Blizzard anyone?

[Krumm]

Hope everyone is staying home tonight, and the better part of tomorrow. Everything seems to be drifted shut and there is absolutely no visibility on the roads. I just spent a good half hour trying to make it to work, only to make it a half mile and get to turn around. Lets hope they dont try to fire me over this! lol

[DustinsDuster]

i drove my rig from the edge of Tipton to CR today, and that was pretty nerve wracking; we'll see if they're gonna have me come in or not tomorrow.

[JustinS]

I was out sliding around. Going to try and make it to work tomorrow..if I don't make it I have to use vacation which isn't cool.

[Krumm]

i dont have to worry about it. i actually did get fired. people that live in town have no idea what the roads are like out here where its all open fields. 40 mile trip through this weather for $15/hr? yea, fuck that shit.

[Clinical]

My classes got cancelled, they're already cancelled through thursday and my work closed tonight and perhaps tomorrow as well.

[Ricky]

i was out sliding around till 7 then I played taxi and picked up people from work and took them home. I was running out of ground clearance. You get out of town and visibility is almost 0 I put the car away around 9.

[Fire Hawk]

sucks that you got fired over this shit. where did you work anyways that they would do that to you?

[Luminatorz34]

i got sent home early tonite as the plant shut down at 8pm tonite..highways were drifting shut. had to plow thru some drifts that were easily as tall as my tires on my truck. just gave it hell to get thru, got plenty of snow packed up in the alternator so dim lites most of the way home. and found out i have a ton of snow packed in everywhere under the hood...

[Krumm]

sucks that you got fired over this shit. where did you work anyways that they would do that to you?

Midwest Lawn and Landscape. I WAS a plow truck driver, one of the better ones they have. but whatever, they're retarded for trying to go out at midnight when its this bad outside.

[SaNdMaNsSi]

One of our 14,000 lb trucks with 2 1/2 ft clearance just got stuck after using it's front bumper to push snow about 200 feet if that tells you anything....

[Krumm]

theres no tow ban in effect yet?

[belittle]

I drive from CR to Iowa city every day. Pretty sure I wouldn't have made it home if I would have left 2 hours later. Snow down here is easily 2 feet in the street. Cambus's stuck everywhere. Just spent 30 minutes digging my car out (was parked for MAYBE 4 hours) to drive it 10 feet into the garage.

Kicking myself for not bringing the truck home or I'd be out driving right now.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/7365/img2011020100017.jpg

[Drifte]

I got around fine but couldn't keep my windshield clean. Idk about now, but it will be very tricky getting to work tomorrow.

[icwicked]

i only went out to the store and my road was nothing but snow. good thing for 4wd.
i used the snow blower for a little bit and to see what it would do.
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj298/icwicked/_DSC0032-1.jpg
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[SaNdMaNsSi]

theres no tow ban in effect yet?

I'm sure there was hours ago....someone tried to drive one up my road to keep it here for the night in case their street doesn't get plowed.....it only made it about halfway up my private road....Someone that lives next to me has a horse pasture, and the snow builds up in the middle of the road. I went out there about an hour ago, and it was up to my knees for about 100-150 feet of my drive, and I'm 6'4... Needless to say, I'm going to have an excuse to not go into work tomorrow.

[Ricky]

i made it around fine at 8-9 but i couldnt see and my wipers kept icing over. had to pick some people up from work who were stuck or might have needed a ride. finished up with that and went home.

WRX is a trooper it will go through 2 feet of snow for awhile.

[Clinical]

Really wish I had the laser running right now and with better tires.

I drove it during the last snow and it wasn't much better than my civic with its cruddy tires :(


here's the 2-3 feet wall between me and my neighbors house
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[Domestic Disturbance]

Ya, I left work early to drive back to CR from Coralville. If I wouldn't have left early, I'd be up shit creek. Went and bought some new wipers, and when I came back out the arms were covered.

[Deimos]

Here's to hoping my boss comes to plow my drive.

[slow ride]

Haha bout time you southern fucks get some of the dam snow this year. We've had twice as much as you guys this winter. I drove into work this morning and I live out in the sticks in New Hartford. I think we might have got a couple more inches over the night, but not much at all really. Just some drifting, but nothing like you got.

