Fun In the Snow!

[Volktales]

Actually it was not that much fun at all...





Yup.  The drive home last night was the most sphincter clenching experience I have had in a long time.  Heavy snow over packed ice and in blizzard conditions made the trip home something else.  I do have "all-weather" tires on the Acura, but they are not exactly as new.  Acceleration, steering, and stopping were all problematic on the way home.  The short but steep-ish hill at the bottom of Wakesiah Avenue was almost my undoing, as I crested the hill at about 1 km/h with the tires spinning and me sawing at the wheel to desperately try to get any form of traction.  Approaching my house revealed cars stuck allover the intersection (I live at the bottom of two hills).  My only hope was a all or nothing run to the boulevard, as entering the driveway was not an option.  The above was the result when neither the steering nor brakes responded to the helm.  A woman walking by asked if I meant to do that.  It really was the only option...  But I still did better than others...



  

This Dodge Avenger was "parked" out in front of the house.  Notice something missing???





I assume another car hit this one on the wheel.  It was ripped right off the car with the complete hub assembly.  Have a feeling it might be sitting out there for awhile.  The road was littered with cars unable to make the hill that night...


So today I had a snow day, and what did I do?  Shoveling, shoveling and more shoveling.  Did my yard and Mom's house as well.  That was six hours I will never get back...  At least the kid was roped in to help out near the end.  Reluctantly of course...


Anybody else have fun???

[PICTUP]

Not as much as you, but I was sent out to retrieve my father-in-law who had taken his scooter from LaRosa to his house he refuses to sell. There was no way he could have got home. Seems he has lost some of his higher reasoning powers... I was sideways on the highway after turning on from Roberts, but quickly corrected and the rest was uneventful. Accidents everywhere in Ladysmith, but I managed to avoid hitting anything or having anything hit me. Shoveling two households really sucks doesn't it? So glad I don't have to do that anymore.

[tony]

You young-uns'll have to down some of that prune juice to relax those sphincters after all that high stress! lol Pretty uneventful here 16" of snow and 5.5 hours of shoveling got me up to my still unplowed (I don't think it's been plowed once in the 17 years I've lived here) road. ⛄

[owdlvr]

I took the Midget out of my garage, plowed my gravel drive with its front end, made it out onto the street where it looped...and then got stuck. Took me a bit to get it unstuck and back in the garage. The easiest method? Put the car in second, release the clutch, get out and push it with it in gear. Once it was rolling again on the gravel drive, jog up to the door, jump in and continue onto the garage.

It can handle some snow...but not as much as we got...on it's M+S no-season tires

[stude]

Studebaker looks good enjoying retirement since retirement in 1968 still compete other than the stainless door handles that split and fell off a couple years ago.

[Volktales]

That Studebaker has been sitting longer than I have been alive!!! By one year, anyway... I do miss driving Beetles in the snow. When I was younger, I couldn't wait for the snow to fly so I could go out cruising...

[CrazyBrit]

I'm in Victoria and there's absolutely no snow here whatsoever.

[magikbus]

I used to go out in a 61 bug and sometimes my 51 Chev pickup on the Chilliwack Lake road (in from Vedder Crossing) and go to a very long straight level stretch of basically unused road with very shallow depressions on the side of the road and have fun practicing 360s, 180s and 270s and eventually learning how to do them all while maintaining a straight line and continuing on in the original direction.  I must have done it  dozens of times, at least when there was snow and a couple of times in heavy rain.  I tried to get Chris to try it on some logging roads outside of Quesnel but no deal.  I'd recommend it as a learning experience for anyone who might find themselves in tricky snow driving, it's a skill that you never lose.  They do something like that with driver training for RCMP officers on wet parking lots but that seems like a wimpy experience compared to playing on the Chilliwack lake road.
Stan