Snowmageddon 2017

I used to drive the tow truck at the Cadillac dealership I worked at. I got to know the local GMAC rep pretty good because he'd sometimes come to the dealership and hire the tow truck to do a repo. After the Blizzard of 1978, stories of plow drivers making a killing triggered mass purchases of snow plow equipped trucks. Some folks got themselves in debt up to their eyeballs. A few of them even traded in both their cars for one plow rig.
Needless to say, there was not much snow at all the following winter. I saw a lot of Bob, the GMAC guy, the following spring as he collected all the trucks from owners who were behind on the payments.

 

Only a light 1/2" ish covering here near Deals Gap. Snowing lightly currently. Calling for 3-4 degrees Sat night. Thats cold enough.

 

Given that we are only about 15 minutes away, we have the same.

 

I..I..couldn't help myself.. lol

 

1" plus of sleet here, pretty socked in. Ice is terrible! Took me hour and 15 minutes to get home in 4wd with fools sliding all around me off the road. Good thing is power is still on!

Precipitations is headed east but what we got ain't going anywhere it's currently 27 here and feels like 18 with a stiff north wind howling.

Big heavy diesel trucks ain't the best ice sleds but I managed to get it home. Damn I hate winter and no way would I even consider moving any further north than I am now.

 

About 2" here right now and still snowing...

 

This is not from my deck lol shit that was good still laughing

My drive home, southern ICE it stops errrythang! That isn't snow that's ice.

 

We are getting mostly ice too.

 

It's bad stuff!

 

Snowing like a mofo here north of Durham. Haven't seen snow falling at this heavy a rate in a long, long time. Morning should be very interesting for sure. Everyone stay safe. Gonna be a cold, cold weekend.

 

Precisely. When I was in school my father was the Chairman of the School Committee. He would talk to the Superintendent and the guy who owned the buses the evening before to make a decision. 100% of the time it was the bus company owner who made the decision to cancel school the next day. And I was the first student to know that school was canceled!

 

all ya'll are funny.....went to suburbs in Canton for dinner at co-workers. hes up in the hills above Canton. left with a few inches of snow on the ground, made it back to Holiday Inn just fine.

engine brake down hills, keep your momentum on corners and make sure you take a running start on hills....pfft easy.

 

Holy shit! My BIL got the boy one of those chickens for Christmas.

 

Wife has a job downtown today... just went out and checked how the cayenne does on ice covered with wet snow, which is currently also turning into ice due to temperature drop.

Piece of cake so far on summer tires.

Just hoping there are not too many "explorers" out there. As in triple light bar/sideways

 

Wet snow here, maybe 1". Temps dropping a bit though.

 

I sure hate to disappoint, so here goes.....


And on a slightly more serious note, got the RV Carport just in time. I've had it for about two weeks.....


We live about 10 miles outside Maryville (Murvil) and can see the Foothills from our back deck. I would have thought you guys would have gotten more snow over on the other side than we did here.........hmm!

 

Trim that roof over your trailer before Broome goes into cardiac arrest!