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Old 12-16-2007, 01:39 PM
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SNOW...can my 8 make it...




This is a pickup truck...the snow is almost up to the doors!!









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Stay home Even with snow tires...you probably will just bottom out the car and get stuck
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Put it in 4 wheel drive.
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Joking!! I have van's on my street that are stuck!! I will just be plowing snow with my MSbumper!! We already have 2ft and its still coming down hard!!
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no you can't.

The snow was hitting the bumper of my Subaru Legacy, in Toronto.
Well, I didn't get stuck becoz of the AWD with snow tires. Wait until the streets are plowed at least.
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Old 12-16-2007, 01:45 PM
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Just joking...wanted to post snow pics...so our california folks could see...
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haha, yeah, no one would be serious about driving the beaufiul MS kitted 8 in this kinda weather!
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No way! How much snow does T.O. have? It is really, really bad here. The hwy's are closed!! My daugter is stuck in Niagra fall on a sleep over bday party....

It is absolute crazyness out here!! We are snowed in... no one in, no one out!!
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I'm in Cali and it's sunny. Thanks for the pics I'm going outside to enjoy the good weather. Thanks for the reminder that we are blessed with good weather.
If you didn't post this I'm might've stayed in all day.
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Originally Posted by AJ's Shinka
I'm in Cali and it's sunny. Thanks for the pics I'm going outside to enjoy the good weather. Thanks for the reminder that we are blessed with good weather.
If you didn't post this I'm might've stayed in all day.
Don't worry when you have earthquakes and what ever else comes your way...I will be laughing then...
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Originally Posted by Leesha
No way! How much snow does T.O. have? It is really, really bad here. The hwy's are closed!! My daugter is stuck in Niagra fall on a sleep over bday party....

It is absolute crazyness out here!! We are snowed in... no one in, no one out!!
Mississauga looks about the same. I was watching some guys push a big Caddy out of a drift at the intersection and thinking that I might have tomorrow off
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And London is the same.
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Wow!! Its all over the nation too!! The states have it bad also!

SNOW DAY TOMORROW!

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honestly i've driven in snow as deep as that with my dunlop m3s on and have managed just fine.
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The snow here in Ann Arbor, Mi was almost the same today. I'm running Falken Azenis RT-615's and managed just great on the semi-plowed streets but got stuck in the parking lot a few times.
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In short, if its higher than your car's clearance, then its a no go.

Even with chain on your tires, its still a no go.

so forget it, just stay home for a few days.
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The snow is up past my waist at the end of my driveway. There is nowhere for me to shovel the snow my banks are so high.

I am forced to hire a truck to plow my driveway.

Winter is the worst season ever invented. LOL
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Originally Posted by turborx8
The snow is up past my waist at the end of my driveway. There is nowhere for me to shovel the snow my banks are so high.

I am forced to hire a truck to plow my driveway.

Winter is the worst season ever invented. LOL
there was a time that the snow got up to my waist I was 5"11 that time I think, it was MANY MANY years ago, maybe year 96 or 97, I dont even remember. **** and I have to *manually* shovel the snow out from my home's drive way all the way out to the streets, thats 5 houses of snow. I shovel it all, took me 2 something hours, by the time I got home, I cant even feel my legs

The worst snow ever since I got the 8 .... tall enough to cover the door I think.
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Originally Posted by turborx8
The snow is up past my waist at the end of my driveway. There is nowhere for me to shovel the snow my banks are so high.

I am forced to hire a truck to plow my driveway.

Winter is the worst season ever invented. LOL
Wow! We didn't get 4ft of snow but close enough. I have to try to make it in to work today. First time taking the RX out in snow so we'll see how it goes. I have dunlop sport performance 3d's...the new ones that came out.

Will let you all know how my drive went...wish me a handful of luck!
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I drove home from Chicago on Saturday night. Didn't get home until about 1am. Luckily I was in our all wheel drive SUV because I was hitting snow drifts on one of the roads that were at least 2 feet tall. It was fun but looking back it was stupid of me to try and take that road. If we would have gotten stuck we would have had to walk at least 5 miles to get to the nearest house.
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Originally Posted by Leesha
Wow! We didn't get 4ft of snow but close enough. I have to try to make it in to work today. First time taking the RX out in snow so we'll see how it goes. I have dunlop sport performance 3d's...the new ones that came out.

Will let you all know how my drive went...wish me a handful of luck!
I thought, I read , you had a couple of other cars..... I wont move my 8 , its Civic time baby .....
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^^I do but they are not available now... van is gone and my dad's pickup (he's staying with us until christmas and then gone south... wish I could go too)has no heat so I will attempt to use the 8...if I can't make it I will call in sick...

Roads are plowed I hope...still snowing here so hopefully it will let up a bit...
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Don't waste those sick days......
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I was pretty psyched up for stayin' home today....uhh... because of the snow storm...
but my neighbor cleared my driveway with his snowblower and the roads were all plowed... So here I am at work again.


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