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BNSFlarson wrote:no matter how it gets for me and I can get ANY WHERE.Hehehe, cool. What is that a 1972, 1974? I used to think that too until one time I slid sideways into a bank. It high centered under the vehicle and lifted all four tires off the ground. Even a hummer can't go in those circumstances. After that I've always been really careful not to go into dense snow more than 2" deeper than the bottom of the vehicle.
it's a 1974/1975 Power wagon 3/4 ton.. yeah it's still running!! am keeping it up working most of time I do my own repairs on it.. and plan on put replace 360 and tranny in next year.. am sure it could use a paint job again.
I not putting any big tires or lifs on it just keep it as it is.. it's good old truck.
TA462 wrote:If we had snow like that right now I know I would be calling in sick and getting my snowmobile out.
That's what my wife would say. She is from Ishpeming, MI (da U.P.). I have never seen so much snow in my life until we visited there one winter. She is a true Yooper, and loved yesterday's little snow event. I guess all we needed was hot pasty and cold beer to compliment the day.
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
tomikawaTT wrote: Back in the mid '80's, the California Highway Patrol closed Highway 58 over Tehachapi Pass for snow that didn't even reach the railheads on the Loop. If that was the standard for road closure in the Buffalo - Niagara Falls area you could garage your car in mid - October and come back for it in May! Chuck (native New Yorker)
Back in the mid '80's, the California Highway Patrol closed Highway 58 over Tehachapi Pass for snow that didn't even reach the railheads on the Loop. If that was the standard for road closure in the Buffalo - Niagara Falls area you could garage your car in mid - October and come back for it in May!
Chuck (native New Yorker)
Reminds me of the time my father drove down to California from here in Canada. Went to head over the mountans and the CHP had a roadblock up to tell people to put chains on. Dad asked what for, the policeman said snow then he had one look at the license plate on the car and said nevermind go on over.
Ric
slotracer wrote: I lived in Buffalo until about a dozen years ago when I got fed up with the taxes and poor job market and left. Yes I was used to dealing with heavy snow (I lived in Hamburg in the snowbelt to boot) but I don't ever recall having such a large amount of snow (2 ft plus) in early October. The trees are sill full of leaves and the snow breaks them. Then you have broken branches amongst the deep snow so plowing roads becomes an entirely new challenge. Of course the kind of snow Buffalo gets is wet stuff....like lead. Now I am with you Colorado guys but we don't get nearly the snow that place like Buffalo gets and it is ussually much lighter than that heavy stuff in the Northeast....BUT.....we got over 2 ft yesterday in Bailey and it all came down in about 10 hrs so the plows couldn't keep up. I could get out and about but hwy 285 was a parking lot from Richmond hill to almost Crow hill (8 miles) so I just took a day off.
I lived in Buffalo until about a dozen years ago when I got fed up with the taxes and poor job market and left. Yes I was used to dealing with heavy snow (I lived in Hamburg in the snowbelt to boot) but I don't ever recall having such a large amount of snow (2 ft plus) in early October. The trees are sill full of leaves and the snow breaks them. Then you have broken branches amongst the deep snow so plowing roads becomes an entirely new challenge. Of course the kind of snow Buffalo gets is wet stuff....like lead.
Now I am with you Colorado guys but we don't get nearly the snow that place like Buffalo gets and it is ussually much lighter than that heavy stuff in the Northeast....BUT.....we got over 2 ft yesterday in Bailey and it all came down in about 10 hrs so the plows couldn't keep up. I could get out and about but hwy 285 was a parking lot from Richmond hill to almost Crow hill (8 miles) so I just took a day off.
The problem Buffalo had two weeks ago was definatly not the snow, but as Slotracer said it was the fact that the trees all had their leavs on them. With the density of the snow that came down there was no hope for the branches. Normal snow is roughly 12" of snow = to 1" of rain. The stuff they had was 3-4" of snow to 1" of rain. My brother-in-law who lives in the center of the hardest hit area had 24" of the stuff on the ground on Fri night. By time I got there on Sat afternoon to help clean up there was only 4" left, but the downed trees were something else. It looked like a class 4 huricane came thru. The funny thing is, everybody thinks Buffalo is perpetually under snow and it does not even crack into the top 10 snowiest cities in New York.
Texas Zepher wrote: grayfox1119 wrote:I just watched the CBS eevning news and they said it was snowing in Colorado at the rate of 3" an hour......I live in New England, and I can tell you that 3" per hour is really rough. Yeah but what they don't tell you is that it wasn't cold so it was/is melting at the rate of 2" an hour. By the time I got home today I only had about 8" left on the grass. The main roads had none but a bit of slush left. What surprised me is that Downtown Denver got very little. I live north of Denver proper and usually the further south one goes the worse it gets. BNSFlarson wrote:no matter how it gets for me and I can get ANY WHERE. Hehehe, cool. What is that a 1972, 1974? I used to think that too until one time I slid sideways into a bank. It high centered under the vehicle and lifted all four tires off the ground. Even a hummer can't go in those circumstances. After that I've always been really careful not to go into dense snow more than 2" deeper than the bottom of the vehicle.
grayfox1119 wrote:I just watched the CBS eevning news and they said it was snowing in Colorado at the rate of 3" an hour......I live in New England, and I can tell you that 3" per hour is really rough.
