this is not your normal 'light weight' winter snow either. This stuff is thick and heavy. When you drive on the side streets, you have to stay in the ruts that are already there or else you get off the track and sink into about a foot of sludge/ice. When that happens, your tires just start spinning and paddling, and it's impossible to make any forward progress!!
I made a beer run for a friend earlier who couldn't get out of his neighborhood, and it was a real adventure getting into his street. Got stuck once when the tires decided they didn't want to follow the tracks that were already there <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> It wasn't a big deal, just had to back up, shovel down to the street for some traction, then took off again. He's gonna owe me big for that trip!
Then when I got back to my house, my next door neighbor got his F350 crewcab stuck in the cul-de-sac behind us (he was trying to break a trail over there for a neighbor). So, I got to yank him out with the Amigo (sorry, no pics). The snatch strap and a little momentum worked wonders.
Was at my mom's earlier - the angle is not the best, but you can tell that we got a fair amount of snow:
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Right outside our back door, we have a gas grill. Here's what it looks like now:
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Here's our dog walking back from the yard. That pile of snow on the right is the portable fireplace. It's normally about 12 inches high...
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My son and his friend shoveling snow at 11:00 this morning. Hard to tell, but the friend on the left is 6 foot tall. They are actually shoveling 'the slot', which is the amigo-wide strip I use to get out on the street. The snowplow came by during the night, so there was a bunch of heavy, wet sludge pinning us in!
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That's all the pics that I have for now!
