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Cleaned the car.....
py cell phone pic for evidence!!!!!

Where the hell do you keep your daily vehicle? LOL

This is my winter solution from November till May for my Thunderbird and Mustang: (http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa33/thunderjet302/Thunderbird%20web/garage_zps5b7e3ad6.jpg) (http://s198.photobucket.com/user/thunderjet302/media/Thunderbird%20web/garage_zps5b7e3ad6.jpg.html)

You need a bigger garage. No need to wash either of these cars when it snows. Hell they look just as clean as when I put them away in November in April ;).

I do remember back when I had to do what Demon does (for really esoteric reasons...okay same reason, ALSO had a separate car that NEEDED to be inside lol) and there is something fun and smile-inducing about looking at a shiny perfectly clean car sitting in the driveway after the snow melts, among the messy cars and road in the neighborhood.

There is definitely a significant difference in worst-winter-temps between up here (halfway up NY's north/south extent) and LI/NYC.
You drive down to there/north Jersey and you're surprised at the lack of rust compared to up here. Last winter and this winter have been tough for me to find opportunities to wash the salt from my daily.

....And then people like Carm show us what Canada does to cars and then I'm thankful I live here!!!! :hick:

They've been oversalting here since Sandy.  Salt was on the roads from the storm after Sandy until late April that season.  Same thing last year.  Inch of snow?  Hell, let's throw down the same mount of salt and brine we would for 18 inches!!!!! 

I don't drive the car in the snow anymore anyhow except last Friday night when it started on me on the way home.  No salt was on the roads so no biggie.  It's just white rain at that point.  Once the salt hits, the car stays in the driveway.  I'll hit the frame with some PB Blaster tomorrow.  She'll be fine.

No kidding. That's always been par for the course in most towns/counties up here. Since I started driving. Whatever setting there is on the salter, if there is one, is kept the same so the small storms leave the roads worst and big snowstorms, at just below the freezing point, tend to leave very little behind, sometimes the roads look downright spotless.

Salt. No only for fries, margaritas, and tomato slices (eww, yuck).

Get that nice Cougar in a covered shelter!!!!!

We're supposed to get around 12 inches or so here late tonight through all day tomorrow. I'll believe it when I see it. Most of the storms this year have been 4 inches or less. Even so I'll be sitting at home tonight drinking beer and watching NHL hockey.

They were a little off with the last one for us because it went a wee bit further south then predicted.  I still saw 13 to 14.  I'm hearing everything from 3 inches to a foot.

We were supposed to get up to 8"...(don't be dirty..) but they cut it down due the warm layer staying stationary and making it rain till almost dark.

Snowing now though, and the shiznit just ain't movin out very fast. I figure 4 or 5 inches...

So the mild winter.....well compared to last year anyways....heck did not even get above 50 until May something....it was terrible.

Travis

The mighty cougar is in the garage....cheap TC sit outside....LOL

were at a good 10" right now. and its still snowing

Got around 15 inches and it's still snowing here. It started around 10 last night. I have to go to work tomorrow but my wife has a paid day off only because the university she works for is closed due to snow. Last time I had a snow day off with pay was four years ago (almost to the day) when we got 22 inches of snow.

We didn't get shiznit. And I'm not dissatisfied.

I just learned something about tires,

winter tires stay pliable and flexible down into very low degrees, interesting.

you all stay safe and warm!

Here in Indy, the Snowpocalypse just turned into the Moistpocalypse. Pretty much nothing.

Same here. They were calling for 12-18". We got nothing but rain. I guess it's hard for snow to develop at 37 degrees, lol. It did get cold abruptly over night (12 degrees), and froze all of that rain. My street is a glistening skating rink! The main roads are OK, but the side streets are SOLID ice.

At least all of the dire warnings motivated me to fix my snow blower! Now it sits, poised, ready to pounce, and there is no snow.

Cold? Check.

Pretty chilly last night, it's only 12 today, likely won't get any "warmer".




Makes me really long for those August nights, sitting out under the maple tree I planted when I was 8 years old, drinking a few beers with friends, listening to the bug zapper working overtime.

