against the law in some areas because they tear up the blacktop...

I wish I had the money for some. Make me feel alot safer!

against the law in some areas because they tear up the blacktop...

not here! but you can only have them on your car between Nov to Mar

Free your mind and your ass will follow

Why do you need a Donkey to follow you around IP?
Wombat has trouble understanding alien customs at times.

What's nice about snow chains is when somebody who knows nothing puts them on their car/truck and doesn't "maintain" them.  It's amazing the damage they can do if they let go!

Kona, I doubt that you are going to drive on a freeway with chains on your tires....unless you don't like your teeth

If you have a rear wheel drive car, put a ton of weight in the back of it. (And get snow tires for the back of them....or put a battery in your Escort...)  

I grew up in Northern Michigan.  It used to snow so much that you could look out your window and not tell where the snowbank ended and the snow covering your car started.  It's possible to get around in that stuff, you just have to pay attention to what's going on and know how to handle your car.  I remember an ice storm up there once that you couldn't stand on the road.  If your car stopped, it would slide off the road (if the road was sloped right).  Somehow I made it home from school and my parents made it home from work (poor Dad worked even further north).

I kinda' miss all that....

I still haven't seen snow falling.....[probably actually doesn't....everyone's just trying to trick me]...

Why do you need a Donkey to follow you around IP?

Have Ass will travel

I kinda' miss all that....

remember the winter of 1976?

Maine was buried in the white stuff with 7 - 9 foot drifts! I remember walking to and from school to my cousins house at lunch and the sides of the road made you feel like you where walking in a trough. If I can dig them up I have some pic's of me standing on the snow with my foot on top of a stop sign which you can only see the top two inches above the snow.

I actually kinda liked it up there in winter.

We lived on the banks of the river running between Canada and the USA. Used to cross over the train bridge into Canada and go fishing, hunting, camping, skinny dipping and partying a few times when I was older. Suzzan Miller and Kristy Brown, WOW, odd thing about up there is everyone talked about how they were all going to leave and none of them did... I mean some left, but all return in time.

The other thing about it up there was you couldn't really do anything and not have everyone know about it

got a restored 85 gmc suburban, 33 inch mudders, snow aint a prob

Jafo its real,I seen it once,in New Mexico.

Not all of the on-going 'issues' are the fault of the targets, but the fault of those with the 'guns'

I agree with this.

#108 by IPlural - 1/8/2004 11:28:26 AM remember the winter of 1976?

Barely...I was 4
However, I do have a picture of my Mom with bell bottoms on sitting on top of her car.  You can't tell it's her car, though, because everything was completely snowed in.  It very well could have been that year because I was extremely little at the time.

Kona... I feel for you. My Mom has to fly out on Friday night...and the gorge is still closed(She lives in The Dalles). To top that of, she just broke her leg walking to her car! At least here ion Bend, the snow is melting, and the streets are driveable.

May I recommend tossing the Escort...been there, killed that!!! Damn thing nickle and dimed me near to death!!!

May I recommend tossing the Escort...been there, killed that!!! Damn thing nickle and dimed me near to death!!!

Thinking of that.

BTW I hear PDX is closed.
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Yes it is...Hoping and praying it opens by tomorrow... but won't hold my breath.

I wouldn't if I were you. Portland isn't out of the woods yet. Judging by the Ice I still see outside here in Albany, could be days.

Just checked the weather...and it is "supposed" to be up to 45 tomorrow. I'll believe it when i see it! of course, I have slush up to my ears right now. We're supposed to have the freezing weather, not you.

Where you located at? Dallas? The Dalles? Albany/Corvallis is suppossed to be snow free by now. If i had a quarter for everytime the weatherman was wrong i would not need to work!

Me, Bend, Central Oregon. My mom is in The Dalles!!! And I know the feeling!