Take ours.

Thanks for posting the pics guys, always enjoy snow pics.

I'd be happy to post the snow too.

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My parents said that in northern VA, they're supposed to get 10 to 18 inches tomorrow

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Manassas, where I live (northern VA) had 25.1 inches of snow. The really sad part is.... I got to work faster today then I ever have before, apparently all the really bad Virginia drivers decided to stay home today

A picture of what we got...

me digging my car out...

Manassas, where I live (northern VA) had 25.1 inches of snow.

Found this article today explaining how they measure the actual snowfall. Years of wondering were put to rest today, maybe now I can sleep at night.

We got, I'd say, two to four inches of sleet. It was bad on the unscraped roads until at least 10 this morning when I drove to work. I nearly fell down five or six times scraping the ice off of my car. In the four hours since then, it has basically all melted off of the pavement. Amazing. You can see vapor floating just above the roads, like some short fog.

re: lopan's picture

mmmmmmmm - that looks like the PERFECT ammount of snow. I WISH we could get that down here so all these damn ski areas could open up!

Damn straight

heh!
I spend 5 long years in NJ before moving to Texas. It snowed here last week but was 75 degrees the following day, suits me fine

I'm movin to TX...

I'm movin to TX...

Just be careful on the occasional snow day if you do. People here can't drive in snow to save their lives.

What do you mean snow, they all forget how to drive when it rains as well. Anything involving something other than a sunny sky and its accidents galore.

People in South Carolina freak out at the mention of snow.... Its incredible. We've had two "snow days" this school year. One day was about a month ago and all the snow was melted off the road by 10:30. The second day was Monday when alll it did was rain and get very cold. Ice was on cars but not the ground.
Thanks to general incompetence, my wife (an elementary school music teacher) has to go to school on a Saturday to make of for the tons of snow we've recieved!
Here if the forecast predicts snow all the grocery stores sell out of bread and milk and at the first flake of snow they all close down but Wal-Mart. I don't know about you but my favorite thing to do when its snowing is to set in the front yard eating bread and milk and pretending to be in the Gulag.

I never have understood the bread and milk thing. We have that in NC, too. It just seems stupid to me to buy the two items that arguably spoil the quickest when you're worried baout not being able to get out of the house. Why not buy bottled water, canned foods and a church key?

I actually found this rain thing to be a huge problem in San Antonio when I moved here from Houston. It hardly ever rains here, and when it does it makes up for lost time. People have no idea how to deal with this. Half of them drive dangerously fast and the other half go so dangerously slow (i.e. you almost run over them).

Hrm. No global env. class for me today because somehow my professor got stuck in a snow storm.. Shouldn't have left sunny miami... Guess the snow worked out for me... too bad for just about everyone else on the east cost ;/

-Greg

has to go to school on a Saturday to make of for the tons of snow we've recieved!

They have always built snow days into the schedules here, so if the time dosen't get used up, typicially the spring time gets littered with tons of half days. It tended to happen quite a bit when I was in school since it seemed they never shut down for snow. I still remember the junior high school day where me and my friends were the only ones on the school bus. Actually toughing it out and staying at the stop resulted in a nice and easy day at school with practicially noone, instead if being stuck at home forced to shovel snow

here is a pic of my car (WRX) and my girlfriend digging me out. Ain't she sweet?

While you kindly take pictures from the second story window. Keeping the bed warm for her?

Keeping the bed warm for her?

How'd you guess?

Rob, you're crazy.

OK, so you found me out... I bought a sh*tbox. I just bought this thing so the Viggen would be off the road in bad weather and to keep its miles down.

I am back in New York now, and the Trooper is still in one piece and in excellent mechanical condition for a car that now has 186,000 miles on it. Anyway, although the A/C in the car works, the heat doesn't. I had to drive it all the way up while freezing my ass off. I still think it's a good deal. I brought the truck to an Isuzu dealer in NC to diagnose. They say it needs the heater core replaced. I guess I will be looking around junk yards for one....

The plane ticket was expensive because of the weekend I chose to go down ($300). After I picked up the car, I drove 5 hours to my Grandfather's place near Tampa and stayed over one night. I left the next day after we made sure the car was road worthy. Unfortunately, when it's 70 degrees out, you don't think to check the heater.

I stopped in Lumberton, NC on my way up after it started freezing rain. That hotel with my AAA discount was $54. I decided to stay an extra night due to the weather up north. So, all totaled not counting gas, tolls, and food I spent about $400 to pick this thing up +$69 at the Isuzu service.

I am debating puting an empeg sled into this thing because that would involve purchasing an amp. The car did not come with a stereo, so I went to Wal Mart and bought one of $28. It has an Aux input for my iPod, so that solution is working well right now.

You can see a few pics I took of the car here.

actually my brother might do the same thing but he isn't sure yet because the car is in miami and that is a LONG drive back to illinois. Gas, food, hotel, all adds up and he isn;t sure it would be that hot of a deal after all that.

You are right, but Florida cars are worth it. If you look at most Troopers of that vintage in NY, a lot of them are rust buckets. My Trooper's frame is in almost factory-fresh condition and the paint (looks like the original paint) is in great shape as well.

The drive is not that bad. This was my second time doing it. To go from FL to NY is 2 days of driving (for me). I could do it in one day, but that seems nuts to me. I would say go for it. If there was another car I was interested down there, I would do it again.

Troopers are great.
I had an '86 awhile back during my college years. Put 160000 miles on it with no major repairs. Most costly item was the clutch, and technically thats a wear item.
I got into a passenger side rear quarter panel accident with it once too, way out on Long Island. Drove it all the way back to Cape Cod with a broken axle. Handled it no problem.
My friends and I drove the snot out of it. From VT to NYC down to Georgia a couple of times, out west. Also used to take it out on the beach here on the Cape.
Youre right about the paint. On my trooper, even though it was a new england car, the paint always looked perfect. Best paint job on any automobile I've ever owned.

Anyway, thats enough of that...

Z~

I was up in College Park, MD (DC area) and we got close to 2 feet of snow this weekend. I was forced to miss two days of work to be snowed in with my girlfriend while waiting for BWI to reopen. bummer!

mental note to self: next time you get snowed in with girlfriend, make sure you aren't at her parent's house.

not a bit.. I'm kinda anoyed at the lack of snow this year, I want to take my snowboard out, and the snow in MN just sucks.. then again, I'm a crazy person who likes winter

Wow. Philly gets an 18" snow storm and a guy in Minneapolis is kvetching about a lack of snow.

That's it, I'm moving to Phoenix.

I am back in New York now, and the Trooper is still in one piece and in excellent mechanical condition for a car that now has 186,000 miles on it.

OK, so who, on reading the above, thought to themselves "Hm, 1 light second"?

Me.

I don't get it.