ASTROS IN SNOW!!

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ASTROS IN SNOW!!

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Hey Everybody,

Took a couple of pics of the astro in the snow we got last week

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HI-LOW beam relay ftw!!
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These where taken the next morning lol,caprice is to the right lol poor lowered caprice
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More snow in Virginia then there is in Southern Ont...LOL,

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yeah when it was all done we got 13 inches

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I was thinking the same thing Zam...more snow there than we have gotten yet in Oswego! I guess global warming is really here!!!! :muhaha:
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LiftedAWDAstro wrote:I was thinking the same thing Zam...more snow there than we have gotten yet in Oswego! I guess global warming is really here!!!! :muhaha:
LOL, couple years back Oswego was the snow capitol of the World :D

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Yeah i was surprised at the amount we where only supposed to get about 6 inches lol.Astro did really really well though,this was my first snow with it,g80 helped alot damn passenger car tires did not have to get lt tires asap lol
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Bhrrr, I had to go and put on a sweat shirt just to look at those pictures.
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astrozam wrote:LOL, couple years back Oswego was the snow capitol of the World :D
Hard to believe isn't it Zam! :muhaha:
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I would kill for a good heavy Oswego snowfall. These single Cm daily skiffs are killing me. All I do is sit in my office dispatching salt trucks for 4-6 hrs then doing paperwork then going to sleep to do it again in a few hours. If we get a good fall my boss dispatches and I get to go plow. I want to plow not sit in the friggen office.
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potskie wrote:I would kill for a good heavy Oswego snowfall. These single Cm daily skiffs are killing me. All I do is sit in my office dispatching salt trucks for 4-6 hrs then doing paperwork then going to sleep to do it again in a few hours. If we get a good fall my boss dispatches and I get to go plow. I want to plow not sit in the friggen office.
Man come down here and show the county how to shovel snow. They massively suck down here. I thinks it's because we dont get that much snow normally there are still roads a week later that you could easily slide off, They really dropped the ball lol

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Rvamobiledetailing wrote:Man come down here and show the county how to shovel snow. They massively suck down here. I thinks it's because we dont get that much snow normally there are still roads a week later that you could easily slide off, They really dropped the ball lol
I doubt you can say they dropped the ball...do you guys even have real snow removal equipment? :yawinkle: Most of the reason we pay some of the highest property taxes in the country is to pay for the massive fleet of snow removal equipment. Then in the spring they use the same equipment to repair the roads that are destroyed. We get an average of 170"+ per year and you guys in VA probably average 20" or less. Hard to justify Billions of dollars of equipment you hardly ever use.

On a side note, we are getting some lake effect today! It started over night and we have 3" or so already. Supposed to snow all day so hopefully I'll be able to justify putting the plow on. :D

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2008 Dodge Nitro 4x4
2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8S Special Edition

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Vans owned:
1986 Safari 2.5L 4 speed manual - scrapped
1995 Astro 2WD conversion 4.11 posi, shift kit, DHC rock rails - sold to Skippy
1998 Astro 4x4 D44, D60, NP231, full hydraulic system with 9k# Milemarker winch and snow plow - sold to Lockdoc
2003 Astro AWD all stock - traded for a 3/4 ton truck
2005 AWD, 4.10's - sold to skippy
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The City of Victoria sold all of there snow removal equipment a long time ago because, well, it hardly ever snows here and when it does it usually melts before they have a chance to plow it. The city does lay down "ice melt" and except for the Provincial hiways the city's snow removal is contracted out to the private sector.
We have had some snow falls that have stuck around but everyone just stays home when that happens. :muhaha:
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Just dug Astrodamus out!
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Here in Estonia we have around 60cm of snow. Thank good for AWD. It has'nt snowed that much for years

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astrodamus wrote:Just dug Astrodamus out!
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My astro had snow on top just like that,and i have a roof rack so it was a pain to get it all off and to top it off my paint on the roof is chipping lol got the snow off and there where blue specs in it lol
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