smokeonthewater
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Well I don't expect any sympathy but we are forcasted to get up to a foot snow.....
Enough is Enough!!!
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Destroyer
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Yep. I have a friend that lives in Tenn, and she said they are supposed to get about the same from the same storm... Batten down the hatches...... Here we blow again....
smokeonthewater
God
THAT'S exactly what I was worried about... I have to get a 38' fifth wheel out of the driveway in a couple days which requires swinging out through the yard to make the turn..... big snow piles or drifts would be hell on the trailer.... THANKFULLY it looks like they over estimated our local impact... both north and south got more but here I'd say we only have 6-8" so far... no drifting YET anyhow.... so far it's a wet snow so with -9 forcasted for a low tonight it should freeze and stay put.....
I've seen LOTS of snow in my past when I lived in the boonies an hour west of Cleveland OH..... We would get lake effect snow and I can remember busting through and getting stuck in 10' drifts in my old suburban.... 42" tires, snow chains and 13" of lift.... There were days when we would get together with 5 big trucks and work together to get to someone's house n get em in to town because the power was out.....
The biggest truck, usually me, would hit the drift WOT at 60 mph dragging straps behind and then a couple others work together to drag it out, hit it again etc..... sometimes it took a couple hours to go a mile... sometimes we just couldn't get through.
We had snowmobiles but you can't hardly haul a family of five and their pets w a couple sleds lol.
I remember once I was ripping down the road or about where I thought the road was on my snowmobile and all of a sudden I was launched 8' in the air n wiped out.... got gathered up and went back to find I had hit a buried car under the snow..... spent half an hour digging it out enough to see there was nobody in it and went on....
A few years ago I was pulling a 40' trailer through Sioux Falls and they closed the roads so I had to pull into a truck stop.... leaned the seat back n went to sleep... woke up around noon and it was pitch black still.... couldn't open the door but was hearing banging on truck.... 15 min later a HUGE snowthrower on a HUGE articulated tractor cut a path a foot from the side of the truck.... I got out and there was an honest 3' of fresh snow on top of the truck.... the banging turned out to be a guy w snow shoes and a long pole marking the locations of all the buried vehicles so the tractors could dig em out.....
Yeah snow SUX... I REALLY feel for you guys that are getting hammered..... Heard reports of roofs falling in in Boston..... Batten down those hatches boys.....
I've seen LOTS of snow in my past when I lived in the boonies an hour west of Cleveland OH..... We would get lake effect snow and I can remember busting through and getting stuck in 10' drifts in my old suburban.... 42" tires, snow chains and 13" of lift.... There were days when we would get together with 5 big trucks and work together to get to someone's house n get em in to town because the power was out.....
The biggest truck, usually me, would hit the drift WOT at 60 mph dragging straps behind and then a couple others work together to drag it out, hit it again etc..... sometimes it took a couple hours to go a mile... sometimes we just couldn't get through.
We had snowmobiles but you can't hardly haul a family of five and their pets w a couple sleds lol.
I remember once I was ripping down the road or about where I thought the road was on my snowmobile and all of a sudden I was launched 8' in the air n wiped out.... got gathered up and went back to find I had hit a buried car under the snow..... spent half an hour digging it out enough to see there was nobody in it and went on....
A few years ago I was pulling a 40' trailer through Sioux Falls and they closed the roads so I had to pull into a truck stop.... leaned the seat back n went to sleep... woke up around noon and it was pitch black still.... couldn't open the door but was hearing banging on truck.... 15 min later a HUGE snowthrower on a HUGE articulated tractor cut a path a foot from the side of the truck.... I got out and there was an honest 3' of fresh snow on top of the truck.... the banging turned out to be a guy w snow shoes and a long pole marking the locations of all the buried vehicles so the tractors could dig em out.....
Yeah snow SUX... I REALLY feel for you guys that are getting hammered..... Heard reports of roofs falling in in Boston..... Batten down those hatches boys.....
RidgeRunner
God
Jup, I heard reports of sidewalks covered in 6' in New Bedford, MA. It ain't melting and it is starting to pile up. Get out of there...