# SnowIceWindpocalypse Jan 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 6, 2014, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439 "2014-01-06T06:34:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BOBBYGRV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/61 "2014-01-06T16:21:25Z")
Guess I should have parked in the garage tonight instead of the carport… ![http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/bobbyg1243/carportsnowshot_zps91e8fa98.jpg](http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/bobbyg1243/carportsnowshot_zps91e8fa98.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/62 "2014-01-06T16:47:18Z")
> [@Gus](#): > > Independent Health just announced all offices will be closed tomorrow. see you in game ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/63 "2014-01-06T17:46:46Z")
Work called, I’m sleeping in tomorrow. Beer time! ---
**Author:** ![KuntryQuestTSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kuntryquesttsi/32/5010_2.png) [@KuntryQuestTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KuntryQuestTSi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/64 "2014-01-06T18:37:47Z")
I also just got the no school text. My neighboring farm wants me to ride over for beers. Seeing he works at a different school that’s closed. I’m not going outside Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Bull49](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bull49/32/7381_2.png) [@Bull49](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bull49)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/65 "2014-01-06T18:38:43Z")
town of hamburg driving ban. ---
**Author:** ![Quatts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/2bfe46/32.png) [@Quatts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Quatts)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/66 "2014-01-06T18:45:16Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > I’ve had sleds almost 4 years now and have yet to ride Grand Island, aka “The Fish Bowl”. I was hoping this winter to check it out just for something different. Its not worth it on the Island to snowmobile. When we get even a trace of snow everyone and their mother goes out and the trails get ruined. :tdown: ---
**Author:** ![fairgentleman\_Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fairgentleman_z/32/7263_2.png) [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/67 "2014-01-06T18:45:39Z")
So my drive from Tonawanda to Elmarillacaster went like this: - Top of the 190, good visibility 1 mile plus, snow pavement mix, passing people 50+ mph, because I am a tool. - Middle to bottom of the 190, poor visibility 1/4 mile, with gusts bring it down to 200 feet, passing people 40 mph, because I am a tool. - 90, poor visibility, heavy traffic, couldn’t get by anyone. But, they are all pussies. - 400 on ramp, I own this shit, pass a dude on the left, then one on the right, then another on the left, and then a Navigator cuts me off. Bad visibility, gusts bring it to 50 feet. - 400 screw these fools with the four ways going, pass 'em all. Visibility 50 feet, but no traffic. I am so awesome. Oh, wait, well, maybe this is the lane, visibility 20 feet, just enough for me to avoid hitting the Union “EXIT” sign as I jump a small snow pile at the crotch of the “Y”. O.K., I’ll slow down a little. Light icing of the windshield. Going 20 mph, this is the right lane, I can make out the edge of the road. I mean this is the left lane, I can make out the shadow of the median. That’s a road sign, I shouldn’t be driving straight at that, I’m about 20\* off. Slow it down to 15 mph, visibility 5 feet, gust taking it down to 0. Can barely make out other tracks. Had zero visual references. Gusts creating a vertigo effect. Maybe I should just ride rumble strips, that’s the right rumble turn left, that’s the right rumble turn left, that’s the right rumble turn left, shit! that was the left rumble turn right. Once in a while I could follow a guardrail, by the time I got to Transit the windshield was iced over, I had my head out the window following the median, slow enough to hear the crunching of the snow, no cars visible anywhere. - Transit, cars, but still no visibility, skip going to the grocery store, pull over on Bullis and clean my windshield. More 15 mph guessing game all the way home trying to follow mailboxes on the right. ---
**Author:** ![livin4hockey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@livin4hockey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/livin4hockey)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/68 "2014-01-06T19:15:31Z")
> [@Motocrossx23](#): > > Work called, I’m sleeping in tomorrow. Beer time! > [@KuntryQuestTSi](#): > > I also just got the no school text. > My neighboring farm wants me to ride over for beers. Seeing he works at a different school that’s closed. I’m not going outside > > Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk Little late to the party but :oj: surprised I got a call tonight considering I’m out near LeRoy. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyballs69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@donkeyballs69](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/donkeyballs69)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/69 "2014-01-06T19:35:41Z")
Work called me off, time to get the moon boots out! ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/70 "2014-01-06T19:44:10Z")