Come ON with summer. Shuck this fit!

Well the final total out of this storm was 19.3 inches. 5th biggest single day snow storm tally on record for Chicago. After I finished snow blowing this morning it looked like this (I went out twice yesterday).
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The City of Chicago has yet to plow the side streets. 19+ inches of packed down snow is fun to drive on
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Then I got to work. No one plowed our lot (still waiting on them to do it). 19 inches of snow plus drifts. Awesome.
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You need to to go back and get the blacktop showing. Turned to rain here to, sloppy ass shiznit.

Snowed a few inches, then rained a little(not enough to melt the snow), then freezing rain, and now snowing as I type.  I'm VERY glad I got another good coat of wax on the car.  I don't foresee it moving for a while....  My wife has to drive home from Queens tonight.  For some reason, she took the Focus and left me the truck (I had to work this morning).  I think her 45 minute commute is gonna be closer to 2 hours plus today....

Sucks for her, But you get some free time.

we got about 2' last night... thats about normal around here.... high of 12 today....low in the neg digits.... more to come the rest of the week

Suddenly, the 17 degrees and 3 inches are perfect. Doubt it'll be all we get here before spring though.

Why is it colder where I am in southern NY than it is in NORTHERN ALASKA?!!!  I mean continuously too.  I've been checking on a daily basis for the heck of it.

The jet stream, likely. She is a fickle bitch.

We have had one "significant" snow storm this year. A trace that stuck on Christmas eve. Today was a chilly 36 degrees when i left for work and only got as high as 49. Should be back to 60 by Thursday.

All honesty, i miss snow. They have already closed a ski resort locally. They have ran as long as late June before. We have had basically no precipitation this whole winter, pretty much we will be in a bad drought.

Dont worry...it's still way colder in Western NY...

Temps hovered around zero the past few nights.  Now it's doing this..... Again....

We're supposed to get a bunch of rain tomorrow. Should go well with the three feet of snow that has fallen over the last two weeks.

Hard to believe it, but there's a Chrysler 300 in this photo somewhere...

Getting 4-6 tonight. I'll be at work plowing until daybreak. Then off to York, Pa to pick up birdie goodies. Stay tuned...

It's supposed to rain here too.  I'll believe it when I see it.  Coldest February here in many many years.

It was 32* here today. Felt balmy. That's sad.

still a whopping 16 here with low of -8 tonight...... and we just got another 3-4 inches of snow....... 100" total for Buffalo, not counting the 72" the south towns got in that freak storm in November

That rain we were supposed to get?  Yeah, more snow with sleet.  Snow and slush EVERYWHERE.  Everyone I spoke to was PRAYING for rain to wash all the salt away.

We actually got rain, and it's about 40 out right now. But that rain only fell after 2" of snow and ice, so we're no further ahead. I spread 50lbs of salt in the driveway yesterday, another 50 today, and that's on top of the 75lbs I spread on Thursday. And I've still got a solid 2" of ice in the driveway

Carm, just for reference..how tall are the railings on your porch/deck? ;)

It was 44 here yesterday, then it got down to 8 last night, ed ground is heaving under my shop door, making it hard to get it open. I might be on hold till it thaws and I can shovel some mud out of the way...

Tonight: windchill about 15-20 below. Wuck Finter!

its all a lie,, it isn't cold,, and there is not 16'' outside

its actually white sands,, and a gentle southern breeze messing with my 76deg mildly muggy winter enjoyment.

gotta get back to shoveling the sand dunes out of the way

Can I have a glass of what you're drinkin'?? :D:shakeass:

Those railings are 42" tall. On the god side, you can see the car now - I don't know how much snow has melted, but it's certainly sunken down quite a bit, under its own weight

It can snow and be cold all it wants now. In a few days I'll be in Kailua, HI. Winter is going to feel worse when I get back....

My winter life just got a whole hell of a lot easier.  I bought a plow attachment for my riding mower.  No more shoveling the football field-length gravel driveway!  I still hate winter, but I hate it slightly less now.
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And...mother-wuckin' finter is set to return.

We could get up to 6 inches tomorrow/tomorrow evening. Not to mention some of that  that is hard and slick and rhymes with rice.

