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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2005, 06:38:14 pm »
wow, tahts a hell of a lot of snow :) It was 80 degrees here today and 90 yesterday.

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2005, 06:53:14 pm »
All the traffic and stuff was slow as crap today, but at least it's moving.  Yesterday, busses weren't running, and there were cars stuck everywhere.  And we're a city where we're used to snow :)

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2005, 09:15:26 pm »
Woo, I got to drive today for the first time since snow.  Driving is fun :)

The plows (ploughs? whatever) do the main streets, but they leave a pile of snow at the edge, so turning onto big streets is fun.  Unless you drive a 4-wheel drive vehicle, you have to take a run at it to get over, but it's also slippery, so you have to regain control.  It's fun++, but so dangerous :)

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2005, 10:42:06 pm »
lol! I wanna try!!!

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #34 on: November 18, 2005, 12:27:25 pm »
Driving with a stick when it's slippery outside is hella crazy.  While I am driving, and I go from neutral to first gear, I skid or a squeel like crazy!  That's the only bad part of snow, and rain.  I think I just need an automatic, while I was learning how to drive, I drove an automatic, and while in the snow it was a lot easier to manuver... But it was also four wheel drive, whereas my car isn't.. *sigh*  But like you said ron:
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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #35 on: November 18, 2005, 03:11:05 pm »
4wd makes driving on ice/snow so easy that it's not fun. 

I forgot to mention the worst thing: getting stuck.  I HATE getting stuck in the snow/ice, it's so embarassing and hard to get out :(

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #36 on: November 19, 2005, 04:51:06 am »
It has snowed here. :-)
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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #37 on: November 19, 2005, 12:14:39 pm »
Well, I went for a bike ride last night.  It wasn't too bad when I was on the streets, but then I tried taking a pedistrian path and got owned.  I ended up walking it, because I would just sink.  But on the street, even icy areas, I was ok.  I don't think I'd be comfortable riding in heavy traffic, though :-/

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #38 on: November 19, 2005, 02:58:13 pm »
lol, get wheels made for snow then you can pwn it up in the snow

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #39 on: November 19, 2005, 03:21:58 pm »
The secret is to keep your tires at a low PSI.  Then they have more surface area = more traction. 

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #40 on: November 20, 2005, 12:09:51 pm »
We had snow last Wednesdayish, it melted, we have more snow tomorrow. :\
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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #41 on: November 20, 2005, 12:25:10 pm »
It only snows once maybe twice in January through mid February.  If it does snow we only get an inch or two. :(

Last year it didn't snow at all. :(

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #42 on: November 20, 2005, 04:27:09 pm »
Yeah, I think the snow will own my car.

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Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
« Reply #43 on: November 20, 2005, 05:22:57 pm »
Oddly enough it hasn't snowed here yet this year. In the past years that I've lived here we have gotten atleast snowflakes or a considerable snow by now. However, the temperature has been consistantly below freezing at night for the past couple of weeks now so if a storm ever does move in we will likely get a fair amount of snow.
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