| Author | Message | ||
     Birdy |
Telling me the “We are under a level 3 Snow Emergency”.  This means is TOO “stay off the roads as the snow is too deep and there is more coming down and the wind blowing what’s already fallen into drifts!” I mean come on there’s a foot of snow out there and the winds blowing at almost 25 mph and the police have to call people at 6 am on Saturday and tell them to stay in? Hell my garage door has been frozen shut for two days and anyway there’s a 3 foot drift blocking the front door! And Erik never did build a Snowmobile that I can find! And as my XBs white I'd park it lose it in a drift until Spring.  WHERE'S that Global Warming at when you need it?!?! Birdy | ||
| Aptbldr |
Grim part of Midwestern winter is the blanket of gray clouds that arrives in October. Daytime skies don't clear up 'til April. Global warming's here. Come south, Birdy! They let this Hoosier in, Buckeyes are welcomed, too. | ||
| Ourdee |
A foot and 25 mph wind. They would have to tell me on the cell phone. I'd be out in the jeep playing. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
1 foot? Like Ordee said, that's when the fun starts! Studded or chained quads are a hoot in heavy snow. Shoot, around here they don't even cancel work for anything less than 10" or so. Of course up here in MN, we see it all the time... and have snow removal equipment to deal with it. We've had 15" at a whack, the next day the street in front of my house is plowed curb to curb. I'll have a hell of a packed snow berm at the end of the driveway but that's why they invented snow blowers. | ||
| Iamike |
umm Brad, don't be talkin up snowblowers. XB12xMike is dissin em on another thread. | ||
| No_rice |
the more snow the better. i always go out and play. i have never seen it bad enough to get nme to stay off the roads. but then again i ride my bike through a few of the blizzards anyway. nothing like hammering through snow in my 3/4 ton big block. shoving snow with the grill on the highways  of course thats just sooo much fun! but then you get the snowmobiles out and really play (Message edited by no_rice on February 06, 2010) | ||
| Brumbear |
The cops actually call people? Way to much free time | ||
| Swampy |
Please be careful, my buddy who lives in my basement broke his leg snowmobiling last week and he definitely won't be ready to ride once the snow melts and it warms up again. | ||
| Gregtonn |
"Grim part of Midwestern winter is the blanket of gray clouds that arrives in October. Daytime skies don't clear up 'til April." Wow. Either you spent October to April in somebody's basement or you're talking about a different Midwest than the one I've lived in. G | ||
| Aptbldr |
Greg, you ARE familiar with the midwest: basements are authentic & routine there. Often basements are converted to family living spaces (paneling & carpet, usually a 'bar'). As children we were exiled there. As teens, basements were refuges from parents; like that Seventies television show. Indiana's capital city, Indianapolis, proclaims itself 'crossroads of America'. How midwest can a place be? Minnesota ain't no where near midwest. It's barely beyond the edge of the glacier.  | ||
| Swampy |
I was flying out of Detroit one November and sitting next to a girl from North Carolina. We got to talking and the first thing she mentions about the "Mid-west, where ever the heck that is" was "gosh I see what they mean when they say the sun never shines around here, I have never seen such grey skies in all my life" I just got my physical and the doctor put me on a once a week vitamin D pill! Thats how bad it is! I mean we do get glimpses of sun now and then but the majority of the time its is grey skies, we are like moles, able to see in the dark, suffering from cabin fever, doing stupid things to keep from going crazy. In the UP and northern Wisconsin I have seen more bars in a city than people. Hurley Wisconsin, you cross the bridge into Hurley from Ironwood Michigan and there is like 100 bars in 4 city blocks, its just crazy. | ||
| Whatever |
They don't call first around here, they just tow your a$$ off of the street so they can plow the d*** thing. Which is the way it should be... if you can't figure out that 18 inches overnight is a snow emergency, well then you deserve it... they have to clear the roads so EMS personnel can get through. | ||
| Greg_e |
I almost feel sorry for you guys south of about Pennsylvania, no real snow removal equipment, people don't bother with snow tires, all that crap. Time for taxes to go up, I think you guys are going to be buying more snow plows for next year. | ||
| Swampy |
"buying more snow plows for next year" Gotta get ready for the dreaded Global Warming! Sort of like the dreaded "Lake Effect Snow" Lions, and Tigers and Bears...Oh My! | ||
| Birdy |
Well in all fariness to the snow crews here. They did a good job and have about 30 trucks for the county BUT the drifting was so bad that they'd plow a road and it drift right back in. With 40mph winds what ya do? | ||
| Ourdee |
Feed it more throttle. | ||
| Birdy |
Got another call THIS morning from the Police...It's OK to go and kill yourself today! Twice in a row ON THE WEEKEND that stupid machine calls at 6:00am.  Hell I could use a snowblower as there's a three foot drift blocking my garage door ALL THE WAY TO THE STREET.  | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Sitting on over 50 inches for the year here.I 50/50 snow blower and shovel. The blower can stack it higher than I care to throw it after I get it to the side. I refuse to shovel my sidewalk,simply because it is an ordnance. I blow it and nobody walks by anyways.....and then the plows go by so fast that they fill it back in...again and again. I shoveled the new shack out one evening(189 feet drive)and the next morning......it all blew off with the winds anyways. Hope to have a radiant heated driveway for that next winter. | ||
| Boney95 |
I'd be out in the jeep playing. Ha, that's what I do also. Love my Rubicon!! | ||
| Ourdee |
I'm working third shift. Looks like fun tonight and in the morning for me. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Birdy, We have over 30 snow plowing trucks for my city of 50,000 folks alone! Unfortunately, that's a lot of assets to sit around most of the year. |
