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Do there have to be high winds EVERY single trash day?
March 28, 2022, 02:15 PM
Oat_Action_ManDo there have to be high winds EVERY single trash day?
I swear, every time I put out the trash on Sunday night, there are gale force winds.
Trash and recycling goes out. Half hour later: thud, thud, thud as the recycling blows over and spills stuff all over the street and my yard. Jacket goes and and I got hunting my trash blowing hither and yon with a flashlight.
Every. Single. Sunday.
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Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter"
Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time.
March 28, 2022, 02:21 PM
squad13You're not alone. Its every damn Wednesday in these parts.
March 28, 2022, 02:46 PM
Skins2881Just do like my neighbors do and let it blow into someone else's yard.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis March 28, 2022, 02:59 PM
WaterburyBobYup. It's just about every Thursday night around here.
If it's bad enough to blow the bin over, I won't even put it out.
We can go two weeks without having a problem.
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March 28, 2022, 03:31 PM
tsmccullI put glass bottles/containers in the trash instead of recycling so there’s enough weight in the trash bin to keep it from being blown over 99+% of the time. But the recycling bin with cardboard, paper, aluminum cans and the like doesn’t go out on collection days when winds over 20mph are forecast.
March 28, 2022, 03:48 PM
PASigquote:
Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
I swear, every time I put out the trash on Sunday night, there are gale force winds.
Trash and recycling goes out. Half hour later: thud, thud, thud as the recycling blows over and spills stuff all over the street and my yard. Jacket goes and and I got hunting my trash blowing hither and yon with a flashlight.
Every. Single. Sunday.
It's been a windy ass year in SE PA it seems.
My issues is trash blowing into my front lawn. EVERY FRICKEN DAY there is random trash that IS NOT MINE on my damn lawn.
March 28, 2022, 03:55 PM
erj_pilotAnd EVERY damned time I want to play tennis???
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 March 28, 2022, 03:59 PM
9x18quote:
And EVERY damned time I want to play tennis??
And every time I want to go fishing in my little aluminum boat. Blown all over the lake!
March 28, 2022, 04:06 PM
Flash-LBShot skeet a few weeks ago in winds so high most of the guys refused to shoot.
Shot a perfect score, something I do from time to time, but never in that kind of wind before.
March 28, 2022, 04:15 PM
SIGnifiedHappens on Wednesdays here… Must eventually get to you by Sunday.
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SchmelbyYep. Every thursday night. I'm the last house on
a dead end street. Wind always blows my way.
Have to pick up dozens of pieces of paper.
Although I have seen some interesting things.
Neighbors paycheck stubs, creditors demanding
money, somebodies instructions for a sex toy!
Oh well, been doing it for28 years.
March 28, 2022, 07:20 PM
WolfpackerAnd not a hint of a breeze to be found in July and August!
I think that this has been the windiest winter we have ever experienced in the northwest corner of the NC mountains.
March 28, 2022, 07:29 PM
erj_pilotWell...we ALL know why the wind blows so much in Texas. Because Oklahoma SUCKS!!!! BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
I'll show myself out......
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 March 28, 2022, 09:57 PM
Oat_Action_Manquote:
Originally posted by PASig:
quote:
Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
I swear, every time I put out the trash on Sunday night, there are gale force winds.
Trash and recycling goes out. Half hour later: thud, thud, thud as the recycling blows over and spills stuff all over the street and my yard. Jacket goes and and I got hunting my trash blowing hither and yon with a flashlight.
Every. Single. Sunday.
It's been a windy ass year in SE PA it seems.
My issues is trash blowing into my front lawn. EVERY FRICKEN DAY there is random trash that IS NOT MINE on my damn lawn.
I live right up the street from a Wawa and a Wendy's, so I know that pain.
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Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter"
Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time.
March 29, 2022, 06:48 PM
bendableI blame that Ag industry,
See what happens when you take out 46,000 miles of trees between the fields.
None stop wind from Camas to canarcie
Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency.
Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first
March 29, 2022, 08:18 PM
PrefontaineWe don’t have bins here. You have to use plastic bags. The asshole mother fucker on the end of my alley always puts loose shit out and I have to pick it up from all over my property. He also is super fucking lazy about picking up leaves from his oaks so I have to dig those out of my skimmers, and driveway. I’m out there for hours.
What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone
March 31, 2022, 02:57 PM
sigcrazy7You could move to Wyoming so you’d experience gale-force winds everyday.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus April 15, 2022, 10:12 AM
AudioholicWell... this is the second recycle pickup day in a row recently with 40+ mph wind gusts. We have deep ditches along the road on our side which is where the can ends up when it's windy. Pickup is every other week for us so the junk gets to sit around 2 more weeks. Yay?!
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flesheatingvirusquote:
Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
You could move to Wyoming so you’d experience gale-force winds everyday.
and New Mexico!
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April 17, 2022, 06:02 AM
henryazWhen it is windy here, I put a big rock on top of the container, a rock I keep out at the street just for that. The driver is very adept at tipping the container just a bit after he grabs it with the tong things, letting the rock fall to the ground.
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