Subaru > State of emergency

Innovative Tuning · Post by **Innovative Tuning** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:30 pm

For those who don't know the Buffalo, NY area is in a state of emergency. We got two feet of snow and the trees still had their leaves so half the trees in the area came down causing power outages like never before and tons of blocked roads. I drove one of the guys from the shop home in my daily driver legacy SS with Nokian snows and saw dozens of cars off the road on the way about 40 minutes into the country. I was on the verge of getting high centered most of the way back but unless that happens this thing can't be stopped.

I had some country folk with their trucks stop me before a big hill to tell me nobody had made it up the hill since the afternoon. So of course I blasted right up it no problem and gave them a few friendly beeps as I crested the hill.

In short...I love my Subarus.

-Mike

Subtle · Post by **Subtle** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:37 pm

Was going to re set the ride height back to stock now that I wont be out on the back roads until next summer.

Maybe we'll have a good snow season up at Whistler---think I'll leave it riding high

Manarius · Post by **Manarius** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:14 pm

Yeah, I always like to laugh at drivers when they're stuck on the side of the road and I drive by.

Bheinen74 · Post by **Bheinen74** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:30 pm

glad you made it through the snowy hill.
Man, trees down, it suks. I saw some news footage. it takes days to get all the branches and trees removed, then you have to replant trees and no shade next summer. Plus all the power outages. sorry.

Yukonart · Post by **Yukonart** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:17 am

Whoah, I was just thinking about this today, Mike. Nearly 70 here in Seattle. . . and we're nearly the same latitude!!!!

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:16 pm

Yeah, but that lake-effect snow is a BIATCH!!!! You've still got warm ocean air blowing at you Art. It has been in the low 40's here in Milwaukee this week.

But don't let this snow fool you. This is all happening because of GLOBAL WARMING!!!

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dzx · Post by **dzx** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:01 am

State of emergency pfft. We got 4 feet of snow in Boulder two years ago, 7 feet in Nederland, and they never declared a state of emergency. Although University of Colorado was closed a day for the first time since the 80's.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:08 am

It isn't an emergency if you're prepared for it. From what I gather, them NY folks forgot that winter was on its way. Driving in Buffalo was banned. Y'all in Colorado know better.

Although I do enjoy mightily watching morons try to drive in the first real snow. I actually feel sorry for some of the medians/sidewalks near my home/work. I love it the most when someone cracks into a fire hydrant and fills the street with ice. And I live 2 blocks from the main salt distribution center for the southside of the city!!! I can proudly claim that my street is the most heavily salted street in the world. Hence the formerly mint Subaru that now has rust from only driving it three times last winter.

dzx · Post by **dzx** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:29 pm

wow that sucks rusting after three times. It's snowing pretty hard here now.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:05 am

Yeah, but from what I heard from the guy I talked to in Boulder last year, the stuff usually doesn't stick around too much. He said the roads are usually dry/drivable within a day. Freakin sun has a lot to do with that I bet. Don't you guys use sand instead of salt?

Innovative Tuning · Post by **Innovative Tuning** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:49 pm

dzx wrote:State of emergency pfft. We got 4 feet of snow in Boulder two years ago, 7 feet in Nederland, and they never declared a state of emergency. Although University of Colorado was closed a day for the first time since the 80's.

We had 10 feet in under 2 days a couple years ago. It's not the volume that caused the problem this time. It's the fact that 70% of the area had no power and most roads were impassible due to downed trees and power lines.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:16 pm

We use sand in New England - much better than that metal-killer salt they use in Detroit. Never knew how good I had it until I went there.

Murphy · Post by **Murphy** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:48 am

we had almost 2 feet about 2 years ago here, thats big for Owensboro, except in 95 (i think) when we had 5 feet across Kentucky

i had to shovel the driveway 3 times those 2 days, it stop in the day and started at night all over again, even more that time
the drifts on the road were about 4 feet in some areas, going down HWY 144 (high road, looks like a levee, fields on both sides) there were fire trucks and snow plows that had got stuck the night before and never made it near my house, it was cool seeing that we were the second ones to actuly go down the road not getting stuck, we were following a lifted Jeep Cherokee, especaily after seeing 3 snow plows and 1 pumper fire truck baried in the snow and about 10 cars off the road in the field (all vehicles were empty)

...yep, im gonna be sad when we get rid of our Ford Explorer,

dzx · Post by **dzx** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:20 am

yeah, as far as I know, Colorado just uses sand now. Last night was wicked. I couldnt even get close to home. There were suv's all over the canyon road sideways and stuck. I had to turn my poor Stanza around and stay in town.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:12 pm

A lot of trucks have lousy 4wd/awd systems as I've seen some do barely better than my Mazda or 2wd Subaru with performance tires on both. The system in our F250 work truck is terrible.

jnorion · Post by **jnorion** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:06 pm

Here in Portland an inch of snow can shut down the entire city for a day. It's pathetic... nobody knows how to drive in bad weather. Shit, people even forget how to drive in the rain here, and it rains 200+ days out of the year.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:54 pm

The owner of my company told me about how it snowed in Texas once when they were on the road truckin. From their hotel room, all they could see were cars doing unintentional donuts and skiing sideways on the freeway, crashing into each other constantly. As she put it, it was freakin insanity. Nobody there even saw snow before, much less knew how to drive in it.

dzx · Post by **dzx** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:02 pm

That's awesome, I always look forward to the first day of snow. It gets a lot of idiots off the road.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:33 pm

Yeah, here too, only they go off the road on the highways at rush hour.

206er · Post by **206er** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:04 am

Ive pulled several cars out of the snow in my wagon with near bald RE92's.

jilo860 · Post by **jilo860** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:18 pm

STOP TALKNG ABOUT THE SNOW, I JUST CANT WAIT!!!!!!

snowman · Post by **snowman** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:03 am

First real snow here in Anchorage today! You would think that people in AK would know how to drive in snow, or would have vehicles capable of it, but there are an alarming number of people here that meet neither requirement. The first snow is always enterntaining, with tons of idiots wrecked and/or stuck, as I blast by in my Legacy, cackling to myself.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:25 am

One of the most memorable moments in Scooby history for me was when there was a huge dumping of snow one morning a couple years ago. Traffic was slower than shit on the freeway so I decided to take the highway to work. The two left lanes were clear, but packed full of slow-assed drivers. The right lane was all f_ed up with snow and slush. There I was hauling ass in the right lane, cozy as hell, listening to some Al Green. Life wasn't that bad that morning.

magicmike · Post by **magicmike** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:41 pm

evolutionmovement wrote:We use sand in New England - much better than that metal-killer salt they use in Detroit. Never knew how good I had it until I went there.

maybe in mass but in RI we use salt and alot of it! I think they use salt of the freeways and sand on the side roads.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:18 pm

Well, there's salt in the sand, but nothing like Detroit and eventually we patch the potholes (and don't overpatch them, creating a speed bump in its place).

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