I LOVE SNOW!!
no matter how it gets for me and I can get ANY WHERE.
YEP GOT it to work
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.
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.
It wasn't melting at my house, of course we have about a thousand feet on the Springs proper.
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.
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.
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.
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
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
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.
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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.