt is nearly or completely ineffective due to low temps. I'm sorry sweaty, but you're not really in the midwest, you're in the salt belt, enjoy your car loans.
>I'm sorry sweaty, but you're not really in the midwest, you're in the salt belt, enjoy your car loans.
I'm not a fan of using massive amounts of salt on the roads, but I'm also not a fan of winter in general. I'm completely okay with not being surrounded by heaps of snow and ice for three months out of the year, and have zero interest in ice fishing, ice climbing, or alpinism. Also, I own my car outright and keep it washed and maintained, no significant corrosion since I bought it in 2015.
401 area code here; someone sell me on this. Looks pretty Taco Bell tier but our Mexican is pretty dogshit anyway
it's basically taco bell teir if they used something that can actually be called meat instead of just technically "meat"
the hash browns are pretty good tho
So not worthy of a Harold & Kumar style comedy adventure? Unfortunate.
>big blizzard heaves its way through the Plains and Midwest
>retail workers dumb enough to drive on bald tires to keep a shit job get snowed into their cars, freeze to death
>countless Grandpas once again insist on shoveling snow for hours, have heart attacks
>completely unprepared trailer trash and noggers instantly freeze the second the electricity goes out
>probably housefuls of scientifically illiterate dumbfricks who used an outdoors heater indoors and died of CO poisoning waiting to be discovered
>massive highway pileups kill and injure dozens because they refuse to slow down in whiteout conditions in their inadequate vehicles
Based blizzard doing God's work.
I feel bad reading about all these people dying in winter weather but it is amazing how ill-prepared the average dumbfrick is for any kind of challenge. If you at the very least make sure your car has decent tires in preparation for winter and then don't drive like a total fricktard in the snow you're doing way better than at least 50% of people out there
every year there are people who think cloudseeded weather is normal and realize that real weather still exists between times of cloudseeding then freaking out about "climate change" and so on when everyone who lived in these cold places that experience snowfall for longer, knows its just normal winter weather
i dont get it personally
A long time ago, mankind was completely at the mercy of the elements.
Nowadays, that's still actually the case. More so, really, because we now rely on electricity for everything, and that's the first thing to go whenever shit gets real.