"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
02/01/2019 at 09:47 • Filed to: None
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"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
02/01/2019 at 09:47 • Filed to: None | 2
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I’m pretty sure there’s a car under there.
This fall and early winter I noticed a blue Impala parked on the side of the road, which isn’t unusual as there’s an apartment building right there.
You can see how little room there is to park. Just on the other side of this building is a river, so there’s no way to expand the parking, either.
In the fall I couldn’t tell if it was being driven, but after the first few snowstorms, it was clearly not moving. Whatever’s wrong with it, isn’t fixing itself under all that snow.
Now it’s disappeared, but I don’t remember seeing it move
. I do feel bad for whoever owns it, clearly they couldn’t get it running for winter and now it’s at high risk of being smashed by the plow as it wings back those snowbanks. In fact a few weeks back I saw a path shoveled to the driver’s door, but never got to see what happened before it snowed again. I think if it was gone, there’d be a dip in the bank, not a lump.
For Sale:
2004 Impala. 150,000 miles. Just needs a starter [or similarly simple-sounding repair]
. Bring a shovel.
cbell04
> functionoverfashion
02/01/2019 at 09:52 |
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Lo st my wife’s 2000 civic in a snow bank for a week once. Surprisingly no damage done. Dug out the front end and yanked it out with a chain. Luckily the plows never clipped it.
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functionoverfashion
> cbell04
02/01/2019 at 09:55 |
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ha! I think the time under there will be the biggest issue, if the plows don’t hit it. It’s well within range of the big wings they use, this is a state road, too.
Tekamul
> functionoverfashion
02/01/2019 at 10:02 |
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It should be quite well protected. If it survived the freezing process, that is.
user314
> Tekamul
02/01/2019 at 10:17 |
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> functionoverfashion
02/01/2019 at 14:19 |
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I’m having trouble finding it but I remember reading a story about a someone going early winter off- roading in the Sierra? mountains, his vehicle got stuck or broke, for whatever reason he couldn’t get his vehicle out so he left it intending to come back and recover in the next few days. Well turns out an early winter storm decided to hit and was followed quickly by another and another...by the time he had large enough gap in the weather to try and recover it the trails were impassible. So in the spring a group went out to try and find and recover the vehicle with him...somehow they found it despite the snow being over the roof. They dug down to it and dug a ramp into the snow and ended up being able to extract it. I don’t think it was in too bad of shape either besides needing to be dried out and typical things you do for a vehicle that’s sat for a while.
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functionoverfashion
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
02/02/2019 at 19:56 |
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I loved how it drove out under its own power... once they dug and winched it out.
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> functionoverfashion
02/02/2019 at 20:04 |
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That’s the one! I love that story
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functionoverfashion
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
02/02/2019 at 20:28 |
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Me too, pretty amazing.
On the local car, I’m most concerned about plow damage. I left a Civic in my parents’ field for a whole winter in college, it was fine. Buried up to the windows in snow - I even rode my snowmobile over the top of it.
Nauraushaun
> functionoverfashion
02/06/2019 at 19:40 |
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Pls give updates.
Never lived in a snow area, no idea how these things work. The idea of seasonally losing the ability to find your car freaks me out
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functionoverfashion
> Nauraushaun
02/07/2019 at 09:21 |
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Well, we had a “thaw” which is when the temps go above freezing temporarily and everyone walks around in t-shirts because it feels so nice compared to the cold, even though it might only be 40F... anyway the car is now visible again and the state plow truck did NOT push back the snowbanks in that particular stretch, so it’s safe for now. One 6" snowstorm, though, and it will be gone again. We’ll see.
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Nauraushaun
> functionoverfashion
02/07/2019 at 16:05 |
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Woo! Get in there, owner!