The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

Ma never did run snow tires or chains and I never have the 52 years I drove

What's your winter like?

The funny thing is that we started having to buy our own snow tires and taking them into the garage for mounting. We just couldn't make our mechanic understand the difference between 3 season tires and true snow tires.

BF's uncle is a mechanic, he's the one that originally suggested it after I made comment at a family function about parking at the bottom of my driveway all winter and having to walk up.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I traveled showing dogs 51 weekends a year all over the country all kinds of
roads and weather I was taught very early on.. even the weight of yourself and what your towing
even going slower it is drier and warmer than walking

 

[microchick]

I traveled showing dogs 51 weekends a year all over the country all kinds of
roads and weather I was taught very early on.. even the weight of yourself and what your towing
even going slower it is drier and warmer than walking

Amen to that.

This is what it looked like outside our IL home after the 2011 Ground hog day Blizzard. My husband waded out to the the base of the tallest drift. It was more than two feet taller than he is.


Here is a video we took two days later of the road commissioner coming to the rescue. The end loader working on the opposite direction had to break a trail for the big plow as the snow was too deep for it to get through.
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This is what he was digging through with his bucket. Once we got dug out we had to make our way into town to our office so I could start rescheduling appointments. We couldn't resist taking this picture on the way home.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Now that's a blizzard! I would have taken that photo, too.

 

[pennyJo1960]

@microchick great photo's use to be that way in Wisconsin but not
here off the mountains in Western Washington saw them that high in Juneau
every year

 

[microchick]

@microchick great photo's use to be that way in Wisconsin but not
here off the mountains in Western Washington saw them that high in Juneau
every year

My husband was raised in WI, where he says, they have two seasons. Winter and July. I wish we had gotten pictures the night the blizzard hit. We walked down to a neighbor's house to check on her and the snow was hip deep on our road with complete white out conditions. Really neat if it hadn't been so dangerous of a storm.

SGC, what was amazing was my husband's little Jetta made it into town and back. We headed home to Missouri the next day expecting the worse and once we crossed the Mississippi River, there was no snow. Mother nature is a fickle old lady.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

My little Suzuki does better in the snow than BF's giant 4WD truck with the snow plow on it.

Fortunately for him he was born and raised hundreds of miles north of here so sliding sideways down the driveway isn't something that gets his dander up. Me... you can hear my screams in New Brunswick.

 

[pennyJo1960]

it is very fickle I agree Dad had me driving a tractor when he used a 2 x 2x4 wired to pedals so
I could steer and use the pedals my first car was a bug with truck tires... I have crossed untold
numbers of mountain passes with my Ford 350 4 door hauling a 30 ft travel trailer and a 16 ft utility trailer
from one end of the USA to the other showing dogs because they do not stop due to weather

 

[ChickenCanoe]

My husband was raised in WI, where he says, they have two seasons. Winter and July. ...

... Mother nature is a fickle old lady.

That's better than Alaska. Their 2 seasons are winter and the 4th of July

And getting fickler all the time. Climate change is a bear.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I can recall more than once the drifts meeting the roof line