Damn I don't but it friggn' rocked. I really need to get the EVO some all seasons so I can drive it in the winter, it's all lonely at the moment on bald ao46.

the caddy is tank in the snow though.

I am weird and actually like shoveling snow. I just like snow in general, I need more exercise, and I'm good at it. For fun sometimes I shovel the neighbor's walk early even though he has a kick-ass snowblower. It just messes with him. When he asks I tell him it's just repaying because he did some of mine last year, and he says, "That was years ago... and it was just the part in front of the mailboxes".

In fact.... haha

Sweet pic man.

The mailman didn't even come to visit us today. And I even shoveled sidewalk space to the mailbox, :(. Our court had a foot of snow, so I don't blame him.
My arms are dying tonight, I shoveled out 2 lanes of the driveway, filled with a foot of snow, and with the lanes being about 30 ft. long... how much volume of snow was that?

Through rain, sleet or snow (that is less than 1 foot)...............................

20' x 12' x 1' = 240 cubic feet of snow...

At 10% water content that is 24 cubic feet of water...

That is approximately 180 gallons of water. The rest was air.

All I have to say is, I love my FJ. While the days of bombing around in the STI on snows was fun...the FJ is unstoppable. Roads are going to stay frozen for a few days, there are already some insane ice-speed bumps forming... I was behind a white 05 WRX wagon on Sparks Blvd tonight and I think he came off the ground...Ouch

180 gallons of water @ 8.35 lb per gallon = 1503 lb
Nice.
I found that I need tires...got stuck twice.

I thought I was hurting more than 24 cubic feet of water ... so I went outside to measure. It's actually 30'x18' x 1' = 540 c ft. Sure felt heavier than 10% water content, but I am a weakling.

But anyway - YAY for Subarus. Rachel made it up here today on her new Yoko Avid Touring S all-season tires (Dean's 'black friday' recommendation, mounted and out the door at $250).

AWD? Check.
Snow tires? Check.
Disposable car? Check.

Other than having the car way too low on those terrible H&Rs, I couldn't have a better winter beater.

I just got back from a field/meeting trip that started last TH. Reno->Vegas->Ely->Vegas->Reno. Camped in the field the first two nights, a bit cold but OK. Stayed in a Motel in Ely, it was freakin below zero and snowing. Vegas was OK, got out of the meeting at 1030 and drove back, plenty of white-out starting at Coaldale.

The rental Dodge NITRO!!!11!!1! actually did OK, but I think the exhaust note is totally contrived.

disclaimer, she drove mostly on roads that had been plowed. For the unplowed stuff, I am also a huge fan of Blizzaks.
Last year and this year I am driving on Goodyear Ultra Ice, not as good as the Blizzaks, but they were a gift so I can't complain.

Sometimes plowed roads are the worst, with the layer of ice they tend to leave behind.

I didn't get any ice tonight on my Dunlop 3Ds, but in the snow and slush they're pretty awesome.

I frickin' love the snow. I feel the way about it that my girlfriend, Amanda, feels about the ocean. It just makes me happy.

However, I high centered on the stuff trying to get into the parking lot where Amanda works. Her boss was nice enough to go home and grab a tow rope to get me out though. Super nice of him.

Got home (incredibly light traffic around 6:30) and shoveled most of the driveway...kind of half assed it. Khail, PM for my address. :P

I'm not that good. I cleaned off the windows and got new wipers before plowing. RainX Latitude FTW
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Go pick one up at HF. I carry one in all my winter cars. The most fun is pulling SUVs out with the Audi.

I was out driving around most of the day/evening and it is starting to ice up bad now...

I almost had a Jeep for dessert taking a friend home after dinner. It was a two idiot and at least 3 snow donkey incident. Rocket scientist in a truck pulling a bob cat on a trailer was parked/stuck diagonal blocking 2.5 of a 4 lane curve on a hill, on .

I stop because I see a jeep coming down the hill with the clear 1.5 lanes on his side. Well, this douche isn't paying attention and rather than just driving past he locks up all 4 and starts sliding. first towards the parked truck, then the curb and then towards me and then fortunately towards the curb again which he hits at a 45 degree angle, now blocking the remaining 1.5 lanes. Takes him 4-5 tries to back up and get off the curb and then guns it towards me again. by now he is past the parked truck far enough that I hit the gas headed for the truck and turn right around the dufus and proceed easily up the hill.

All this idiot had to do was keep driving the damn jeep and stay off the brakes. :rolleyes:

And I continue to be amazed by people in 2+ ton vehicles doing 50MPH on snow and ice. I'm in a lighter, lower CG, snow tired, torsion AWD car with all sorts of performance driving experience and I'm only comfortable doing 25(+5 to -15)

I can't decide who is dumber, them or the ones that can't figure out why 2 wheel drive cars on bald summer tires can't go straight much less up hills without chains and abandon cars anywhere they want rather than backing them into a curb, ditch or anywhere but the middle of the road. While there were probably a hundred honorable mentions, the winner was the one parked in the freeway on ramp lane of Northbound keystone just north of 5th st. by 10 ft. back up those 10 feet and then turn left/around/whatever. :rolleyes:

I did practice Scandinavian flicks a few times today. Getting better at them, but still need a lot of work.

Well I had a fun day lol. I only had 3 deliveries for work but clearance definitely became and issue. I never had any trouble with traction or sliding, (unless I initiated it lol) but my car is way to low for this amount of snow.

The snow this morning was actually quite pleasant to drive on. When it's -4 deg out, the snow and ice is so cold it acts more like dirt and pavement because it doesn't melt into water under the weight of the car.

