Pete J. Posted January 17, 2016 Posted January 17, 2016 Not feeling it so much. I did my time in snow. My first year at the University of Wyoming. Snowed so heavily that looking at the parking lot at the student dorms, all you could see were radio antenna and the car tops. Snow totally filled in every space between the cars. Had to get them out one at a time starting at the end. I remember driving over I-80 from Cheyenne to Laramie with so much snow on the road that you just drove between the side markers. There was no bare highway to see the road. 1973 - Del Rio,Texas. Never snowed there. It did the year I was in pilot training. All of west Texas shut down. Michigan February 1977. Snow 4 feet deep on the level. High temp for the month -17. Left and never wanted to go back. Yea, I've had my fill of snow, wind and cold. Just plan happy to live in SoCal! Yea, it gets down to freezing occasionally, but I keep the old snow shovel in the garage just to remind myself why I live here, with all it's warts.
Helix Posted January 17, 2016 Posted January 17, 2016 Ah... the joys of living in different parts of the world...... today will get to 100 fahrenheit where I live ! Summer in Australia....love it
Harry P. Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 I was 2 in 67... Not too young to have fun in the snow!
Harry P. Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 In that blizzard of "67 it took my dad three days to get home from work. At the time we lived on the north side of Chicago, but my dad worked on the south side (long story, don't ask). And there was no north/south expressway back then. Actually there still isn't... the "Crosstown Expressway" got a lot of talk back in the day but ultimately was never built. So his commute was along Pulaski Road, from 3200 north all the way down to Archer Ave. on the south side. A long drive, even on a sunny summer day. But that day in 1967, my dad didn't get too far. The streets quickly became impassable, and people just abandoned their cars on the spot, right there in the street. However, my dad had just bought a brand-new '67 Belvedere the previous fall, so there was no way he was going to abandon his brand-new baby! That first night he literally slept in his car, right in the street. Well, he probably didn't actually sleep much... let's say he stayed with his car overnight. He told us he watched looters helping themselves to TV sets right off a delivery truck, right there in the street, out in the open. Traffic was at a standstill, and the looters just helped themselves (remember, this was before cell phones. No way the truck driver could have called for help... and even if he could, no way the cops could get there, as the streets were buried in snow). The second night, I guess the plows had made some progress, and he managed to inch his way north far enough to reach a police station, where he spent the second night. Finally, he made it home on the third day. Wow... that was a heck of a commute!
XJ6 Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 Very interesting story I can only imagine what it would have been like ?
charlie8575 Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 Geez. If it got that cold in Atlanta, the city would just shatter.Given what appears to be the state of Atlanta, that might not be a bad thing.Charlie Larkin
charlie8575 Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 We also had a "snow day" that pretty much shut down Chicago... back in January 1967. Except that we didn't get two inches... we got 23 inches. Yep, just about TWO FEET of snow fell that day and overnight. The city was literally shut down. This is Lake Shore Drive a day or two after... To be fair, two feet is a decent amount of snow. Even here, two feet would make everything stop for a day or two. If it's the nasty wet, heavy stuff, like the three feet we got about a week and half before Christmas, 1992 (I remember, it screwed up several senior-year events,) well, it fell Friday night/Saturday morning, the state was pretty much shut down and even those it was over the weekend, we had no school for an additional two or three days to facilitate clean-up. 1992-93 was a terribly snowy winter; we had nearly two weeks of snow days, and almost had senior year, which is traditionally a little short, extended. I think they might have given us an extra couple of days, but I don't remember now. Charlie Larkin
1930fordpickup Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 The epic storm from my childhood was the Great Blizzard of '78..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978 It wreaked havoc on Ohio...Mine as well Rob. I had a cousin born during the Blizzard. They took a very large front end loader down the street to the house so my aunt could get to the Hospital. We had a snow drift that was up to the top of our Barn in the yard. Taller than the Bus we had for a camper. Started as an ice storm that switched to blowing snow here at the border.
bismarck Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Got snowed in at school for that one... of all the places to get stuck!! I remember our neighbor being the only one with a 4X4 that could reach us and take afew of us neighborhood kids home.
Agent G Posted January 20, 2016 Posted January 20, 2016 1967 saw my father spending the night in the printshop he co-owned. Dad said he walked to a local White Castle, got a sack of belly bombers. He went back to the office where he brewed a pot of coffee and took the bottle of Jim Beam from it's secure location. After transporting the TV from the break room he called mom and settled in for a good nights sleep. We saw him two days later......... 1982 saw me living on the south side and working a north side district. I was off during the storm itself, but worked the day after. I left for the 3pm shift at about 1pm or so and got to work on time. That was normally a 30 minute commute. I was the frst "new" face to show up in almost 24 hours. I was given keys to a car, a radio and told to sit and wait for a call worthy of a response. Seems that during the storm some coffee pot commando downtown decided to keep "business as usual" thereby losing several cars to accient and mechanical breakdown. This in turn stranded coppers all over the city. The lucky ones were stuck in 7-11's or hospital ER's. Not me, I got stuck playing spades with two drunken desk men. G
junkyardjeff Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 It snowed about 1 1/2 inches this morning and you would have thought no one had ever seen snow,I drive a 2wd truck with no weight in the back and had no problem.
dieseldawg142 Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 (edited) ..... Edited May 11, 2018 by dieseldawg142
blunc Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 it's a balmy 71F in my back yard, I may just do some sunbathing.
Harry P. Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 it's a balmy 71F in my back yard, I may just do some sunbathing. And that irked you today?
Harry P. Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Ok, here's one: people who slow down two blocks before their right turn, then slow to a crawl before turning. Seriously... you don't have to slow down to two mph, your car isn't going to flip over if you make a right doing 15-20 or so...
blunc Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 And that irked you today? well, it would have had a better point of reference if the darned multiquote would actually "multiquote" what I wanted to multiquote. I was just giving counterpoint to the frozen snow people.
unclescott58 Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 it's a balmy 71F in my back yard, I may just do some sunbathing. I don't know which irks me more. Hearing that was 71 degrees where you live? Or the the thought of you sunbathing? Being that your a model builder and from your name, a guy. I just don't even like thinking about it! ?
Tom Geiger Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 (edited) This morning on my way to work... I'm on a circular off ramp from the Turnpike. Single lane, speed limit 25 mph. I'm almost doing a slalom at 45 mph. I get this sense I'm not alone and there's this idjit in a red Mini Cooper trying to pass me. He was right next to me (in the same wide lane) and he had to slow down as the road curved. He moved towards me as if I was gonna go off the road to let him have the lane asthe lane narrowed. Nope, I'm driving a very expendable 1999 Plymouth Breeze. His choice, hit the brakes hard or go in the ditch. He hit the brakes and wound up behind me. Good for him!Note- I have no idea who Metal head is or what he really said... I've been trying to post here and it won't allow me out of this form! Edited January 22, 2016 by Tom Geiger
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 People in management positions who have poor management skills, and look for other people to blame when things don't go the way they'd WISH they would.Leaders should lead, and big boys should take their own whippings.
Crazy Ed Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 It was actually yesterday, but this happened: OUCH! What happened, Salt Corrosion or some serious Off Roading ?
Fabrux Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 The section of frame that broke wasn't corroded, not sure what caused it. No serious offroading, just regular street driving.
unclescott58 Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 The section of frame that broke wasn't corroded, not sure what caused it. No serious offroading, just regular street driving.Really? I've never seen that happen from just regular use on any full frame vehicle. That is an odd one.
cobraman Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Can a plate be welded in to fix or is the frame a loss ?
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