blizzard 08

[evan938]

so we got some insane snow for the area over the last day. from the news, the last time we got a blizzard warning was 1987, so that shows how rare it is. i know this isnt much to people up north, but i had to snap some pics
1/5 of bacardi big apple. i dont have a tape measure, so i had to get something to put into perspective. id say snow here 12-14" deep
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02398.jpg?t=1205022782]

almost to my knee here
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02400.jpg?t=1205022782

the mazda3 \/
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02401.jpg?t=1205022782

my xd \/
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02403.jpg?t=1205022782

knee level
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02404.jpg?t=1205022782

love the snow
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02405.jpg?t=1205022782

neighbors accord
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02409.jpg?t=1205022782

mazda 3
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02410.jpg?t=1205022782

neighbors POS cavalier
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02411.jpg?t=1205022782

other neighbors toyota. i helped dig her out and get her out so she could go get her medicine. she came back and said she spun out on the freeway into a guard rail, and had to get pushed out. said she spun out a couple times as well
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02412.jpg?t=1205022782

my xd again
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/DSC02413.jpg?t=1205022782

theyve got my county at level 2, which is "stay in unless necessary to go out"...i dont know if it will make it to a 3...they say the snow is supposed to be ending soon. we just decided to stay in all day, and play super mario brothers on SNES over the last 6-7 hours

[Munky]

Pics aren't working for me.

[evan938]

user error. try again

[Munky]

Damn man, that's crazy. You're like 3 hours from me, and we got about 2 hours of snow, no accumulation.

[evan938]

yeah. luckily i was stocked up on ramen noodles and hot chocolate, and im about to go cook up some chicken and rice, and whatever else is in the fridge

[yamaha]

We got less then an inch here, sucks.

[ricerrx7]

It's 81 degrees here right now...

[KeWLKaT]

Dude, that's pussy snow, we get that here for breakfast before the real storms hit.

[Deviant]

Is that Siberia or Ohio?

[rckozma]

Thanks Evan, seeing those pics reminds me why I DON'T miss the snow.

I spent the day in shorts and a t-shirt skating at Van's with the kids.

[evan938]

i dont mind it. i actually like snow

[Pete03GLS]

Dude, that's pussy snow, we get that here for breakfast before the real storms hit.

ha, agreed, even tho im not as far north as u, lately tho we havnt had much snow, kinda sucks, but im gettin sick of it. im ready for some summer!

[SuperGLS]

Yeah... I want some. Nice pics.

All we got was a bunch of rain.

I was hoping for a good snow storm this year, but it's looking less and less likely now. Although back in the 90's we got a pretty big one in March.

[optimoprime]

lol im going to post pics and videos today i just drove around in my buddys corolla and drifted on the public streets, **** was funny as hell.
it looks like this but green and a few lil mods
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/93-95_Toyota_Corolla_Sedan.jpg/800px-93-95_Toyota_Corolla_Sedan.jpg
we kept passing stuck people and we would honk and drift and i would hang out the window like " sucks to be youuuuuuuuu"

omg it was so ****in funny gotta love the 96 corolla, yea its FWD but we was still driftin acting a fool.



that guy in the red jeep was so pissed and we were just pointing and laughing in the corolla
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/optimoprime/th_snowfun.jpg (http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/optimoprime/?action=view&current=snowfun.flv)

[Pete03GLS]

lol sounds like fun, but be careful.

i drifted down a street once (not on purpose) and i was literally drifting, from side to side... and thankfully i managed to stay in control n recover from the side to side sliding n continue driving. woot for mad skillz yo! lol

[bdiggy]

I'm just glad this rain we got here didn't flood my apartment. I'm ready for the cold to go away myself.

[evan938]

Dude, that's pussy snow, we get that here for breakfast before the real storms hit.

i know this isnt much to people up north

reading > you

[Silentwolf]

Well, I drove thru that blizzard. Went down I40 from Memphis, TN to Little Rock, AR. I enjoyed the snow when i finally got to my destination. Ya it was only 3in at my destination but when you come from FL, you take what you can get. However, the trip down I-40, esp for ~50mile stretch where the heaviest bands were going across according to my dad who was watching weather.com, was not fun. All concentration was on driving and staying behind semis who were basically plowing paths (i did not get pics of the heaviest sector)
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/ryesherm2/DSC00010-1.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/ryesherm2/DSC00011.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/ryesherm2/DSCF0156.jpg

But as i said, it was beautiful when i finally arrived.
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k177/ryesherm2/DSCF0166.jpg

And FYI, i have summer rated UHPs with about 10k of mileage wear. I tried stopping at a rest area, and just tapping the brakes starting it slipping in the exit ramp (and the car parking was yet another hard right), so i gave up on that idea, went thru the truck area, and i barely got going again as it was slipping some while trying to accelerate. And no i don't have ABS or traction control either.

Oh and first time i've ever driven in that type of inclement weather.

PS: Thank god for a 2.0mp camera phone :tongue:

[KeWLKaT]

reading > you

I did read that... It still doesn't change my statement. It still remains pussy snow.

[optimoprime]

^^^haha, just cause your used the to frozen tundra's of the great north dosent mean you can just waltz up here and call it pussy snow lol


i saw 2 semi's stuck and one of them had a sem-tow truck pulling it and the tow truck was stuck. i think that qualifies as a good snow day.

