by "XJDano" (xjdano)
Published 12/07/2017 at 21:33
by "XJDano" (xjdano)
Published 12/07/2017 at 21:33
Tags: Equinox
STARS: 1
That’s the rear sway bar set up from the Cherokee holding the plastic down in the front.I only remember because I took this photo. It was the night before the storm. I didn’t think to get a morning photo. I think we got like 4-5” or they forecasted like 6-8” and we only got like 2”.....
so really I don’t remember.
"gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut)
12/07/2017 at 21:42, STARS: 0
I’m confused what the plastic is for
"XJDano" (xjdano)
12/07/2017 at 21:47, STARS: 0
Make it easier to clean off Car after all the snow fell
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
12/07/2017 at 21:52, STARS: 0
Me too. I don’t get it.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
12/07/2017 at 21:52, STARS: 6
Snow-novice.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/07/2017 at 21:56, STARS: 2
Taken 2/2/11 outside my window in Chicago. The tow truck is stuck too.
"cluelessk" (cluelessk)
12/07/2017 at 22:13, STARS: 2
You’re probably damaging your paint more than helping anything.
"XJDano" (xjdano)
12/07/2017 at 22:25, STARS: 1
Back then it was wife’s car. Now it’s my car.
When I visited my relatives in th country with a gravel drive, I walked out on the deck to see my kids using the gravel as chalk on the side of the car.
Oh well. Yell at kids, have another beer.
"XJDano" (xjdano)
12/07/2017 at 22:34, STARS: 0
I also put a space heater in my work truck cab overnight on low so I wouldn’t have to scrape the windshield in the morning. Bad part was I couldn’t sleep because I was afraid the truck would catch on fire.
I never did that again.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
12/07/2017 at 22:57, STARS: 0
I’ve heard of people putting electric blankets over their motors to keep them warm. I’ve also heard of people starting fires under their cars to get them to start when it’s really cold. These people who start fires are not too smart.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/07/2017 at 23:06, STARS: 1
I’m trying to remember how much we actually got, but it was a lot. My neighbors and I had to team up to figure out where to put in all.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
12/08/2017 at 07:56, STARS: 0
snow?
;)
"XJDano" (xjdano)
12/08/2017 at 08:35, STARS: 0
Do you even get now down there?
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/08/2017 at 09:13, STARS: 0
It was somewhere in the 22-24" range. I was living in the city, and didn’t really have to shovel anything.
The Pathfinder was street parked though - I scored an end spot before the storm, and never even had to dig it out - - the thing is like a mountain goat, and in 4L I just drove it over a pile of snow/ice at least 3' deep.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/08/2017 at 09:33, STARS: 1
Nice!
22-24" sounds about right. It was super windy, so there were parts that only had a few inches, and a drift in front of my garage door at least 48" tall. At the time I had a lawn tractor with a little plow blade. It was great for cleaning big swaths with no more than 5-6” on it, but useless on the drifts. My next door neighbor and I teamed up, he knocked the drifts down with his big 2-stage blower, and I did all the cleanup work. Our wives shoveled around doors and walks, it was really all hands on deck. Our driveways butt together, so we ended up making a huge pile in the middle of his driveway, and they used our driveway to get back to their garage for the rest of the winter.
Our street is a snow route, so with all the constant plowing during the storm, there was so much compacted frozen snow/ice on the sidewalks that they were a lost cause. We didn’t see the sidewalks again until like the end of March.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/08/2017 at 09:52, STARS: 0
Yeah, digging that picture out reminded me of the wind. I lived on the top of a 3 story walkup, that was really only exposed on the south side, but I was home all day (office closed), and the winds were howling, gusting up to 50 MPH as I recall.
The previous big one (1/2/99 - I remember that one more vividly), I was living in Arlington Heights, and had a driveway that went into the backyard that I shared with my next door neighbor. Neither of us had a snowblower, and we spent much of the day after outside shoveling and drinking Sierra Nevada. Fun times!!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/08/2017 at 12:05, STARS: 1
I delivered pizza during the ‘99 one (I was still in high school). I borrowed my dad’s 4x4 and had a ball bombing around unplowed roads all to myself. I made SO MUCH money that night. I went home with over $100 cash in my pocket that night. Now too shabby for a 17-year old working a 4-hour shift.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/08/2017 at 13:12, STARS: 1
Nice! I remember that my girlfriend at the time had a ‘95 Saturn SL2 with a manual transmission, and going out hooning that car around the deserted streets. It was fun!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/08/2017 at 13:26, STARS: 0
Sounds like my kind of party!