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Old 11-25-2010, 09:46 AM   #676
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I had to pass a fishtailing unmarked police cruiser on Knight St on my way to work this morning.

Had no problems with sliding or anything, but then, I drive an impreza with snow tires.

I'm looking forward to an extra healthy dumping of snow throughout the day. I really hope this doesn't turn to rain.
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Old 11-25-2010, 09:48 AM   #677
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Shoveled the driveway for the first time this season.... It's nice when it's light and fluffy.

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Old 11-25-2010, 09:48 AM   #678
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I need to borrow my dads pathfinder later to go on a... *ahem* excursion
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Old 11-25-2010, 09:51 AM   #679
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I am stuck on my drive way. I parked facing up hill, I cant get to work
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Old 11-25-2010, 09:51 AM   #680
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drove to cap today at 730am from south burnaby, i have some shitty all seasons on, with maybe 50% tread and i had no problems, got there and back without a hitch. I have a feeling this is nothing compared to whats coming...
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Drove from Richmond to SFU Burnaby, no problems at all. Audi A4 with snow tires handled it very well...Even when a snow plow in front of me on highway 91 plowed snow onto my lane; Smart car behind me kept fishtailing, luckily he kept a safe distance from me.
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Old 11-25-2010, 09:52 AM   #682
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suppose to rain + snow in the afternoon

its gonna be nasty
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Old 11-25-2010, 09:53 AM   #683
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We've shoveled the driveway at the shop 3 times already this morning. We also had to cancel a few appointments and not loan out the courtesy cars in this weather. Last thing we need is a wrecked courtesy car because some customer doesn't know how to drive in the snow.

@TRDood, it's still coming down hard at Knight/Kingsway, and covering/sticking everywhere.

I've driven up the Coquihalla in blizzards before, with all season tires in a turbocharged FWD car. That's rather sketchy. This is nothing compared to that.
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Old 11-25-2010, 09:59 AM   #684
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Shoveled the snow earlier and now the ground is covered again.
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I've decided 225 wide tires aren't very good for snow, even though they're snow tires. Lol. Langley sucks right now...
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hah yep the skinnier the better when it comes to snow tires....

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How bad is Langley?

Was thinking about heading out to Kwantlen to get homework done..
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I'm loving the Limited Slip in the MS3. For a Turbo FWD car, it goes great in the snow.
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I thought we were only suppose to get 5-10cm of snow LOL and then turn into rain sometime mid-afternoon. Now weather network say:
Thursday Afternoon: close to 10cm
Thursday Evening: close to 10cm

24-Hour Precipitation Outlook
15-20 cm of snow from Thursday Afternoon to Friday Morning

less than 1cm on Friday
less than 1cm on Saturday
close to 1cm on Sunday
1-3cm on Monday....
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Urghh the amount of stupid drivers. Specially richmond. Weaving in and out of traffic goin 60km/h. Are you serious?
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How bad is Langley?

Was thinking about heading out to Kwantlen to get homework done..
So long as you avoid 200th St between Hwy 1 and 64th, you should be fine. Major accident at 74'ish involving a flipped SUV. The rest of the city is mostly fine, though the snow is still piling up on the roads.

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hah yep the skinnier the better when it comes to snow tires....

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After one day, I've decided that my old 185/50/15 Toyo Proxy4's are MUCH better than my 225/40/18 Bridgestone Blizzak LM-22's.

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because winters give them immunity to stopping distance

looks like i'm not going anywhere today
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I thought we were only suppose to get 5-10cm of snow LOL and then turn into rain sometime mid-afternoon. Now weather network say:
Thursday Afternoon: close to 10cm
Thursday Evening: close to 10cm

24-Hour Precipitation Outlook
15-20 cm of snow from Thursday Afternoon to Friday Morning

less than 1cm on Friday
less than 1cm on Saturday
close to 1cm on Sunday
1-3cm on Monday....
WTF it changed again?


god damn its never accurate even within the same day, how lame is that
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anybody know how the conditions are from 33rd knight all the way into richmond?
I work on bridgeport near costco, how does bridgeport look?
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burnaby is in chaos ... hahah

just saw a UPS truck run into street lamp ...
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I've decided 225 wide tires aren't very good for snow, even though they're snow tires. Lol. Langley sucks right now...
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I have really bad negative camber in the rear, snow tires aren't helping AT ALL.
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