I guess I shouldn't complain...y'all up in New York and places have gotten more in one night than we have all winter. On that note, I'm gonna take a couple of ibuprofen, spend 10 or 15 more minutes looking for an e cam, then go pass out..if this monster headache lets up. THAT is how I know it's gonna snow...pressure is decreasing, and every time it does, it triggers headaches.

As I type this I'm sitting on my hotel balcony in Kona,HI. It's 78* and sunny. What winter?

Now that's just plain mean. :beatyoass: lol.  I would stay there.

At least it's 14 above zero here today. Too bad we are getting about 6" of snow.

Nice! Enjoy it while you can!

And at this moment I've just finished plowing another 6" out of my driveway. Running out of places to put it.

Bleavitt23: I went one better than that. A few years ago I made a plow for my four-wheeler. My father is getting up their in age and can't move his snow blower around anymore, so I gave him the ATV plow and took his snowblower. That got really old really fast when I bought the house I'm in thanks to its 150 foot long driveway that is a 30% grade. I started a new job at a Honda dealership in Sept 2013, and one of my first jobs there was to install a brand new Fisher plow on their new plow truck because their old truck, a 1999 Chevy, had broken in half. After installing the new plow I asked about the old one, and they agreed to sell it to me for $1000. Better still, the frame brackets for that '99 Chev fit my 2004 Avalanche. And even better yet, they paid me to remove it from the old truck!

So Dad can have that ATV plow. Mine has heated seats and a radio :mullet: and has gotten more than its share of use during last winter and this one. Here's my way of dealing with the snow:

Nice you definitely need that!

Yeah you got me on that one!  EXCEPT... I only paid $100 for mine.

Well, we were supposed to get a dusting today... It's dumped about 7 inches so far and is supposed to go until tomorrow morning.  Another foot.  Yeah...

yea, I sent that over to ya... :hick:

It was 48 degrees here today. Mountains got a light dusting. Nothing has been on the ground since dec 25th.

We got an inch or so...far from the 4-6 inches that we were supposed to get.. That's what SHE said..


I'm gonna try a new tactic:

I hope we have a blizzard, once a week, until May or so. *crossing fingers*

I will have my vengeance in this life or the next....... 

LOL!

Well just because you're mad at him doesn't mean you had to send that shiznit our way! 4" down this morning, probably gonna be another 6" on top of that. shag....

There's nowhere for me to put the  stuff anymore.....Gotta spread the love!

Seriously, it better stop soon. 

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Wow! You guys got hammered. Got maybe 3" tops up here.
We're such a wildcard spot. They'll pass south pass north sometimes BAM dump everything right here.

It stopped shortly after my post last night.  Still dumped around 8" or so.  I'm DONE.

Hey guys...it's 32 here and the shiznit is melting. :flip:

Where is this guy when you need him?

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Told ya.  That average they speak of is the average high I think.

Apparently we got 7 inches in Chicago a few days ago. I'm crossing my fingers it and the other 8-10 inches of ice glacier are gone by the time I get home. I'm hoping the weather in Hawaii follows me home.

The cold followed my wife to Hawaii this summer.  While she was there with the kids, it was the only time in 2014 it went above 90 here.

Sorry Lou...more headed for the Windy City. We've got some kind of weather alert this morning...freezing rain or some shiznit.

I've got to go pick my Mountaineer up from the shop here in a bit, had an exhaust leak fixed, and got it safety inspected for a license plate renewal. Hopefully I won't have to se ice for 30 minutes just to drive 4 miles back home..

Yuck Fou...ice storm.

Were in the 30's. 4 inches of snow on the ground. 1 1/2 hour drive turned into 3 hours. Highway were supposed to be working on is closed. Looking at a 3-4 hour drive home.

I wouldn't go to Hawaii in the summer. I'd be missing out on actual nice days we have in Chicago. I've only really got from mid May to mid September to get good weather.



Ugh. I hate ice storms. Spring can't get here soon enough.

Snows all melted already. We had between 4 and 6" total. Gonna be 48 tomorrow and 60's by the weekend.

