View Full Version : Everyone get home ok? We need the snow!
jerrymrc
12-30-2010, 21:42
Fun to watch around here. Where I live (right next to Ft Carson) all the new solders from Texas are getting there first taste of Colorado. I have seen some slide right through the stop sign and a couple going 5mph.
Got a couple more inches after the pic was taken and it looks like it is not done. Hope they remembered that thing called antifreeze tonight.
I was going to have to water the lawn this weekend until this. Hope everyone stays safe.;)
hurley842002
12-30-2010, 21:51
Got home ok, but man people were idiots as usual. I nearly got into a low speed collision, as I was making a right turn into a local shopping center. Some Schmuck in an Escalade XXL (or whatever the large ones are), was blasting through on the wrong side of the road (my side) as I was turning in. Apparently when the lines are covered, some folks just can't figure it out. Just a brief reminder, ya can't just be accountable for your own actions, you have to watch out for everyone else as well. Hope everyone is safe out there
We made it home alright. I got honked at for some weird reason. Otherwise, it was okay.
Not much more in Cripple Creek up at 10,000'. Supposed to get to -12-20 tonight.
Byte Stryke
12-30-2010, 22:08
today, of all days, The Battery in the Blazer decided "its Time".
[Rant2]
Driving a 2wd Pickup in this mess isn't that bad.
Driving a 2wd Pickup in this mess surrounded by idiot californians is a fucking nightmare.
Watched a Ford Excursion with Cali plates Zooming down 120th Slide through a Red light Sideways take out 3 cars and a pedestrian.
We stopped long enough to make sure everyone was OK.
I was also kind enough to give my statement to the officer.
Things like "Excessive speed" "Disregard for road conditions."
:D
I saw a Camry Solara with Cali plates driving around with their hazards on. Usually it is only the Mexicans around Federal Heights that do that.
I don't know if it is because I'm old now, but I get really nervous in the snow and always feel like I'm driving on the very edge of control. I left the house at 2:00pm and didn't get home till around 7:00pm and I don't think I got much over 35 mph the whole time.
hurley842002
12-30-2010, 22:12
I was also kind enough to give my statement to the officer.
Things like "Excessive speed" "Disregard for road conditions."
:D
Glad the a$$ hole had you there to "help" him out, nice wording as well.
[Beer]
I didn't go out of the house....[Neene1]
Well, except for dog duty...
Hey at least you guys are used to 5" of snow. Here on the WS everyone sucks at driving. I swear you can drive down the highway here and every 50 ft there is a vehicle in the embankment.
68Charger
12-30-2010, 22:57
Fun to watch around here. Where I live (right next to Ft Carson) all the new solders from Texas are getting there first taste of Colorado. I have seen some slide right through the stop sign and a couple going 5mph.
I think I was stuck behind some of them...[Bang]
the worst was my drivers side wiper failed on hwy 115... pulled over, swapped it with the passenger side- started on my way again, and some
$%#%&* ignoramus with his lights off appears out of nowhere and honks at me! I pull on the shoulder and let him by, wasn't close to any accident, but:
what kind of #%Y&*(*@ dipstick leaves his lights off in a blizzard? I flashed by lights at him repeatedly, but he never got a $#@&* clue... left his lights off- moron! Road wasn't that bad, but visibility was bad... I need to get a PA system.
it's about time winter arrived here- but the roads were not that bad... I had all-seasons on, and had no problems with traction (front-wheel drive). Then again, I learned to drive in those kind of conditions.
I have a post every year explaining how if you are driving in ANY conditions that require you to use your windshield wipers, but don't have your headlights on, you are a fucking retard. Personally, I drive with my lights on at all times anyway. Nothing drives me more crazy than stupid people driving in the snow and/or rain with no headlights on.
trlcavscout
12-30-2010, 23:01
For those that like/want snow but dont have to work out in it, drive a POS van with bald tires, and deal with pirates [Kick3]BITE ME.
Oh yeah, heard on the news today that due to a La nina weather dealy, we've had the least snow we've had in the last 128 years.
trlcavscout
12-30-2010, 23:05
Oh yeah, heard on the news today that due to a La nina weather dealy, we've had the least snow we've had in the last 128 years.
And I was diggin it!
68Charger
12-30-2010, 23:46
For those that like/want snow but dont have to work out in it, drive a POS van with bald tires, and deal with pirates [Kick3]BITE ME.
not sure I'm following you here- I was driving home from work... I drive a POS car with 205k miles on it- but keep decent tires on it...
