Anyone else looking forward to the blizzard?

[ichibankilla]

Some dip shit pulled the fire alarm in the apartment building next to us, down here on 14th Ave S, as a prank. I'm sure the FD was really pleased with that. Some peoples kids.

There's about a 8-10' drift in front of our building also, and a fair amount of traffic "trying" to drive down the street. Also saw some people running down the street and our next door neighbor said they saw somebody out jogging this morning too.

[i_like_eggs]

we just shoveled out a girl that got stuck in front of our driveway on the street, 14th st, dont come down here!!! staaaaay awaaaay!! ha ha, if i had a sled this would be fun!

[boost95]

I know what you mean I was a buddy's apartment and every time I was there some one pulled the fire alarm It was in the winter it happened three of four time's

[dubbsy]

well, I went for a walk. Pictures will be coming, but cliffs include:
Amber Valley Parkway is impassible. The payloaders ended up driving up on to the lawn at my complex to get around stalled cars. There are at minimum 6 cars in the middle of the street (some sideways) north of the AV complex. Looks like there is at least one stuck south of Pracs as well.

The 2 trucks stuck in the driveways at my lot are stuck good...

fuck its cold.

[ichibankilla]

I think this snow storm calls for couple of "Free, Get Your Post Count Up" days.

[Bookem]

ichibankilla;251441 wrote:
I think this snow storm calls for couple of "Free, Get Your Post Count Up" days.

Eggsrackery

[i_like_eggs]

ichibankilla;251441 wrote:
I think this snow storm calls for couple of "Free, Get Your Post Count Up" days.

even though ichiban was too big of a weenie to come help us with that chick, i agree post boost, ha ha!!!!

[weshole]

Bump!!!!

[MisterCMK]

Nice wiener wes

[ichibankilla]

MisterCMK;251447 wrote:
Nice wiener wes

I wonder if that would be considered condimentkake?:icon_scratch::icon_geek:

[dubbsy]

I wish I could just copy and paste my updates from OT over here... but none of the pictures come with.

[inspector01]

I drove up from the cities to sebeka this morning, pretty fun......suprisingly i only saw a couple of vehicles the whole way, but it was 37* and raining in the cities, and like 22* and snowing by St. Cloud, and -2* by the time i got to Wadena 3 hours later.

[MisterCMK]

dubbsy;251452 wrote:
I wish I could just copy and paste my updates from OT over here... but none of the pictures come with.

link to the thread

[MisterCMK]

inspector01;251454 wrote:
I drove up from the cities to sebeka this morning, pretty fun......suprisingly i only saw a couple of vehicles the whole way, but it was 37* and raining in the cities, and like 22* and snowing by St. Cloud, and -2* by the time i got to Wadena 3 hours later.

The rain down here froze and the roads are slick as hell now.

[zbrown]

dubbsy;251452 wrote:
I wish I could just copy and paste my updates from OT over here... but none of the pictures come with.

get that shit posted, I want to see

it was weak here, snowed maybe an inch or two....... just fucking bitter cold and blowing now

[MisterCMK]

zbrown;251458 wrote:
get that shit posted, I want to see

it was weak here, snowed maybe an inch or two....... just fucking bitter cold and blowing now

Poor west side farmers

[dubbsy]

zbrown;251458 wrote:
get that shit posted, I want to see

it was weak here, snowed maybe an inch or two....... just fucking bitter cold and blowing now

I'll post it in a second here. Trying to get it uploaded to facebook.

[thurmanmerman]

[dubbsy]

So like any good pseudo journalist I bundled up and headed out.

The first step was to head northwest towards where I was stuck earlier in the day - and where another truck had been stuck since around noon. The snow hadn't blown in behind it quite as bad as I had first though.

With the strong North wind and a wide open north-south driveway it ended up depositing quite a bit of snow along the west driveway in my complex. This is directly behind the previously picture pickup.

With sitting in that location for nearly 5 hours, the truck had started to pick up more than its fair share of snow. The drift seen to the left rear of the truck is similar to the conditions I experience earlier in the morning. As you can see there has been quite a bit of snow deposited in front of the vehicle.

From there I continued onto the street where payloaders were seen earlier clearing a way for emergency crews. As soon as I got onto the street it was clear why payloaders were necessary for access. This photo is looking parallel with a wide 2 lane street (plus right side parking).

Street crews were forced to clear a path well onto the apartment complex lawn in order to pass this area. Untouched drifts in this area reached upwards of 5' with piles from the payloaders adding rock hard 5-7' piles elsewhere.

Continuing along the street you could see the numerous abandonded cars parked among the cars parked along the street. Plows had attempted to clear this street earlier but due to the stalled vehicles were unable to pass.

There were at minimum 6 abandonded vehicles in spots not considered parking over a stretch of about 2 city blocks. There were also faint silhouettes of stranded vehicles just down the street from this location.

The last of the abandonded vehicles in this stretch of street. This one had at least gotten turned the right direction but ended up stuck and helpless on the wrong side of the street.

And finally I made it back into the eastern most driveway of my complex to find the final victim of this particular snow drift. This ranger fell victim to this snowbank around 3pm after numerous other vehicles had occupied, and fortunately enough exited, the same snowbank.

And finally yours truly makes it back home relatively undamaged.

[inspector01]

MisterCMK;251457 wrote:
The rain down here froze and the roads are slick as hell now.

Thats what i assumed so i wanted to get out of there. Suprisingly it was only freezing rain for about 5 miles maybe between the cities and st.cloud, went from rain to snow pretty quick.