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December 30, 2009

The high cost of removing global warming
— Purple Avenger

That impish prankster global warming is already crushing state budgets with whopping bills for snow removal.

...Maryland's State Highway Administration has spent more than $27 million this year on snow removal, the bulk of that clearing away a massive pre-Christmas storm. But the agency's annual snow-removal budget is just $26 million...
...Stacey Stegman, a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation, said it costs Colorado $4.85 to send one snowplow one mile down one lane of highway. "It adds up," Ms. Stegman said. "We're tightening the belt."...

Of course there is a "sliver lining" to all this global warming. After we've embraced the suck and accepted our fate, and created the vast new network of dirt ox cart paths connecting our mud huts, global warming removal will no longer be necessary. Did the settlers on the plains living in sod houses have snow plows and paved roads? Of course not, and they got along just fine.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 08:51 AM | Comments (32)
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1 Is this fucking year over yet?

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2009 08:53 AM (Ew+mF)

2 Every colud does indeed have a sliver lining!

Posted by: Intrepid at December 30, 2009 08:56 AM (92zkk)

3 They plowed our roads in NY with mega high taxes on us......a lot lower taxes in Colorado and they only plow the main roads. So when it snows heavy you just stay home from work. A win-win.
Good work Gore.

Posted by: Cheri at December 30, 2009 08:58 AM (llSaz)

4 Global warming causes excessive snowfall. Also plagues of blood, plagues of frogs, plagues of lice, plagues of flies, plagues of livestock deaths, plagues of boils, plagues of hail, plagues of locusts, plagues of darkness, and plagues of death of firstborn.

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 30, 2009 09:01 AM (xxgag)

It no longer matters what reality is and how many people oppose these things. We will get force fed the shit sandwitch regardless.

Posted by: Vic at December 30, 2009 09:01 AM (QrA9E)

6 Budget buster or not, the irony of Barry returning from the UN "global warming" summit to two feet of snow in DC was worth every cent!

Posted by: Nighthawk at December 30, 2009 09:06 AM (OtQXp)

7 This year is already worse than last year was up here in MA. We have had the same snow on the ground for at least 3 weeks. 10 years ago it was a treat to have significant snow before Christmas.

Posted by: Mord at December 30, 2009 09:13 AM (tTj19)

8 Sorry folks, I was just chillin'...

Posted by: The Sun at December 30, 2009 09:14 AM (3Uz3f)

9 That the state of Colorado knows exactly what something like that costs is either incredible, or that is what the contractor quoted them.

Posted by: T at December 30, 2009 09:22 AM (z9Awt)

10 This year is already worse than last year was up here in MA.

I told you I was gonna stop global warming!

Posted by: Barry O at December 30, 2009 09:23 AM (NtiET)

11
"...it costs Colorado $4.85 to send one snowplow one mile down one lane of highway."

Oh really? Do the snowplows in Colorado run on snowplow driver farts? Even if that is the case they also need to factor in the cost of the driver's Taco BellÂ® diet. I'm thinking she's WAY off her numbers. Which is why government sucks so bad a budgeting. Looks to me like she added the driver's pay and the MPG on fuel and then put her pencil down.

Insurance for the snowplow and the driver?
Cost of the snowplow itself?
Maintaining the snowplow?
Dispatching, weather monitoring and other support for the snowplow?

I guess math is hard.

Posted by: Dang at December 30, 2009 09:24 AM (UA4gE)

Did the settlers on the plains living in sod houses have snow plows and paved roads? Of course not, and they got along just fine.

They got along fine because the government was far away and seldom thought about.

Posted by: Speller at December 30, 2009 09:28 AM (o0R2E)

13 The best part? Once all that snow melts, no more water shortage.

Posted by: Nimrod at December 30, 2009 09:29 AM (Vy2E5)

14 Man, Obama was right when he said this is the year the oceans will stop rising. He's the King of Cool in so many ways!

Posted by: arhooley at December 30, 2009 09:32 AM (GKXA7)

15 If the Earth is cooling, that's just one more reason to move south. Beat the rush.

Posted by: Rodent Liberation Front at December 30, 2009 09:41 AM (dQdrY)

16 14 Man, Obama was right when he said this is the year the oceans will stop rising. He's the King of Cool in so many ways!

Posted by: arhooley at December 30, 2009 01:32 PM (GKXA7)

You've got that right (scroll to the bottom for the chart):

http://sealevel.colorado.edu/

Hey, we're saved!

Posted by: theCork at December 30, 2009 09:55 AM (ia9oR)

17 Why don't they just tax the snow, and use that money for snow removal (and then double-count it and use it for health care, too)?

Or they can just tax the snow's employer, so that way it will essentially be free.

Posted by: Michael at December 30, 2009 10:25 AM (FC2+c)

18 Also not figured into these things is the cost of repairing roads. In Colorado, you'll get dumped on, then the sun will come out the next day with a vengeance; clouds dump on you the day after. Build up enough snow and you get ice once you smash it down.