[TbTalon94]

I made it to work. But couldn't get INTO work lol. The main road was plowed but the side road the office is on wasn't. Literally like 4 feet of snow in the street. No way was I making it. It took me like 20 minutes to get out of my driveway and my street...both were not plowed.

[Drifte]

I tried. With no space to get any speed I knew I wasnt going to make it far. Made it 1/3 the length of the driveway. Shoveled some tracks and backed out. My nice neighbor gave me a hand.
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There, that one looks better doesnt it...

[sLoWnStEaDy]

I had a blast! 380 was EMPTY, did some e-brakin', reverse donuts (FWD minivan), scared the shit out of Skye a few times etc... All was good up until the wipers froze and I couldn't see. I had to stop under the Wilson ave bridge to clear them off. Then it was back to the fun.

[Ricky]

im working from home today. I know i could make it but i have everything i need to work from home so why not?

Looks like i have some shoveling to do today :-/

[Scott]

My little buick regal actually made it all the way down my driveway this morning and it wasnt shoveled or anything, just to get high centered pretty bad at the end of the driveway!! Fuck!! Spent a good 30 min shoveling the snow out from under it, behind it, in front of it, sides of it before I could get it out and drive to work. Now Im at work and rockwell shut down so I dont have anything to do but browse the net

[Deimos]

ha ha

[Deimos]

I made it to work. But couldn't get INTO work lol. The main road was plowed but the side road the office is on wasn't. Literally like 4 feet of snow in the street. No way was I making it. It took me like 20 minutes to get out of my driveway and my street...both were not plowed.

When I went to work I had an 8 foot drift in front of my garage door. So much for working on my list tonight.

[Drifte]

Mr.Plow was busy and I went ahead and shoveled the whole damn driveway. My neighbor took care of most of his part. I got tired and just shoveled a path. My fingers hurt.

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[ZacFields]

I made it into work today. I've got a laptop and all I need to work from home, but this was my first real opportunity to put this 4x4 Explorer to good use. I cruised right down my street in 4-wheel drive through at least a foot of snow... and no ruts/tracks or anything.

Got to work and nobody from my group is here, and only about 5 people from my entire floor is here. Usually there's 30-40 people on this floor I think. They're all working from home. lol

[clutchmuch]

my work was closed so that was good. I took the winter Pontiac Bonneville to drive my girl home. got stuck at the driveway in the street and the corner. It was terrible. not to mention rocking it out of the driveway way got a nice burning smell and lost all power steering fucking serpintine belt or something and like 4 inches of snow paccked up into the engine bay haha

[Scott]

I know there isnt much snow in this pic, it is only about 1/2 way through the little snow storm but seemed like a good idea to take a picture.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg178/427fogger/2011-02-01200217.jpg

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[Sledge_WS6]

I got drunk, walked around. It wasn't that bad in Cedar Falls, at least around 11pm.

[sLoWnStEaDy]

So, first day of black history month was a white out... I guess we win again!

[clutchmuch]

[quote="Scott"]I know there isnt much snow in this pic, it is only about 1/2 way through the little snow storm but seemed like a good idea to take a picture.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg178/427fogger/2011-02-01200217.jpg


Nice cooler ahaha

[Krumm]

Mr.Plow was busy and I went ahead and shoveled the whole damn driveway. My neighbor took care of most of his part. I got tired and just shoveled a path. My fingers hurt.



paying customers come first. and i wouldn't say you shoveled the whole thing, i pushed a lot of snow off your drive.

[Drifte]

I shoveled most, and then enough, and then some of the neighbors, and then my boss's driveway. Are we gettin some mexi food now or what?

[Fire Hawk]

sucks that you got fired over this shit. where did you work anyways that they would do that to you?

Midwest Lawn and Landscape. I WAS a plow truck driver, one of the better ones they have. but whatever, they're retarded for trying to go out at midnight when its this bad outside.

Anyone else lose their job over this? I agree with you that it was stupid to try to go anywhere until it slowed down!

[Krumm]

heres some pics my clean up today, it was some deep thick stuff.

[Ricky]

i was waiting for my neighbor to plow my drive.... couldn't wait. took me a few attempts and high centered twice, but just rocked a little and through a shit ton of show with my tires and ever so slowly i got un stuck.

Hard to see in the pics but it was 2 feet in some spots.

WRX + snow tires = mini tank.

