Anyone else looking forward to the blizzard?
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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.
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I think this snow storm calls for couple of "Free, Get Your Post Count Up" days.
Sterling Archer: Oh my god! You killed a hooker!
Cyril Figgis: Call girl!
Sterling Archer: No Cyril! When they're dead they're just hookers!
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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!!!!
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MisterCMK;251447 wrote:
Nice wiener wesI wonder if that would be considered condimentkake?:icon_scratch::icon_geek:
Sterling Archer: Oh my god! You killed a hooker!
Cyril Figgis: Call girl!
Sterling Archer: No Cyril! When they're dead they're just hookers!
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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.
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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.
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> Parker;299126 wrote:
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah German cars are the best thing since sliced bread. -
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.
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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.
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Its a fuckin mess, its going to take a few days to clear the roads and make everything somewhat functional again
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Well they dug out one of the cars but left it sitting there. I hope they realize that its going to be buried even deeper now in a couple hours thanks to the awsome snowburm they created around it. The other car (who's owner's sister I talked to earlier) might damn near make it all the way under by daylight.
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inspector01;251481 wrote:
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.I tried to head out to the shop to get some stuff done and decided that it wasn't worth it when the back end was in a perma slide even in 4hi
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