Dr. Cranky Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Wow, I don't know how you snow birds do it. It's a beautiful picture. Love the blue tint to it.
GeeBee Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Nasty, now don't get sending any of that stuff this side of the pond !!
JamesW Posted November 30, 2011 Author Posted November 30, 2011 Born an raised in Michigan Doc. I'm used to it. Now if everyone else could remember how to drive the first week there's snow I'd be a happy camper.
SuperStockAndy Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Now if everyone else could remember how to drive the first week there's snow I'd be a happy camper. Ditto. Though I hate snow, it does tend to make my day a little brighter.
Greg Pugh Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 There are times when I miss it.......but then I see that picture and I can feel my butt cheeks getting cold. No thank you!
Dr. Cranky Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 The first and only time I've driven in the snow (top of Mt. Lemon in AZ), I skidded and crashed my Mustang, and that was it for me. Even walking in the snow is pretty terrifying for me. I like to look at it fall, but from a distance! Yeah, distance of a couple thousand miles!
Eshaver Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Problem with snow is also the comming of ICE! Ed Shaver
MachinistMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 we had our first foot and a half over a week ago
george 53 Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Like the man said, it's NORMAL for us. The jerks who can't drive in DRY weather are the FIRST to go. Snow does tend to weed the good drivers from the better drivers! Just SLOW DOWN, leave a bit earlier and drive at a safe speed. No problem. Lived in Michigan all my life, and winter is GREAT building time!
62rebel Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 the last winter i spent in Virginia i lost almost a month and a half from work because of sleet packing down on fallen snow... we couldn't very well dig out an entire salvage yard of 200+ acres every few days, and it kept freezing solid every night. the worst day of it was everybody who made it to work THAT day shoveling mush away from the office building so it wouldn't flood..... i'd rather try to push back the ocean.
KevinMoparFord Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Glad I did not make the trip from Cleveland to Coldwater, MI last night! Saw the forecast getting worse, cancelled my hotel and told work we could do everything over a conference call. Glad this weather did not hit for the NNL!
bandit1 Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Now if everyone else could remember how to drive the first week there's snow I'd be a happy camper. Reminds me of a story that i once heard from my pops! :lol: (if anyone would like to hear it then let me know and ill type for a while )
thumper86 Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 What the heck I'm across the border from you and it's still green here in the north !
Greg Myers Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 The first and only time I've driven in the snow (top of Mt. Lemon in AZ), I skidded and crashed my Mustang, and that was it for me. Even walking in the snow is pretty terrifying for me. I like to look at it fall, but from a distance! Yeah, distance of a couple thousand miles! What were you doing up there ? Reminds me of a story that i once heard from my pops! :lol: (if anyone would like to hear it then let me know and ill type for a while ) We're waiting . . .
Terry Sumner Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Geez...we had storm Alfred that dumped over a foot in many places here in Connecticut back 2 days before Halloween! 800,000 residents without power for over a week! And James: You speak the truth! When I was a State Trooper, we always dreaded the first snow because of that reason...everyone apparently forgot how to drive in the snow. We always got hit hard on the first snow with fender benders!
bandit1 Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 We're waiting . . . OK Well where do i start?....i think i was 12 or so at the time ... my father was going on about the "idiots" that don't know how to drive when the snow starts falling, we where on North Dry Run RD (at that time it was a gravel road) and when the snow starts falling he couldnt believe the number of brake lights that came on in a single heart beat while they were breaking ...me , dad, brother, and i dont know if mother was with us ...but we had an old 85 chev blazer k5 ( with a real TRUCK transmission in it...ie 4 spd , 305 chev motor...that thing i think we tried to KILL it several times ...and it just kept going! )..but getting back on track we ended up going right on the wrong side of the road but we passed them all while we highly believe they were thinking...WTF IS HE DOING!... and basically went right on by...and went about our business... :lol: MORAL OF THE STORY...when your on hilly country.. DON'T SLAM ON BRAKES ...YOU WONT MAKE IT UP THE HILL!..SLOW DOWN...but keep momentum up to get up the hill!... think of a pile up bumper to bumper for 2 miles!
Greg Myers Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Memories are made of stuff like that.Cool
timc Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 I had to work outside in the stuff last night. Had to get a cup of coffee and warm up every so often. It's just gonna get worse till March. I hope everyone around here remembers how to drive also. bigtim.
62rebel Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 when i was 15 or so, Dad had a '60 F100 that we used solely for emergency duty... well; we got let out of school early because it was snowing an inch an hour and Dad had heard this was going to last for at least three days straight... so he, Mom, and i piled into the truck and made the trip up to the grocery (ain't it always the way) for the necessities just in case. we were choogling along around 40mph through 4-6 inches of slushy crud and a semi came over the hill covering both lanes of the two-lane.... Dad never let off the gas and took the truck off the road and halfway up the bank until we passed the semi and he got her back on the blacktop..... i learned a LOT about snow driving that day.
Rob Hall Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Nice...haven't seen that in a while...maybe I will see some over Xmas when I go back to eastern Ohio to visit family for a few days.
bbowser Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Like the man said, it's NORMAL for us. The jerks who can't drive in DRY weather are the FIRST to go. Snow does tend to weed the good drivers from the better drivers! Just SLOW DOWN, leave a bit earlier and drive at a safe speed. No problem. Lived in Michigan all my life, and winter is GREAT building time! X2. Winter is when the 'honeydo's' go on the back burner and I get some quality (and quantity) building time. As for driving, be sane, stay off the brakes, watch out for the other loonies and you'll be fine. Winter driving teaches skills that help year round.
bandit1 Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Nice...haven't seen that in a while...maybe I will see some over Xmas when I go back to eastern Ohio to visit family for a few days. EASTERN OHIO EH? what part? im in Marietta OHIO if you come by ...i dont know if ill be here or not though!
Chuck Most Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 I'm about 40 miles north of you- the fun started late last night up here. It's a full-blown Winter Wonderland in Gratiot County now.
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