Donner....Party of 50.................
Posted on 03/15/2017 12:18:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The police told Jalopnik that the Jeep was likely abandoned on the side of the road, plowed under, and further entombed by the giant snowblowers that keep the road clear. Apparently one of them seriously damaged the truck as it was carving a canyon into the snow, which led to its disc overy. A broken rear window reveals that the interior is empty, so its owner wasn’t trapped in it. The CHP doesn’t know who that is, and covered the license plate in the photo posted on its Facebook page, but if you left it there, you hopefully remember. Just don’t head back to retrieve it anytime soon. Since it’s not blocking the road, and sits under layers of stratified snow and ice, the police are leaving it up to Mother Nature to thaw it out.
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With strips of what looks like bacon laid out over the seat rests.
Any cannibalism suspected?
The Donner party had Jeeps? Whodathunk?
Donner.. Party of 5?
Donner.. Party of 4?
The original article, which is also linked in the Fox News writeup:
http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/this-jeep-cherokee-fell-victim-to-the-infamous-donner-p-1793166595
I was not at all surprised to find out it was written by Jalopnik’s resident Jeep fanboy - who is also in the process of rebuilding a 1948 CJ2-A.
Donner....Party of 50.................
Donner, party of 83......
(From one of Robin Williams’s gags)
I was born and raised in Florida but spent 5 years in Western Kansas.
I think it was in March of 1988 that I was driving home from Eastern, Oklahoma. It began to snow and the weather was cold. When I got a few miles West of Pratt, KS. the highway patrol stopped me and told me the road was closed.
I had to return to Pratt and spend the night in a motel. I had a 4wd pickup and was a little irritated. I felt sure I could have made it if they had let me try.
The next day around noon they opened the road. I could not believe how deep some of the drifts were. When I got to Ford, KS I noticed an 18 wheeler almost totally buried. It was covered except just a tiny bit of the trailer showing.
There’s an old Simpson’s episode, I forget which one, where one of the businesses on a commercial street in Springfield was “Donner Party Supplies”. They were having a “Winter Madness Sale”.
A friend of mine got his vw rabbit stuck in the snow and had to leave it all winter on the mountain. We finally got to it in the spring. It had been moved about 100 feet down the hill and was crushed like a beer can. Snow is some heavy stuff. It was a $600 beater so no big loss.
A broken rear window reveals that the interior is empty, so its owner wasn’t trapped in it.
Yep, happens all the time. The owners usually return in the spring to recover them after the snow melts........
The cops have the license plate number but they don't know who it belongs to??????
Any of those morons think that just maybe there might be a body out there?
They can’t track the owner from the license plate? They can’t run the plate through the database and see who the vehicle belongs to????
My brother went to college in the Upper peninsula of Michigan, where they get 30-40 feet of snow a year.
One of his room mates would park his truck on a mound of snow. It wasn’t till spring when they discovered that mound of snow was someone’s car. Same thing, pretty much destroyed.
I always use “Donner” as the name of my reservations, especially at places like IHOP, so that they yell it out.
In our most recent storm, an Amtrak train got stuck in what the newspaper said was a 25 foot deep by 200 foot long drift.
Locally, drifts went over roof tops, pushing against windows and blocking doors. The drifts are hard enough to stand on without pushing through. If hit by a vehicle, the drifts will cause major body damage.
Kansas storms tain’t nuthin!
Calling; Donner, party of 50; Donner, party of 50; your table is ready........
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the upholstery is splashed with frozen bbq sauce and dotted with hundreds of used wet naps. Several large, unopened containers of frozen coleslaw were also found nearby.
During the blizzard of ‘93 the parking lot of the ski resort I was staying at became drifted so much that one of the maintenance workers plowing the lot creamed a Jag XJS that was buried over the roof in snow.
Is it from the Donner Party?? :-)
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