Snowmageddon 2.0

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94Corolla5Speed wrote:My street and the adjacent street which my car is on have not been plowed. And when they will be plowed, all the snow will just be piled up next to my car, further impeding any possibility of exit.
If you REALLY want to be avoid that issue, go out there right now and shovel a large area before your car. The shoveled area will receive the plow's windrow and the plow will be pushing air when it passes your car.

I sure as hell would rather just dig my car out though...then I'd only have to dig enough to get out.
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21 inches here in chicago! this is the pic of my truck i have others but i dont feel like uploading right now. we have a 6ft drift in front of my house.

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I never thought I'd wish for another 18 inches of powder, but 2 inches of crusty stuff is actually worse...3 times as time-consuming and 3 times as painful. I didn't get much done in 2 hours. This is the end of using the Buick on the driveway and I may have to rent a loader or a snowblower to cut a few feet of snow out of my back yard so I can park on level land (as well I'll need a trackhoe to push the Buick up 20 feet onto level land)...or I may just need to buy a couple dumptruckloads of salt and sand.
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theholycow wrote: salt
NOE!!!!
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Meh, it's all over my truck from the road anyway, and on the driveway it's not going to fly up onto my truck anywhere near as much. The other option is to park on the driveway at night and find my truck in the street in the morning.
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A couple more. It's literally sickening me that there is so, so much snow left. Some people might not be able to get out for weeks.

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My car finally cleaned out. And the snowplow will soon come and bury it all again. Trying to move it was futile, there are 3-4 ft. snowpiles blocking either exit from the street. I started it and said to myself, "Hmm, it sounds quieter than normal." So I open the hood and my engine bay is PACKED with snow. Completely. I had to run it for over an hour to try to melt it all.

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And the picture that makes me sick. This is disgusting.
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94Corolla5Speed wrote:So I open the hood and my engine bay is PACKED with snow. Completely. I had to run it for over an hour to try to melt it all.
WTF? How does that happen? Wind blew it up from under, or wind blew it in through grille?
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My car was facing the direction the wind was blowing, so I'm guessing it was getting blown in from under, the grille, all the little crevasses it could find.
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94Corolla5Speed wrote:My car was facing the direction the wind was blowing, so I'm guessing it was getting blown in from under, the grille, all the little crevasses it could find.
I opened my garage this morning and found several snows inside - more than i've ever seen in there before. The rubber strip at the bottom of the door is long gone, but I have a piece of aluminum trim that fills the gap fairly well. Usually, snow blocks the rest of the gap and limits how much comes in. Mustard bean that wind last night.
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chris cleared out the space around the jeep, and put it all behind my car. nice of him, eh?

my igloo aint goin nowhere fast...i dunno about school tomorrow, altho, chris said something about being able to bring me.

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I just flew back from Halifax and it was crazy blizzards all the way. It was so bad in Montreal that the ground handlers got the aircraft stuck in a snow bank. And you thought it was bad trying to get your car out.

But yeah it's still snowing out right now. I might take some pics tomorrow when it's light out.

I should've taken some at the hotel last night. It was coming down something fierce.
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94Corolla5Speed wrote:Image
And the picture that makes me sick. This is disgusting.
Personally, Id go bury that back in again. Perhaps poor water all over it to cause more difficulties.
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You're a giant ass.
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Yeah. Your point being?
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watkins wrote:Yeah. Your point being?
You come here and screw up the snow, I stab your Viggina in many places.
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