I have a full set of studded tires for my commuter car, but haven't bothered to put them on, since winter hadn't come yet, and I had lots of tread on my tires...
as long as you had your headlights on, and didn't put others in danger, I'd help ya out if you were stuck- even if it was to give you a ride while you parked your deathtrap! [Beer]
I was ashamed that I didn't replace my wipers already- my vis was pretty bad at times (especially when one fell off, LOL)... but I was never out of control... I like the feeling of being on the edge of traction- that's just the way I learned to drive...[Coffee]
KevDen2005
12-30-2010, 23:52
We made it home alright. I got honked at for some weird reason. Otherwise, it was okay.
That was me Stuart, I always honk at you.
Made it to WORK okay, not happy about working in it, but loving the snow.
COemtbuddy
12-30-2010, 23:53
I wish I was driving in the snow. My clutch blew in my Jeep. Which sucks cause I just put brand spanking new tires on last month. Hopefully it'll I've fixed soon. And to top it all off I got called in to work the ambulance tonight. Let the stupidity begin!
Byte Stryke
12-30-2010, 23:56
Oh yeah, heard on the news today that due to a La nina weather dealy, we've had the least snow we've had in the last 128 years.
40/1 says that the water Co. will use it as an excuse to jack rates yet again
nogaroheli
12-31-2010, 00:06
I saw a Camry Solara with Cali plates driving around with their hazards on. Usually it is only the Mexicans around Federal Heights that do that.
I can't stand it when people drive around with their hazards on at 5mph- like I don't understand that it sucks bad outside! Thankfully because of them I not only know it sucks out but get to deal with annoying lights along the way :(
nathan0259
12-31-2010, 00:19
40/1 says that the water Co. will use it as an excuse to jack rates yet again
FACT!!!! Thats the only thing I've been think with the lack of snow.
it's the global warming
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That was me Stuart, I always honk at you.
Well the dumb air horn you installed on your POS green Land Rover startled me and could have made me lose control.
theGinsue
12-31-2010, 01:34
I left work @ 1300 today to try to get home in front of all of this. I did, but just barely.
I drove my POS Celica commuter with okay tires for normal dry roads and promptly parked it next to my house for the weekend at about 1345. The roads were still almost completely clear.
As I got in the door, my wife wanted to go to Sams Club and Wally World to get some things we "needed". She asked if we were taking the Celica or my F250. I asked if she thought we'd be home within an hour. No. F250 it was.
At 1400 I got the truck cleaned off (starting to accumulate already) and warmed up and off we went to Sams Club first. By 1415 we were @ Woodman and Union (those of you in COS know this area - roller coaster hills) and it was slick as snot - I even felt a touch of sliding as I came to a stop. I heard word later that about this same time there was a 20 car wreck @ Union and Dublin (just 1/4 from where I had been).
Amazingly, I got my wife into the guy "commando shopping" mode @ Sams and we were back in the truck in about 10 minutes. It was COVERED in snow. Now to Wally World.
There were a few cars that felt the safest place for them to be was immediately on my rear bumper (no, they didn't hit me, but that wasn't for a lack of trying - I hate tailgaters). And I had to get up a big hill whilst in a short line of traffic behind the leading cars that didn't seem to realize that you have to have SOME speed and momentum to get up a slick snow covered road or you'll never reach the top. Like the folks nogaroheli dealt with, these folks felt 5mph was a proper speed.
We eventually made it to Wally World, and some guy came and asked if I had jumper cables he could borrow. The wife went in to start the shopping while I tried to help this gent. We never did get that vehicle to start - wouldn't even try to turn over. I joined the wife, finished the shopping and stood in line for 5 minutes with just one shopper ahead of us. The cashier was the most inefficient, slowest moving, blabber mouthed person I've ever suffered though at a WalMart (and that is saying something). I think we spent more time in line and getting checked out than we did shopping (almost 10 minutes). Maybe this is just a new WalMart tactic to get people to want to use the self-checkouts.
We finally made it home with no further delays or adventures and that's where I decided we would all stay for the rest of the night. - Nice and cozy @ home.
Now, I've got to help get some decent tires on my daughters Escape that she bought in November so I can feel safe about her driving to work in this sort of mess.
Yes, I ALWAYS use my lights in bad weather conditions or if I have to use my wipers (carry over from obeying the IL law that requires it).
And this is just a beginning... :)
I have a post every year explaining how if you are driving in ANY conditions that require you to use your windshield wipers, but don't have your headlights on, you are a fucking retard. Personally, I drive with my lights on at all times anyway. Nothing drives me more crazy than stupid people driving in the snow and/or rain with no headlights on.
Automatic headlights...
Bailey Guns
12-31-2010, 07:35
-11 at 0630 on Crow Hill in Bailey. About 5" of global warming since yesterday afternoon.
