Snow removal rant

[Travman]

Winchester, VA

[DRKWNG]

HOLY SHIT!  I'm leaving Hawaii for this? 

[rgramjet]

Come on in......the water's fine.

[zooom]

I was pushin my snowblower several times this go round at Dolci's place and at mine and this ain't so easy.....but the 3-6 inches comin in Tuesday night/Wednesday should be easy in comparo!!!

[Slide Panda]

Yeah well, now they are calling for a min of 5"  - good times to come

[DRKWNG]

Looks like it's time to start looking into that Jeep idea again...

[zooom]

Looks like it's time to start looking into that Jeep idea again...

My Subaru Baja has been quite the champ in all this!

[DRKWNG]

My Subaru Baja has been quite the champ in all this!

I'm sure it has.  The one thing that keeps pointing me back to the jeep is so I would have a vehicle that could tow a bike to a track (something I haven't had access to in the last three years) and still go top-down with when the weather allows.  I am really going to miss having a convertible once the S2000 goes away.

[rgramjet]

So I got a call early this morning from a neighbor telling me I missed a spot at the top of my hill and a regular car wont be able to make it through.....I just about reached through the phone.  Instead I told him that my truck should have no problem whatsoever, click.

[zooom]

I'm sure it has.  The one thing that keeps pointing me back to the jeep is so I would have a vehicle that could tow a bike to a track (something I haven't had access to in the last three years) and still go top-down with when the weather allows.  I am really going to miss having a convertible once the S2000 goes away.

the Baja, while not a convertible, is quite capable (and mine has done so many times) at pulling a small utility trailer with 2 bikes and track gear on it with no problem!

[angler]

So I got a call early this morning from a neighbor telling me I missed a spot at the top of my hill and a regular car wont be able to make it through.....I just about reached through the phone.  Instead I told him that my truck should have no problem whatsoever, click.

Here is what you do to bummer neighbors! http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/ventcover.asp

I got a bottle of prosecco and some bread pudding for helping my neighbors dig out.  It is really amazing to watch people get completely overwhelmed with volume of shoveling.  Saw a lot of folks just staring at their cars and shaking their heads.  Glad I dug out yesterday.  It is just getting icier and icier with more on the way!

[zooom]

I ran my blower up the neighbor's walkway to be kind and nice and the last go round I did his driveway for him...his dad came down and thanked me bigtime and that was all I needed...acknowledgement and appreciation...sure it took me a couple extra minutes...beats the quadruple time he woulda spent with a shovel otherwise...

[tocino]

I gotta give mad props to Montgomery Co. - they did a great job on my street and the streets around. Neighbors and I were all standing in wonder, because we are usually the last. Not sure if it was just my area or not.

D.C. was pretty bad when i took my g.f. home yesterday. Seems most of the "plowing" done was just from people driving around. I'd heard that at some time in the past the plow contractors wanted payment up front because the District was really bad + late with paying them for previous jobs, so maybe some thing?

Gene, I think you need to fill the bed of your truck with beer and drive around so we can all, uh, check out the motor in that baby!

Yeah, 5-10 inches tomorrow does not sounds good. Quarry House will be open - they were Friday and Saturday night, and on Friday the joint was about the only place open, and it was full.

[ducatiz]

i've had about enough of this shit

we are supposed to fly out to Cali on Wednesday and I am afraid we'll be stuck.  Our street wasn't plowed at all, one of the neighbors in his 4x4 dragged a railroad tie chained to his bumper down the street.. (good old bubba engineering).  it knocked down the powder quite a bit and made it so cars can carefully get out. 

we may go to a hotel near dulles tomorrow if it looks so-so.  if it looks bad.. well. fugit.

[angler]

I gotta give mad props to Montgomery Co. - they did a great job on my street and the streets around. Neighbors and I were all standing in wonder, because we are usually the last. Not sure if it was just my area or not.

+1

When I woke up on Saturday, there was a front end loader clearing the street behind me.  I ran him down and he said he couldn't do my street because there were trees down.  So we got out and cut all the trees down.  He was gone by the time we were done cutting, but a plow came bright and early on Sunday. 

If the neighbors hadn't pitched in to help me get the wood out, we wouldn't have been plowed and PEPCO wouldn't have been able to get in to get the power back yesterday afternoon.