![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:23 • Filed to: snowpocalypse 2014, nj | ![]() | ![]() |
I said before that I'd post an update when I got home, and an update I shall post!
We in central NJ are getting blasted with snow right now. I just got home from work, which is normally a 40 minute drive. It took me 2 hours and 20 minutes today. I was so bored I was almost falling asleep sitting in traffic. Lets recap from the beginning.
This is what our lot at work looked like when I went out for lunch at 11am. Wasn't to bad, roads were just barely covered.
Around 1pm I see DOODON2WHLS post !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , which pretty much shows that every road in New Jersey is at "you're fucked" levels of traffic. So I finish up some things for the day and leave a half hour early.
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1:30, I take two steps outside and immediately go "ah shit!" as my shoe sinks through the snow. Wow did it get deep in just a few hours
Right....
My drive starts out okay, not many cars on the road. I'm going up the left lane while almost everyone hangs to the right.
No I spoke to soon... Traffic... Also, who the hell decides to drive a RV in a blizzard?
I finally make it to the garden state parkway (exit 117 for you locals, and I had to make it to 440).
Southbound traffic was gridlock the entire time, but northbound was smooth sailing in the express side. Local side had cars but was still moving.
I took 440 to 513, and this is where I sat in traffic basically until I got home.
I caught this guy in a 92-96 F150 blasting up an unpaved road by the army reserve base
513, route 1, and route 18 were all packed.
This didn't help the situation any. I am not sure what happened, but the guy in the truck was putting chains on the solara to get it out of the road.
I cut though an empty strip mall and took some industrial roads to get away from route 18. Apparently I wasn't the only one who decided to leave work early, and I'm sure its going to suck all through the night. To all you tri-state opponauts, stay safe out there.
Here is my street as of a half hour ago, I'll go clear the walks when it slows down.
![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:28 |
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Nice bronco what motor?
I have thrown the idea around of getting one as a winter beater on multiple occasions.
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DEAR LORD!!! WHAT IS ALL THAT WHITE STUFF?
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351W, wouldn't have it any other way.
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Alright alright, just a little bigger than my Montego. Damn near the same engine haha.
Oh, and I grew up just up the road in Morristown. Going off your exits and route numbers you're where....Edison, Plainfield areas?
![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:34 |
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I'm near east brunswick
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Here's how my day went (in Newark)
6am - Leave for clinical rotations. First day of the semester, but a storms a brewin'. I smell it in the air.
8am - Clouds. It's almost here.
10am - White stuff. And it's not cocaine.
11am - Already an inch. Classes canceled, we get to go home from our clinicals after finishing work.
12pm - Traffic out of Newark is bad. 5mph max. RWD cars spinning out all over the place. I could be next with my summer tires.
1pm - Finally on the Parkway (exit 140). Estimated time to get home without snow: 15 minutes.
2pm - Get to my exit.
2:30pm - actually make it home (Exit 131)
I love me some white stuff, but we're getting completely blasted. Its like mother nature just jizzed all over NJ, and it's not even over yet.
![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:35 |
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I have one question. Is Automatch alright!?
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Bah I was close.
Don't worry though, we've had more snow that you guys have (I still talk to the Morristown guys) so far this year...and I daily drive a FWD Mercury Milan V6.
thank god everything is flat as a board here. If I was still in Morristown area I would have 4x4.
![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:36 |
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I have no idea, he lives like 2 hours south of me. He probably is, I don't think they got this much snow yet.
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When you got home, I was stuck on 514 in edison looking at my phone going "goddammit"
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Dude. Headlights on your truck. Awesome. Projector retrofits?
![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:38 |
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Yep, first set I ever built. Gen 3 Morimoto H1's. They've been going strong for about... 3 years?
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My dad used to work at Cap Gemini in Morristown like 14 years ago.
![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:41 |
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Ha, I haven't been back in...how long has it been now.....7...8... years
I stopped living there full time when I started at Michigan State in Fall 04. Winter 07 my parents moved to South Carolina so I didn't go back to Morristown after school. Ended up staying in Michigan. Kinda miss it though.
![]() 01/21/2014 at 16:45 |
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I live in Albany and I didn't get any snow. Weird.
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any forecasted for you?
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I like your bronco
How many miles on her?
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thanks, sitting at 98k as of right now.
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We're supposed to get a little tonight, but that's normal. Here's the satellite view:
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we haven't had crap for snow in the past 2-3 years at our place in PA, which sucks because we can't go snowmobiling
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I hear snowmobiling is fun.... I should probably do it sometime.
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it is, and you should!
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Cool, and I will!
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Nice Bronco. I owned an '88. The extra weight of the full body makes a hell of a difference in snow.
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the 4wd grips like a mofo, I really wish I had a locker though.
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I had those same ones retrofitted into my stock FJ lights. Loved those things!
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Looks like its time for some serious packing lot hoonage tonight! Are you guys required to clear the walkways up there?
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yeah we have to. I'd love to go out and find an empty parking lot but all my friends are being dildos and would rather sit at home
bah!