Jumpstart
12-31-2010, 07:42
Anyone know actual weather/road conditions in Woodland Park as of 6:40 this a.m.? We are in NM and leave tomorrow morn for WP, unless roads are not worthy of travel.
Byte Stryke
12-31-2010, 08:06
Anyone know actual weather/road conditions in Woodland Park as of 6:40 this a.m.? We are in NM and leave tomorrow morn for WP, unless roads are not worthy of travel.
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seriously its supposed to be Icy cold and snowy
Todays High is in the Low 20s
Lows -2
roads are expected to be Shitty but passable
Idiots abound.
I was driving when it started yesterday. I saw 5 accidents in a 20 minute ride and then some fucktard tries to turn into me at a double left turn lane. I was in the left left and she was in the right left, guess she forgot that it is a double turn lane and steered right into my lance, good thing I EXPECT that kind of thing.
I am bunkered in at home, won't come out until Sunday probably.
BPTactical
12-31-2010, 08:31
I hate this white crap!
I haven't even left the house aside to shovel the back for the dogs. Screw the mailman, he can slog through it for another day.
After plowing the highways in the metro area for 18+ years it is nice not to have to do it anymore.
If I had the desire to wear out my keyboard I could relay some of the crazy stuff I have seen over the years of driving a plow.
A couple of favorites:
Watching as the lead truck hits a driveshaft lying next to the Jersey barrier with a plow. Watching as said driveshaft exits the right side of the plow and punch right through a quarter panel of some dumb ass that tried to pass the plows on the right side.
Plowing 36 @ 0300 and coming upon a vehicle doing about 3mph with the interior light on. I go to pull around him and look over and this clown (literally-in clown makeup and garb) has sheet music on the steering wheel and is playing the clarinet. WTF??
Pulling up to the light on the I-76 and Federal off ramp. Black van next to me and there are porn mags all over the interior opened up. About a 48EEE bra stretched out over the steering wheel and the driver is about 350#+ and "pleasuring" himself. EEWWW!!
Deriving a sick and twisted pleasure from watching the Tejano F150's with their wide tires and wheels not be able to move an inch in 1/2" of snow.
Caving in the windsheid of a Westminster PD car with the officer in it. He was in a little turnout that used to be at about 100th and Wadsworth. This turnout had evergreen trees around it and you could not see the cruiser. I am cruising about 35MPH clearing the shoulder and it is wet, sloppy and heavy slush. By the time I saw him it was too late and I could not lift the plow quick enough. Blasted him and it put the windshield in his lap. I stopped and while it scared the crap out of him he was OK. We did all the paperwork and he actually laughed about it and said he would never camp out there during a storm again.
Getting pulled over by a rookie Broomfield officer for "driving too fast for conditions". I was doing about 25MPH on 120th east of Sheridan about 0400 plowing away and minding my own business. Red and Blues come on behind me so I pull aside to let him pass. I was quite surprised to see him pull in behind me and really surprised when he comes up and asks me for my DL. I asked him why he pulled me over and he told me I was driving too fast for the conditions. I started laughing aloud and he got pissed and told me he was going to write me for it. I told him to call his Supervisor which he did. Sarge pulls up and he is not happy with the officer. Sarge comes up to me and asks what is up and I told him what the story was. Sarge asks me how long I have been with CDOT. Eleven years I told him and he gets a sly smile on his face. It was real clear the Sarge did not think much of the rookie and told him to come up and write me. Rookie complies and before his pen hits paper the Sarge tells him how this would end up: I get the ticket, I go to court, Rookie goes to court, I tell the Judge that I have plowed for 11 years and I am very well qualified to evaluate road conditions, Judge agrees and case is dropped. Sarge proceeds to tell the rookie that unless a plow runs over a pack of nuns or school kids to leave us alone and how CDOT has a good relationship with PD and he doesn't want an eager beaver ruining that.
The sick, demented pleasure of watching patrons of RTD run in terror from a bus stop when they see a plow clearing the right lane throwing a 50' rooster tail coming straight at them.
The same sick and demented pleasure watching the relief on their face when you lift the plow 10' before the bus stop.
You guys gripe about spending an hour in traffic to get home in this crap. Yeah, it is aggravating.
Now think about the guys in the plows. We spend 12 hours at a minimum in it, trying to make it safe for yall to get home. You get home from a 12- 16 hour snowshift and you are totally wiped out. You spend the entire time in the truck, worrying about a 14' plow, 20,000 pounds of de-icer, 38,000 pounds of truck, your other trucks plowing with you, trying to remember every curb bullnose and bridge expansion joint or anything else that would tear up a plow, monitoring a two way, 10,000 idiots around you that can't drive, 10,000 other idiots in 4x4's that think they can drive and realizing that Omaha orange trucks have an affinity for attracting every sliding and slipping vehicle to it like a tractor beam.