In other news... how the hell was it -4F this morning at 8am!!?! My thermometer recorded a low of -6F last night. That's a little bit off the predicted low of 19F or whatever it was supposed to be.

When I checked the overnight predictions last night, I remember reading that they were predicting a low of 6F with a "feels like" of -4F.

Maybe your prediction was the daylight version.

They predicted 4* and then 1* for Stead. It was -4 this morning.

I think the predicted high for today is 19F

Also, totals from rgj.com

Kirkwood Ski Resort -- 30 to 40 inches of snow
Alpine Meadows -- 33 to 42 inches
Sugar Bowl -- 36 inches
Mammoth Mountain -- 13 inches
Tahoe City -- 18 inches
Truckee-Tahoe Airport -- 25 inches
Glenbrook -- 17 inches
Carson City -- 15 inches
Southwest Reno (near Lakeside Drive and McCarran Boulevard) -- 9 inches
Reno-Tahoe International Airport -- 7 inches
North Reno -- 10 inches

My parents got more than that in Placerville which is half the elevation of here, but must have caught the crazier part of the storm before half of it dissipated over the Sierras.

Yeah, my parents got 2 feet in Camino.

How many feet do they have when they're out of town?

:rimshot:

I skied at alpine today - it was really deep and really cold.

It was -17F this morning up here.

Hope it wasnt balls deep, and that cold. Could be disastrous.. haha

That sounds like "fun".

Saw an old guy on a "Hover Round", or whatever those motorized chairs that fat old people use, screaming down 2nd in the slow lane. ...made me chuckle.

I guess it depends on who you ask.

On Monday during the big storm, I saw a guy pushing a unicycle down Veterans Parkway. It kinda freaked me out.

From sunday:

Oh yeah, got 7-8" today, still going.

Tried to drive from Truckee to Tahoe City on the 06 road today, it started pounding hard. The turn for Tahoe City hadnt been catted so went out Watson Lake road to Brockway (above Northstar) and found a closed gate after getting stuck in some gnar that didnt end like we thought it was going to.

45 min stuck and digging
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Clyde dog didnt feel like pulling us out.

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Then we got out, got turned around and went back down the gnar we somehow made it up.

Behold:

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Then some nice dirty donuts

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And out before the other gate closes:

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Nice crop circles. That road is sweet.

Wait a minute, isn't that a three guys standing on a bridge joke? :)

Yeah, definitely missed being the last car on that road by a few minutes, the Sequoia that was in there wouldn't leave so we could be last. Funny, drove all the way to the gate at brockway summit where the snowmobiles run....once we got unstuck from that foot trail we were on.
Must have passed thru ten groups of people out there getting their xmas trees. They were all dicks, youd think theyd be happier, theyre getting thier trees and I had the decency to slow way down for them and creep thru at 1mph. Still there were some who felt it necessary to talk shit, so we asked if theyd like their assess beaten in front of their families, all declined. Enjoy your free illegal xmas tree, go strap it to your prius and learn how to have fun for a change. Hell we almost died and were stuck for an hour and we were having a blast.

Dear guy in rented Avenger on South Meadows,

There is ice on the ground, you need to give yourself at least 2 - 3x the braking distance you think you need.

Signed, the occupants of the two cars in front of you.

Dear pussyfoots on Rio Wrangler,

Just because you're scared of the ice doesn't mean you should drive down the middle of the road at 5 mph. Some of us are capable of an easy 30-40 mph, pick one lane so we can pass and actually get where we're going before the next snow storm hits.

Signed, people with AWD, snow tires, and low a CG.

Dear person walking in the street b/c the sidewalk isn't plowed and is almost getting hit every 30 seconds,

I feel sorry for you.

Sitting at a red light this morning I almost got smeared by Mr. "Big 4x4". I guess he didn't figure on that dry-road-to-packed-down-snow-that-you-could-see-a-mile-away being a factor in stopping.
By the time he did stop, his passenger door was lined up and within a clear coat's thickness to my trunk. I opened my door and leaned out to see him rolling down his passenger window and with a big smile he says "Nice save, Huh??" I just nodded and gave a sarcastic thumb's up.
After the light turns green, he decides that driving one foot behind me for a few blocks would be a safe idea, then waves to me like the good savior that he is when he turns off onto a different road.
I wish I could have caught his name so that I could add him to my X-Mas card list.

Do you mail out live grenades for your xmas cards? 'Cause that sounds like an appropriate thank you for his driving.

I think we need bumper stickers...

Physics, It's the law!
Break it and break your car/body and maybe other's.
or
p=m*v
If you don't know what that means, back the F off!

I think inviting someone to read the back of your car is the quickest way to get them to smash into it.

True, but that wasn't really my point.

That reminds me of the gravel trucks that have the sign "not responsible for broken windshields, keep back 300 feet". Of course you can't read it unless your 50 feet away.

I think I will get one that says "not responsible for driving your dumbass off the road".

Dear driver of the early '90s Accord,

When transitioning from dry pavement to an icy turn lane, you might want to slow down below 40 before attempting to brake on the ice. Hopefully that tank-slapper into the curb didn't totally destroy your left rear suspension... but based on the way your car limped back across the street... it probably did.

Signed, thanks for not T-boning me.

All day!!! hahaha, I saw a similar douche do the same this morning, only they rear ended a new Mercedes Suv...

To 99.99% of you Reno drivers - pay more taxes and get city wide heated streets. You folks can't drive in the snow.

99.99% of the car's that I have seen "doing it all wrong" had white licence plates that say California on them. :P

I agree. we need the heated streets. im assuming certain streets in truckee have them? When I was there the other day the street's were dry.. :unamused:

Really? Not the case up here.

No, they just do an amazing job of snow removal around here.