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Enganeer · Mega Poster

Snow?

Derek69SS · Founding Member

All I can do is laugh, because clearly, crying hasn't been any help.

I drove through a foot of snow 3/4 of the way to work, then had to back up a half mile because the SNOW PLOW was stuck in the middle of the road. Got to work, and only 1 of my 7 employees is here... 2 more called to say they're on the way, about 40 minutes ago.

dashboard · 2K+ Club

How's those new tires work? Looks like it missed us, just a trace on the ground here.

Derek69SS · Founding Member

Tires work great... could have made a lot more money today by skipping work and pulling 4x4s out of snowbanks for $10 a pull.

I'm hearing that we're at 14" here, and another possible 6" throughout the day.

bowtie · Secretary

Bone dry here in Fridley right now, but my GM order was 3 hours late coming from Hudson.

SteveS · Super Poster

I'm just south of the main band Derek's in the middle of. We've got 4 inches and it's still coming down. Then the rain will start for the next 3 days

Derek69SS · Founding Member

It has snowed another 5" since I got to work this morning... I think we're somewhere in the 15-18" range here.

Lost in the 60s · President

About 3-4 inches here too. I was just over near Maplewood Mall and they have only a trace.

I'll be really happy when March is over and we can get on with Summer...

Derek69SS · Founding Member

Can I get a refund on my NCC calendar? Clearly it is defective.

dashboard · 2K+ Club

SteveS wrote:
I'm just south of the main band Derek's in the middle of. We've got 4 inches and it's still coming down. Then the rain will start for the next 3 days

Good call last night!

SShink · 3K+ Club

Left the house this a.m. with wet roads to drive to Cedar Rapids, IA down 52, got to Zumbrota and the lane was down to 1, then had to drive 5 miles south of there just to find a cross road clear enough to turn around. There looked like 15"+ on top of everything.

One of my employees drove separately down I35, and had to turn around in Albert Lea and come back.

This pic is from just north of Zumbrota and it got way worse from there... 4" of packed ice on the road, snowing, and down to 1 lane.

Derek69SS · Founding Member

That looks GOOD compared to the side roads.

My Z71 was pushing snow with the bumper!

dashboard · 2K+ Club

I just read this in the New Dunken Fagnal Bible…..

“And in the end the land shall turn white”.

Bungy L-76 · Active Member

I left for work this morning in my little Aspire since there wasn't a flake on the ground. Got "high sided" about 4 miles from Owatonna on hwy14 with all four wheels off the ground. Waited for a plow to come by and my boss was right behind him. My boss pulled me into the plowed lane and we made it to work. Then we waited another hour and a half for our lot to get plowed so we could get the trucks out. Owatonna got 16 inches. Now I'm back home with green grass on the gound and the sun is shining.

Seth · Contributor

Makes my curiosity of converting my Chevelle to all wheel drive a little more relevant.. Any thoughts ideas or suggestions? Was looking at Astros.

67ss · 1K+ Club

Seth wrote:
Makes my curiosity of converting my Chevelle to all wheel drive a little more relevant.. Any thoughts ideas or suggestions? Was looking at Astros.

I think subaru WRX turbo pancake motor would be better. That way the front axel shafts would stay in the engine compartment and use the original chevelle tunnel for the rear driveshaft.

Dan Williams · Active Member

Must have got about a foot of REALlY wet heavy snow. Alll my crappy trees are laying on all my good trees. Gonna take a couple of chain saws to clean up this mess. Supposed to get in the 60's over the weekend, hope that helps. OF course it was 80* on monday and we still have this mess.

jim larson · 2K+ Club

15" here in Lake City, power off as trees fell over and metal sheds collapsed, power just restored and the furnace just kicked in.

Lost in the 60s · President

jim larson wrote:
15" here in Lake City, power off as trees fell over and metal sheds collapsed, power just restored and the furnace just kicked in.

Dang, that sucks that you lost power. I have a big generator for just those emergencies.

Back in Black · Active Member

Lost in the 60s wrote:
jim larson wrote:
15" here in Lake City, power off as trees fell over and metal sheds collapsed, power just restored and the furnace just kicked in.
Dang, that sucks that you lost power. I have a big generator for just those emergencies.

Had to pick one up today. We were dark for almost 12 hours.

BTW, summer has been canceled. Don't shoot the messenger.

Derek69SS · Founding Member

We were without power for 7 hours total today... from 11:30 - 1:30, and again from 3:45 - 8:45

Just came back on, and hopefully stays on.

I don't know the snowfall total, but it's a lot... very heavy stuff. My in-laws shed roof collapsed.

Chris R · 2K+ Club

I saw maybe a few flakes of snow yesterday to just make the ground wet and that was about it. It was a pretty nice day today around here. Chilly but no precipitation. Strange winter we are having this year. Guess thats the price we pay from the pleasant winter we had last year. Figured we already recieved our comeuppance from the heat we got all last summer. Guess mother nature wasnt done with us when summer wrapped up last year.

jim larson · 2K+ Club

Snowfall wasn't as bad as last year at this time. There was a narrow path of hail that hit Lake City at this same time. Crops had to be replanted and hay fields were depleated. Roofs had to be reshingled. Snow plows were out in full force, used to clear a foot to 4 feet of hail off various roads around the area. Yes 4 feet, that is not a typo.

bowtie · Secretary

Snowing here in Fridley right now.

dashboard · 2K+ Club

jim larson wrote:
Snowfall wasn't as bad as last year at this time. There was a narrow path of hail that hit Lake City at this same time. Crops had to be replanted and hay fields were depleated. Roofs had to be reshingled. Snow plows were out in full force, used to clear a foot to 4 feet of hail off various roads around the area. Yes 4 feet, that is not a typo.

Four feet?

Lost in the 60s · President

dashboard wrote:
jim larson wrote:
Snowfall wasn't as bad as last year at this time. There was a narrow path of hail that hit Lake City at this same time. Crops had to be replanted and hay fields were depleated. Roofs had to be reshingled. Snow plows were out in full force, used to clear a foot to 4 feet of hail off various roads around the area. Yes 4 feet, that is not a typo.

Four feet?

Was that the same monsoon we drove thru down at Derek's ???

jim larson · 2K+ Club

dashboard wrote:

Four feet?

Yes deeper in the ditches. This was in low areas where the hail washed down and over the roads. Looked like frozen dirt.

It was the night before the first day the the 4th period for hunting turkeys. May 2nd, ask me what happen to my turkey blind.

-- Edited by jim larson on Friday 3rd of May 2013 06:12:12 PM

-- Edited by jim larson on Friday 3rd of May 2013 06:13:36 PM

dashboard · 2K+ Club

I think that was May; it sure was a downpour.

Lost in the 60s · President

dashboard wrote:
I think that was May; it sure was a downpour.

I thought it was later too, I just remember the hail piled up on the sides of the road....

Derek69SS · Founding Member

Yeah, that was toward the end of may. There were "drifts" of hail on the roads after... not 4' around here though.

OscarZ · Treasurer

I was trying to Turkey hunt in WI yesterday but the 14" of snow put an end to that! I got to hunt one day at least!

jim larson · 2K+ Club

OscarZ wrote:
I was trying to Turkey hunt in WI yesterday but the 14" of snow put an end to that! I got to hunt one day at least!

Don't hunt near Sommerset. Weird how that guy got shot.

Snow should be that much of a deterinent, a fried shot his at 5:50 am yesterday morning down hear near Lake City.

-- Edited by jim larson on Saturday 4th of May 2013 08:59:52 AM

Lost in the 60s · President