> [@fairgentleman Z](#): > > So my drive from Tonawanda to Elmarillacaster went like this: > > - Top of the 190, good visibility 1 mile plus, snow pavement mix, passing people 50+ mph, because I am a tool. > - Middle to bottom of the 190, poor visibility 1/4 mile, with gusts bring it down to 200 feet, passing people 40 mph, because I am a tool. > - 90, poor visibility, heavy traffic, couldn’t get by anyone. But, they are all pussies. > - 400 on ramp, I own this shit, pass a dude on the left, then one on the right, then another on the left, and then a Navigator cuts me off. Bad visibility, gusts bring it to 50 feet. > - 400 screw these fools with the four ways going, pass 'em all. Visibility 50 feet, but no traffic. I am so awesome. Oh, wait, well, maybe this is the lane, visibility 20 feet, just enough for me to avoid hitting the Union “EXIT” sign as I jump a small snow pile at the crotch of the “Y”. O.K., I’ll slow down a little. Light icing of the windshield. Going 20 mph, this is the right lane, I can make out the edge of the road. I mean this is the left lane, I can make out the shadow of the median. That’s a road sign, I shouldn’t be driving straight at that, I’m about 20\* off. Slow it down to 15 mph, visibility 5 feet, gust taking it down to 0. Can barely make out other tracks. Had zero visual references. Gusts creating a vertigo effect. Maybe I should just ride rumble strips, that’s the right rumble turn left, that’s the right rumble turn left, that’s the right rumble turn left, shit! that was the left rumble turn right. Once in a while I could follow a guardrail, by the time I got to Transit the windshield was iced over, I had my head out the window following the median, slow enough to hear the crunching of the snow, no cars visible anywhere. > - Transit, cars, but still no visibility, skip going to the grocery store, pull over on Bullis and clean my windshield. More 15 mph guessing game all the way home trying to follow mailboxes on the right. You’re one of those people who rocket by everyone on the ragged edge who I beep to as I drive by them in the ditch a mile down the road. ---
**Author:** ![Bull49](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bull49/32/7381_2.png) [@Bull49](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bull49)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/71 "2014-01-06T19:50:20Z")
driving ban in east aurora and eden too. ---
**Author:** ![Clean\_Baldy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/clean_baldy/32/7308_2.png) [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/72 "2014-01-06T19:53:54Z")
I can’t remember the last time my office closed due to weather. Honestly, I can remember. We’re closed tomorrow. It must be snowing fireballs and is -500° outside. I am afraid to even open my blinds to see what it looks like out there, for fear my soul will be sucked out of my eye sockets. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/73 "2014-01-06T20:02:10Z")
I’m half tempted to go driving around the city, lol. > [@ProgRocker](#): > > see you in game +1 in a few :tup: ---
**Author:** ![llink78](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/llink78/32/8037_2.png) [@llink78](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/llink78)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/74 "2014-01-06T20:10:01Z")
Nothing better than taking the quad out on city streets 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/75 "2014-01-06T20:26:33Z")
I just watched half of my clients listed on the closings on the news Man it’s cold out ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/76 "2014-01-06T20:28:32Z")
Went to French road and back to EA. ZERO visibility at times, insane. Semi truck literally forced me off the road at Knox Farm State park, thank God I was driving the Ferd Fteenthousand. I ran over something when I went off road, it sounded and felt bad but the Ferd seemed to handle it. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/77 "2014-01-06T20:49:36Z")
This storm sucks I just drove from Detroit to St Louis and it was a cluster fuck ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/78 "2014-01-06T21:20:30Z")
Not that bad here yet, cold and windy but nothing insane. I just drove about 20-30 minutes each way and the only crazy shit was 2 people walking, 1 with only a hoodie on. It’s nice when there’s no cars on the road, I do what I want! 😉 Glad you got in safe LZ. Must have been a fun drive/journey. ---
**Author:** ![LUKE\_L](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/luke_l/32/7462_2.png) [@LUKE\_L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LUKE_L)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/79 "2014-01-06T21:37:58Z")
West Seneca is a Shit Show…Travel Bans up. There are cars abandoned on Seneca Street. Lackawanna is in a State of Emergency. Of all days for my sump to break…$19 and a trip to SS and it is back up and running. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Haenszel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Haenszel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Haenszel)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439/80 "2014-01-06T21:44:26Z")
There’s not all that much snow… but there’s literally zero tire tracks on some of the main streets of Hamburg. Really weird. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439.md?page=3) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowicewindpocalypse-jan-2014/234439.md?page=5)