ICE & SNOW REVISITED

[Ura-Ki]

You guys got it easy, I have had snow since November 18th and it's still coming down. I would guess we have had 9 feet of it since then. It melts a little and then snows some more! I have about a foot or so packed really hard in the drive way, and the road out to the main road is plowed to about 4 or 6 in of solid ice! The main roads and highways are plowed and sanded good, so it's not a problem getting around!

 

[Libertas7]

Just got another 3.5 inches over night as well... Hey now, I don't want to hear any rude comments about that either. You guys know what I meant....

Yes, we know exactly what you mean. And keep that off this forum!

 

[Libertas7]

I have had snow since November 18th and it's still coming down. I would guess we have had 9 feet of it since then.

Sounds like hell...

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Sounds like hell...

Or Eskimo Heaven.

 

[Libertas7]

Or Eskimo Heaven.

Wait, do you just call Eskimos devils?

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Eskimo Devil ... Maybe that's where Dry Ice comes from?...
Sorry ... gotta run!!!!!
Andy

 

[Libertas7]

Eskimo Devil ... Maybe that's where Dry Ice comes from?...
Sorry ... gotta run!!!!!
Andy

I just want to know when they're going to start producing dehydrated ice?

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Let It f..g snow!

We've got our Buffalo Wild Wings in!
Honey BBQ and Mango Habanero!!!!! UMMMM!

 

[Libertas7]

Let I f..g snow!

We've got our Buffalo Wild Wings in!
Honey BBQ and Mango Habanero!!!!! UMMMM!

You... You do believe in sharing right?

...Right?

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Um........NO!

 

[nammac]

Um........NO!

 

[Brutus57]

Careful there Brutus. I was heading to San Diego 2-3 decades ago and Siskiyou Pass was closed. It still looked okay in southern Oregon so I got off at Ashland and "detoured" around the OSP roadblock south of there. At 15-30 mph, my Cherokee handled it just fine, but it was seriously deep and icy up on the pass. Dozens of miles of parallel parked double semi rigs along both shoulders. And zero cars anywhere - eerie as hell at midnight.

Point is, it looked great at the bottom of the hill and not so good at the top. Completely unrecognizable though I've made that trip 30+ times. Just following vague half-buried tracks, I've often wondered where I was in relation to the actual lanes on the highway. I was really glad to see the humps of guardrails and those orange poles sticking up.

I know you won't go on two wheels if it's like that. What kind of scoot are you getting?

A 2003 Honda VTX1800R has only 55K on it and my buddy is giving me a killer deal on it. I got 136,000 out of my current 2002 1800R but I don't have a garage right now to rebuild it.

I am pretty careful when it comes to bad weather. I have ridden in some real crap, about a dozen times from Olympic Rain Forest 30-40MPH rain storms, to Wyoming purple branch lightning thunderstorms to hail to snow storm on N bound I-5 in 2008. Most of those, I had no choice, this one, I put in a couple of days slush time if I have to detour to the coast.

Hopefully the weather forecast will hold.

Brutus Out

 

[Sgt Nambu]

A 2003 Honda VTX1800R has only 55K on it and my buddy is giving me a killer deal on it. I got 136,000 out of my current 2002 1800R but I don't have a garage right now to rebuild it.

I am pretty careful when it comes to bad weather. I have ridden in some real crap, about a dozen times from Olympic Rain Forest 30-40MPH rain storms, to Wyoming purple branch lightning thunderstorms to hail to snow storm on N bound I-5 in 2008. Most of those, I had no choice, this one, I put in a couple of days slush time if I have to detour to the coast.

Hopefully the weather forecast will hold.

Brutus Out

Good luck with that, Brutus! Take good care!

 

[teflon6string]

Congrats on the new bike!

I think besides just too damned cold, my worst motorcycle trips were in the 70's when I'd get off work at the Oregonian on Friday eves and shoot down to Salem to see ZZ Top or Wishbone Ash or somebody play at the Armory. Pitch black, sheets of driving rain, wind, trucks plowing through standing water on the freeway, etc. Stuff I'd never do now, but it just didn't occur to me not to when I was a teen and that was my only ride.

We can only hope our kids and grandkids are lucky enough to survive all the things we would advise them not to try.

 

[Brutus57]

Congrats on the new bike!

I think besides just too damned cold, my worst motorcycle trips were in the 70's when I'd get off work at the Oregonian on Friday eves and shoot down to Salem to see ZZ Top or Wishbone Ash or somebody play at the Armory. Pitch black, sheets of driving rain, wind, trucks plowing through standing water on the freeway, etc. Stuff I'd never do now, but it just didn't occur to me not to when I was a teen and that was my only ride.

We can only hope our kids and grandkids are lucky enough to survive all the things we would advise them not to try.

Yeah, a few too many times riding the scoot has turned from fun in to survival, but some years I have put 30,000 miles on my bikes and with more than 200,000 in 16-17 years, well, sometimes the weather just is....
That being said, few things surpass 135 MPH in the Montana desert on an 800 lb cruiser.

Brutus Out

 

[nammac]

A 2003 Honda VTX1800R has only 55K on it and my buddy is giving me a killer deal on it. I got 136,000 out of my current 2002 1800R but I don't have a garage right now to rebuild it.

I am pretty careful when it comes to bad weather. I have ridden in some real crap, about a dozen times from Olympic Rain Forest 30-40MPH rain storms, to Wyoming purple branch lightning thunderstorms to hail to snow storm on N bound I-5 in 2008. Most of those, I had no choice, this one, I put in a couple of days slush time if I have to detour to the coast.

Hopefully the weather forecast will hold.

Brutus Out

Safe travels amigo, prayers and blessing for your journey!

 

[Captain O]

Global warming folks, global warming....
Sorry, CLIMATE CHANGE......

You're not buying that BS, are you?

 

[nammac]

Perhaps we are on the cusp of entering the next Ice Age... Wouldn't that be a pisser, embarking on the next Ice Age?

 

[Kruel J]

Lucky me I work tomorrow (I RARELY work Sundays). We will have the game on, and my Forester is ALWAYS ready for action.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Perhaps we are on the cusp of entering the next Ice Age... Wouldn't that be a pisser, embarking on the next Ice Age?

Yeah, I could be trapped in a glacier for the next 10,000 years.
Same feeling I get standing in line at the DMV.