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/I better go call my friend in San Diego to make sure she survived that storm that blanketed Chicago.
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eh?
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My wife and I moved to the Colorado front-range, SW of Evergreen, @ 9K feet of elevation, in January 1998.
We're both D/FW natives. This was going to be adventurous on a grand scale, but we both embrace adventure.
October of '97 had a truly nasty storm in which people died on the road to/from the airport because they got buried, and nobody could get to them.
Our first really heavy snowfall experience was about 44". This is after we'd been prepped by a couple of 15"-20" storms.
On my way home from work, in downtown Denver, 'bout three hours after people started urgently telling me to leave...there's a storm coming...I came across a couple of guys who'd abandoned their CRX w/Florida plates, roadside.
I stopped and asked what was up. They said they tried to get to their folks' house, but couldn't make it up any of the hills.
I said, "hop in, I'm going mostly that way, anyway." It was all of ten minutes out-of-the-way, if that, and I hadn't seen any other vehicles in a good while.
I'm driving a '94 Grand Cherokee Ltd., V-8 w/QuadraTrac and new BFG A/T tires...I'm unstoppable.
I take 'em home, and wish them well.
Two days later, when we could actually get out of the "neighborhood", we were going down the sole paved in/out road, and I said to my wife, "hey, those guys I gave a ride to the other day...they're walking back to their car..."
She suggested we stop and give them a ride back. I said, "nah, it's only about a 1/2 mile more, and you'll see why we don't want to get involved in a minute."
When we reached the wide spot in the road where the CRX was abandoned, she said, "did their car get towed?!"
I said, "oh, it's there...you see that three inches of radio antenna sticking out of the snow? That's it. Now you understand why I wasn't going to give them a ride back...they've got a solid two hours of digging to get it out, and I didn't see shovels in-hand."
Snowplows + Mother Nature = pain
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Also, all that snow in the interior will only be a problem if it ever gets warm enough in Canada to melt it.
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But the snow, the snow is awesome. Six feet in a weekend. Great! I love when the state shuts down the roads. Doesn't happen often in CT though.
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The streets were like canyons, and violating the driving ban was awesome. Lose it in a corner? That's ok, the banks are soft, and no one else is out!
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A licky boom boom down.
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09/25/09
There is a BMW 3-series 'Touring' (=station), so an A4 Avant competitor already exists. I don't get it.
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BMW needs to turn the entire lineup into a fast food menu so we can just order #1-#12. This is way beyond the old "Eine Wurst, Drei Groesse" thing they wanted to avoid. It's just a great big bunch of weiners at this point.
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There used to be an international version of the series with english sub-titles but the company that was doing it flaked out on it... I'm still pissed. They say it was because of too much piracy, which is BS, the reason people pirated it was because their distribution sucked balls and there was no place to buy the DVDs. They're still releasing them every now and then and for the past few years they've done an event at Willows but the whole kooky Japanese-y feel is lacking.
I taught myself to drive stick and heel-toe by watching those videos.
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