Mother Nature is a Bi*ch!

[audtatious]

I just read a news report that stated 25% of the snow plows in DC are down and waiting for parts so they won't be available to keep up with the snow. There are also issues with the plow crews being exhausted as they have been constantly working since Friday.....

[Chaotic_Warlord]

With all the snow we've gotten this winter all the towns and cities are broke because they don't have the money to pay for all the snow removal services, guess taxes will be going up again.

[Dattebayo]

I just read a news report that stated 25% of the snow plows in DC are down and waiting for parts so they won't be available to keep up with the snow.

That's because the idiots they hire don't know how to plow snow properly... The plows are only rated for MAX 10MPH. an these idiots are going 15 and 20 MPH!!! OF COURSE the bottom lip is gonna break when you go twice the rated speed... Also, the mechanics are using the wrong type of hydraulic fluid in the cylinders and pumps!! We had a plow blow it's pump because of these idiots, and it was obvious they didn't use the correct stuff because it was all yellow when it should have been the low-temp blue stuff. *sigh*

There are also issues with the plow crews being exhausted as they have been constantly working since Friday.....

I don't see how driving a truck around a street all day can be called "exhausting".

[Chaotic_Warlord]

So we're apparently in for another 2 feet by the end of this early tomorrow morning and word is that we have one of similar size and strength that's set to hit us late Monday night. If I wanted to deal with lake effect snow I'd live in Syracuse or Buffalo.

[Bubba1]

So we're apparently in for another 2 feet by the end of this early tomorrow morning and word is that we have one of similar size and strength that's set to hit us late Monday night. If I wanted to deal with lake effect snow I'd live in Syracuse or Buffalo.

I can sum it up in one word...WAH, (just kidding). Actually it's getting serious out there. I just saw on the news Philly is closing down 3 major roads in a few minutes: The Schuykill (I76), the Blue route (I476) and the The Vine (I676). Not pretty out there this afternoon.

[Dattebayo]

A current update for the northern DC and Maryland region:

That's my car... dead center. The snow is almost higher than it now.

That's our sidewalk.

Down the street:

Sh*t's blowing sideways now.

[sbird1]

Yeah, it's like 46 degrees outside. I'm freezing! All of this talk about snow makes me want ice cream.

[Xdisaster240sX]

More snow Monday? F that! Im going to kill myself. Im so sick of shoveling. I havent took my truck out of 4 wheel drive in a week.

[Dattebayo]

pictures fail

edit: nm

[Chaotic_Warlord]

All the major highways in and out of Philadelphia are closed, they closed them @ 1400 hrs and haven't even so much as taken a plow through any of them since probably 1330 hrs.. The news just said that we're getting 4" an hour and we're expected to get snow until 1 or 2 in the morning. It's 1730 and we already have 12" so we're in for at least another 12-14inches.

Honestly we have snow mounds almost 5' tall just from digging out our sidewalks and cars, it's crazy out there.

[flohtingPoint]

What really sucks is areas where it doesn't get plowed. The back alley to my shop where my cars are held is such the case. My roommate and I had to run through a ton of snow that was nearly knee deep in sections to get to my MR2 to work on it.

Video of our run (NSFW due to cursing at how cold it was). Screaming POWER usually works for Jeremy Clarkson any time he's about to do something idiotic, so I figured it would work for me:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egq4zhZKxoc

[Jesda]

You sound like Seth Rogen!

[RCA]

"STFU, I am a trail blazer!"

OMG you have no idea how hard I laughed at that. You definitely do sound like Rogan

Also that snow doesn't look like it's knee deep, unless your buddy at the end of the video is Yao Ming.

[flohtingPoint]

OMG you have no idea how hard I laughed at that. You definitely do sound like Rogan

Also that snow doesn't look like it's knee deep, unless your buddy at the end of the video is Yao Ming.

Not knee deep, it was nearly knee deep in certain sections where we shoveled two nights before when this whole blizzard kicked off. It averaged high calve deep.

I get the Rogan thing a lot. Only when I'm yelling or if I've been drinking though. The rest of the time people say I sound like Artie Lange. Mainly, people say I sound like fat famous folks...

[Dattebayo]

Well, NOW it's waist deep here... (in the sections not shoveled yet, especially...)

I haven't seen this much snow in one week since 1988, I think...

