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Jamesp 03-09-2015 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe B (Post 439608)
Yeah, yeah, yeah; who cares! Show us the temperature in July or August when it's 115°. If we wanted to live in "hotter than hell," then we'd all move to Tucson (I was born there and I couldn't leave soon enough :rolleyes:!).
Oh yeah!, well you say that now, but you have to drive around the Grand Tetons, and around lake Jackson, Yellowstone, and through the mountains and forests and grasslands, past moose, elk, buffalo and other world class natural scenery... and somehow I think maybe I'm not making my point... or maybe I am.

78F350 03-09-2015 06:49 PM
Snow covered roads in Oklahoma scare me. I grew up in New Hampshire and Maine, lived in Germany for six years (Bad Kreuznach und Ansbach), and spent a couple winters in the 'lake effect' by Tug Hill, NY.

A light snow in Oklahoma is worse. There are no fleets of snow plows and sand trucks. The base of the snow is usually ice. Nobody has snow tires and few people have experience driving in it. Every 'cowboy' (and Indian) with a 4x4 thinks he is invincible and has to get out on the road and drive like it was dry pavement in the summer. The body shops can't keep up.

Toppy986 03-09-2015 07:32 PM
With all the salt on the roads in SW Ontario, I have a 2 rain rule to wash it off the roads before I take my car out. This year it is looking like another 4 weeks at least

Retroman1969 03-09-2015 08:14 PM
It's the reason I have a beater-Boxster, not that I wouldn't still be upset if it got hit. Besides it just doesn't get that bad here. A week, maybe two at most of light to moderate snow per year.

j.fro 03-10-2015 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by 78F350 (Post 439620)
Snow covered roads in Oklahoma scare me. I grew up in New Hampshire and Maine, lived in Germany for six years (Bad Kreuznach und Ansbach), and spent a couple winters in the 'lake effect' by Tug Hill, NY.

A light snow in Oklahoma is worse. There are no fleets of snow plows and sand trucks. The base of the snow is usually ice. Nobody has snow tires and few people have experience driving in it. Every 'cowboy' (and Indian) with a 4x4 thinks he is invincible and has to get out on the road and drive like it was dry pavement in the summer. The body shops can't keep up.
OK sounds a lot like VA.

Giller 03-10-2015 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Toppy986 (Post 439627)
With all the salt on the roads in SW Ontario, I have a 2 rain rule to wash it off the roads before I take my car out. This year it is looking like another 4 weeks at least
Bite your tongue lad, another 4 weeks.... Around town, the melting snow will take care of most of the salt - the highways might be a different matter though.

Xpit77 03-11-2015 06:43 AM
My DD.http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1426084998.jpg

Retroman1969 03-11-2015 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by 78F350 (Post 439620)
Snow covered roads in Oklahoma scare me. I grew up in New Hampshire and Maine, lived in Germany for six years (Bad Kreuznach und Ansbach), and spent a couple winters in the 'lake effect' by Tug Hill, NY.

A light snow in Oklahoma is worse. There are no fleets of snow plows and sand trucks. The base of the snow is usually ice. Nobody has snow tires and few people have experience driving in it. Every 'cowboy' (and Indian) with a 4x4 thinks he is invincible and has to get out on the road and drive like it was dry pavement in the summer. The body shops can't keep up.
PS: That is all so true!

desert_porsche 03-11-2015 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe B (Post 439608)
Yeah, yeah, yeah; who cares! Show us the temperature in July or August when it's 115°. If we wanted to live in "hotter than hell," then we'd all move to Tucson (I was born there and I couldn't leave soon enough :rolleyes:!).
This is my time to gloat! Allow me this pleasure :D

Of course from May through October is when it becomes severely unpleasant to be driving around in a black car with black leather seats. That's when it gets garaged and put on the battery tender.

M4SGK1986 03-11-2015 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by 78F350 (Post 439620)
A light snow in Oklahoma is worse. There are no fleets of snow plows and sand trucks. The base of the snow is usually ice. Nobody has snow tires and few people have experience driving in it. Every 'cowboy' (and Indian) with a 4x4 thinks he is invincible and has to get out on the road and drive like it was dry pavement in the summer. The body shops can't keep up.
You have just described the exact same thing as we have here in the UK.:)


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