East coast snow and my car. Enjoy!
#1
East coast snow and my car. Enjoy!
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!
#2
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!
#6
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.
#7
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!
#9
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!
#10
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!
Send it to Vancouver.
#11
in for more....
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!!
good save on the olds, maybe your homeowners will get you a new car port come spring!!
#12
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.
#13
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.
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!!
good save on the olds, maybe your homeowners will get you a new car port come spring!!
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.
#15
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
#17
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!
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#20
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:
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:
#23
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!
#24
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.
Now that's a funny Ebay ad!
#26
#27
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!
#28
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.
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.
#30
Joe - nice looking picture, but bet it was tough to shovel. Where's your tractor?
#32
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.
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