Uhg i hate the snow! Tho the box seems to do pretty well in it, i was suprised! Anyone have any tips or warnings concerning driving the box in the snow? I noticed slush likes to pile up on the bumper skirts...

ALSO, i still have my practically new studded tires for the tC for sale. check link in my sig!!!

 

Sadly, it's snowing down here also (off and on all day today)... So tomorrow, I get to put the steelies back on with the snow tires.... Should be the perfect day to do it in.. snow/rain and cold.... Tis the life of a procrastinator...

 

Tips for snow driving... hm? Beats me. I drove last night on my route, using chains. Then I tried to venture out today without the chains (they were disintegrating) and couldn't do it. I then put the chains back on and ran to the tire shop and got new snow tires with lots o studs. I'm getting around town swimmingly.

I'm having problems with clearing the snow with the front of my car though. And now that it's all icing over HARD, I should chew it up but nice and good tonight while delivering papers . I suppose this would only be a problem for you if you also got a foot of snow like we did, which I guess in Wenatchee you very well could, eh?

 

It took me 3 1/2 hrs to get home from downtown to kent.

And i come home to this..

 

My coworker left at 4pm today from kirkland and just got home to Monroe about 45 mins ago.

My friend works in Downtown Kirkland and lives off 99 in Lynnwood and still isnt home yet. She left at 5pm.

THIS IS NUTS

 

My mom left Bellevue at 6 pm and just got to our family home on Lake Tapps at 11:18 pm...oy vey...what a night!

 

let see.. got into my car and was on the mercer street on-ramp southbound by about 630ish, saw multiple stalled cars, fender bender centerlane near southcenter... rwd benz spinning tires about 1/2 mile before 272nd st exit, semi-truck stopped center lane at the 272nd street exit chaining up, all with some *()&)*(#&$)(* jacka$$ in a luxuary SUV tailgaiting me for several miles.... couldnt see his headlights most of the time.... if i didnt like my car so much.....

pluss its fun seeing your speed-o showing 0mph yet still sliding down a hill.... weaved past a few stalled cars on military road.... then people going up a hill not a major hill but none the less.. decide that they need to come to complete stop before making a right hand turn... granted it was a red light but the only car there was on the left side of the interesection and made a right hand turn...
so needless to say i got stuck on a hill for about 20min tryin to make it home... slide sideways backwards... ugg.. not fun..

finally coaxed the box and learned to finess the TSC system and made it up... and to my house where theres about 4-5" when i got home at 750pm

oh well.. its nice and fluffy white stuff great snow *****, and if i were still skiing...

now making to the bus stop tomorrow and to work by 8am for training class?? hmm that oughta be interesting... guess Jenn is waking up early

 

Today was the kind of day that caused me to get my first 4X4 back in November'73 (a '74 Land
Cruiser FJ40). I'd gotten a call-out in the middle of the night to cover the emergency center in
Seattle (Pacific Northwest Bell), and it took me 5 hours to get from Auburn to Seattle with no
traffic.

Two days later I bought the Land Crusher at Doxon motors. Used to have an absolute BALL with
that machine. :D

Since I no longer have anyplace I have to be, I'm not going out unless it's necessary. I'll
leave the roads to those crazies I see zipping by down below - sideways...

You people all drive safely, OK?

Tomas

 

This freaking sucks. im stuck at work cuz im one of hte closest people to the office and theyre not closing it. but everyone else is calling in saying theyre not making the drive

 

I called in. They can kiss my butt. This stuff is nasty over here. Granted its better now at 9am, but it was not so much at 5am.

 

wow, its like 75 down here in FLA....

hope yall are having fun.. i miss the snow

 

Yup I told my work to F off too 'cause I am not sittin' in this crap for hours when it already takes me 2 hours to get home from work on a non snow day... And now of course since all the other dip ____e drivers are out there, that makes it harder for the rest of us who want to go out and play or drive short distances..lol Oh well I am really begining to hate this state and should move back to cali i'm thinking!!!!! ha ha ha ha

 

per komo tv... mt baker ski resort set record this week
"They have received 98 inches of snow -- that's over 8 feet! -- in the past 5 days, and 12 feet of snow since mid-November."

 

My wife didn't go to work today - I-84 btwn The Dalles and Hood River (where she works) was 20 miles of black ice and the Scion doesn't have it's snow shoes on yet.

 

Good. Don't want to see on the news they're trying to fish an xB outta the river.

Tomas

 

here I am in wonderful Louisville,KY....tarping an oversize load in my T-shirt....LOL

 

had to drive in it today in the semi. i had to be up at 4 to get to work at 4:30am finally drove the tc in it was very nervous hit some ice but kept it on the road got to work and hopped into the semi and started my route but today i was in olympia/lacey/almost in yelm. hated every bit of it, didnt have to chain up but i went only like 35 all the way except when it started clearing up. but got done today at 4pm really fun day

 

Another 6 inches tomorrow they say. We can't have another 6 inches... hell, nothing has melted at all... even on the trees. They still look like puff *****.

We're out of firewood... need to get some ASAP tomorrow. 6 inches more on these trees will be tragic.

 

yeah but its 6 inches that will gradually turn into rain with warmer weather.... or so they predict.

i dunno about weather (wo)men in this state. they predict a massive snow storm on sunday night with sporadic snow showers on monday and then most of it comes down on monday night.

i'm just so happy that I saw "Snow squall to hit Seattle metro area in the next 30 - 45 minutes" title on Komo 4's website at 4:30 on Monday. I was literally running out of building to make the commute from Bothell to Renton. The snow started sticking right when I got off the freeway at Exit 5 in Renton. Perfect timing :-).

 

F this crap - I took a hard fall this morning on the pavement.