Who's Lovin' the East Coast Snow?

[rclangelan]

CC government already plowed your street?! Man, HoCoGov is slow!

Btw, you may want to check your camera's white balance setting.

Yeah, my road is a snow emergency route. Town of Sykesville is pretty good about staying on the roads. They are out in force all day. But you get fined if your car is parked on the road during a snow emergeny.

And, yeah, they are cell phone pics... Point. Click. Send.

~ Ryan

 

[charlier180]

Enjoy it if you can and remember to lift with your knees when shoveling. Take your time and don't overdo it.

Good advice.... Years ago someone told me about the "BackSaver Snow Shovel". I have been using one ever since and they really do save one's back.
I have a snow blower but some places still need a good, old fashioned, snow shoveling.

 

[fourwd1]

Ha, my street is so narrow they can't get a plow down it, the county contracts it out to a guy with an F350 p/u. He never showed. With almost 30" , it's now to deep for anything but a county truck. The people on my street aren't getting out for days. The 36's on my 4Runner will get thru it, but they're not.

 

[skeglesswonder]

Here ya go. If you look closely, I have a GoPro Hero mounted to the crossbar.

 

[Duhockey]

You don't know how right you are. I was on I-70 last Saturday in the snow and, I kid you not, there were cars off the road every 1/4 mile. It was ridiculous. What the "F" are people doing?

On another note, I took the 4Runner out on a 20 mile trip tonight. Got back around 12:45am. Over a foot on the ground. Closer to two in a few drifty areas. Not only did the 4Runner (and DuraTracs) make it... it was almost too easy. If any of you know the Marriottsville area, then you know the type of twisty hills you have to tackle. My Tacoma would have at least slid the ass-end out a few times on me.



~ Ryan

Twisty road with corners like that area have are THE WORST in slick conditions... hard enough to keep cars running straight out west with straight roads while braking in a straight line!! nevermind all the curves out there!

 

[KellyJ]

I laughed at that previous statement about MD drivers haha. WE got a F load of snow here today, 27 inches at my house. Will post up some pictures of the road conditions later. Definitely a record breaking storm

 

[IntoTheVoid]

Yeah...more pictures of "Snowmageddon." :lookout:

 

[Texas05SE]

Those pictures are great! Thanks for sharing guys! It really puts things into perspective.

Having said that, after seeing them I am not as jealous. That is an enormous amount of snow!:wow:

I think there will be very busy delivery rooms at your local hospitals probably about 9 months from now...:frisky:

 

[Teqeeler]

that is alllot of snow, that makes 2 huge storms for you guys, i am completely jealous. I'm a huge fan of big snow storms, we haven't had a good snowstorm this year in maine or hardly any snow:nono:

 

[VNT]

there's hope for Chgo, they talking about getting some 10-12 inches tonight. Finally some decent driving conditions.:boink:

 

[Joe_2004SE_NY]

I am loving the east coast snow.

:lookout:Its awesome and Wednesday 2/10/2010 is another storm coming. I hope it dumps a 2 feet of snow. So I can go out and play :driving:. Plus take off of work. Can I get an amen?

 

[offshorebear]

I went out hunting on saturday and got stuck in the woods :/ I boiled off the power steering fluid. Its NOT fun trying to steer out of skids without power steering

 

[KellyJ]

Some pictures as promised. These are from last night, and the storm stopped on Saturday afternoon

Coming out of my street

The new LED lights, my camera makes them look blue but the gauges are white. The HU is blue though

Messing with the flash settings. To give an idea of how bad the roads were/are, these pictures were taken on a main road around 7:30 PM. I'd never be able to get away with stopping on Old Dominion Drive at any other time:guitar2:

No idea how this picture turned out this way

Downtown McLean

That car in the background was a Honda Fit, with snow up over the front and rear wheels. I measured 27" in my back yard.

 

[SubSonic]

I'm too far South to comment on this latest, big snow storm, but we did get about 6" here near Raleigh NC the weekend before...took the 4Runner out several times, out in the thick of the storm and then again on Sunday after it was "over".

4Runner did great. Never really had to "put it in 4WD" since the AWD system did just fine in the 6" that we got that I never had to mess with the center diff lock or move it into 4Lo at all. I did lock the center diff once, over a long straight stretch of powder-covered road...just to cycle it in and out once on a slippery surface for maintenance reasons...but like I said, the basic 40/60 split of the standard AWD/FT4WD system in my model did just fine without any help. I did meet an idiot in a little Civic that was slipping around and appeared to be clueless on snow driving. I eased over toward the shoulder and ended up sliding down in the shallow ditch about the time this idiot got to me. I let him get past me and then I just eased it right up out of the ditch and back onto the roadway.

The one draw back is that you can't find a snowy parking lot or field, drop it into 2WD and then cut up with it....'cause we ain't got no 2WD setting in our T4R!! lol

 

[Uneek]

No idea how this picture turned out this way

Interesting effect. It looks like the lights are on fire.

 

[Duhockey]

Some pictures as promised. These are from last night, and the storm stopped on Saturday afternoon

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that pic in front of the wine place... are you sagging??? back end looks way lower than front?

what are your measurements?

 

[bobbarker]

I am going to run out and try to get a new set of tires tomorrow morning. I'm still on the Dunlops the truck came with...and while they get it going semi-okay, I can see wear bars, and they invoke ABS wayyy to soon on the snow. It kind of takes away from the fun of snow.

 

[KellyJ]

Man, you do NOT look happy. Haha. Noticed the Fitzgerald plate frame, are you in MD or PA?

 

[KellyJ]

that pic in front of the wine place... are you sagging??? back end looks way lower than front?

what are your measurements?

1 inch lower in the rear... waiting for some 10mm trim packers... 906's suck ass...

EDIT - the picture is at an angle though, so the rake is more pronounced if you look closely... in person it's not that dramatic

 

[bobbarker]

Man, you do NOT look happy. Haha. Noticed the Fitzgerald plate frame, are you in MD or PA?

I'm actually just outside of DC in MD, but I bought this thing in PA, so I'm still using the PA temp. tags. Got it at Fitzgerald's Chambersburg dealer. I actually was happy... The happiness just wasn't showing that well at the time, heh. The snow was, literally, up to my crotch.