You should see the thing that just plowed our road

[ThomWV]

This is our Government in action. We got right at 3 feet of new snow with the storm that hit last tuesday and the daily dose we've been getting since then. There has been no attempt at snow removal here, at least until late this afternoon. With over a foot of densely packed snow covering the roadway, smashed down to nearly the hardness of ice by the few 4x4 pickups that have gone down the hill, it was suprisingly easy to get around. The snow was deep but you could drive on it as long as your wheels didn't punch through, if they did it got nasty in a hurry. Wednesday a neighbor with a front end loader had to be summoned to get my 3/4-Ton truck out of a ditch.

This afternoon there was a rumbling the ground that hit before the noise. Coming up the road in dullest green was some sort of retired military truck - but a truck to eat other trucks. I was in the Army and know what a two and a half ton looks like, this was bigger, much bigger. In the back was crushed stone - not cinders for spreading but what I would estimate to have been 5~7 ton's of golf-ball sized stone just there for weight - traction. On the front of this lumbering beast - and it was lumbering along at maybe 10 mph - was god's own snow plow - appropriately heart shaped on this valentine's eve. Down the hill he went, and then a half hour later up the hill he went. Where there was a foot of ice, three feet of snow, now there is bare asphalt. It is a sight to behold.

And I am so happy. This is Government, government in action. This is what taxes pay for.

Oh, and that wonderful glorious silly bastard of a driver buried my cars and truck so deep I'll have to get a back hoe in here to dig them out.

So it goes ...

[asdjrocky]

1. 62 and a sunny day here in central Ca.

I feel for you, in my t-shirt, shorts and sun glasses.

[bluecollarcharlie]

4. Until it rains...

or you have an earthquake or another big fire or a flash flood or a......i'm just sayin.

[asdjrocky]

6. Dude, I said central Ca.

Nothing. Ever. Happens. Here.

Oh wait, sometimes we get fog and every 10 to 20 years the same places flood, but yeah, that's about it.

[MineralMan]

17. Yay, tule fog!

[asdjrocky]

18. We call it driving blind.

Just about the worse fog you'll ever find.

[MineralMan]

19. Yup. I remember driving from Morro Bay to Yosemite to go

skiing one time. I could see no more than 5 feet in front of me until I got into the Sierra Foothills. what was normally a 4 hours drive took 9. Weird and scary drive.

You guys get all the luck...all we have is a couple of feet of snow that's been around since Christmas. At least we can see.

[asdjrocky]

20. Moro bay, one of the best places on earth.

My daughter used to live there and I kept a little Cat 22 in the bay. Wonderful place.

You want to see the real fog, keep going out Highway 4 west straight for the Delta, there's some fog.

Yosemite is one of the great things about Ca, used to go every year.

[MineralMan]

21. Yah. I lived just across the bay, in Los Osos. Nice place

to live. Even weather and the ocean right there. It's a can't miss combo.

[asdjrocky]

24. Los Osos has some great Mexican food, can't remember the name of the place.

My ex lives down the road now in SLO and my daughter is going to college in Monterrey.

Some great shrimp tacos.

[MineralMan]

27. The restaurant was "La Casita." Our favorite when we lived there.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Oh, yeah, California sucks. it just sucks. It totally sucks.

Really, it sucks.

That's why houses are so cheap, there.

[madokie]

29. and where old washed up actors go to be governators

:rofl:

[Champion Jack]

2. This thread really needs pictures

[Fumesucker]

3. An HEMTT?

[Myrina]

5. ... and what about the roads that it crushes in its wake?

Oops, we don't have infrastructure money to re-pave those roads once the snow melts. Sorry ....

[ThomWV]

7. This is West Virginia, they were never actually paved in the first place

It made me laugh, our road is paved only by West Virginia standards. It was dirt until one day they came along with some gravel, which they laid out smooth, and then sprayed with tar. The method makes a thing that looks like a paved road, and in fact will act like one too, for about one year. Yep, the plow takes up large chunks of it, but then so would the spring thaw, so its not like we lost much.

[cmd]

23. Ah, chip and seal

Same stuff they used on our rural Ohio road. I can smell that tar now.

[LLStarks]

8. Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow!

[Mari333]

9. Im in Michigan where the plows are a plenty

but one year I saw a huge front end loader coming down the road, because even the plows couldnt get thru..it was actually paving a path for the plows, it was that bad.

my heart goes out to people who arent used to this kind of snow.

[enlightenment]

12. I remember that in Aurora, Colorado after the Christmas blizzard of

1973. A front end loader leading a couple of plows, about three or four days after the storm.

Pretty cool except for the 10 foot 'drift' that blocked our driveway . . .

[Captain Hilts]

10. Awesome!

[BrklynLiberal]

11. No doubt..for a "nominal" fee, the driver would dig you out.... LOL

[Veruca Salt]

13. I know exactly what type of plow you saw...

we've got them up here and when I've seen them they've been attached to heavy duty construction type vehicles. I'd love to see one of those killer plows on a military vehicle!

[Earth_First]

14. Our local guy said something about another mid-Atlantic storm Monday/Tuesday...

:wowzers!:

[leftofcool]

16. Yea but I think we are only going to get about 3 inches

and around here right now, that is dust. Supposed to be in the high 30's Wednesday so most of it will melt. Ya oughta see the plowed up snow around here. Some piles are 8 foot.

[Mira]

15. I love the way you told that story ! Really a fun read,

and good content, too.

:)
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[farmout rightarm]

22. Then you will need that god's own snowplow to come back to get the backhoe out.

:rofl:

[NNN0LHI]

25. Sounds like you are describing a Deuce and a Half

Was it one of these?



M35A2 Deuce and a Half

I have seen one of them with a snow plow in action before. It was pretty awesome.

Don

[madokie]

28. And that silly driver probably loves burying as many vehicles as he can

add: If the truth was known that is