[Whipper]

thats not much snow. when we got hit with white juan, I had about a 8 foot snow drift on my driveway. I had to dig a hole out my front door to get outside.lol

[knottravesty]

It's still pussy snow... It didn't stop me lol.. I drove to dayton for a concert in this **** in 4 hours lol.. usually takes probably an hour and a half..

Seen the show, Amazing show by the way,

Then it took 2 hours to get back to springfield, which is usually a 45 min drive...

The next day I ventured back home for another 2 hours lol... The only place I got stuck was in my driveway lol... Fun stuff... All in all during Friday/Saturday, I drove 10 hours in this ****... Fun stuff...

[evan938]

ha. 4 hours to dayton sucks

im sure if i wanted to go out, amandas car would have handled it quite well. hell, last year around valentines day when it was real ****ty, and my car got stuck at her parents, her 3 just went right thru it.

[2loud2k2xd]

ha ha evan. im glad you go the brunt of that storm. all we got up here was some fast blowing snow, maby 1-2" max. we did get 9" earlier in the week if that matters.

[CornbreadXD]

your guys snow all suck balls we had real snow in cleveland. As you can see the Z is buried alive and the elantra is next to the garage. THAT IS SNOW! UP TO THE TRASH CANS!
http://www.imageviper.com/displayimage/114374/0/DSC08598.JPG

[optimoprime]

i'm glad i dont live in clevland is all i can say

[evan938]

lake effect FTL!

[CornbreadXD]

i hate you both and they haven't plowed the ends of my street either

[optimoprime]

lol they had 6 plows going on a 2 lane road today out in the suburbs. police escort and everything, fraklin county dosent **** around when it comes to snow

[Gman]

It's funny how just a few miles apart made a huge diff. I live north of Evan, and we have 22in in my front yard and a drift in the back that is at least 3ft deep. The XD is just a huge pile of snow now, I dug the Van out and went out playing around the neighborhood, AWD is the best. Cbus handled this storm pretty good, they even got over and plowed out my street, and thats only fourth time a plow has went through my area in the 9 yrs I've lived there.

[Ugzz]

i went to a concert on Saturday and the headlining band (the dreaming, fronted by chris hall lead singer from stabbing westward) was supposed to play at 9:45. They made an announcment at 9:40 they might not make it, then within 2 min of that announcement they showed up.

Apparently they were traveling from rochester to pittsburgh and got stuck in this thing. apparently a tow truck was stopped in the middle of the road and it was 1. slide into him or 2. swerve.. So they swerved and slid into a ditch, luckily the tow truck pulled them out, and charged them 200$ even though he was the one blocking the road 100% and caused the accident in the first place! and of course the blew a tire on their trailer and had to gimp it to the nearest exit for repair hah..

anyway, yeah. i was supposed to hit the bar after the show but around midnight on sat here in pgh it was pretty "butt" out. Not a foot of snow or anything lol, but a winter mix that made the roads slippery as baby "turd". so i got a call that everyone was leaving the bar cause the roads were so "butt" they wanted to get home before it got worse..

Dreaming was awesome by the way, and they played "save you" from stabbing westward and it was so good i needed a change of pants. Also i got a picture with chris hall :D

[jalmir]

I'm with Felix here ... that's nowhere neer a real snowstrom!!! lollll

When you'll have to shovel for 1H30 JUST to get to your car, then we can talk about it! :D

The car after 15 minutes of shovelling;
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2963/0903081318kf9.jpg

[Ugzz]

^when it gets like that in my area.. i just stay in that day lol
or i make my way to the car to try and go find a parking lot without a ton of snow drift and have some fun :D

.. course its only been like that a couple times in the past 5 years ive been driving, heh, and i complain about the weather here in pgh..
Thanks guys, for showing me i dont have it all that bad really

[optimoprime]

yea in weather like this i just keep my car at home. i gotta drive it today thought, but roads were clear as of last night, only side streets were still snowy

[evan938]

i got more pics greg. we walked to get the mail, and unfortunately, the camera died on the way back. there were drifts hip level to me (30-34") and probably a good 18" of snow in areas. im like 6mi from the airport where they got a bit over 20"

[KeWLKaT]

We have some snow banks in front of some houses that are about 20ft tall. I should get pics for you guys tonight or something, lol.

[Ugzz]

^ show off :D

[jalmir]

hahaha I just found pictures on a local board ... now THAT is a snow storm!!!!! Sorry about the images quality; bad white balance


The guy's driveway :
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3479/dsc07228rr7.th.jpg (http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc07228rr7.jpg)


Under the hood (and it was closed the whole time!)
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2047/dsc07231ln5.th.jpg (http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc07231ln5.jpg)



The headlights filled with snow (we all wonder how it got in there!)
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/923/dsc07232ik5.th.jpg (http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc07232ik5.jpg)

[Ugzz]

Heres a pic of The Dreaming's van and trailer
http://www.elantraxd.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7412&stc=1&d=1205179850

they had a rough ride, but made it right on time!
they made some good distance once off the road too, guess that happend when you skid off the highway at 55..