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Minnesotans arguing about the weather...

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I hope all of it melts. I can't pick up my plow until next weekend when I'm home deer killing.
 
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I'm going to find the retard who decided plows are too expensive and I'm going to murder them.
 
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I drove around quite a bit tonight, never had a problem. If 6 inches of snow on the road makes it so you can't drive you either shouldn't live in Minnesota or you need a new vehicle.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I drove around quite a bit tonight, never had a problem. If 6 inches of snow on the road makes it so you can't drive you either shouldn't live in Minnesota or you need a new vehicle.
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The only problem I had driving today in my Honda Civic was ice building up on my windshield wiper and it not properly clearing my line of sight.

People need to stop whining.
 
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Trying to accelerate or stop suddenly is the only really tough part about driving in this crap. As long as you avoid doing those things, it's rather easy.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
The only problem I had driving today in my Honda Civic was ice building up on my windshield wiper and it not properly clearing my line of sight.

People need to stop whining.
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Exactly. You don't even need a 4x4 like I have to deal with it. dx is just getting what most of us already know: don't have a rear wheel drive car as your daily driver in the winter.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
The only problem I had driving today in my Honda Civic was ice building up on my windshield wiper and it not properly clearing my line of sight.

People need to stop whining.
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When my car bottoms out on snow on 35W, I think I can whine all I want. Plow the **** roads.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I'm going to find the retard who decided plows are too expensive and I'm going to murder them.
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I saw numerous plows out last night, and starting at 7:00PM I drove from Farmington to St. Paul (picking up a friend who needed a ride) to Brooklyn Park and then reverse that course home. All done for the sake of playing a game.

MinnesotaNorthStar said:
The only problem I had driving today in my Honda Civic was ice building up on my windshield wiper and it not properly clearing my line of sight.

People need to stop whining.
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Yeah, it was easy for the most part. I had a little issue on the ramp from 36 to 35W North. My front right tire caught the edge of the pavement between the lane proper and the apron put down for the shoulder. I fishtailed a bit, but it wasn't too bad. Trying to get up Cook Ave's hill as it approaches Dale St took some effort, but it was manageable. And finally, going down Ramsey Hill to get onto 35E South was an experience I'll reconsider in the future, but that's simply the act of planning my route better in the future. (Tokyo drift is different from St. Paul drifting.)
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
When my car bottoms out on snow on 35W, I think I can whine all I want. Plow the **** roads.
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I think I remember reading it takes MNDOT approximately 4 hours to plow all the major highways in the metro. So, if it's snowing an inch an hour (or even a half inch an hour), during the peak of the storm, you're looking at 2-4" by the time the plows can make another pass. If it's in the mid-to-upper 20s, this isn't such a big deal, since treated roads will simply make things slushy until the plows can come back around and scrape down to the pavement. This time around, it was only in the upper teens, so the snow melting efforts were basically useless.

The side streets were pure **** this morning; in order to make a turn, I had to gun it (and nearly spun out in the process). Had I not done that, I would've gotten stuck as the plows hadn't gone through yet (saw somebody get stuck trying to turn onto the road I was turning off of).
 
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Bakunin said:
I think I remember reading it takes MNDOT approximately 4 hours to plow all the major highways in the metro. So, if it's snowing an inch an hour (or even a half inch an hour), during the peak of the storm, you're looking at 2-4" by the time the plows can make another pass. If it's in the mid-to-upper 20s, this isn't such a big deal, since treated roads will simply make things slushy until the plows can come back around and scrape down to the pavement. This time around, it was only in the upper teens, so the snow melting efforts were basically useless.

The side streets were pure **** this morning; in order to make a turn, I had to gun it (and nearly spun out in the process). Had I not done that, I would've gotten stuck as the plows hadn't gone through yet (saw somebody get stuck trying to turn onto the road I was turning off of).
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Right about the salt, but the plowing would have helped. In 11 years of driving, most of which has been with a rear wheel drive car, I have never gotten stuck before. Last night I got stuck six times coming home from the wild game.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Right about the salt, but the plowing would have helped. In 11 years of driving, most of which has been with a rear wheel drive car, I have never gotten stuck before. Last night I got stuck six times coming home from the wild game.
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Probably just dumb luck. We don't typically see a snowstorm hit during rush hour. My memory might be a bit off on this one, but I think most of the storms we've gotten over the past few years have dumped their snow during the day or overnight hours and not so much during the evening hours. This one was a worst case scenario for me, since it started in the late afternoon and hit the hardest during the evening / into the overnight. That guaranteed a bad late evening commute, and since it takes them awhile to get the side streets after it stops snowing, it also guaranteed a pretty crappy morning commute (at least for the parts involving getting onto / off of the highways).
 
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This is also known as the "Madison Effect".

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Bad time of the year to lose my gloves. Too cheap to buy some now, waiting to get some freebees from the parents. :)
 
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It looks like Snowpocalypse 4 is going to be here this weekend. Good winter so far.
 
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