Run the temperature up and you get expanding and contracting asphalt, ice melts and freezes again in the cracks and everything shatters. Couple of years back we got AlGored. City didn't get the snow off, so by the time it all melted all of the roads were chopped up with potholes.

It took a long time and a lot of money to patch them.

Posted by: Amos at December 30, 2009 10:26 AM (gDWoG)

19 The northern hemisphere is about to be hammered with some more global warming:

http://tinyurl.com/ycybrca

I do love hypotheses that are 'proven' by anything that happens! It makes science so much easier...and profitable.

Posted by: DngrMse at December 30, 2009 11:01 AM (lTl8a)

20 Here in the STATE OF JEFFERSON(NORTHERN CALIFORNIA,SOUTHERN OREGON) were getting snow and its everywhere so AL GORE YOU LYING SCOUNDREL

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 30, 2009 11:22 AM (40nu6)

21 Even in horse and buggy days they cleared streets and roads of snow at least the deeper drifts. Hopefully not too many states planned their future snow removal budgets on global warming forecasts. Mid term forecast show the Eastern half of the US getting really cold over the next few weeks, the West should be nice and warm.

Posted by: Bill at December 30, 2009 12:14 PM (LZSir)

22 Or you could live in a liberal state like Washington and have the mayors not plow anything or salt anything because it might endanger some snail darter. Just hunker down in your homes til global warming melts the snow and ice naturally. But don't watch any tvs or use your radios, don't want to increase your carbon footprints.

Posted by: eaglewingz08 at December 30, 2009 01:17 PM (0MGT1)

23 Hey PA: What the hell are you talking about? We froze our asses off! What we would have given for a snow plough or even the $4.85!

Posted by: Zombie Sodbuster at December 30, 2009 01:34 PM (WA+dq)

24 A normal thinking person would believe that with the emails from East Anglia/CRU released, along with the epic fail at HopenChangen, and this effing record cold and snow everywhere, that the Carbon Credit license to tax/steal scheme would be DOA. I have been from one side of teh internets and back, and you will be shocked to see how many corporations have small armies of lobbyists waiting, just waiting for Obama to give the go ahead. I predict the amount of money stolen is going to be breathtaking. By the way, what comes after trillion?

Posted by: sirsurfalot at December 30, 2009 03:46 PM (UPNlB)

25 You are all gonna die in a fiery blaze if you don't give me lots of money real soon. Heretics. Ignore the snow around you, it means you have less time to live if you don't give me money.

Posted by: Algore at December 30, 2009 04:25 PM (6jbtL)

26 Hi Sir...: I would assume quadrillion, but what do I know? We do not have all the trillions owed, so the question is moot. I say exploit our natural resources that we know that we have. They are really more valuable than "carbon credits" or dollars at this point (or damn soon, even as time is reckoned with the living). As a zombie I am in a position to know about underground resources of the natural variety! They can at least keep us warm! Well, at least the living. I suppose I should not assume a zombie persona without the proper popular cultural "facts" involved conveyed by movies (sounds like AGW really), but I will be an ass and wing it anyway! We will more than likely be moving into a "value" society soon enough. My wicked-smart (I am not kidding, I can easily get into Mensa and he can make me feel stupid at his whim!) brother is thinking of going the survivalist route in Canada where he now lives (well, a "sort of kind of" survivalist on 100+ acres!). He may be a Canadian in a year! Brain drain! Dogs and cats living together! Individual zombies having more brain power than the president of the US! That is just sad! Do not get me started about the Congress of the US. WE ARE SO SCREWED! Aside to AlGore. Join us. We are so waiting! Mother Earth so wants your fat pompous ass fully grounded. I am just sayin'. My smarter brother also said that I may be interpreted as the chief "wingnut" in my locale. Any help on why this can be considered funny would be appreciated. Wing nuts seem sort of innocuous, but then I did not know what "teabagging" meant! It seems weak which always makes me wonder when I should get the long knives out. Old, dead, but still feisty!

Posted by: Zombie Sodbuster at December 30, 2009 05:05 PM (RT8z/)

27 The Oklahoma City/County road people announced this morning that trying to deal with the maximum 14" of globular warmering debris that fell last week has used up most of the yearly budget of road salt & sand; and considering how little good that did in many areas, if we get anything else like this this winter, we're screwed.

Posted by: Firehand at December 30, 2009 05:53 PM (i2fkw)

When my late dad worked for the county road dept they used big snowplows called FWDs and rotery snowblowers and would often close the road till the snow was cleared away

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 30, 2009 07:08 PM (Wtfpi)

29 These winter snowstorms were caused by unusualy high amounts of percipitation, none were caused by abnormally LOW temps. Morons must have been smoking dubies in the biy's room during that 8th grade earth science class

Posted by: sheik Yamani at December 31, 2009 03:18 AM (mhD2v)

30 ED Hardy

Posted by: brand clothing at January 02, 2010 10:50 PM (401da)

31 We have no snow plows in Apopka Florida !

Posted by: Apopka real estate at January 26, 2010 09:50 AM (iLXkm)

32 Did the settlers on the plains living in sod houses have snow plows and paved roads?Of course not, and they got along just fine.
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