"Matthew Phillips" (flatsidewaysfl)
08/26/2014 at 00:50 • Filed to: None
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"Matthew Phillips" (flatsidewaysfl)
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This was taken in 2010, the Snowmeggedon. It was my job as the only boy in the family to shovel out the vehicle when it snowed. Back then the Taurus was inoperable and the explorer was the Family DD. That winter was the winter that made me hate the cold. We had a starter problem, it would freeze over, so on top of taking a week to dig it out, every morning I had to grab a hammer, get under the SUV and tap on the starter to loosen everything up, then possibly jump start it before it would turn over.
last winter I was late to class, so I didn't have time to warm up the Taurus. It was 7 degrees and my heat wouldn't turn on (no front defroster), my windows were stuck closed. My instrument gauges would stutter before landing on a set position....
Please share
Your boy, BJR
> Matthew Phillips
08/26/2014 at 00:56 |
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My 900S laughs at your Exploder (also 2010)
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> Matthew Phillips
08/26/2014 at 01:48 |
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I'm not sure I understand the question... You say bad weather stories but then talk about a big snowfall, where's the bad weather?
All of my good weather stories involve me (or my dad when I was little) driving around and helping others get unstuck. Or just plain hooning in the snow.
One of the best snowstorms for me was one in which I walked around my very hilly neighborhood snowboarding down all of the roads.
Dusty Ventures
> Matthew Phillips
08/26/2014 at 02:41 |
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Snowpocalypse 2011 (I think, may have been 2010), there was a storm that hit overnight with heavy, wet snow that took down trees and power lines all over the place. As I watched the snow fall I decided I wanted to be out in it, see the storm firsthand. So I got in the Outback and went driving.
In short it was insane. I would drive down a major city road, just to find a tree down blocking it. Some I drove under, some I drove over, some I got out and physically moved. Sometimes getting past a downed tree meant getting creative, (at one point I had to use a college campus to skip an impassable section of four lane), other times I just had to give up completely. On more than a half dozen occasions I actually arrived in time to see the tree fall in front of me (or, in one terrifying instance, right next to me). The roads were completely empty, no one else was crazy enough to drive around in the storm, and plow trucks had already given up because they couldn't plow with all the trees down. In three hours of exploring I only encountered seven other cars (I live in a metropolitan area of nearly 700,000, so that's ridiculously low), half of which were city trucks out evaluating the situation. It was utterly fantastic and the most fun I've ever had driving below 30.
Arben72
> Dusty Ventures
08/26/2014 at 03:33 |
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Also a subaru owner here, this "hard" winter people speak of is unheard of for me. I call in Subaruing season.
thebigbossyboss
> Matthew Phillips
08/26/2014 at 11:39 |
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7 degrees? Not bad not bad at all. Here in Ottawa last winter we had 20 days under -4F.
We laugh at just about everyone else.
Two years ago we had a day where the high temperature was -8F.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
It was cold. It's always cold. Thank god we have two more snow free months (well maybe) yet. Sometimes it likes to snow near the end of October.