What's more current than the weather?

[Gravdigr]

Best send those boys a shovel.

[Griff]

They take winter seriously out there.

[fargon]

They get all of our Snow, and they can have it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Rochester is brutal with that lake effect snow.

Oct totals = 0.0 inches in 2019 to 2.6 inches in 1993
Nov totals = 0.0 inches in 2009 to 44.2 inches in 1970
Dec totals = 2.3 inches in 2015 to 46.5 inches in 2010
Jan totals = 4.0 inches in 1944 to 60.2 inches in 1966
Feb totals = 4.7 inches in 1998 to 64.8 inches in 1958
Mar totals = 0.0 inches in 2010 to 40.3 inches in 1959
Apr totals = 0.0 inches in 2015 to 20.2 inches in 1979
May totals = 0.0 inches in 2019 to 10.9 inches in 1989

Year totals = 41.7 inches in 1952-53 to 161.7 inches in 1959-60
From 1940 up, 33 years over 100 inches, and 8 years over 130 inches.

No thank you.

[Diaphone Jim]

San Francisco F temps this week: lows 52, highs 62, no relief in sight.

[Gravdigr]

Relief from what?!

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Relief from what?!

A Jack London hellscape.

[glatt]

Ah yes. The Sea Wolf starts off in San Francisco. A Jack London classic.

[Gravdigr]

52 - 62 sounds just fine right about now.

[BigV]

So. Much. Rain.

Not especially stormy, just. . . jfc. pounding rain. It's literally pounding the stain off the deck. I've had to reinforce the driveway with a couple more tons of gravel.

the deck, powerwashed by god




the driveway, mid patch, mid batch. I only feel comfortable loading 3/4 ton at a time (and unloading it a bucket at a time).

[xoxoxoBruce]

I know the pain, the last place I lived was clay that turned to mud if you spit on it. Every summer we'd call the man to dump 25 ton of stone on the driveway. Then spread it by hand because a wire over the driveway prevented him from spreading it with the truck.

[Griff]

What is the base under your driveway?

We used crushed 2" and under including fines so it bonds together. I'm no road builder but I wonder if that surface would hold up better than pea?

Full disclosure: my driveway needs work next summer.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I was surprised, 35 years ago I had a paved pull off to my mailbox so the mailman could stop out of the line of fire with people cresting the hill 40 feet away. Over the years they've repaved the road a couple times so it became higher than my pull off and dumped the water from the road to my side making a long mud bog by the mailbox.

I figured I'd have a load of stone dumped, and I asked the guy if I should go with small stone, say half inch, or bigger stuff like inch or inch and a half. He said nope, four inch. I thought that was nuts and would make it rough as hell. But he was right. After the mailman, heating oil truck, and UPS truck rolled over a couple times it all packed down tighter than an bulls ass at fly time. This is the second winter and we've had double the normal rain last year. It's still tight.

The pros know.

[Diaphone Jim]

I've been hauling pea gravel for my driveway once or twice a year for 47 years.
At a ton a GMC load, I think I have a pretty good base by now.

[Clodfobble]

Oh! Oh! Mr. Clod and I were just having a discussion about road paving, and maybe you guys can help.

When they repaved our street a few years back, it wasn't normal blacktop but rather a deep layer of gray gravel--only he and I remember the thickness differently. He says that the smooth surface was underneath, and the loose gravel was just some leftover that they didn't bother to sweep off; I maintain that the gravel WAS the surface, and it packed down to smoothness over the course of about 6 months from all the neighborhood cars going over it, and that this was in fact the intended design of the product. But I can't find proof that such a thing exists. "Unbound surface aggregate" was the closest descriptor I could come up with from Google, but all the results are huge PDFs that I can't make much sense of.