We have had unusually cold, frosty, windy weather here the last week or so. Even so, I'd think devices like snowplows and snowboard bindings and ski lifts and tire chains would be made to withstand the cold and the damp without breaking.

Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

Remember when those tower cranes near Seattle froze and or started to leak water from inside the frame? And some were taken down. Same thing here. Keep those drain holes open in a freezing climate.

Wasn't this headline with the exact same article already greenlit?

Wait wait wait...

I'm wondering if this article with the exact same headline was already greenlit.

Uh-oh, they've changed something. Check the windows for bricks.

And yet they still have crap for snow at Whistler.

Good year to be from the Ice Coast.

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Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

Today...

Cyberluddite [TotalFark] Quote 2008-12-17 07:31:09 PM
Whistler is probably around 150 miles from Seattle, Subby, not exactly in the Arctic Circle (and also close to the moderating weather influence of the ocean). Plus the base elevation is something like 2000 feet (summit is somthing like 7500 feet), so it's not like it's at the top of Mount Everest. One of the reasons that the place is so popular is that, in addition to getting lots of snow, it isn't in a freezing-ass-cold location. So yeah, I'd say extremely heavy amounts of ice would be unexpected and unusual.


Plus, we've got that whole Global Warming thing.....




Tourists melting in the Las Vegas heat.

OK, I'm just going to come out and say it:

Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

Exact same, with the article already greenlit? Wasn't this headline.

Cyberluddite: Whistler is probably around 150 miles from Seattle, Subby, not exactly in the Arctic Circle (and also close to the moderating weather influence of the ocean). Plus the base elevation is something like 2000 feet (summit is somthing like 7500 feet), so it's not like it's at the top of Mount Everest. One of the reasons that the place is so popular is that, in addition to getting lots of snow, it isn't in a freezing-ass-cold location. So yeah, I'd say extremely heavy amounts of ice would be unexpected and unusual.

Yeah subby you gaylord. It's not Mount Everest. What do you think this is, Mount Everest? Don't you even know the reasons it's popular? F*ck. 7500 is why it's popular duh duuuhhhhh DDDDUUUHHHHHHH.

/mount everest
//more like mount your mom

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Anyone notice that this article was already submitted today with exactly the same headline?

Was:
Ice caused ski lift collapse. In all fairness, who would expect freezing temperatures and ice on a ski mountain in Canada

Is now:
Ice caused ski lift collapse. In all fairness, who would expect freezing temperatures and ice at a ski resort. In Canada ?

At first I was all:
Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

But then I was like:
Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit.http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4091119&startid= 4720 8452

ice has killed my lift.

just sayin.

This headline sucked the first time around, too.

RoyBatty: Was:
Ice caused ski lift collapse. In all fairness, who would expect freezing temperatures and ice on a ski mountain in Canada

Is now:
Ice caused ski lift collapse. In all fairness, who would expect freezing temperatures and ice at a ski resort. In Canada ?



Geez thanks for clearing that up, now I feel stupid.

Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

Talk about an ultra fail

Ice caused ski lift collapse. In all fairness, who would expect freezing temperatures and ice at a ski resort. In Canada. Everybody panuck

Wait wait wait wait...

I wonder if this article with the exact same headline was already greenlit.

Unavailable for comment.

/Hot like my trip to hell.

Gyrfalcon: Cyberluddite: Whistler is probably around 150 miles from Seattle, Subby, not exactly in the Arctic Circle (and also close to the moderating weather influence of the ocean). Plus the base elevation is something like 2000 feet (summit is somthing like 7500 feet), so it's not like it's at the top of Mount Everest. One of the reasons that the place is so popular is that, in addition to getting lots of snow, it isn't in a freezing-ass-cold location. So yeah, I'd say extremely heavy amounts of ice would be unexpected and unusual.

It is a ski resort, therefore, there is snow. When snow melts, and then refreezes, it becomes ice. For ice or snow to form, the temperature needs to be below 32 degrees F (0 degrees C). Hence: Freezing temperatures, ice, and snow, at a ski resort, in Canada.

As to enough ice to break a gondola tower: All that takes is f-d up engineering and construction.



Good point and it was one of the oldest towers but there is some serious f'd up weather going on up here. It's the coldest that anyone has seen in Whistler of late. Further the temps went from unseasonably mild and wet (in the lower village - where the lift broke) to unseasonably cold.

My husband is PM of the Olympic village and they are going insane with the temp shifts. Not so much the snow but the ice factor. It's screwing up the bears so bad that many of them haven't hibernated yet, making the job site the local restaurant.

This article with the exact same headline was already greenlit.

fta:"The support tower for the Excalibur gondola, which carries skiers from Whistler Village to the top of Blackcomb Mountain, snapped Tuesday afternoon."
No-research Reporter does no research.
/it's 2 more chairs and a t-bar to get close to the top, from Excalibur.

sleeps in trees: My husband is PM of the Olympic village

Should we direct all of our Olympics snark at you when the time comes?

Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

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At first I was all:
Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit?

But then I was like:
Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit.Link (new window)

No, oh maybe, wait....
Wasn't this article with the exact same headline already greenlit.

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hyperspacemonkey: sleeps in trees: My husband is PM of the Olympic village

Should we direct all of our Olympics snark at you when the time comes?



I'm not sure why as Vanoc is a separate entity that contracts out to various builders/subcontractors. But, if it makes you feel better I'm ok with it - we all need to vent.

You know what else no one expects in Whistler? The Spanish Inquisition.

/obvious python baiter is obvious

It gets even colder further inland, Whistler is almost tropical:



(I'm sure someone will trump me with colder temperatures, uphill both ways....)

Good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind', we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened.

sleeps in trees: I'm not sure why as Vanoc is a separate entity that contracts out to various builders/subcontractors. But, if it makes you feel better I'm ok with it - we all need to vent.

Oh, so PM means something like Project Manager? I thought it meant something more ceremonial, like the cafeteria staff and janitors would form a coalition to overthrow your spouse or something.

Greenlit already headline same exact the with article this wasn't?

/ack, time paradox!

Meth's a hell of a drug.

Good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind', we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened.

hyperspacemonkey: sleeps in trees: I'm not sure why as Vanoc is a separate entity that contracts out to various builders/subcontractors. But, if it makes you feel better I'm ok with it - we all need to vent.

Oh, so PM means something like Project Manager? I thought it meant something more ceremonial, like the cafeteria staff and janitors would form a coalition to overthrow your spouse or something.



Sorry yes, PM like Project Manager. The only thing ceremonial about him is he gets his own "executive outhouse" on the job site. It's extremely glamorous so I'm told.