silverriff

After finally getting all the carburetor problems on my 1972 Cutlass fixed on Friday, this is what I woke up to on Saturday. Give or take 30" with drifts over 4'. And for those of you who may cringe seeing the car under this much snow, the last pictures are of my carport that I usually have it parked under. But the night before I thought I shouldn't push my luck, so I moved it out onto the driveway. Lucky thing!

FATRATMATT

Very lucky indeed, I rather shovel snow off my car then a carport!

alsip455

and that snow is heavy to feel bad for ya man

Lady72nRob71

Glad you moved the car out - smart thinking. Thats a LOT of snow!
Best of luck during the carport rebuild!

w-30dreamin

Now there's some snow,good thing you were able to see ahead and get the car out of the carport.
Good save!

OLD SKL 69

That was great thinking on your part to take it out of there last night. The storm just missed us up here in NY. All we got was a dusting. If the storm was 10 miles further north, we would have had at least a foot or more. Hope you can fix your carport.

silverriff

Yeah great....It is starting all over again! I am finally almost done digging out the car, and it has started snowing again. Its ok thought....this time we should expect only 24" not the 34" we got last weekend! Hooray!

Lady72nRob71

Snow cones for everyone!

silverriff

Yeah I wish there was something to do with all of this damn snow. There are 7, 8, 9 foot mountains everywhere. It is starting to look like " The Day After Tomorrow" or some other movie about the end of the world as we know it. The city of Baltimore is resorting to dumping all of the snow into the Chesapeake Bay because there is simple no place else to put it. Damn I wish I had a garage. Nothing but time on my hands and no where to work on my car!

442much

Send it to Vancouver.

Eddie Hansen

well we only got about 8-9 inches in middlesex, nj last weekend, but we are expecting some heavier stuff tonight and tommorrow, luckily my car is in the garage and the newer cars are outside fending for themselves LOL... but it is too dang cold to be in the garage without heat!! lawdy your lug nutz could get frost bit!!

good save on the olds, maybe your homeowners will get you a new car port come spring!!

silverriff

Yeah I am going to be calling my insurance today. Fingers crossed! First step is to get rid of the old one, if it ever stop snowing that is. It is made out of solid aluminum, so should get at least a couple hundred bucks at the recycling center. I will put it towards something nice on the car.

marcar1993

Good move. Very lucky you did that or that could have been MUCH worse.

I'm right around the corner in Metuchen. Didn't get much snow last week, but today we're getting hit reasonably hard. Projected 18" when done... Thankfully not too bad but plenty enough to make a mess.
All the antique cars are in garages... The olds sits under a cover, and the rest are just in the driveway (9 cars cumulative between me, my parents and my aunt).
My problem is all the cars in garages don't need work. The olds does, and the dailys always need something when I can't move one of the other cars to get it into the garage. Murphy's law.

OLD SKL 69

Us too. We're supposed to get 16-20" +. Can hardly wait.

67Olds442X2

Southern Maryland got and is still getting hammered with snow also, not as bad as Baltimore though. Luckily the older cars are in the garage but of course all the newer ones are outside including a new Camaro that hasn't been broken in yet

easytobedead

well if its going to snow,let it snow!

Aron Nance

Weather forecasters are saying we might get 1 inch tonight/tomorrow AM, but probably won't be cold enough to stick to the streets. Main thing is, if it snows/sleets/or/ices in Dallas, you best stay home. No one seems to know how to drive on any of them. I'm born/native Dallasite, but spent 7 years in Columbus, OH, and surely learned how to go about it there. Hope all that stuff melts soon, and y'all can get the Oldsmobile's out!

cutlassgal

It's been coming down all day, here.....on top of what we got last Friday. I've had enough already!

citcapp

I thought your super smart groundhog said no more winter. Whatsa matter with him maybe he should be fired.

joe_padavano

We're in Northern VA, about 50 miles west of DC. We had exactly 24" from this weekend's storm and got at least another foot from this storm (it's still snowing). We live on a farm with a quarter mile dirt road (uphill) to the state road, which is also about a quarter mile of gravel to the first paved road. In the best Murphy-was-an-optimist tradition, after fighting for over a month to get my recently acquired 62 wagon shipped from Nevada, I get a call this morning that the want to deliver it tomorrow morning!

My response was, "Good luck with that". Now I have to have it delivered to a storage lot and pay storage fees until I can get to my trailer - which is unlikely to happen in the next week or two. There is no way I'm going to drive this car on the salted roads.

Here's the view up our drive after the FIRST storm:

ent72olds

Wow Joe, your arms must be tired....

joe_padavano

Badda BING!!!

Just wait, LI is about to get slammed by this storm.

mike's88

Make some money off of it like this guy http://cgi.ebay.com/One-shovel-full-...item335a075045 Glad the car made it, so much for the carport.

67 Cutlass

Now that's a funny Ebay ad!

OLD SKL 69

Sorry to hear that Joe. Hopefully you can get your new ride soon.

Lady72nRob71

What's even funnier is that it has 2 bids now!

At the end of the day, I might have to sell some, as we got 2" in less than 2 hours!

Aron Nance

It started snowing about 3 AM (according to the weatherfolks), and looks to be about 3 inches in the backyard, kinda' pretty. Still coming down, and supposed to get UP TO 7 inches (doubt it). Streets OK it seems. Tomorrow will be horrible, w/the melt today, and freezing tonight (26), GREAT day to stay home by the fireplace. Joe, cannot wait to see new pictures of the little longtop when you get it to the house!

citcapp

Aron,

I hope there are no ice storms comming in the next couplee of days. I am flying into DFW on Sunday and driving to Waxahachie to do some work on a plant Monday and Tuesday then back home to Seattle on Wednesday. Got caught in one of those ice storms in 05 it was terrible.

jeffreyalman

I feel really bad for my northern neighbors, I was complaining cause it's 51 and sunny at 11am

Lady72nRob71

It is supposed to be a mess Friday night and morning but Sunday looks good. With all the snow thats falling, you might see some left in the shady areas.


Joe - nice looking picture, but bet it was tough to shovel. Where's your tractor?

cutlassgal

.....I feel really bad for my northern neighbors, I was complaining cause it's 51 and sunny at 11am


Oh dear..... I am sooooo sorry!!!!

joe_padavano

Yeah, that was after the first pass with the tractor. Widened it a little on the second pass.



Now compare that picture, which was from last Sunday, after the first storm, with this one from today after the second storm.



Note that the piles of snow from the first storm are now hardened blocks of ice. We'll need to slowly clear this with the front end loader, one bucketful at a time. I don't think we're going anywhere for a while. Of course, talking to neighbors, the public road at the top of that hill isn't plowed yet, either.