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Old 01-06-2024, 07:39 PM   #1
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Finally Got Some Snow



It looks like the frozen tundra but it's the Sauer Family Prairie Kame Forest Preserve, just a few miles SW of Cheesy Manor. Flat as a pancake except for that bump/kame in the background.

Rode about 50 miles and a good chunk of that was on unplowed roads. I did get sideways in one corner, which caused a death grip clench on the saddle. I was suddenly facing at a right angle to the direction of travel. The clench came just as the slide stopped and I thought the bike was going to keep moving, up and over the sidecar. I don't think I was doing 15 mph when it happened. Stopped as soon as it started. It took a couple seconds for my butt to release its grip on the saddle, then we went on our merry way.

I ran into a couple of small snow squalls along the way but made it home intact. I have leg guards on the rig but the front of my pant legs were still soaked and covered with road gunk when I got home.
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Old 01-06-2024, 08:17 PM   #2
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That’s a lot more snow than I have ,I don’t even have an inch but I will in the next few days .Hopefully you travel with spare shorts


 
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Old 01-06-2024, 08:35 PM   #3
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We have snow coming down now. It should let up late tonight. TSHF Monday night into Tuesday night with snow and 30 mph winds. Should be fun.

Not usually, but I was proactive and changed when I got home.
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Old 01-06-2024, 08:48 PM   #4
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It’s been very warm ,I am still taking my canoe to camp ,and in 2018 I was walking across the ice on Boxing Day .I think we have only had two cold days this winter so far .


 
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Old 01-06-2024, 09:20 PM   #5
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Looks like fun cheesy!!!! I used to love riding (no sidecar) to work in the snow. Nothing like cruising down the slippery freeway, sometimes a bit sideways, and watching someone in a car lose it and slide into the ditch. Then park in the lot and walk into work carrying my helmet listening to other guys comment on my mental state/intelligence level. Actually in retrospect and from the vantage of my much more advanced years I sometimes wonder about my then intelligence level too.


 
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Old 01-07-2024, 01:32 PM   #6
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Got some here yesterday. No....I'm not riding in it. The wood stove seems a better place to be.
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Old 01-07-2024, 02:06 PM   #7
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Is that blue stuff on the horizon...sky?

Going on 3 weeks without it here. We got teased a couple times last week, but the weather chick lied. It's taken on the name of 'Perma-cloud'.
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Old 01-07-2024, 07:01 PM   #8
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Is that blue stuff on the horizon...sky?

Going on 3 weeks without it here. We got teased a couple times last week, but the weather chick lied. It's taken on the name of 'Perma-cloud'.
It's one of the benefits of living in an ocean state. The weather blows in, sticks around a day or few, then moves out across Nevada. If you're in the valley, you get fog though. That can stick around quite a while.
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hello 4 inchs here today , gone soon.


 
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About 6" fell overnight here in the east side of rochester ny...


 
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Old 01-08-2024, 07:57 AM   #12
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I got a foot coming Tuesday night
We're looking at 4 to 6 starting tonight, which translates to nothing to 12". Western Illannoy looks like it's going to get the worst of it.

So, I think I will climb into the garage attic this morning and bring down our snowshoes.
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You're too late in asking.
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which translates to nothing to 12".
Isn't that the truth!? Screw the Weather Chick or Dude on TV, now with cell phone aps, it's all over the place! I have the normal Weather Channel ap on my Iphone. It ALWAYS lies to me. Mrs. 2LZ has Weatherbug, Weather Underground, Weather What-the-F--k-Ever, etc.... on her phone and NONE of them ever agree. The convo with my 88 year old mom on the phone always goes like this.....

Ma: "I hear you may get some snow up there."
Me: "Pfffft...... I'll send pics...."
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