[ZacFields]

Looks like you plowed your driveway with your car Eric. :)

[slow ride]

As much as I've loved my awd cars + snow tires in winter they are still no match for a truck. Our Tundra (w/rear lsd) had Nitto terra graplers and is just a tank. Need ground clearance to really get the job done.

[Ricky]

As much as I've loved my awd cars + snow tires in winter they are still no match for a truck. Our Tundra (w/rear lsd) had Nitto terra graplers and is just a tank. Need ground clearance to really get the job done.


I will not argue with you on that! Last night i was getting tossed around by tire tracks. The WRX does good but a truck with more ground clearance would be nice. If there was any more snow i would have been done for.

I have a truck but still havent got the breaks fixed.

[ZacFields]

Yeah this was my first real good opportunity to take the Explorer out in really harsh road conditions and I was thrilled with the results. Now, I've got some pretty nice snow tires on it, but like Slow Ride said, the ground clearance makes a huge difference in deep snow like this.

Zero tracks on my street and at least 12 inches of snow, and the Explorer handled it just fine. Even drove over a 3-foot snow bank to get out of my parking spot (I parked across the street in a parking lot so they could plow my driveway last night).

It's just frustrating that it only gets about 15mpg. I love that it was able to handle one of the worst snow-storms we've seen around here in a long time with no problems, but with gas prices over $3 per gallon and only going up, I would really like something that gets at least 20-25 mpg.

I guess there are some AWD crossovers that would probably be nearly as good in the snow but with better gas mileage. I'm not looking into buying a new car anytime soon but I've been debating for a while what I'm going to get when I finally decide to get a new one.

[Ricky]

It's just frustrating that it only gets about 15mpg.

I guess there are some AWD crossovers that would probably be nearly as good in the snow but with better gas mileage. I'm not looking into buying a new car anytime soon but I've been debating for a while what I'm going to get when I finally decide to get a new one.


I get about 15-17 MPG

[sparkles]

heres some pics my clean up today, it was some deep thick stuff.
How the hell did you do all that in an old Chevy. It doesn't have the all mighty Ford Ecoboost in it. No way it was enough of a truck....

[Ricky]

heres some pics my clean up today, it was some deep thick stuff.
How the hell did you do all that in an old Chevy. It doesn't have the all mighty Ford Ecoboost in it. No way it was enough of a truck....


LOL!

[Krumm]

heres some pics my clean up today, it was some deep thick stuff.
How the hell did you do all that in an old Chevy. It doesn't have the all mighty Ford Ecoboost in it. No way it was enough of a truck....


LOL!


i'd love to see a ecoboost out plowing. ill never use anything other that a N/A GAS motor for plowing.

[Clinical]

we were out tonight, and boostedsohc decided to try about 2 feet of snow at about 50mph through the park hahaha

[DustinsDuster]

i actually got called into work two hours late on wednesday. my new route is in IC, and they sent me out with a hand drawn map and said good luck. i was actually kinda lucky so many people stayed home from work; i took the pepsi truck through down town IC. widened all the corners down there. i got back to CR and there was so much snow caked on the sides of my trailer you couldnt even see the crank for the landing gear.

on the plus side, when i left for work that morning, i had a 4' tall snow drift behind the Jimmy. i didnt have time to shovel, so i just put it in 4hi, took a couple runs at it and trudged out my drive and down my unplowed street. best $450 i've ever spent. Thanks Trevor!

[TbTalon94]

lol your welcome for those tires I put on there Dustin. They go through snow like butter!

[z28z34man]

My avalanche went thrue my 4' deep plowed in driveway like it was nothing. got to love 4 wheel drive and ground clearance

[Krumm]

My avalanche went thrue my 4' deep plowed in driveway like it was nothing. got to love 4 wheel drive and ground clearance


must've had powdery shit at your house. these drifts out here were not easy to bust, 2ft ones were almost stopping my truck.

[SaNdMaNsSi]

It's just frustrating that it only gets about 15mpg.

I guess there are some AWD crossovers that would probably be nearly as good in the snow but with better gas mileage. I'm not looking into buying a new car anytime soon but I've been debating for a while what I'm going to get when I finally decide to get a new one.


I get about 15-17 MPG

Psh.. I've got you both beat. My Jeep Wrangler gets about 8.....Highway. 20 gallon fuel tank gets 240 miles if I'm lucky.