Our's all melted thanks to all the rain. But now we have flooding all over the place and the snow has started. It really coming down too! They're calling for 6 -10" and I think we'll get it.

Calling for another 4-8" here throughout the day.....


Uugggggggghhhhh

6-10" here. :mad:

One of the best things about living in the south, especially South Carolina... we might get a little snow every year.  Just a couple of weeks ago, the forecast was supposed to be 4-8" and one station calling for 5-10".  Basically, anytime there's even a hint of snow/ice/sleet/freezing rain, a lot of places close.  Schools here closed the day before it was supposed to hit and there wasn't anything on the ground and were closed one to two days after, following up with two hour delays in the days after those.  People go nuts here running to get the milk and bread.  I was hugely skeptical because we've been duped plenty of times before.  We might have gotten 3" in some places, but it wasn't what they called for originally, which I figured would happen.  Our governor, Nikki Haley, called for a state of emergency prior to the "snowmageddon".  SMH  I was really looking forward to seeing a big snow because I've lived here all of my life and haven't seen a really big one ever.  Whenever any threat of wintry precipitation hits, it's a given most everything will close or be on a two-hour delay.  Life is good here!

I was just in South Carolina last week, near Myrtle Beach. They were calling for a little freezing rain, and they said on TV "All county schools are closed", hehe. Up north they list them individually. It was weird to hear a place cancel them all at once.

We also went to "broadway at the beach" (a big outdoor shopping complex), and it was also entirely closed except for one restaurant. Wow, heh. I am from Ohio, and no stores ever close on account of the weather here.

You're not missing anything.  TRUST ME.
It gets old fast, especially when you're running out of places to shovel it off to/plow it.

More snow than forecasted and still coming down hard..... Supposed to go for a few more hours...

Flew out of Kona, HI at 6 pm Chicago time yesterday. It was about 80* when I left. Landed at O'Hare around 6 this morning (had a two hour layover at LAX). It was 7*. Bit of a shock to the system. Spring can't get here soon  enough....

This latest storm that hit New England is being pushed away from us by an arctic high. Never so glad to see cold weather in my life...

56* F, supposed to hit 60 for the high.

Meet me at the pool. Got margaritas and cold brews. LOL.


Weird, being this warm...ponds are still frozen over.

In 2008, one day in February it was 73 degrees here. Nicole and I went out on the four wheeler and got plumb muddy. Week after that, we had 3 inches of snow and then freezing rain.

Somebody give Mother Nature some prozac...bitch be trippin'.

32 degrees right now, feels like a heat wave. Sad, considering "normal" for this time of year is 37.

Beau, talking about freak weather: It was 74 degrees and raining here on Christmas day.  We didn't have a flake of snow on the ground until January 28. Then all hell broke loose, and we got an entire winter's worth of snow in four weeks. January and February were both much, much colder than normal.

It's crazy, for sure. I did a quick look at the extended forecast for here, looks like mid 50's, close to 60 for the high for the next few days, and lows in the mid to upper 30's. Maybe winter finally had it's run. Hopin' so.

I'd hoped to have been able to get outside today and accomplish some stuff, but we had 2 sets of people show up to look at puppies, and the one family stayed and hung out with us for a couple of hours. My wife talks to the other gal on instagram on a dog "group" or whatever...was actually fun, hanging out with new people. I'm usually pretty introverted, but me and the other guy got on pretty good...he's a car guy too, and is also into guns. They'll be back in a couple of weeks to get their pup, as they went ahead and paid for him.

Oh, we have 9 Boxer puppies...this is the second and last litter we're going to work with. It's fun and makes a little coin, but it's almost a full time job when they get around 4-5 weeks. These guys are 6 weeks tomorrow.

I think they're pretty cute little shiznits, but I will be glad when they're all gone to new homes. On a side note, I've hurt myself, must have pulled something in my back yesterday when I was getting the door off of that Mountaineer in the yard...my lower right side and back and hip are all sore as hell...bad enough that I don't want to lay down on that side. The pain is bad enough that tylenol and ibuprofen both only take the edge off. Oh well...comes with age I suppose.