Give em a little space and don't try to pass them on the right!
Byte Stryke
12-31-2010, 08:48
Days like today, God Bless and watch over the plow drivers.
Short handed, Underpaid, overworked and Underappreciated.
Thank you CDOT. Thanks Bert for the reminder that there is alot more to plowing than just sticking a blade on the pavement and flooring the gas pedal.
I saw people driving on the right side of 2 plows on Wadsworth yesterday, they got a windshield full too. I stay back from plows and moreso when they are dropping gravel.
Scanker19
12-31-2010, 09:07
I went to the commissary yesterday, forgetting that it's payday, so after I stitched up my knife wounds, I also got to play Texas Dumb Ones with the 3mph shuffle on the way home. Also saw some genius in a silver car with no head lights on. Damn near invisible.[Bang]
palepainter
12-31-2010, 09:23
Out here in unincorporated Boulder County, we are lucky to see plows. Considering our annual registration was raised, (according to Bill Ritter) to cover cost of maintainance, I am feeling a bit ripped off. We rarely see a plow.
Out here in unincorporated Boulder County, we are lucky to see plows. Considering our annual registration was raised, (according to Bill Ritter) to cover cost of maintainance, I am feeling a bit ripped off. We rarely see a plow.
Claim that you have 2,000 illegals living there, Ritter will plow it himself.[ROFL1]
StagLefty
12-31-2010, 10:04
One of the few days I'm glad I'm unemployed. You guys stay safe on the roads today too,still looks slick out there. Please abide by the new rules and include Stuart in your posts [ROFL1]
Beprepared
12-31-2010, 10:36
Been home for 2 days. 3" on the ground -10F sitting in a patch of sunshine, grey on the horizon. Plow just did my street (thank you and God Bless Teller County), hot tub is ready for the New Year!
Happy New Year!
[Beer]
Beprepared
12-31-2010, 10:41
Anyone know actual weather/road conditions in Woodland Park as of 6:40 this a.m.? We are in NM and leave tomorrow morn for WP, unless roads are not worthy of travel.
Below zero warming to single digits today. Calm now but expected to be windy. 60% chance to get another couple inches today. Plows are active, should be better up here than just about anywhere else. Safe travels!
gnihcraes
12-31-2010, 10:52
I'm one with my flashers on! (briefly) I was out at lunch yesterday driving around downtown, roads were nothing but ICE, people kept sliding through intersections and hitting the cross traffic. I put on the blinkers a couple times to warn the a-holes coming up behind me that it was slick! Stupid people. I didn't want to be hit and pushed into the cross traffic.
patrick0685
12-31-2010, 11:10
Automatic headlights...
+1 and daytime running lights help, be safe out there
Hitman 6
12-31-2010, 11:24
Days like today, God Bless and watch over the plow drivers.
Short handed, Underpaid, overworked and Underappreciated.
Amen to that.
OneGuy67
12-31-2010, 12:46
Jerry,
I saw all your Texas idiots yesterday on I-25 as I drove from Pueblo to Denver. Way too many of them on the shoulder and in the median, stuck or whatever. What really steamed me was the numerous idiots in the left lane with their flashers on driving very slowly, who would not get over into the clear and empty right lane and made all the traffic go around them on the right. All that money spent on signage stating "Slower traffic keep right" and "Stay right except to pass" being ignored.
patrick0685
12-31-2010, 12:53
gatta go to work today in this crap, everyone have a safe New Years Eve.
Idiots abound.
I was driving when it started yesterday. I saw 5 accidents in a 20 minute ride and then some fucktard tries to turn into me at a double left turn lane. I was in the left left and she was in the right left, guess she forgot that it is a double turn lane and steered right into my lance, good thing I EXPECT that kind of thing.
I am bunkered in at home, won't come out until Sunday probably.
hell that happens to me all year.
jerrymrc
12-31-2010, 13:44
Went out for a short trip just as the sun was coming out. Roads are solid sheets of ice around my area. Had to pull around a couple of people because they tried to go 5mph up a 10 degree hill and got stuck. I have good studded snows on the Grand Prix so it was not a problem.
Shoveled the driveway and sidewalk. Going to be a fun one tonight.
funkfool
12-31-2010, 13:49
Not much more in Cripple Creek up at 10,000'. Supposed to get to -12-20 tonight.
The wife and I were going to go to the cabin by cripple creek (past gilette flats @ 10100 ft) but decided to stay home and warm....
The cabin would have been freezing - we went up last NYE and froze the first night till we got the stove cranking hot.
Where you near, Wolfeie?
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