The latest and greatest impending massive snow storm is bearing down on the East Coast, What is your best snow story?
Question of the Day, Jan 22
The latest and greatest impending massive snow storm is bearing down on the East Coast, What is your best snow story?
78 Blizzard: Car died on Interstate 95 in right lane and left it there. Hitch-hiked to get home (30 miles). The dumb-ass companies let everyone off work After a foot of snow had already fallen.
But, it is hard to beat the pics above.
Growing up in the mountains, my old man taught us all how to drive well in the snow, so to this day anytime we get more than a couple inches, we still go out for an adventure cutting donuts in pristine parking lots, etc. The first day is always the best, though invariably we get chased out of a lot somewhere by an angry snow plow driver. Makes for some great memories…
Hypothetical story. 3 feet of snow covers dc. forms into a glacier. sloughs the whole town into the ocean never to be seen again.
Friday, Halloween, October 31st, 1991 Great Minnesota Blizzard.
Wife and daughter in Pennsylvania, helping my dad recover from a heart bypass.
I leave a customer site about 3:00 PM. The temperature is 60 degrees. I have this new BMW – with a tape deck – couldn’t wait to play some tunes. By luck, first I turn on the radio. They said a winter storm was on the way. So I decide to stop at the grocery store – stocked up on some steaks, chicken breasts, veggies, etc. Also hit the liquor store, wine, gin, and mix. All is good.
We got some wet snow, went to bed around 11:00. About 2:00 AM I am woken by a dripping sound. We have a large restaurant range – through the baffle filter water was dripping down (from the exhauster on the roof) . Quick got a pan. WTF is going on?
Jumped in a pair of boots, intended to good outside, and take a look at the roof. This is when I discovered the back door had about 2 feet of snow against it. Really wet snow – could not open door. I figured the exhauster must have the same drifted snow. This is a 1 HP commercial fan. It was packed with snow – wouldn’t turn. I removed the filter baffles and put on a large pot of water. After about an hour of steam going up the duct, I got the exhauster to run – buy this time it’s 4:00 am. Went back to bed.
Saturday morning – we had 31″ of snow. There were several problems: The drifts were up to 5′, and there was wet snow on the bottom, with very cold snow on top. I have a 24″ Wards snowblower – however it’s very difficult to snow blow through a drift that’s higher than the machine – to much resistance, and the wet snow on the bottom was freezing to the auger and shoot. Tried spraying silicone, etc – what a PITA.
Us three neighbors worked together, and managed to cleanup the sidewalks, and enough of our driveways – that took all Sat, Sun, Mon. The good part is all of our wives were out of town. We ate all the food that I bought – steaks, chicken, pasta, salad. Drank the whole 2 liters of BeefEaters plus other assorted beverages, played cards.
Minneapolis was paralyzed for two weeks. Most streets were one lane. At major intersections snow was piled 2 stories high. The worst part was that the layer of wet snow froze to the ground. The ruts were so bad you couldn’t drive more than 15 mph. It pretty much fucked up everything, for the entire winter.
Saudi Arabia just got snow in the last week for the 1st time in 85 years.
Now we have another big storm, and don’t forget last year and prior years
Yet, the promoters of Globull Warming told us that our children and grandchildren would never see snow.
Blizzard of 78′ west Michigan. I was 18, girlfriend was 19 and she was stranded at my parents house, we had lots of sex.
Definitely the October storm of 2011 in Ct. Snow started on a Saturday morning- gigantic snowball sized flakes- by mid afternoon enough had accumulated on the trees that had yet to lose a lot of their foliage that the major limbs started to crack and fall. Listening to booms that were occurring about every 10 seconds was the eeriest thing I have ever heard.
Last time I saw snow was Tokyo 1991. I can confidently say that was my last time, I hate the ‘kin cold.
Snow story?
Ok.
On or about july 1991 my bud Pat had a guy die in a parked car on his propery. Turns out he was a major drug dealer and had been shot moving a large amount in the van. Pat removed what later turned out to be 6.6 lbs of high grade pink flake ( 3 kilos ). There was also close to 40 grand in cash.
