Posted on 11/27/2024 9:02:51 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
About 70 and cloudy in southern AZ, no rain forecast.
Sounds like the driveway at my parents’ place. My dad used to say that he could always get down it.
Yup,I know that away from the Pacific...particularly in the mountains...they get a lot of snow. I just recently saw something about a region in northern Japan (can’t recall its name) where they get something like 400 inches of snow each winter. Yikes!
Wild exaggerations, as usual.
Even alarmist Accuweather has a less alarmist forecast than it does headline.
A lot of people don't know how to drive in the snow here. A lot of people aren't from here and rarely drive in the snow
Millions of people pass up and down I-95 and I-66. One good accident can shut down the interstate for over a day.
Virginia seems to struggle with how much sand/salt and pre-treatment to have on hand. I can remember (2015/2016 time?) them deciding to forgo pre-treat and/or salt because we were only getting 1/2"-1" of snow on a Wed and hammered on Fri......needles to say we got about 2" of snow, which was a sheet of ice by Wed night with people reporting 7hr commutes. Fri it was a [supposed] record amount of snow. We had about 3' at our house.
Two years ago - we had over 100 trees down on our road alone, no electricity for a week, and several roads were closed for 2-3 days.
I can see why people lose their minds - even though they should probably be better prepared. I rode out the above storms and SNOWMAGGEDON (oh noes) in 2010 just fine.
Bomb cyclones. Atmospheric rivers. Polar vortices. Halitosis. WE’RE DOOOOOOOMED
What are you talking about?? It is going up to 80 today in Dallas.
We’re supposed to be getting 2-4” of snow Thanksgivng depending on where in NH you are.
Then sunny and 40 Friday.
I’m in North Carolina and it’s sunny and in the 60s. So where’s the storm?!
Right? Good story.
I just drove the Massey Ferguson into town this afternoon and filled up the tank with diesel.
Then put the driveway markers in place.
My cab tractor weighs 4000 lbs.
I have slid down part of the driveway more than once.
The first time it happened it scared that crap out of me.
Now, it’s just make sure you don’t turn sideways.
**Now, it’s just make sure you don’t turn sideways.**
Snow type is a big factor. Fluffy dry-easy peasy to push through even if it drags the underside. Wet snow-don’t push through more than half of your ground clearance (for example: 8” clearance, no more than 4” wet snow).
I’ve had decades of experience in NW IL of moving snow in the winter. Most of it with a JD4020 with a 9’ blade, a 8 foot loader bucket, or both. If you are using a 3 point hitch blade, and have it set at an angle, it will try to become a rudder overriding steering and individual braking efforts. Dangerous on a steep incline.
If using a loader bucket, and the snow is not more than a foot deep, I would back down the hill using the bucket to ‘drop anchor’ if necessary. In both cases, without tire chains, I recommend working from the bottom of the hill and upward.
The 18k pound 4wd tractor my dad and I had wore 18.4 x 38 tires on all 4 wheels. It could push through about 1 1/2 feet of wet snow that was dragging through a few inches of the lower tranmission and differential housings. We never got that tractor stuck. But it couldn’t have a loader mounted, just the blade.
Mt. Baker, in Washington, gets over 600” almost every year.
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