[Bubba1]

OMG you have no idea how hard I laughed at that. You definitely do sound like Rogan

Also that snow doesn't look like it's knee deep, unless your buddy at the end of the video is Yao Ming.

The commentary was funny. I especially liked "Shut the f*** up, I'm a trailblazer!!!"

We're up to about 15" on top of the last storm's droppng. It's supposed to stop here before midnight. We're in the home stretch.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

The local news up here in Philly has been showing various random pictures and videos that veiwers have sent in of people running around and playing in all this snow in their bathing suits all day. Guess everyone is going loco from being stuck inside with their families for a week straight.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

One of the local car photographers posted this on his Facebook today, figured you guys would get a laugh out of it...

[RCA]

One of the local car photographers posted this on his Facebook today, figured you guys would get a laugh out of it...

That is pretty sweet!

Well today I have accumulated about 4 hours of shovel time. Me and my bro + Dad have been working in shifts. My bro George shoveled this morning and I shoveled around lunch time. Once my Dad got home me and him shoveled around 8pm and now I have plans to shovel around 3am. In northern NJ we have got about 18 to 24 inches (many be more) and the snowed hasn't stopped.

F M L

[Dattebayo]

You guys could have saved some time and shoveled all at once...

[troskinatior]

Ok I changed my mine I don't like the snow, Ill give you a short throwdown of what happend.

I woke up and it was raining/hailing and i was mad. Then around 1 it changed over to snow, so me and two of my friends decied to go off roading. one has a old jeep cherokee and the other has a new rangler and I have a olds bravada (same as a trail blazer or a jimmy). So were having fun for about 3 hours and we decied to go to another trail, so the kid with the cherokee got stuck in about 7 inchs of water, mud and ice and we found out he didnt have any tow hitches. so it took about a hour for him to get out, then it was my turn to go. If you dont know bravads suck off roading especally with a foot of snow on the ground, so of course we get stuck, it takes a half a hour to pull us out then 1 minuite later we get stck again and they just keep driving, so I was stuck in the cold dark woods runing out of gas for like 20 minutes untill they pull us out again. so at that point i was mad, tierd, cold, hungry, and mad. So I floored it the rest of the trail hiting GIANT holes, some trees (but not that hard), more holes and even more holes, If any one has watched the episode of top gear were jeremy is driving a toyota to the north pole and he snaps and goes as fast as he can, that was the same exact thing I was doing.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...layer
Modified by troskinatior at 7:15 PM 2/10/2010

[RCA]

You guys could have saved some time and shoveled all at once...

Well we all have different schedules. Some of us have school w/ grave yard shift jobs, some have 9-5 and some of us just have school (me) so we do it this way so we all do our part. Also with 2+ feet of snow, it just gets over whelming. It makes it difficult to continue to shovel when after 3 hours of work your still looking at 100 cubic feet of snow left.

[Dattebayo]

I just think people use all the wrong shovels. Get a back saver and you won't hurt nearly the same.

[flohtingPoint]

That thing looks really nice, it's a whole hell of a lot better than the shop dustpan I had to dig my crappy rental SUV out of the shops driveway the first blizzard night.

[Dattebayo]

We have one, but i broke it 2 days ago on the ice that was stuck to the road in the gutter...

It's a $50 shovel for crying out loud! :mad I don't even remember where we got it cause I think I bought it way back in 2005 for that horrible ice storm we had then.
Modified by Dattebayo at 10:56 PM 2/10/2010

[flohtingPoint]

We have one, but i broke it 2 days ago on the ice that was stuck to the road in the gutter...

It's a $50 shovel for crying out loud! :mad I don't even remember where we got it cause I bought it way back in 2005 for that horrible ice storm we had then.

Cant say I recall that storm, I'm relatively new to the beltway (moved here two years ago). In 2k5 I was living in Germany.

[Dattebayo]

You should have brought that CA back with you.

[flohtingPoint]

You should have brought that CA back with you.

lol... I didn't bring the one that was in my car back, but I shipped two back to my storage facility in Cali (both have spun bearings and no accessories, just longblocks with intake manif). I stockpiled the things while there cause the kids on base kept blowing them up or stuffing their cars by driving like nuts in the snow. I could get them for as cheap as 200 bucks a pop sometimes because they just wanted to get rid of the car.

[Dattebayo]

I have a whole sh*t load of CA parts in my basement... block, pistons, intakes, ex. manis, etc

[RCA]

You should have brought that CA back with you.

Why waste your time?