OH NOES HERE COMES TEH BLIZZURD!!!1!1!!

meh suppose to hit 2 degrees F tonight and my furnace crapped out today because of a $5 part I can't get tonight in this one horse town.

Liquor store is about 150 feet from my door. Maybe a little more. I had to walk through a snow drift waist high to get there about seven hours ago.

I just took my Cherokee out to help someone on my street get out of their driveway and proceeded to get stuck leaving my driveway. I got it out with no problem, but by the time I got out the other folks got out. Everyone in my subdivision has a 2.5 to 3 foot drift in front of their driveway thanks to the plows that came at 9 last night.

But since I was out I took a drive and looks pretty bad out there. Supposedly they closed the main road going out of my town.

Our snopocaplypse turned into 35 degrees and partly sunny this morning, and this is in Western NY. I got up early to go hoon in the snow and was disappointed by only 2" of slush. I did plow last night and now the banks are higher than the plow truck, which is not a good thing for more snowfall.

As far as people being unprepaired, I watched my roomate at the time spin his minivan into a deep ditch, leaving the driveway. As he paniced and tried to dig it out and jam things under the tires, I calmly got the logging chain out of my trunk. After hooking to a rear suspension mount it took about 30 seconds to have him out of the ditch. He was very suprised when my beater Audi pulled his van out and more supprised that I carried a logging chain everywhere.

Biggest problem here in Ct is the ice/rain weight on flat roofs, and even some pitched roofs. With all the snow we've already had, the weight/cu.ft of the snow is exceeding 25-30lbs, so two to three feet of snow on a roof, and cracking and lots of boom! No more roof. After today's melting mess, it'll all freeze tonight. Then the real cold comes in behind this mess..

stupid me, I parked in my parking spot rather than on the street. alley isn't plowed so I'm stuck for a while.

petegossett wrote: With all the schools(even Purdue University), government offices, and the vast majority of businesses closed today - and tomorrows forecast looking even worse - we decided to preemptively close on Wednesday. So I did what any sensible fool would do & chose to drive the 50mi of rural roads home, rather than stay in town with friends. Fortunately, the combination of decent visibility, snow tires, and absolutely no traffic on the road, made for some wonderful 55mph full-on rally drift action on the corners home!

We're open. We were both days. Go figure.

Those of us that had the balls and loyalty to come in, merely get the reward of covering for the other 66%'s slack, while getting paid no more, since that 66% got permission to merely use PTO at no penalty.

Brilliant.

Must have been fun unbuckling and getting out with this one.

sachilles wrote: Must have been fun unbuckling and getting out with this one.

I am always amazed by the talent shown by other drivers.

It takes a lot of work to be able to stick a landing that cleanly. I think a job in the stunt car driver field is in the cards.

sachilles wrote: Must have been fun unbuckling and getting out with this one.

Got the full-size of that?

Finally they called off to work, someone had some sense.

Now it's time to go play in the snow

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

sachilles wrote: Must have been fun unbuckling and getting out with this one.

Got the full-size of that?

it was on facebook on the NH troopers association. Couldn't get a bigger version. I'm sure a news agency will have a bigger one shortly. If I see it, I'll post it.

This one show up bigger?

That's awesome

Lots of ice yesterday. Lots of wind today and now it's snowing a little. Lots of branches down but the power stayed on. Problem is it switched to fairly heavy rain last night and that all froze on the roads and sidewalks.

What's the over under on which way it falls? I got $20.00 on "Down"

No frozen stuff, but it was 17F @ the house this morning. In San berkeleying Antonio!

m4ff3w wrote: No frozen stuff, but it was 17F @ the house this morning. In San berkeleying Antonio!

My mom lives outside Austin and it got to be 14F last night, luckily she has a wood burning stove, because she doesn't have central heat.

I found another pic of that nose down Fusion.

Serious talent there. The snow isn't THAT deep.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: Serious talent there. The snow isn't THAT deep.

AND there are no tracks. Very impressive.

The question at work was as follows:

What did her shorts look like after the accident? How much worse did they get trying to get OUT of the car? (Imagine getting ready to jump and the car tipping and falling on you!)

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I found another pic of that nose down Fusion.

Did the driver drop their telephone or spill their latte?

I just turned on the A/C in our house. Really.