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EveryDayAmnesiac
I guess I just wasn't made for these times.
Well, the end is upon us.
Western NC, in the lower valleys, is going to get one, maybe even two inches of snow! This is the end! My only friend, The End!
Guh. People around here act like it's the end of the world. Sure, you might get stranded at the top of a mountain (like us) or be unable to drive up your driveway because it's in the shade and it's icy ... welcome to planet Earth. It gets tough. Wear a cup.
My lady and I made a deal to keep her car down at the bottom of the mountain in case of an emergency. Driving down this road (trail) during icy conditions is for experts only, and even then a lot of luck is involved. The problem is one dramatic descent that gets icy as fuck and it doesn't matter how big a truck you have or snow tires or chains or whatever - if you don't play it just right, you're fucked.
Since 2015, I've gotten through it twice. Once, due to experience, and the other due to sheer luck. It's a nasty little hill. You have to basically play it like you're going to do a 180 degrees turn at just the right moment to go just enough into the ditch that you stop at the turn and can drive yourself out of it. And every year, some freshman dude gets it in his head that nothing can stop him or his truck. And he gets stuck for hours or even days.
But this is what's coming:
Western NC, in the lower valleys, is going to get one, maybe even two inches of snow! This is the end! My only friend, The End!
Guh. People around here act like it's the end of the world. Sure, you might get stranded at the top of a mountain (like us) or be unable to drive up your driveway because it's in the shade and it's icy ... welcome to planet Earth. It gets tough. Wear a cup.
My lady and I made a deal to keep her car down at the bottom of the mountain in case of an emergency. Driving down this road (trail) during icy conditions is for experts only, and even then a lot of luck is involved. The problem is one dramatic descent that gets icy as fuck and it doesn't matter how big a truck you have or snow tires or chains or whatever - if you don't play it just right, you're fucked.
Since 2015, I've gotten through it twice. Once, due to experience, and the other due to sheer luck. It's a nasty little hill. You have to basically play it like you're going to do a 180 degrees turn at just the right moment to go just enough into the ditch that you stop at the turn and can drive yourself out of it. And every year, some freshman dude gets it in his head that nothing can stop him or his truck. And he gets stuck for hours or even days.
But this is what's coming:
Tincandtoke
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2 feet baby
The cub cadet will get a work out
Its a beast though
I can't keep up after 2 on the gears
Edit: Ice trumps all, even anti lock brakes
The cub cadet will get a work out
Its a beast though
I can't keep up after 2 on the gears
Edit: Ice trumps all, even anti lock brakes
Tincandtoke
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Anybody wanna earn some extra money?
Helios
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i just saw this haha, would have been fun, what u guys get 2ft or less?
6 inches in my county, nothing really.
Tincandtoke
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About 3-5 inches I think
At one point prior to the storm they were sayIng 2-3 feet
Still blowing a little so ill get a pic a little later
.Tincandtoke
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looked nice coming down
Dodged a bullet, 20 miles south got hammered
Maybe 6 inches
Nuisance storm but fun to drive the Subie in and around
Helios
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@Tincandtoke yep, lucked out big time, subie's were meant for the snow,
It hit 52℉ here yesterday. Today we have up to 16" of snow predicted and the temps will be a high of 19 and a low of -3℉ by Friday. Welcome to Michigan.
Well that was a disappointment. The media built this snowstorm up to be the biggest storm in the last 7 years. Schools closed the night before. The news even stayed on the air an extra hour to help us 'get through' the storm. We maybe got 6 inches of snow... certainly not the amount they predicted. And there was no reason to close the schools... the snow didn't really start coming down until right about when they would have been going home for the day. Ridiculous.
Now... the roads weren't great. But it was no snowmageddan. The weather folk need to look outside when they give the weather forecast.
Now... the roads weren't great. But it was no snowmageddan. The weather folk need to look outside when they give the weather forecast.
Helios
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perhaps they were looking at the European Model
When a fire hydrant bursts and it's freezing out....
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