Bad Weather!

So much for getting out in the snow with my Jeep.

Going through the worst of it right now. It's bad!

Stay safe!

Hey. We got snow coming in thursday!!

Crusader wrote:So much for getting out in the snow with my Jeep.

You'll get plenty of chances.

Take my word for it...as an old-time four-wheeler. The four-wheel-drive doesn't make driving on slop, at all fun.

It's just as dangerous; just that it gives you an additional element of control. Takes more to lose it, but lose it, you can, and will.

Back 28 years ago, when I came out of the Navy, settled in Denver, and needed a job...my weekend job was driving a shuttle-bus between DIA and Vail and sometimes Aspen - a company called Vans2Vail. It was later bought by a competitor, Colorado Mountain Express.

But, the joke among us shuttle-drivers...both companys...was, that the rental-car companies should put THIS SIDE UP on all their rented SUVs. Because flatlanders would rent them, rush out on I-70, and around the Eisenhower Tunnel, park them on their roofs.

Just in October, I got a little reminder...that hellish trip back home from Moab with a trailer. Ran into an early-season snowstorm, and of course nobody had plow equipment ready. I got through the worst of it, and then, near Butte, I'm going over a bridge...IN 4WD...and the whole mess starts to jackknife.

What saved me was there was relatively-dry pavement on the far side of the bridge. I snapped right out of it, and learned that trailer is extraordinarily well-balanced. But...if I'd been Jabbed, I'd have had my heart attack, right there.

No...the best place to be in that kind of weather, is indoors. Some way...hotel, restaurant (with a liquor license) or at home (adult beverages and a fireplace, help). Not on the road. Not even if you have a flippin' SNOWMOBILE.

I'm glad that's over.
I turned the recliner upside down and put the head part on the couch and crawled under there for a while.

I could here a tornado through the already high wind and heavy rain.

I still have power but I hear generators running all down the highway to the north.
I saw some emergency vehicles headed that way.

Bad Weather used to never bother me.
But now , I'm too old to die.

Gunna take a walk outside to see how high the water is. Got 3 inches quick.

you take care Hawk,

Everything is flooded. I can't see too many limbs down in the dark. I guess it's a good think there aren't any leaves on the trees.

I walked to the highway and the folks that live on the river(lake) are out to the north. But the other 2 lines are still energized.

My garbage bin was in the next door neighbors yard.
I think everything is ok.
I'll get up early to check things out.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Going through the worst of it right now. It's bad!

Hope you make it through without any damage to person and property

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Everything is flooded. I can't see too many limbs down in the dark. I guess it's a good think there aren't any leaves on the trees.

I walked to the highway and the folks that live on the river(lake) are out to the north. But the other 2 lines are still energized.

My garbage bin was in the next door neighbors yard.
I think everything is ok.
I'll get up early to check things out.

""My garbage bin was in the next door neighbors yard. ""

That'll save you from emptying it lol