The ed mud is nearly as obnoxious as the snow...it's dry, and has been windy the last two days..heard the local fire siren 4 times today....crews going out to fight brush and grass fires.

I took the shovels away from next to my front door today and put them in my shed.  That's the unofficial end of winter in my house.

Oh and this:

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Yup.  Finally drove the  car again.  The main roads and a good portion of the side roads are clear -- salt has been washed away by a few rains now.  Some of the side roads still have some sand in the area.  Mounds of snow in parking lots still exist as evidenced by the photo.

Paul...we had 84 degrees yesterday. That is all. :rollin:

Them's fightin' werdz!!!

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Hopefully it'll be that nice soon.  It's windy as hell today.

We had 70s yesterday and 50s today. The weather doesn't know what it wants to do this time of year.

Yeah, it's definitely not 80 today LOL.

Windy, it is. Jesus...it's like the big ed wind tunnel at G.E., LOL.

We've got nightcrawlers popping out of the ground at night...saw a robin yesterday. Spring is jusssssstttttt about to pop.

A guy on my FB tilled his garden yesterday. My ground is far too wet still. In any case, I need to disc it with my tractor first, and I'd rather let it get really dry first. No sense in packing or clodding up the garden.

Just think, in 2 months, we'll all be bitching about the heat and humidity. ;)

Yeah, well fvck you. Fvck you all. We were hammered with 35cm (14") just two days ago. And now, in honour of St. Pat's day?





I don't even know where I'm going to pile it. The snow banks surrounding my driveway are anywhere between 10-12 feet tall. I just spent the last two hours with the snowblower trying to push some of those snow banks back so I'll have a place to put tonight/tomorrow's dumping. Bitter? Me?

My condolences, Carm.



May I send you a pic of the shoots of fresh green grass poking out of the ground? How about the poppy flowers that are starting to leaf out?

And those daffodil shoots, too. Maple trees all have huge buds...probably leafing out next week.

Out in my hayfield, I got the Mountaineer stuck. Wow, left some deep ruts, and just about got my tractor stuck as well. Note that I have my front driveshaft out for a rebuild, so I was 2wd-ing it...ass end dropped down, and the tach and speedo spun up. I shut 'er off and started walking toward the house. Wife wasn't thrilled, and it was all for naught...we lost a dog that night. Sadly, it was one of the puppies...poor thing.


I'm ready for lawn mowing and tornado watches..

It was sunny 72* here yesterday. Today it's 42* and sunny. Winds came through last night and cooled everything down. Boo. The Thunderbird hasn't been out of the garage since November 1st, The Mustang December 1st. I need to get them out again.

Remember this from a few weeks ago?

Same shot, after yesterday's storm:



We ended up with over 90cm (~36") of snow. Two days after 35cm (~14") fell. The roads are now tunnels.

And here I am complaining that it's 45* outside (after being 65* Sunday and 72* Monday).

You win. What's even worse is that it's almost April.....

The car is under there?

Yup. The pimp sled is entombed. I was hoping I'd have it in the garage by now, doing a major service before putting it back on the road (timing belt, water pump, spark plugs, coolant flush, trans fluid & filter). Looks like that ain't happening until, oh, say, August or so

The snow finally all melted, and I can see the yard again. However, the frost heave was so bad on the street in front of my house that they had to close the road to through traffic. The asphalt was humped up probably 18" in some places. It was spongy though, when I'd drive over it in my big old van, it would just squish down like quicksand and then pop back up once I was past it. Freaky! I was worried that there was a sinkhole under it. I should have taken pictures. I can see now, looking through my security cameras, the road crew has the road dug completely out and my driveway is blocked. Yay.

Oh yeah, and it's currently snowing. The title of the thread can be applied here.

Happy spring.  It was in the teens here last night :mad:

Yeah, minus teens (celsius) here, so just above zero to you 'Muricans. And with a lovely 50MPH wind, too!

The forecast does look promising, though, with temps above freezing for the next two weeks, including two days at 10 Celsius (50 F). Supposed to rain those two days, too, which should make for some interesting times with this six feet of snow on the ground

It was 32* today and it snowed. We got about 5 inches. It's supposed to thunderstorm tomorrow night and be 60* on Wednesday...