Well this jackwad shows up at my house with all this dope and cash and he just knows the guys that shot this dude are going to find out he took it when the cops do not mention the dope in the media report. Suddenly I am neck deep in paranoia myself so we take this out onto an island on the maumee river and bury it in 3 50 cal ammo boxes inside a cooler duct tapped up.
So anyways we let a month go by and.
What not that kind of snow? OOoOoOoOo
Ok duck hunting guide Kodiak Island Alaska
Really not that bad a snow storm but ducks do not fly when it it snowing hard. A couple of mega rich fucksticks wanted to go shoot some puddle ducks ( not the sea ducks in the mud flats ) and the lead guide said it would be a waste of time. They tracked me down in my bunk and laid $100 bills on the bed until I got the fuck up.
We were in the blind until the coffee was gone and they both said fuckit. Never asked for a cent back and even tipped me $300 at the end of the week.
For me, Arvilla, North Dakota 1977: snow covered the house and 1″ thick ice on the inside of window glass; about -38F every night for a month.
December 2008 NH Ice Storm. Ice up to an inch and more thick on everything. Took kids for a walk up and down our road. It sounded like a war zone. Every 5 or 10 seconds – CRACK – another limb or tree down. One landed 10 feet from us. Powerlines on the road everywhere. Stupid thing to do, but none of us will ever forget that. No power for 8 days. I really appreciated my wood stove, 4 dry cords of oak and maple, generator, and 30 gallons of gas in the garage.
Last time I recall being snowed in was in MD back in 83 or 84. We had about 3 feet of snow overnight. Couldn’t get out of my condo parking lot for 3 days.
My best stories come from my childhood in Great Falls, MT. You could literally go to bed with green grass in the yard and wake up to find one half of the house completely buried 12-15 feet deep. We lived on a military base (nuclear missile base) and the tall chain link fences with barbed wire tops would be buried deep enough that you could walk right over them.
We lived very close to the end of the runway and we had trekked out near the taxiway and dug a deep snow fort to hang out in . We got bored one day and a friend suggested we raid his fathers stash of smoke flares. We went back to his place and dug down 10 feet of so to get into the shed to retrieve the flares and went back to the fort.
After some hemming and hawing we worked up the courage to set one off (we’d never done that before). I don’t know how they get so much fucking smoke into one of those things but holy crap! The smoke was neon orange and relentless! We panicked right away because the smoke was so prodigious, neon orange set against a snow white back ground for as far as you could see and we were within a few hundred yards of an active runway. We thought for sure the cops would show up and haul us away. We tried burying the thing but that didn’t help. We chucked it down into the fort and worked furiously to bury the entrance with snow but the smoke just wouldn’t quit. It bubbled up through the snow. There was a slight breeze and a huge orange streak stained the snow for as far as we could see.
There is NO WAY the guys in the control tower could not see it because we could see them. Amazingly nothing happened! We never heard a word about it! In hindsight I’m sure the guys in the tower were laughing their ass off watching us running around like Keystone Kops. Since nothing happened we stole another flare and set it off the next day in the same location. It was neon green. Since nothing had happened the day before, we had much more fun with that one running all over waving it overhead.
About 20 years ago my dad was working a job that kept him on the road all over the west. He would work at night and drive during the day. One day he was driving through Wyoming in a near white out situation. He was just creeping along and had the road to himself because anyone with any sense was parked somewhere waiting it out. Besides, WY roads can be pretty desolate even on a fine summer day.
Both sides of the road had walls of snow 6’+ deep and he was struggling to see the road when out of nowhere he damn near rear ended an American Bison running down the road in the same direction he was going. He had to follow that bison for several miles until it found a place to get off the road.
