EvanB wrote: I drove from Columbus to Bay City, MI and back today and it was clear and sunny the whole way.
Were you buying the 944 that was for sale up there?
EvanB wrote: I drove from Columbus to Bay City, MI and back today and it was clear and sunny the whole way.
Were you buying the 944 that was for sale up there?
logdog wrote:EvanB wrote: I drove from Columbus to Bay City, MI and back today and it was clear and sunny the whole way.Were you buying the 944 that was for sale up there?
My friend was. I was just towing it for him.
Apexcarver wrote: So, as of 7am Sunday I70 is CLOSED from 695 to 81 and I270 is closed its whole length. My wife is stranded in a hotel north of Baltimore with some friends and really wants to get home
That is impressive. Here, further north, roads are fine. Snow stopped around 9pm. The plows ran all night. 30.9" official total and I had the Miata out and about at 10am. Main roads are black.
hard to say exactly with the drifting, but we measured 26" on our terrace, which I think is about right based on experience from growing up and school in New hampster and Roch, NY. We're smack in the middle of DC.
Just saw a news story about DC metro cop car driving down U st. (major avenue) blaring the Frozen soundtrack last night.
not sure on how much we got at the shore here.. I am thinking a foot.. power just came back half an hour ago.. thank goodness for the alcohol stove I bought for my boat and lots and lots of candles to keep the place from freezing solid
Glad that E36 M3 is over. Prolly drove through the worst of it Friday night and Saturday morning, 4WD or no go on my commute. NWS says 24" in my town, pretty close I'd say.
There's a reason I keep a 4WD and a two-stage 6-speed snow blower even when ya don't use 'em every season. Easy Button FTW.
Wife just made it home a little bit ago. They did reopen 70 and 270 a little while after I posted.
She says the back roads were terrible, especially with people just shoving show from their driveways into the road.
fasted58 wrote: Glad that E36 M3 is over. Prolly drove through the worst of it Friday night and Saturday morning, 4WD or no go on my commute. NWS says 24" in my town, pretty close I'd say. There's a reason I keep a 4WD and a two-stage 6-speed snow blower even when ya don't use 'em every season. Easy Button FTW.
After the last two winters up here in MA those things are mandatory. And like you said even if you use it every 2-4 years it is so much better to have it than not. Just means you don't have to worry about blizzards. The H2 is oblivious to snow. Un-plowed roads and actually fun.
I am in the process of getting together everything needed to wire in a permanent outdoor plug for my generator and a generator lockout in the fuse box. They way I have been doing it is not really legal and I want the conveyance of an out door plug. No more stringing a cord from the generator to a "extria" dryer outlet I have. (I have a gas dryer). I hope to get this installed next weekend. I don't mind being snowed in but power out for days or even weeks really is bad and can get VERY expensive when things start freezing or a freezer of food goes bad.
In my first week living in New Jersey, I have learned the following:
Get your beer before the blizzard, because you don't know the next time you will be able to drive anywhere.
Digging out a car from a snow sarcophagus is a time-consuming endeavor.
Taking advantage of low-traction allows one to perform a zero turn radius maneuver to turn around on a one-way street with the exit end blocked.
To alleviate confusion, snowpocalypse was the 2010 storm. Washington post has named this one "Snowzilla" and it seems to be sticking. I saw it tagged nearly 70k times on the instagram
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/01/21/poll-name-this-winter-storm/
My family in maryland always laughs at my complaints on ohio weather. Guess who sent them a picture of my dry snow free yard? I win.
Well, I got ZERO snow in north eastern Mass.
Definitely less snow than the big storms last year, and the city also handled plowing and clearing snow a LOT better this time around. Of course part of the problem last year was that there were two big storms back-to-back, and it doesn't look like we're going to have that happen at the moment. The Blazer handled things find in 4-Hi when I had to go out when the roads weren't plowed, and once things melted a bit SWMBO's FWD Mariner didn't have any issues either.
Worked much better this year with having the snow shovel...
Federal Government made me go to work today...boooooo
After last year we in the north east are more than happy to let the mid Atlantic states have some of the "fun".
Capital Hill Sledding with the fam. I am Fat Dad Angry Bird.
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