Typical March weather again today...54*F and windy. Far cry from the 80 we had Sunday. Goded weather is making ME bipolar...I don't know whether to cheer and clap because there's earthworms and robins and the peeper frogs...or piss and moan that I have no money, and am now completely jobless, and have to make a decision fairly soon as to which Mustang goes bye bye.


I need a warm day, a fishing pole, and about 5 places to call me and say hey...we'd like to interview you.


My dad came over today for a few...he's been eyeballing my engine and the progress. Asked me what I was gonna do with it, and all. I explained to him some of the parts that I installed, and what similar combos were roughly putting out.

Then he made fun of me for any little reason he could...I retorted back that I didn't need to consult a chilton's manual to find out how to remove the intake from a Linc Conti 3.8 and change the head gaskets. And I told him when he did that work that time, that unless there was "milk" in the pan, and the radiator has bubbling and gurgling coolant with the engine running, then he should replace the water pump first.

He went ahead and did the HG's first, and I'll be ed to inumerable hells if the car didn't overheat again before they even got 5 miles. He brought it back in, slapped a new w/p and t-stat on, and voila, solved the problem.

Not that I'm an expert...but someone who was probably a chevy guy likely told him that the only thing that fails on an Esshag 3.8 is the HG's. Instead of asking me, who had at that point owned and/or driven 3 3.8 Thunderbirds...he just started tearing shiznit off of it LOL.


Oh well. He also let a nice '89 F150 4x4 go to hell simply because he didn't want to put another engine in it. Even when I offered to give him the engine from my '92..that engine had a LOT of new parts put into it.

This summer I'm going to go "save" that truck...though I fear the whole interior will need thrown in a ditch and new shiznit put in...mice. Little sonsabitches..(and you guys wonder why I love cats and snakes..)

Luckily there isn't much interior in a truck.

It was 58 with a bit of rain ending in a dust storm right before dark. Really gotta fix my wiper squirter.

The Weather man can jump in a lake.  For the past 2 weeks the forecast EVERY DAY has been for at or around 60 degrees, in some cases higher.  One day it hit 60..... The other days have all had highs of mid 40's at best.  shiznit's gettin' old....

We were around 75-80 for the high for the past few days...yesterday, a line of storms moved in...you know...the ones that dropped tornaders from kansas to the great lakes, and it's not even 60 out now.

It was so ominous here yesterday that I literally took ALL of my guns, knives, and other important paperwork that was upstairs down to the basp00get and locked them up in the big safe. Ya never know.

It all blew by pretty quick though, but for about 20 minutes, it looked as if the End was shaging Nigh.

Today, it's like a decent March day, clear, light breeze, and cold enough for a hoodie and long underwear. I guess I shouldn't bitch..in about 2, 3 weeks it's going to be hot here.

We're finally supposed to get a run of decent weather (mid 50's with sun). We need it. As you all can tell in the pics with my burning Sonata, we still have several feet of snow on the ground

Ok, so after a week and a half of thawing, we're finally getting somewhere. As you all remember, I started out with this:



Eventually turned into this:



And is now this, as of a few minutes ago:



Progress! Another month or so and I should actually be able to move the sled!

I took the dog for a walk and noticed something: The snow was so deep (over 6 feet) and has compacted so much (down to two feet) that it's left layers behind representing individual storms. The look is quite something, and is hard to photograph, but it looks like sedimentary rock cliffs. The shot with the dog in it is my own driveway. The other shot is the snow bank on the side of the road, with sand helping to make the layers more obvious.




And finally, a sign of life. cooch WILLOWS!

Nice. I cut my yard grass today...third time, too.

It's been really mild and rainy here...everything is vibrant, and starting to leaf out. So long winter...see you in December, bitch! :D

I may actually have to mow my lawn for the first time next week. It's finally starting to turn green and grow. I've actually had one daffodil in my yard bloom. They rest are waiting. The rhubarb and strawberries are starting to grow again. Hopefully in 6 weeks or so I'll have enough to make pie.