Winter in Canada
Winter in Canada
10-12-2008, 09:38 PM
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and its still snowing. I thought it was bad right now. I can't wait to see it all tomorrow morning. Its over 6 inches now. Thank god I just got my winter beater yesterday.
10-12-2008, 10:01 PM
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thats crazy, im hoping i wont see a scene like that in my driveway for a few months...fingers crossed...
Greg
Edit: by the way schimmle, whats the deal with the last part of your sig?
Greg
Edit: by the way schimmle, whats the deal with the last part of your sig?
10-13-2008, 12:36 AM
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See you guys are mistaking the wonderful beautiful weather where its sunny out and big beautiful flakes fall down like tears from an angel. Not the driving snow where you can barely see 20 feet infront of you. Its -40 and the windchill makes it even colder. Bare skin will freeze in 10 seconds. It takes 20 minutes to warm up your car so you can drive it for 5 minutes to get to work. Walking it would be suicide. Everyone forgets how to winter drive for the first few weeks. Not slowing down but slamming on the breaks and sliding into the person infront of you. Getting stuck every 15 feet because the snow is too deep even on the main drive ways. Its not uncommon to see 5 different cars stop to help push yet another person out of the snow. You master the driving technique of having a 6 inch clear circle on your windshield that you can see out of. You're hunched over and squinting. Forgetting to plug in your car the night before. Or if you did plug it in for the block heater to work you forget to undo it and drive away ripping the cord from your house or your car and dragging it down the street. Putting over 100lbs of sand or salt into the trunk of your car or truck to get traction. Cars no longer come in different colors. Every single one is a natural two tone of brown and white. Chucks of snow falling out of your wheel well and driving over it like a man made speed bump. You have to toe truck on speed dial. You know the value of winter tires and booster cables. The average speed is half of what it normally is. except for all the people in SUV's who think that just because they have 4x4's think they can stop on ice better than everyone else. It takes the city 2 months to clean the streets. Which of course never really happens with all the snow falls in between. Or the wonderful fact that the streets are actaully smoother as long as you drive in the grooves from the car infront of you because the hard packed snow has filled in the pot holes. People will leave their cars open and running at all hours of the day knowing no one will steal them. Its too cold out to run out and get in, and you can't drive fast enough to get away from a pissed off guy running.
Yeah...spend a winter up here sometime and realize how wonderfully great it really is!
Yeah...spend a winter up here sometime and realize how wonderfully great it really is!
10-13-2008, 12:42 AM
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and yes I have storage for my baby. Its going underground in abuot 2 weeks. Just got my winter car yesterday and have to get the whole thing winterized. And I can't get a free day off to drive out to my fathers place so I can put her up on stands for the winter. I work close enough to work and it should be warm enough out that I should have to worry about driving that much until I can put her away.
I'm so gonna get up in the morning to take more pictures. I went out after and had another look. Its covered again. Its still snowing I think. So unless it heats up by the time I get up and starts to melt again there should be even more snow.
10-13-2008, 12:44 AM
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^you seem kind of bitter, lmao
That looks pretty bad though, my 8 is definitely going to spend the winter in the garage
You are totally right about the pain the a#$ of warming it up to drive 5 min.
That looks pretty bad though, my 8 is definitely going to spend the winter in the garage
You are totally right about the pain the a#$ of warming it up to drive 5 min.
10-13-2008, 01:29 AM
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There we go. Saw a bunch of people making a giant snow ball. Got one of the girls to pose for me infront of the car.. And then we went all diving into the snow covered bushes. I'm soaking wet now. Now thats part of what makes winter fun. That and then leaving the giant snow ball infront of the driveway to the parking lot. Just have to dry off my shoes and cloths. As you can see the snow kept falling from the last picture. The car is once again covered.
10-13-2008, 06:44 PM
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out here in Ontario was beautiful and sunny today +20 degrees Celcius...
10-13-2008, 10:16 PM
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Are you serious?! Ha I'm in Boone just about every weekend during the Christmas break. I'm usually at Sugar, Beech, or Hawksnest. We well have to meet up sometime and shred... Thats pretty cool...
10-13-2008, 11:25 PM
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if you have a winter beater than why dont you have the car stored away for the winter? I live in wisconsin and I know first hand that snow, salt and everything else that comes with snow and cold weather beats the living **** out of cars season after season.....that car belongs stored away in a garage under a car cover for the coming months....just my 2 cents
10-13-2008, 11:41 PM
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i hope it doesn't snow for another 3 weeks here in IA. Thats when i go pick up my beater. Last winter wasn't very fun with my eight. horrible horrible snow.
10-14-2008, 12:24 AM
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if you have a winter beater than why dont you have the car stored away for the winter? I live in wisconsin and I know first hand that snow, salt and everything else that comes with snow and cold weather beats the living **** out of cars season after season.....that car belongs stored away in a garage under a car cover for the coming months....just my 2 cents
Well it was kind of a surprize. I'm only gonna have her out for another week or so. I just got my other car on Saturday. Picking it up Wednesday and then I need time to get my baby out to my fathers place to put in the garage. I drove it last winter...not gonna happen again. Good thing is that they don't use salt here. You can tell when car comes from another province or the states. The metal all under is rusted to hell. Here its great. Only in the prairie provinces can we be so lucky. No rain like BC and no salt like Ontario.
