The Great, White Winter of 2017

[GDS_Starfury]

Be safe Grogs in all of your Winter Wonderlands wherever you are. And while you're drinking scotch and looking at your watches, here's something to look at. Wings of Freedom fly-in at my local airport yesterday. Please just ignore the blue skies and sunshine if it's too painful for you.  :hide:

those were across the street from me last week. 
always a fun time to hear and watch them fly over ones home.

[Toonces]

I can't remember where it was, probably Norfolk, and I heard a B-17 fly over.  Friggin' awesome, man.  And the thing was, I could hear it coming a while a way and I immediately realized it was something special worth looking for.  It was impressive to see live.

I'll bet that was a treat seeing/hearing those planes fly in.

[Staggerwing]

It's hard to tell but I don't think we got more than 6-8 or so.  I haven't been outside to look.  It's pretty drifty from the wind.

At least a foot average here.

Luckily my neighbor was out with his snowblower and came over to do the street side half of the driveway, including the Great Wall left by the city plows. All I'll have to do is clean off the walkways and around the cars. At the top of my grocery list will be a nice gift card.  :)

[Toonces]

I parked my Impreza in the driveway nose first, like a rookie.  I'm way too lazy to shovel the driveway before work, so we'll see how the bad boy works going backwards into a foot of snow. 

As long as I don't do the whole banana in the tailpipe thing, but with snow, I think I'll be alright.  The Subie's AWD has been pretty Imprezave so far.

:o

Oh yes I did!

8)

[Barthheart]

Just remember 4-wheel drive is great until none of the wheels is touching the ground..... ;)

[Toonces]

My wife just said I wouldn't be able to get the Subie out without shoveling the driveway, and then had me open the driveway doors, to prove it to me.

...like a dare.

I said, "don't worry about it, yo, unless you're getting up at 6 to shovel.  Otherwise, I can power through that shit."

As she left in disgust, I chuckled at my own security that Subaru>snow.  They can enjoy that shoveling shit while I'm busy taking care of business.

[Gusington]

^Careful Commander. I have been in some tricky situations in my Subarus. They're great, but not perfect.

[W8taminute]

The key to driving on the snow is never make any sudden movements or abrupt changes in your velocity.  Ice on the other hand is a whole other story. 

[Sir Slash]

I drove on ice once. No, wait. I drove with a drink on-ice once. That was it. Then I ended-up on-the-rocks. You had to be there.

[W8taminute]

^I was there Sir Slash, I was there.  Remember never drink and drive.  You might hit a bump and spill your drink.

[Toonces]

Hot damn, but Subaru makes a good car.  My Impreza took one look at that driveway and said, "Bring it, baby!" 

Hell yeah.   

[mirth]

Light snow tomorrow and then another major storm forecast for Monday.

[Gusington]

We got about 16" total, the roads around here are shit. Usually further up north by me they handle winter well but not this time.

[mirth]

City streets were still a mess this morning. Portland does an awful job clearing the roads.

[bayonetbrant]

Just about over here but we got close to 2 feet!

How can you measure that high?  Did you use a stool?