• low-lying 4x4

    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to JOE MACKEY on Mon Jan 20 18:00:49 2020
    On 20/01/2020 6:21 a.m., JOE MACKEY : AUGUST ABOLINS wrote:


    It's too much for my rather low-lying 4x4 to plow through to
    get out. So.. I have to do some manual digging first.

    I have never understood 4x4's with low clearance.


    I concur. My vehicle has an "official" clearance of only 7.5in.

    It has actually managed plowing through 8" snows quite well.

    But over time (12 years, in fact), I'd swear it's looking a bit lower
    than that. I currently have a few heavy boxes of books in the back
    which are probably contributing to the lower profile.

    These are pictures of a very large dump of snow around my property back
    in Dec 2007, but it looked very much like this yesterday, after it got
    cleaned up a bit:

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/fRAXVy2bX96ge71V9

    My vehicle is in a few of the shots.

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Tue Jan 21 06:09:18 2020
    Aug wrote --

    It has actually managed plowing through 8" snows quite well.

    I don't recall ever going though a snow that deep. Even when I lived in
    in SE Colorado and get a big snow sweeping in off the mountains.
    Not saying I hadn't been in snow that deep, just never drove through it.
    The best car I ever had was my '65 Falcon. I swear, that thing must of
    been part Jeep, nothing stopped it. Just slow and easy and I could go anywhere, ford streams, climb mountains, roll through deserts...

    But over time (12 years, in fact), I'd swear it's looking a bit lower
    than that. I currently have a few heavy boxes of books in the back
    which are probably contributing to the lower profile.

    No doubt, but would tend to give some traction in the back.

    These are pictures of a very large dump of snow

    Very pretty.
    That's the kind of snow I like, just looking at it. :)
    we don't get big snows in WV.
    We had a blizzard at Thanksgiving 1950, several feet. Then again in
    1993, around St Patrick's day, that hit the eastern half of the country from the
    Carolina's into New England.
    WV was in a state of emergency and everything was shut down. Officials asking citizens to loan them 4x4's, etc.
    Here in downtown was a deadly quiet. Not a sound. There were mounds
    here and there with a car underneath.
    We got about two feet and being mid March by the next weekend all that remained were piles that had been plowed here and there.
    People were told to stay home and off the street, so naturally I went for
    a walk around to see the snow.
    We had another storm that dumped a couple of feet in January, '96 (I
    think) and that lingered a bit longer.
    Now the mountains of WV will get snow and have ski lodges here and there.
    When I was in the Navy in Norfolk, VA I knew a guy from FL who had never
    seen snow. We had a big snow one day, about an inch (that shut down the
    town) and he was like a kid out playing in it. :)
    We are a little hardier here, it takes almost three inches to shut this
    town down. :)
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Tue Jan 21 23:05:00 2020
    Joe,

    WV was in a state of emergency and everything was shut down. Officials
    asking citizens to loan them 4x4's, etc.

    Arkansas gets that way if we get an inch of snow. Not one bit of
    bread, milk, beer, or toilet paper, is left in the stores.

    Here in downtown was a deadly quiet. Not a sound. There were mounds
    here and there with a car underneath.

    That's what I remember most about a good snow storm...it's dead quiet.

    We got about two feet and being mid March by the next weekend all that
    remained were piles that had been plowed here and there.

    If Arkansas had that, they wouldn't move for a month.

    When I was in the Navy in Norfolk, VA I knew a guy from FL who had never
    seen snow. We had a big snow one day, about an inch (that shut down the JM>town) and he was like a kid out playing in it. :)

    When snow fell in Miami and Homestead for the first time in on Jan.
    19, 1977, folks went nuts...especially the kids. Snow didn't stick in
    Miami or Carol City, but it was observed. Just north of Miami in Carol
    City, 3 inches fell.

    The worst part was that much of the state citrus crop that year
    (oranges, grapefruit, etc.) was wiped out...and you can imagine what it
    did to the prices. Can you say "Florida Oranges From California??" <G>.

    We are a little hardier here, it takes almost three inches to shut this
    town down. :)

    More like 3/10 of an inch in Little Rock. :P

    Daryl


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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Thu Feb 13 06:42:46 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    We got about two feet and being mid March by the next weekend all that
    remained were piles that had been plowed here and there.

    If Arkansas had that, they wouldn't move for a month.

    There's old joke here:
    What is snow removal in WV?
    Spring
    We had a bad cold, snowy weather in '77-78, which you mentioned about
    Miami.
    The city of Huntington broke down and bought a snow plow. One snow plow
    for a city of 50,000+.
    It sat unused for several years and when it was needed the first time it wouldn't run. Repairs with ordered parts where scheduled to be completed by May.
    Then it disappeared.
    No one has any idea where it is now.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Thu Feb 13 13:09:00 2020
    Joe,

    It sat unused for several years and when it was needed the first time it
    wouldn't run. Repairs with ordered parts where scheduled to be completed by JM>May.
    Then it disappeared.
    No one has any idea where it is now.

    Sounds like the ad "FOR SALE: SNOWBLOWER. WORKED LAST SUMMER". <G>

    Daryl


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