Good morning Oppo!

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 01/19/2020 at 08:07 • Filed to: Snow

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There is snow happening.

Let’s play guess which blue Accent is mine - a bit hard to tell under all that white stuff! :P

Two more hours of this stuff, then it changes to freezing rain/ice pellets and then rain. It is going to be a pig to shovel when you have a 60m long driveway and no snowblower, so wish me luck on that ....unless somebody wants to do it for me...?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/19/2020 at 08:23

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The middle one

*says with 45% certainty*

Who needs snowblowers when you have a free skidpad to do some mighty drifting? Good luck with that, but the concept is totally foreign to me, living in Georgia my whole life. Never much need to shovel more than an inch off some steps.

shop-teacher > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/19/2020 at 08:54

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I suggest getting out there and clearing it before the rain starts. I had to do 3" of slush yesterday, and that was a biatch.

Fuckkinja > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/19/2020 at 09:23

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Decided to put a shovel on the front of the wife’s truck for such events. Woke this morning to another 6”. 12” since Friday.  Yesterday was the first time this winter we needed to plow. Crazy mild winter so far. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 01/19/2020 at 09:26

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Yup, it is the middle one! Hard to tell with the railing of the deck blocking the view. I’ve thought about going out and trying to shovel some wheel tracks down the driveway, at least...

There’s still some snow left since last storm and it’s been very cold, so most of it hasn’t melted. I was handbrake-drifting many parking lots on my travels yesterday :P

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > shop-teacher 01/19/2020 at 09:26

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Yeah, contemplating going out and at least trying to do two wheeltracks down the driveway as some of this should melt once it turns to rai n...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Fuckkinja 01/19/2020 at 09:28

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With climate change, I find that winter here starts much later and goes much later than it does when I was a kid. We used to have snow when I was little around late November, but it doesn’t often start in earnest until January now, and we had snow into April last year!

Also, storms are less frequent than I remember, but the ones we do get are more intense...

fhrblig > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/19/2020 at 09:32

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You guys can keep that stuff. I’ve seen enough of it already since October. We’ve gotten a break from it recently, but I have to drive up into the mountains every other week for work and I’m friggin’ over it . Bring on the spring!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > fhrblig 01/19/2020 at 10:42

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Just got in from shoveling and am exhausted...

fhrblig > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/19/2020 at 11:01

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I haven’t had to shovel for a while now. Here it’s sunny and supposed to be in the high-40s to mid-50s all week. Fortunately the wind has stopped, because that made yesterday pretty miserable.

I’m already tired of the mountain snow. I got lucky on Thursday because everything was clear and it was sunny going over to the W estern S lope . A c ouple weeks ago I had to go over Rabbit Ears Pass from Kremmling to Steamboat Springs in a snow storm and that sucked.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > fhrblig 01/19/2020 at 11:21

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I don’t min driving in poor snow weather, but it’s not exactly relaxing :/

No wind today thankfully...was -18C with windchill yesterday though, but I am glad I am not in the Prairies as it is often like -3 0C including windchill there!

fhrblig > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/19/2020 at 11:35

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Last month when I drove that same route the temperature was -21 F, which is basically -29/ - 30 C. I’ve never seen it that cold here before, but I haven’t spent a whole lot of time in the mountains.

By the way, when I got back to Denver that day the temp was around 50 F. A nice 70-degree swing for me in one day.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > fhrblig 01/19/2020 at 12:40

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Pretty crazy!

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/20/2020 at 02:31

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i’d rather snow over smoke haze and fires

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/20/2020 at 05:15

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Are the fires right near you?

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/20/2020 at 05:16

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not even close, hundreds of kms away. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/20/2020 at 14:27

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Good, hope it stays that way! :(