Snow Shoveling is Dangerous.

[Lancecastor]

Thanks to "extreme weather" many of you are new to shoveling snow.

It's dangerous shit....each year the activity generates 11,500 emergency room visits in the USA.

About 100 die each year in Canada from snow shoveling heart attacks.

 

[oggbashan]

Thanks to "extreme weather" many of you are new to shoveling snow.

It's dangerous shit....each year the activity generates 11,500 emergency room visits in the USA.

About 100 die each year in Canada from snow shoveling heart attacks.

Then don't.

 

[Lancecastor]

Then don't.

Patient: It hurts when I do this...

Doctor: Don't do that.

 

[Killswitch1]

Patient: It hurts when I do this...

Doctor: Don't do that.

Or.

Patient: Doc, I think I'm getting an ulcer.

Doctor: Rent one first, see if you like it.

 

[Miasorrow]

And my all time favorite (Star Trek)

The Doctor: You're a woman, Seven.
Seven of Nine: Is that an observation or a diagnosis?

 

[oggbashan]

My immediate neighbours:

Couple 1
Husband: Uses walking frame
Wife: Recovering from hip replacement

Couple 2
Husband: Has had triple bypass
Wife: Has fainting fits

Who shovels their snow?

I do.

Not that I have to do that very often. The sea is so close that lying snow is rare, much rarer than Emergency Ambulance calls to my neighbours.

PS. I'm a decade older than the youngest of the four.

 

[OjosMojo]

Forgot to switch accounts again, wanker queen.

 

[oggbashan]

Talking to yourself, Eeyore?

 

[OjosMojo]

Obviously not, wannabe.

 

[Aella_]

Patient: Doc, why is it that my boyfriend never wants to go swimming or skinny dipping in cold weather?

Doctor : ...

 

[warrior queen]

Forgot to switch accounts again, wanker queen.

How interesting!
Apparently, I can be fast asleep in Tassie, yet still post!
I am a dead-set legend

So...... who am I meant to be this time?

 

[Aella_]

Lmao…

 

[doowdniw]

In the mid-60s today. Should be in the mid-70s by the end of the week, so snow shoveling is not a concern. If we need a snow blower, we just wait for an EF-4 tornado to come through.

 

[someoneyouknow]

We had 6 deaths in my general area (they call it the mid state) including a guy who was sealed inside his car when a snowplow buried him in snow and an 18 year old, 8 month pregnant woman who had several known heart defects and ignored warnings from her family shoveling could be dangerous.

 

[Lancecastor]

6 dead from shoveling snow this weekend.

Yesterday, in the onslaught of announcements from New York officials about the near-record setting blizzard conditions, a data point stood out.

At least three people, two in Staten Island, one in Queens died while shoveling snow.

Farther south, a Maryland man also dropped dead during shoveling.

Late last night, the New York Times put the shoveling death toll at 6 for the storm.

And that's just this past weekend.

A few years ago, Ohio researchers clocked around 11,500 snow shoveling injuries and deaths annually in the United States, with over half being cardiac events.

(Normally, cardiac problems account for around 10 percent of hospital visits, according to the Washington Post.)

Another study, from 1990 to 2006, found over 1,600 fatalities.

 

[lovecraft68]

Woman goes to a gynecologist.

"I think there's something wrong down there."

"What's the problem?"

"Well, I have no odor at all down there, nothing, ever, is that an issue?"

"Not sure, but get up on the table and let's check."

woman gets on the table, puts her feet in the stirrups, doctor gets between her legs and says

"yup, you have a problem."

"What is it?"

"You obviously have no sense of smell."

I'll be here all week.

 

[about_average]

I'm sure most any heavy exercise is dangerous to someone who's normally sedentary. I'm sure people die year round from similar unusual activity, just that there's an abnormal concentration of people doing it when there's a heavy snow.

We had 6 deaths in my general area (they call it the mid state) including a guy who was sealed inside his car when a snowplow buried him in snow and an 18 year old, 8 month pregnant woman who had several known heart defects and ignored warnings from her family shoveling could be dangerous.

Sounds weird. He couldn't put a window down and dig his way out?

 

[Lancecastor]

I'm sure most any heavy exercise is dangerous to someone who's normally sedentary. I'm sure people die year round from similar unusual activity, just that there's an abnormal concentration of people doing it when there's a heavy snow.

You're sure....ly wrong.

 

[about_average]

You're sure....ly wrong.

So what you're saying is shoveling snow magically kills people? Snow has some special powers?

 

[Hard_Rom]

It's an example of evolutionary selection. Survival of the fittest.

Bit of a dilemma. If you did not have a car, you would not have to shovel snow. But chances are with all the walking exercise you would be fit enough to shovel snow.

 

[Lancecastor]

So what you're saying is shoveling snow magically kills people? Snow has some special powers?

No, i'm just saying you are wrong.

 

[about_average]

No, i'm just saying you are wrong.

What, specifically, was incorrect in my post?

 

[about_average]

It's an example of evolutionary selection. Survival of the fittest.

Bit of a dilemma. If you did not have a car, you would not have to shovel snow. But chances are with all the walking exercise you would be fit enough to shovel snow.

Pretty much my point.

 

[someoneyouknow]

I'm sure most any heavy exercise is dangerous to someone who's normally sedentary. I'm sure people die year round from similar unusual activity, just that there's an abnormal concentration of people doing it when there's a heavy snow.

Sounds weird. He couldn't put a window down and dig his way out?

The way the story read is he was trying to keep his car clear from the snow. He had gone out four previous times, including when the plow had come through.

His neighbors told him it was a lost cause and to wait until the plowing was over.

At some point he apparently got into his car and started the engine to get warm. While in the car a plow came through and sealed him in. Neighbors didn't realize until later what had happened and tried to dig him out.

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/neighbors_warned_pa_man_entomb.html

 

[Lancecastor]

What, specifically, was incorrect in my post?

You don't have to be sedentary to become injured from snow shoveling.