[SaNdMaNsSi]

So, first day of black history month was a white out... I guess we win again!

Ha. My favorite is a few years back some agency (probably NAACP) did some stupid black history month thing and put up signs everywhere that said "Black history month, celebrating 30 days of our culture...." There were only 29 days in that month....

[Drifte]

whens white history month?

[SaNdMaNsSi]

whens white history month?

Didn't you hear? It's shameful to be white and Christian these days. Repent for your sins. It's racist if you say anything about a minority skin color or religion, but it's not if you're a minority religion or skin color hating on white people. It's the new fad.

[85XR7Project]

They don't tip either.... I swear its a color thing too.

[Drifte]

did you guys watch morgan freeman on 60minutes about black history month? I'd make the same points but I am white, so I cant.

hes on the youtube now

[Scott]

heres some pics my clean up today, it was some deep thick stuff.
How the hell did you do all that in an old Chevy. It doesn't have the all mighty Ford Ecoboost in it. No way it was enough of a truck....


LOL!


i'd love to see a ecoboost out plowing. ill never use anything other that a N/A GAS motor for plowing.

What would be the problem with that?? I know its not the same but theres lots of turbo diesels that do it without even breaking a sweat

[Drifte]

heres some pics my clean up today, it was some deep thick stuff.
How the hell did you do all that in an old Chevy. It doesn't have the all mighty Ford Ecoboost in it. No way it was enough of a truck....


LOL!


i'd love to see a ecoboost out plowing. ill never use anything other that a N/A GAS motor for plowing.

What would be the problem with that?? I know its not the same but theres lots of turbo diesels that do it without even breaking a sweat
He doesnt have one...thats why! lol. No reason not to have the power. Requires stronger parts sure, but thats a given.

[Krumm]

power is over rated. i want a motor that will start and run no matter the temp. You cant count on a diesel to do that. Last thing i wanna be doing is changing out a fuel filter at 2am in the freezing cold.

what good is all that power when your tires break loose?

[Drifte]

If I plowed I think I would want a small truck, with a big gas motor, lots of ground clearance, standard cab short box. Would want all the fancy junk though so it worked well, heated mirrors, wipers, seats, remote start, block heater. I can think of all kinds of cool stuff.

Hmm a raptor with a plow...

[Stutz]

random pic of my old truck i wish i never woulda got rid of :?


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[Krumm]

ny ideal plow truck would be a Chevy 2500hd RCSB with a 6.0l and all the other fancy stuff like heated wipers and back-up cameras.

[Scott]

Even my old 94 F350 starts up in the cold as long as its been plugged in but I know what your saying. Maybe you dont need the extra power but its never a bad thing, you would think the extra weight and reliability of certain diesel's would be desirable. I really dont see a reason why the eco-boost Ford wouldnt be good for plowing, plenty of power, aparently very tough and reliable. Maybe not ideal but seriously, its not like you need anything special in a truck to plow snow. As long as its 4wd and the heat works, I would imagine the next most important thing in a plow truck is a good cup holder and a case of beer

[DustinsDuster]

whens white history month?

Didn't you hear? It's shameful to be white and Christian these days. Repent for your sins. It's racist if you say anything about a minority skin color or religion, but it's not if you're a minority religion or skin color hating on white people. It's the new fad.

tell me about it. i have no idea how i'm going to repay all of these moral debts i have to settle.

[Krumm]

its not like you need anything special in a truck to plow snow.

true, if your only plowing your own driveway. And i see no point in a diesel because of many reasons. One, the motor is heavy as shit, now go throw a 900lbs plow on the front and your maxing out/past your trucks limits. Two, unless you have a 8ft v-box spreader loaded to the gills you'll never have enough weight to keep traction on those tires. You spin your tires when your pushing serious snow and your fucked.

This is all of course my opinion, that i have formed from experience. but theres also other reasons that i can't really rely on a diesel. i would love one as a extra truck, but not my DD.

[sparkles]

Not to mention, most diesels are meant for towing, not for holding a bunch of weight up front. I hear all the time about plow trucks breaking torsion bars primarily on diesels.

[Krumm]

theres a reason that the huge plowing companies around mainly run gas motors.

[z28z34man]

i don't have a plow the avalanche i bust through the drift to get in the driveway