Snowpocalyse!

Minbari said:
I'll take snow over ice any day. Doesn't matter what you drive or your tires, ice is undrivable
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Where my son is in BC they are still allowed to used studded tires. They may get a foot or two of snow at a time. But as they are in a rain forest, they often get days of rain following that. Barb was out there for 10 days this month. It rained the whole time she was there, night and day. Finally had some sun on her last day. Between that and sunrise being 8:45AM, and sunset being about 4:45PM, she was glad to get home.
 
Sunfire96 said:
I wish my neighbors realized this. Watched 3 cars spin out and get stuck, one of them hitting a parked car
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I have a lifted Tacoma with AT tires. If it's ice, I'm staying home. 12" of snow, let me at it, i have never gotten stuck, lol
 
Craigerrr said:
Where my son is in BC they are still allowed to used studded tires. They may get a foot or two of snow at a time. But as they are in a rain forest, they often get days of rain following that. Barb was out there for 10 days this month. It rained the whole time she was there, night and day. Finally had some sun on her last day. Between that and sunrise being 8:45AM, and sunset being about 4:45PM, she was glad to get home.
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I used to live just outside Tacoma WA (30+ years) so i understand completely. Black ice was the norm if it rained and then froze. It's does that here sometimes too. We are just far enough south that it will get above freezing during the day and freeze overnight
 
Everyone here has at least one 4X4 which is also a problem as well, everyone wants to drive around in the snow
its best not to clear the snow down to black so you get traction
 
Josh Hughes said:
Backroads just can’t get cleared. Off again tomorrow.
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We just got the word that schools are closed through Friday. It's more about bus routes being blocked with downed trees/power lines than anything else. Gives me more time to clean up the disaster in the yard :)
 
Zefram said:
We just got the word that schools are closed through Friday. It's more about bus routes being blocked with downed trees/power lines than anything else. Gives me more time to clean up the disaster in the yard :)
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Bus turn arounds are a big one for us. No trees or lines down thankfully. The superintendent calls me daily for sports decisions. We have had the facilities closed all week and games canceled.

You are in Tennessee right?
 
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Josh Hughes said:
Bus turn around share a big one for us. No trees or lines down thankfully. The superintendent calls me daily for sports decisions. We have had the facilities closed all week and games canceled.

You are in Tennessee right?
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Yep... just south of Nashville. We've had a doozy... worst winter event since 1994... and I think this one is worse! At least the kegs (and family) are safe.

I was cutting up fallen branches yesterday... easily a half inch of ice on them. I'd take 2ft of snow over 0.5in of ice any day!
 
PFFT. It's no Snowmageddon.
Which I apparently have no pictures of, but I do have this 2016 storm from NoVA.

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https://www.fox5dc.com/weather/what-biggest-snowstorms-dc-area-history Between Maryland and Virginia I lived through all of the top 5.

Around October, 2009, I had a rotator cuff rebuilt. I was delayed getting P/T started so I by the time Snowmageddon rolled around, I had not been given the "weapons free" from the Doc. I was still supposed to be in low weight bearing restriction. There was NFW I could man a shovel for this mess, so knuckled under with some nagging.. crabbing.. encouragement from the wife, I decided to drop some $$$ on a snowblower. It was about 7 days away at this point, and snowblowers were in short supply. Lowes at Beacon Hill was expecting a delivery and I could not find one withing 50 miles. Literally, the day before snow was scheduled to start falling, I land the very last one they had - seen in the picture above, a Toro 26" single stage. It was a floor demo, with fluids. So after some partial disassembly we fit the unit into the station wagon -behind, and left of the blower and head home. Surprisingly, getting the blower out was easier than getting it in - it was a tight fit. I get it assembled in maybe 5 minutes, check it out and try to start it up. And tried, and tried and tried, then relented and tried the electric start. All it would do is crank. Much head scratching, some bad words, more attempts to start. 45 minutes later, I opted to take a break. Wife arrives home, I try again, about 20 minutes worth. Making no progress, I bring it inside, whereupon I realize that Toro Red is exactly equal to Ducati Red. Cool, but doesn't help get it started. Now we're in the garage, so I give it another go and after about 10 more minutes, it coughs but doesn't start ! Progress :-D By now, my wife is scolding me "You're not supposed to lift more than 20#, you really shouldn't be doing this!" ( yeah, because you're going to shovel snow :-/ ) Anyway, after about another 5 minutes on the electric starter, it coughs several times, the next try, it coughs its way to life ! ! ! ! !

And literally belches oil ALL. OVER. EVERYTHING. My Ducati, the garage floor, the wall. I'm horrified at this moto-transgression, so I pull that sucker outside as quickly as I can and let the blower warm up. In the rush to get home, we laid the blower over on it's side so the oil was all over everything inside the motor. oops. Anyway, I used that blower over 9 seasons, and sold it to the current homeowner when I moved to a climate more suitable to human habitation.
 
Hope everyone stayed warm, we didn't get any snow to speak of in Edmonton. But we got 5x the yearly average in December so that was fun.
 
Supposed to get above freezing a little this week. School out again tomorrow. Pretty much everything has stayed around. Most of the backroads in my county still suck.
 
Josh Hughes said:
Supposed to get above freezing a little this week. School out again tomorrow. Pretty much everything has stayed around. Most of the backroads in my county still suck.
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That's crazy, I guess there just aren't the resources there to deal with it. Ice storms aren't the norm here, but we do get them. The last couple of years we have had an extraordinary amount of snow, but we have plows, and sander/salters to deal with it.
Hope things get back to normal soon
 
Not a resource issue really. The sun doesn’t shine on parts of some of the backgrounds. We got 4 inches of sleet so no real way to deal with it on some of the roads. There are gravel roads that some of the buses use for turn arounds and some kids live on those roads. No way to scrape it. I would say most of the roads are fine. Just not for buses. Some of the roads are dead end at the end of a long hollow so buses can’t turn around
 
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