BNSFlarson wrote:no matter how it gets for me and I can get ANY WHERE.
It wasn't melting at my house, of course we have about a thousand feet on the Springs proper.
I LOVE SNOW!!
no matter how it gets for me and I can get ANY WHERE.
YEP GOT it to work
on30francisco wrote:Today it's sunny and almost 80 degrees in the San Francisco Bay area. I moved out here over 20 years ago because I was tired of those cold winters back in Cleveland.
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Texas Zepher wrote: dekruif wrote:Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there. Yes. How was I supposed to know they has a sale??? I don't get downto caboose very often. Are there any left??? You don't make the daily pilgrimage? But don't feel bad. I just realized you were N scale, these were HO so nothing lost.
dekruif wrote:Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there.
How was I supposed to know they has a sale??? I don't get downto caboose very often. Are there any left???
I dabble in HO scale. Still might have bought one. My goal for this/next year is to paint a modern day engine(8-40c4,c44-9w.ac4400cw) in Southern's Tuxedo
Here is a picture of the snow.
This is a picture of my sister's fountain.
Bet I had you fooled.
-dekruif
This Saturday is the Youth In Model Railroading Expo (attempt to make some funds so they can go to the national convention) in Westminster. First Presbeterian<sp?> church - near Mizzell's Hobby. I'll be heading up that way with the kids. As dekruif says, Friday night I'm almost always down in the basement of Union Station. This week is open house so I am expecting to be busy with lots of public. I'm thinking train video night some time after I get my MR layout contest entry done and after the Great American Train show....
GEARHEAD426 wrote:wheres global warming when you need it? GEARHEAD426
Uh Huh Sure... I am glad to see the moisture it has been so dry! I find it hard to believe that there is 4 feet in parker though. Mabye drifts up to 4 feet... Most of the snow here in lakewood has turned back to water and the main streets are wet side streets slushy, 3 inches left on the grass.... I really dont look forward to the black Ice in the AM though.
I dont mind getting togeather with any one just give me a place and time I will see if we can fit it in the scedual.
Curt
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Texas Zepher wrote: dekruif wrote:We have that much snow out here. We live east of Parker and we barely got home. Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing. East of Parker! That puts you right on the fringe of the blizzard area. From all the "Southern" and "NASCAR" stuff I had you figured as living in the real South somewhere. Not in "Southern" Denver Yuppieville. We'll have to figure out somehow and sometime to get together. That goes for csmith and curt too. P.S. Now I am wondering why you didn't snarff up all those Southern locomotives sitting on the Caboose Hobbies clearance shelf the other day? $32 for an Atlas Master H16-44.
dekruif wrote:We have that much snow out here. We live east of Parker and we barely got home. Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing.
P.S. Now I am wondering why you didn't snarff up all those Southern locomotives sitting on the Caboose Hobbies clearance shelf the other day? $32 for an Atlas Master H16-44.
Texas Zephyr,
Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there.
I've met Curt. He came to the club one saturday right after he joined the forum.
Snow?
A little cool today, low 70s, but supposed to be around 80 over the weekend.
Jeff But it's a dry heat!
Texas Zepher wrote: dekruif wrote:We have that much snow out here. We live east of Parker and we barely got home. Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing. East of Parker! That puts you right on the fringe of the blizzard area. From all the "Southern" and "NASCAR" stuff I had you figured as living in the real South somewhere. Not in "Southern" Denver Yuppieville. We'll have to figure out somehow and sometime to get together. That goes for csmith and curt too.
Sounds good to me!! Today wouldn't work out too well, though.
I like it here in Lewiston ID. Mild winters and very litttle snow...........so far
grayfox1119 wrote:SMITTY: That's what they make Blue Boxes for, so that you can sit be a wood burning stove, with a pot of coffee on top filling the room with a great aroma of hot coffee, while you assemble a box car. Every now then you look at the windows from your nice warm room, at the snow and listen to wind howl, but it doesn 't bother you at all as you sip your coffee and enjoy your work in peace and quiet. It just doesn't get any better than that, trust me !!!! Relax, enjoy the stress free day...you could be on the Interstate, stuck in traffic.
I am at work now, but after reading your post, I think I am about to go home and get to work on one of my kits!!
fiatfan wrote:I've been watching it snow through some web cams. My daughter and her husband are in your area for eye surgery. Tom
The roads are starting to get "decent". It got a touch above freezing, so that helped out a lot. As mentioned above, it will be a mess again once it gets well below freesing tonight.