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Replying to: fintail (Dec 18, 2008 1:26 pm) The best visual I have seen lately was a BMW parked in a RED Zone (fire hydrant) Well the fire department had a REAL fire and they smashed the windows on the BMW to run their hoses through the cabin of the BMW. (and yes the hoses leak) 
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 18, 2008 1:31 pm) I just saw an Impreza drive by with chains on all 4 wheels....odd.
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Replying to: fintail (Dec 18, 2008 1:50 pm) While they're chatting it comes up that this guy ahd clean up duty from huge storms previously. Told of operating a front end loader whose job was basically to fill big dump trucks full of snow so it could be gotten out of the city to go melt. In one dig he picks up not only a lot of snow but an entire Datsun. It ended up out wherever they dumped the snow. Amazingly, my brother's car turned up safe and sound a week later on some impound lot where they towed everybody and was no worse for the wear. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 18, 2008 10:41 am) Anyway back on topic, we will be getting a pretty bad storm this evening in a few hours, supposed to last to tomorrow afternoon. I will be heading into work regardless. The terrain is very flat with no real hills and I have a route that is relatively untraveled that I can take. If I take it slow and easy I should be ok. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 18, 2008 10:41 am)  Slide offs galore here in town today. Abandoned cars in the middle of off-ramps, buses stuck on the flats, etc. Got the Suburban un-buried (drifts up to the door handles) & out of the driveway... Subies would still get high-centered. Maybe thaw them out & get 'em rolling tomorrow. Cheers! Paul |
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Here in Central CT the supermarkets tend to be mega-size, and when the forecast calls for a Nor'easter the parking lots fill up with, it seems, outpatients. Yesterday I pulled into the local Megafood parking lot and stopped behind a fellow who seemed to be ceding the ROW to people in the crosswalk. But he stayed put in his Audi after they crossed, and it turned out he was waiting for a woman who was verrrry slloowly making her way out of the store, across the car lanes and into the waiting Audi. Okay, fine. She got into the car and dithered a bit, and the car stayed put, now with half a dozen more lining up behind me. So we'd arrived at a point where both people were in the Audi, neither was moving and neither was the car -- So I beeped (once. short.) The driver looked in the mirror and seemed startled to see cars lined up behind him. Like whooda thunk?!? So he pulled out into the driving lane, crossed the dividing line ... and STOPPED!! looking at me in the mirror and shrugging his shoulders. He didn't notice that he had pulled sufficiently forward to allow me room to simply turn right, zip up a crossing lane and whip into a spot a bit down the lot near a door. When I did this, I noticed him taking off. Didn't think anything of it until after parking my car, I noticed the Audi turning around, then racing back and parking in in the fire lane in front of the door I was planning to enter. This should be interesting, I thought. If this buffoon looks like he's getting out of his car with confrontational intent, I'm slamming his door on his head. Maybe more than once. As I approached, he glowered, I glowered back, and he took off. My daughter and I are convinced that there is a nuthouse nearby whose residents have drivers licenses and come out to randomly clog up the roadways just prior to storms.
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Replying to: saabgirl (Dec 19, 2008 11:45 am) They don't have to come from a "nut house" to be lousy drivers and discourteous drivers as fintail was talking about. Here is Ca, er, Disneyland, we have all of the above and loads of more drivers who do not have a clue about safety and/or courtesy. I remember driving in snow up near Tahoe, when two drivers locked up in snow, and did about three 360 degree turns before hitting a snow bank. My wife and I just stopped along the road until they stopped their acrobatics and then as they stay stuck, we slowly drove by with our chains on, and got home safely. I hope all of our friends in the snowy areas of the mid west and it seems every place except in Bay Area, please be careful of the others.i.e. "those drivers"..... Good luck to all and I hope all have a peaceful and safe Christmas season. jensad |
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| drive very extra careful in the snow, but usually not at all. They plan ahead by stocking up on food and fuel. | |
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A few observations on snow driving in the northwest: Municipalities are very inexperienced at maintaining roads and do a half-baked job. However, tonight my fair city is doing a lot more than they did when we got the Tuursday dumping. I saw barely sand or plowing of some major roads until today. Local drivers are idiots. They either go 2mph or 50mph when the flow is 25mph. They brake for icy hills, brake for ice patches, brake in turns, brake all the time. An E55 is not the best snow car....but I had no issues until idiots would stop in front of me, or I would have to slow and then tackle a hill. Now it's staying in the garage for at least the next three days.
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Replying to: fintail (Dec 20, 2008 5:41 pm) In our 170-mile round trip to the ski hill yesterday, saw 2 items of note: 1 slideoff occurred before our very eyes, fortunately in the opposite direction - CRV went sideways before backing into the snow in the median. Then a semi went haulin' a&& past us on the way home on compact snow & ice - long as he got far enought ahead of me before he lost it, well, OK then We're going to have to dig out of yet another dump today & tomorrow... bad timing for the snowblower to break! Cheers! Paul
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