April’s fools storm, I think it was 1997, in Northwestern NJ. Forecast was 12-18 I think. Had about 6″ on the ground when I went to bed, but I had a plow truck, nothing to worry about. Hahahahahah, got up in the morning, looked outside, and nothing looks unusual. Hit the garage button, nothing. Hmmmm, look out the garage window and all I can see is the cab of my truck, ohhhh oooooo. And idiot me parked the truck with the plow facing the house. Took 1/2 day just to get it turned around. Then, I went for it, driveway is 300+ feet long. Truck wouldn’t budge. So I lift the plow a foot, and go for it. It’s moving, yeahhhhhh, but now I get near the bridge that crosses the stream and I can’t see where the bridge is, step on it and pray. I make it over the bridge, whew……, but now the truck is slowing down till it stops. I can’t open the door. climb out the window, and I realize I’m standing on 5+ feet of snow piled 50+ long from the road plows all night. Crap, truck is buried completely to the windows. I ain’t getting this thing out till spring……………
Hear a far away neighbor plowing, he’s older and smarter than my dumb ass, and is taking his good old time, chipping away at 3+ ft at a time. Takes me 1hr to walk over, only 1500ft away, and he’s getting stuck on every push, so I become the shovel man, and takes all next day to get him out to the road, then we work on mine the next day.
I have a large property, and that storm of very wet 3ft, topped almost all of my self-prized apple trees because they were blooming at the time. Most of them have recovered by now, but lost a lot. Same with the cedars/pines, snapped half of 100 in half because they caught the wet snow.
Park the plow truck facing out!!!
If it’s wet, do it every 8″ or so.
Late seventies my car stalled on I-94 in ND with my girl friend. Blizzard with about -40 wind chill. We were there 6 hours before the blizzard patrol (volunteers with 4 wheel drives looking for stuck motorists) found us. We crawled into my grungy sleeping bag to keep warm. There were a couple of large soda bottles that were turning to ice in the car.
Early 1990’s in South Wales (Black Mountains), doing Outreach Respiratory Medicine clinics for the local GP’s. Lots of retired Coalminers with the usual mining problems – Neurology Outreach dealt with the Neuro side (Vibration White Finger), Resp. Med. / ID dealt with the lungs (Pneumoconiosis / Silicosis / Emphysema).
We were all airlifted in, and out courtesy of Bristow Aviation (Super Pumas) – remarkably comfortable, spacious and much quieter inside than the RAF Rescue Sea Kings (that’s another story – also snow-related, but in Harrogate, not Wales 🙂 ) Shared the flights “up” with all the Community essential supplies, and shared the flights “down” with Patients needing admission, and the mail. No mobile ‘phone coverage, so we relied on radio links (Ham / Aviation).
You won’t see a better example of ABSOLUTE FEAR MONGERING horseshit that IS the ‘Murikan Media than the assklown show now on CNN.
They’ve been talking NONSTOP about THE EPIC SNOWSTORM OF THE CENTURY since about noon. Nonstop parade of furrowed brows, serious and important announcements, breathless analysis, and endless warnings of “PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!!” … interrupted only by get-your-dick-hard and mesothelioma commercials.
One time an on-the-scene “reporter” breathlessly shouted (really), “THE VISIBILITY IS NEARLY ZERO!!!” ….. which was quite funny because about 100 feet behind him one could see the “Exit” sign quite clearly. Asshole.
One femcunt “reporter” went into the street and grabbed some snow — “Look! It’s almost TWO Inches here! And it’s HARD!!!”. Really. Fuckmedead. I thought she was talking about an Irish Pecker.
Of course, one SHOULD be prepared; extra food, candles, stay home if possible etc. etc. But, the endless fear-mongering, and outright lies, is a sight to behold. Either ALL the media folks should be shot dead in the coming revolution, or Amerikuns really are a bunch of world class PUSSIES.
Somewhere in Moscow, Putin and his Generals just realized they could conquer America with about a thousand troops if they just wait for a little snow. God, this country is embarrassing.
Folks from ‘down below’ hear that we got a bit of snow in the AV and they come up in droves, they pull off the road a bit on 138 and let the kids play in what appears to be a thin blanket of snow on the dirt. I think is is stupid but some of these folks are Yankee transplants who like to take their kids to see real snow and not the kind they blow at Universal Studios at temporary the ice rink.
