On 20/01/2020 6:21 a.m., JOE MACKEY : AUGUST ABOLINS wrote:

It's too much for my rather low-lying 4x4 to plow through to
get out. So.. I have to do some manual digging first.

I have never understood 4x4's with low clearance.

I concur. My vehicle has an "official" clearance of only 7.5in.

It has actually managed plowing through 8" snows quite well.

But over time (12 years, in fact), I'd swear it's looking a bit lower
than that. I currently have a few heavy boxes of books in the back
which are probably contributing to the lower profile.

These are pictures of a very large dump of snow around my property back
in Dec 2007, but it looked very much like this yesterday, after it got
cleaned up a bit:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fRAXVy2bX96ge71V9

My vehicle is in a few of the shots.

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Aug wrote --

It has actually managed plowing through 8" snows quite well.

I don't recall ever going though a snow that deep. Even when I lived in
in SE Colorado and get a big snow sweeping in off the mountains.
Not saying I hadn't been in snow that deep, just never drove through it.
The best car I ever had was my '65 Falcon. I swear, that thing must of
been part Jeep, nothing stopped it. Just slow and easy and I could go anywhere, ford streams, climb mountains, roll through deserts...

But over time (12 years, in fact), I'd swear it's looking a bit lower
than that. I currently have a few heavy boxes of books in the back
which are probably contributing to the lower profile.

No doubt, but would tend to give some traction in the back.

These are pictures of a very large dump of snow

Very pretty.
That's the kind of snow I like, just looking at it. :)
we don't get big snows in WV.
We had a blizzard at Thanksgiving 1950, several feet. Then again in
1993, around St Patrick's day, that hit the eastern half of the country from the
Carolina's into New England.
WV was in a state of emergency and everything was shut down. Officials asking citizens to loan them 4x4's, etc.
Here in downtown was a deadly quiet. Not a sound. There were mounds
here and there with a car underneath.
We got about two feet and being mid March by the next weekend all that remained were piles that had been plowed here and there.
People were told to stay home and off the street, so naturally I went for
a walk around to see the snow.
We had another storm that dumped a couple of feet in January, '96 (I
think) and that lingered a bit longer.
Now the mountains of WV will get snow and have ski lodges here and there.
When I was in the Navy in Norfolk, VA I knew a guy from FL who had never
seen snow. We had a big snow one day, about an inch (that shut down the
town) and he was like a kid out playing in it. :)
We are a little hardier here, it takes almost three inches to shut this
town down. :)
Joe
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Joe,

WV was in a state of emergency and everything was shut down. Officials
asking citizens to loan them 4x4's, etc.

Arkansas gets that way if we get an inch of snow. Not one bit of
bread, milk, beer, or toilet paper, is left in the stores.

Here in downtown was a deadly quiet. Not a sound. There were mounds
here and there with a car underneath.

That's what I remember most about a good snow storm...it's dead quiet.

We got about two feet and being mid March by the next weekend all that
remained were piles that had been plowed here and there.

If Arkansas had that, they wouldn't move for a month.

When I was in the Navy in Norfolk, VA I knew a guy from FL who had never
seen snow. We had a big snow one day, about an inch (that shut down the JM>town) and he was like a kid out playing in it. :)

When snow fell in Miami and Homestead for the first time in on Jan.
19, 1977, folks went nuts...especially the kids. Snow didn't stick in
Miami or Carol City, but it was observed. Just north of Miami in Carol
City, 3 inches fell.

The worst part was that much of the state citrus crop that year
(oranges, grapefruit, etc.) was wiped out...and you can imagine what it
did to the prices. Can you say "Florida Oranges From California??" <G>.

We are a little hardier here, it takes almost three inches to shut this
town down. :)

More like 3/10 of an inch in Little Rock. :P

Daryl


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Daryl wrote --

We got about two feet and being mid March by the next weekend all that

remained were piles that had been plowed here and there.

If Arkansas had that, they wouldn't move for a month.

There's old joke here:
What is snow removal in WV?
Spring
We had a bad cold, snowy weather in '77-78, which you mentioned about
Miami.
The city of Huntington broke down and bought a snow plow. One snow plow
for a city of 50,000+.
It sat unused for several years and when it was needed the first time it wouldn't run. Repairs with ordered parts where scheduled to be completed by May.
Then it disappeared.
No one has any idea where it is now.
Joe
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Joe,

It sat unused for several years and when it was needed the first time it
wouldn't run. Repairs with ordered parts where scheduled to be completed by JM>May.
Then it disappeared.
No one has any idea where it is now.

Sounds like the ad "FOR SALE: SNOWBLOWER. WORKED LAST SUMMER". <G>

Daryl


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