Cascade Crew

Alphius · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject: Snow!

First snow of the season at my place! I know some of you already got snow, but I haven't, and I always get terribly excited when the snow falls...

First it started accumulating. The red Camaro is taking up my carport right now so the Z has to sit outside for a bit. Sad

Then I went and had some fun in my Subaru. I cruised around the hilly areas and pulled people out of ditches for a couple hours. Razz

People really don't know how to drive in the snow around here.

A couple hours, we had 2-3 inches and it stopped snowing. Sad

It's supposed to snow more for the next few days, so here's hoping for that. Razz

iansane · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:14 pm Post subject:

Nothing stuck here. Sad

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:46 am Post subject:

lmao @ yuppies getting pulled out by a Subaru. LMAO

The rain started turning to snow around lunchtime and by dark we had an inch of accumulation and it was coming down fast. Stopped after a few hours and froze up hard.

Most of the county people can sorta drive so no one was in the ditch but I did get the diesel rig sideways quite a lot. Very Happy

Alphius · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:17 am Post subject:

IROCDave · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:40 am Post subject:

Snohomish / Millcreek had a couple of inches by 6PM last night and it's been snowing all morning today. Couldnt help it, took the convertible out for a spin then the Tahoe. I think the convertible did better than the Tahoe when the Tahoe was in 2wd. Tahoe doesnt have a posi. Even in 4wd the back end doesnt track with the front, almost looped it a bunch of times.

chevymad · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:15 am Post subject:

We've got 3-4" and its still coming. I have this insane urge to pull the black car out of the barn and try out the locker.. hello ditch. Laughing

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:23 am Post subject:

I have a dusting this morning, maybe 1/2" accumulation with nothing on the street. There is more in the forecast though, but we'll see Razz

algershick · Member Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Posts: 69 Location: Kent, WA

Come on it's not that bad today, I had a forum member drive out and pick up some parts. Very Happy

It was pretty light down here in the valley, the snow basically melted off twice before it came down again and froze.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:32 pm Post subject:

You kids in the valley caught a break. I drove up North to help Gabe with the fuel pump in his fourth gen and the snow was nearly completely thawed from Auburn up through Renton. North of Bellevue it was coming down fast and the roads were rough. Everett had maybe 4" down.

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:02 pm Post subject:

I'm not complaining. At least not yet. Got another dusting this evening and accumulated about an inch. I try to stay off the roads here when it gets sloppy, not because I can't drive in it (I can, Michigan driver here), but because of all the idiots that think they can.

IROCDave · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:31 pm Post subject:

We wound up with 6 1/2" by Sunday morning. Got the kids quad and sleds out and went at it today.

chevymad · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:44 pm Post subject:

8-10" now here at the house and snowing hard. Was lucky to make it home in my truck.. almost slid on past my road and into the bridge! Tomorrow shall be fun, I have an MRI scheduled in the morning in Longview!

Alphius · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:24 pm Post subject:

8+ at my house in Lake Stevens when I got home from work. Too dark for a picture right now, but I managed to drive uphill through my yard just to see if I could. Pushing snow with my front bumper but had no traction problems. Snow level was above the bottom of my doors. Most of the main roads up here have been plowed but I also happened to find some unplowed and relatively untraveled backroads to cruise around on for a bit.

The real storm is supposed to hit tonight though, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow's drive to work. Very Happy

All slushy in Everett today during my lunch hour. Sad

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject:

I am dissapointed in this season so far. There is not enough snow and too many poison-spraying plows around.

Alphius · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:00 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:47 pm Post subject:

BMW + studs = yeeehaww.

The car is amazingly predictable, even on the completely iced over roads. Normal driving and I'm perfectly fine. It only swings the ass end out when I stomp on it...although I've been stomping on it a lot. Very Happy

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject:

Haha! I am totally stoked. We had about 6-8" down this morning so I promptly went out and wasted half a tank of diesel fuel brodying around. LMAO

IROCDave · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:04 pm Post subject:

No highway legal vehicle does better in the snow than a diesel 4x4 truck. All that weight on the front tires, massive low end grunt, and no traction in the back make for a fun time.

They are not so hot on ice though, especially when they have an allison transmission. The TCM logic on my truck has almost got the truck completey sideways on freeway overpasses a couple of times. Talk about pucker factor, 60 MPH and looking at the gaurdrail just becuase I let of the throttle.

BluFbdy · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:02 pm Post subject:

Well I woke up to 4-5 inches of snow and called my install manager to tell him there's no way in hell the camaro could even get out of the spot so I've been sinking around in the snow, its all ice layered now so we did some downhill skiing with a lack of skis haha

Good thing I have Thursday and Friday off, I'm not attempting to drive this year, last year was a nightmare, unless of course the parking lot by my apartment clears up then ill be doing some sliding with the car Very Happy

Al Hasse · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:55 pm Post subject:

I gave it a try this morning, got over the hill from my place without much problem and onto the main thoroughfare in East Bremerton. Getting over the hill was the easy part, once on Wheaton Way, I couldn't keep the car straight, so decided not to make the trek to Kingston, which I heard was worse. Called my supervisor and found that only about 1/3 of my group made it in.