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Detroit, 7:18 PM
Fri Dec 11
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Water + Quattro (greater than) Water + BMW or Vette or Lotus
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Wacky waving frozen arm flailing driveway ice man!
Wacky waving frozen arm flailing driveway ice man!
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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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