Many snows and much Oppo was had this weekend

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
02/11/2018 at 21:34 • Filed to: Snow day

There’s a camper under there somewhere, and a RallyMetro behind it

We got 9" overnight Thursday and into Friday. School was cancelled, and we were supposed to get up to 14". First thing that happened when I went outside was fall on my ass. My wife and I, and the neighbor across the street dug out and extracted the rwd Lexus belonging to the college girl from Florida renting out my neighbor’s basement. She’s super nice and plays with my daughters when they see her outside. She said, “Now I know why everyone kept saying last winter was mild!” I showed her how to turn off her traction control when she gets stuck, and put it in snow mode.

Both my snowblowers failed me, but my awesome next door neighbor saved my ass and lent me his. I’m done with these old blowers. I’m buying a battery powered one next year. I love my battery powered mower. I’m gonna go for it.

Then I went and picked up a friend of ours to teach her how to drive in snow. She’s from Mexico, and was terrified of it, but wanted to learn. Within two minutes of tossing my truck around an empty unplowed parking lot, she said, “Oh, this is actually really fun!” She did really well. Good Oppo instincts, that one.

It snowed a few more times over the weekend, including about 4" last night. I think our total since Thursday night was something like 16". It’s a proper winter now! All my basement windows are buried in snow. Our cat is very disturbed by that. I took the family out and about today. The truck is covered in salt and slush. Take this in warm weather Oppos. This is why we can’t have nice things here. Don’t even show your old Toyotas this picture, in might make an instantaneous rust hole.

DISCUSSION (22)

Boxer_4 > shop-teacher
02/11/2018 at 22:05

You needed one of these:

Kinja'd!!!

Seen at ORD; they weren’t messing around.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > shop-teacher
02/11/2018 at 22:07

All the snow made for a good slidy track.

WRXasaurus > shop-teacher
02/11/2018 at 22:07

I’m jealous of your snow. I live up in northern Minnesota and our snow has been spectacularly lacking, but of course we got the extreme cold though.

DipodomysDeserti > shop-teacher
02/11/2018 at 22:11

Damn. It’s been 80F+ all month here

shop-teacher > DipodomysDeserti
02/11/2018 at 22:15

The trade off will come when you’re roasting this summer. The summer temps you post about always blow my mind.

shop-teacher > Boxer_4
02/11/2018 at 22:17

I’d love it. What I really want is a skid-steer loader (bobcat).

shop-teacher > WRXasaurus
02/11/2018 at 22:18

Ugh, that’s the worst. We got almost no snow last year. We had like one 5" snow in the middle of December, and literally nothing worth starting a snowblower the rest of the year.

shop-teacher > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
02/11/2018 at 22:18

Definitely! I had a lot of fun in it.

CB > shop-teacher
02/11/2018 at 22:41

We haven’t been getting snow, just bouts of extreme cold. It’s supposed to feel like -45 here tonight. Lame.

shop-teacher > CB
02/11/2018 at 22:55

Now THAT sucks!!!!

DipodomysDeserti > shop-teacher
02/11/2018 at 22:57

We just had our hottest year on record and this winter has been averaging 10F+ above average. It’s going to be one hot summer.

fryguy > shop-teacher
02/12/2018 at 07:15

The Rally Metro was snug in bed - with thoughts of April dancing in his head

diplodicus > shop-teacher
02/12/2018 at 08:38

We got almost two feet in the past week, and then yesterday we got freezing rain. So now we have a bunch of snow with a layer of ice on top. Makes my dog look broken when she walks because it will partially support her and then collapse.

shop-teacher > diplodicus
02/12/2018 at 08:55

That’s always fun!

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > shop-teacher
02/12/2018 at 08:58

Snowblower? That’s cheating lol. I did it all by shovel

shop-teacher > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
02/12/2018 at 09:00

Fuck that noise!

I have like 1500 sq-ft of driveway and patio, and another 250 ln-ft of sidewalk.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
02/12/2018 at 10:36

It’s now the snow that kills cars; it’s the salt. But you don’t need me to tell you that.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
02/12/2018 at 10:36

You have as much driveway as I have house. A bit more, even.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/12/2018 at 10:49

It’s all fun and games, until it needs maintenance :)

I also have a 2-1/2 car garage. That said, I cannot park on the street overnight, and ... it was -2 when I left the house this morning. So I’ve got that going for me.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/12/2018 at 10:50

All that slush packed in and around the wheels and the rockers and such doesn’t exactly help the cause.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
02/12/2018 at 13:19

Except , I wouldn’t drive it in the winter. In fact , I’d move to California in the winter and forget to move back.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/12/2018 at 14:51

I wouldn’t drive that van in the winter either. One winter would decimate it.