I hate snow. I put up with that shit for several months at Chanute (like I said before). It was the bad storm of ’77. Around April I was sick of it and my fucking little car wouldn’t start some times due to the points being bad, the mechanic had already fixed it several times. Anyway, I didn’t have a ride home that day and I cinched up my balls in their sack and decided to hike home, about 2 or 3 or 4 miles off base. I figured I could save some time by cutting across one of the cornfields. That proved to be a bad move because the snow was really deep in some places, sometimes a foot deep, it slowed me down considerably. Halfway through the field, I began to feel overheated from the exercise. A few minutes later, I could not stand my jacket and took it off. I carried it and finally got home in a lather about how fucking hot it was, I felt like I was burning up. My wife was alarmed, she said I felt like I was frozen, she said I should get in a tub of warm water.That seemed like a horrible idea to me because I could not stand the heat, I felt like I was under a heat lamp that was set on high.
Our apartment managers, god bless them, started a free carpool soon after. God, that warm station wagon was sooo nice and warm in the mornings. I still recall the young airmen in the wagon discussing how easy divorced women are.
I’m in the heart of the storm here in Southern Maryland–Chesapeake country down here-still some tobacco farms even left ( and lots of unused tobacco barns).
It’s been snowing for 12 hours or so–big deal, Had to take the granddaughter to work with me since schools were closed all day and snow didn’t start until about 1 PM.
I didn’t have to even go to a store for anything-already have plenty of gas cans full, charcoal, propane tanks, wood stove in the finished basement, food for months, water–yada yada–primed the generator 2 days ago to make sure it would start on demand was the only “emergency prep” I needed.
But back to the question—2010 here in Maryland ( and for those wishing our demise, 19 of our 23 counties voted AGAINST the progressives, we’re just vastly outnumbered by Baltimore County and the 3 counties that border DC).
In 2010 we had over 6 feet total snow that winter with 4 separate storms of 12+ inches and cold enough that little melted before the next storm piled more on top. I had reached the point where the snow blower couldn’t shoot the snow high enough to clear the snow walls on the sides of my clear areas and the snow just slid back down onto the sidewalk and driveways as hit the frozen walls of 6+ feet height. I had to start shoveling by hand and tossing it over the top.
I threw down the shovel after about a half hour of near futility, went inside and promptly booked an 8 day cruise to the Bahamas/St Thomas/Barbados.. we left 2 weeks later and by the time we returned, renewed and no longer vitamin D deficient, most of the piles remaining were sitting in the back of the shopping center parking lots or as ugly grey mounds at the street corners.
After 36 years of living in the far north I can honestly say I have seen snow 12 months out of the year. The best story that I have is that I left. If you have ever seen snow fall in July you will understand my sentiment….
Started snowing about 7PM last night.
This AM, looks like we have almost 2 feet …. although I don’t know how much of it is due to drifting, as the wind is blowing hard.
Got done shoveling about an hour ago …. and there’s already another inch o new snow. Gonna be a long day, I suppose. But, I don’t mind. I actually enjoyed myself early this morning, all alone out there, the stillness, and the snow is so pretty sitting there on the pine trees.
Yesterday we went to TJ’s … got some salmon, lamb, and other goodies to easily last another 7 days. The sun will shine by tomorrow. Later this week, the temp will approach 40 degrees and much o today’s snow will be gone.
Today is nothing more than a minor inconvenience. But, what do all the teevee stations broadcast? Words like … PARALYZED …. CATASTROPHE …. HISTORIC STORM ……. 60 MILLION IN CROSS-HAIRS …….8 PEOPLE DIED …. EXPECT MORE!!!!! And on an on.
Sorry for beating a dead horse. I vacillate between various groups which I hate the very very most. But, the media — especially TV — is never far from the Top3. They do so much harm and have such control over the dumb people. They make Goebbels look like a saint. I hope someday they all get double tapped.