Don't think I'll be riding to work today !

silver · Post by **silver** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:58 am

The good thing is that it rarely stays around long.

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:00 am

Whinner...
I've ridden in more snow than THAT.
Why once I had ta go ta town in the middle of a .....
Oh never mind.

RUFtech · Post by **RUFtech** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:07 pm

dragracer1951 wrote:Whinner...
I've ridden in more snow than THAT.
Why once I had ta go ta town in the middle of a .....
Oh never mind.

Yeah, Yeah and I bet you walked uphill in both directions going to school to.

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:26 pm

Heck ya!!!
through the snow drifts that were taller than the Empire State Building.
Why, I'll tell ya....
Kids now days. Get a little snow and think the worlds commin to an end...
Snerk

silver · Post by **silver** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:27 pm

dragracer1951 wrote:Whinner...
I've ridden in more snow than THAT.
Why once I had ta go ta town in the middle of a .....
Oh never mind.

It weren't the snow I was worried about. Well not exactly. There was about a 1/4 inch of ice under all the snow ! I drove the SUV and was completely amazed at the number of accidents on I24. 8 accidents in a 10 mile stretch. And I didn't cause none of them this time !

Post by **Hooligan** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:57 pm

you should see cleveland. i think we got around 14 inches today.

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:16 am

We got some pretty serious snow last year. Had about 6 inches of ice on our hill. I live at the very end of a dead end road at the bottom of the hill. I was the only one what could get out. We got the ubber liberal across the street what just HATES my Blazer. She was askin for a ride to the store. Seems her Toyota Minivan couldn't quite get to the top of the hill....
Laughed my butt off. Then I gave her a ride...

stan · Post by **stan** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:23 pm

Comming from Oz where today will be pushing 100 F i just can't get my head around having to deal with snow like that on a daily basis

Hell, to see the snow i take the kids to the neaest mountain which is around 3hrs away, is a big day trip

Respect

stan

silver · Post by **silver** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:29 am

We get a little snow 2~3 times per winter. Bitter cold though. A week of single digits is common. Unfortunately the ground here has little if any soil so the pipes aren't buried deep. As you can imagine there are a lot of breaks in the winter. Also most houses don't have basements so the pipes are often exposed to the winds as well.

genesis_rider · Post by **genesis_rider** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:19 pm

as long as were complaining about snow....

im convinced bike season is about 2 weeks away we still have snow but its melting fast, then all we need is one good rain fall and its here -- watch it snow like hell next week...ill b pissed

KontoBoy · Post by **KontoBoy** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:21 pm

Amateurs! You don't know snow. I grew up in Upstate NY. We call 6 inches a "dusting."

I was living in Buffalo for the Blizzard of '77. Before the storm even hit there was four feet of snow on the ground. The snow was so high that clearing the sidewalks meant piles shoulder high on each side--it was like walking in a tunnel.

Then the city got walloped by 3 feet of snow and five days of winds averaging 50 mph. Snow drifts of 15 feet were common on the city streets and with 3 feet of snow on the roads a fifth of the cars in the city were abandoned.

The snow was so much and already so high there was no place to plow it. The called out the national guard and brought in front loaders and dump trucks to haul the snow away and dump it in the Erie river.

In Buffalo alone 27 people died from the storm.

I would of never made it through the ordeal were it not for some good herb and my girlfriend making it over just as the storm started.

And I walked a mile to campus and back every day that winter, uphill, in my bare feet.

Kontoboy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_'77

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:07 pm

KontoBoy wrote:Amateurs! You don't know snow. I grew up in Upstate NY. We call 6 inches a "dusting."

I was living in Buffalo for the Blizzard of '77. Before the storm even hit there was four feet of snow on the ground. The snow was so high that clearing the sidewalks meant piles shoulder high on each side--it was like walking in a tunnel.

Then the city got walloped by 3 feet of snow and five days of winds averaging 50 mph. Snow drifts of 15 feet were common on the city streets and with 3 feet of snow on the roads a fifth of the cars in the city were abandoned.

The snow was so much and already so high there was no place to plow it. The called out the national guard and brought in front loaders and dump trucks to haul the snow away and dump it in the Erie river.

In Buffalo alone 27 people died from the storm.

I would of never made it through the ordeal were it not for some good herb and my girlfriend making it over just as the storm started.

And I walked a mile to campus and back every day that winter, uphill, in my bare feet.

Kontoboy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_'77

damn man thats insane I watched a weather or discovery channel thing on that storm it was NAAAASTY

genesis_rider · Post by **genesis_rider** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:59 pm

spent some time in canada seen some pretty crazy shi& along those lines, that was actually my original reason for building my now rediculously overpowered oversiezed truck...still fun tho