the men of the PNW are really women

[benetton]

Karma was a bitch to me today. So after driving from one side of gig harbor to the other yesterday which took two hours instead of the normal 5 minutes and karma decided to play hardball. I was driving to a friends house who was snowed in and a friend was ahead of me on the road in the traffic jam and she ended up sliding down a hill backwards off the road, so there was my first rescue. Then i had to go pickup someone who left their lights on so their battery was dead. all the while passing hundreds of cars crashed into gaurd rails, in the ditch or just left on the side of the road because they couldnt make it any farther. We finally make it to the house we were going to. And the two girls remark "wow you're car is really good in the snow" no one believed my ix would make it. so today comes and the plan is to go rescue these two stranded cars.


All 5 of us pile in the ix and take off on 5 inches of packed snow with areas of ice. We make it to the first car and i drive it the rest of the way down the hill she slid down and we are off to costco to jumpstart the second car. I jumpstart the other girls car and then i get back in the e30 to go pickup the other people at the opposite side of the costco parking lot. I start driving and notice that the temp gauge is in the red but when i start moving the needle starts dropping. I get to an intersection in the parking lot and have to wait for everyone and their mother to turn into costco....needle starts climbing again, throw her in reverse and park and immediately shut her off. Whistling and steam is coming from the engine bay, while all i think is fuck me. My friend walking over says" uhh i think somethings wrong with your car" me- "no shit enstein she's fucked"
so long story short my dad comes in the x3 with some coolant and we fill her back up and start the engine to see where the coolant was leaking from. Ended up only being a hose clamp that came loose on the water pump and was dripping but when it got hot enough decided to shoot shit everywhere. I guess i was leaking some coolant and it got low enough to where she overheated while idling. what a day i do something good and this is how karma treats me, that bitch.

[gwb72tii]

i am absolutely ashamed at your language young man
you are too young to be talking that way
only old farts like blunt and me get to say "fuck"
you're grounded

btw - you really had good karma as it wasn't a blown headgasket or freeze plug or somesuch bigger problemo

[Jparkr]

People in the harbor are pretty stupid this time of year. Not everyone, but most...

[nando]

you should have seen the looks of the neighbors faces when I came up the street aiming for all the 2 foot drifts.. and then go up the steep ice covered driveway and into the garage. their cars were all stuck in their driveways and it looked like they had been digging out for hours.

I also drove about 40 miles in a blizzard at midnite on saturday.. that actually kind of sucked. No traction problems but I could only see about 5 feet in front of me, sometimes less depending on the wind. It took 2 and a half hours instead of the usual 45 minutes.. lucky being so late there wasn't any traffic. Unfortunately there were no snow plows or tracks on the road either, so I drove in the middle of the two lanes since I really had no idea where the road was.

[Kruzen]

So is the snow really fucking bad there right now? Glad I missed it.. I can only imagine how fucked gig harbor is right now since no one there has any fucking clue how to drive and its all back roads.

[h0lmes]

So is the snow really fucking bad there right now? Glad I missed it.. I can only imagine how fucked gig harbor is right now since no one there has any fucking clue how to drive and its all back roads.

There is about a foot and a half here in Bellingham. My car is completely burried.

[nickpdx]

The whole PNW is fucked right now! It's actually a rather unbelievable snowstorm for Western Oregon/Washington...been going on for like 8 days now too. :(

[CorvallisBMW]

So, Blunt.....The snow covering the path between my back door and my garage is now 3 ft deep. The snow in my front yard is 2 feet deep. And the cars left in the driveway have nearly 1" of frozen rain covering them, followed by another 6" of snow. And the snow drifts around them are anywhere from 1'-2' tall. Still think we're women? I'd like to see you handle this. AND REMEMBER, WE HAVE HILLS.

:)

[blunttech]

So, Blunt.....The snow covering the path between my back door and my garage is now 3 ft deep. The snow in my front yard is 2 feet deep. And the cars left in the driveway have nearly 1" of frozen rain covering them, followed by another 6" of snow. And the snow drifts around them are anywhere from 1'-2' tall. Still think we're women? I'd like to see you handle this. AND REMEMBER, WE HAVE HILLS.

:)

i also have something id like to see you handle. but all that shit will be gone in a few days. it that hit here it would be here till april.

[CorvallisBMW]

i also have something id like to see you handle. but all that shit will be gone in a few days. it that hit here it would be here till april.

ummm, and that's a good thing?

[benetton]

I also drove about 40 miles in a blizzard at midnite on saturday.. that actually kind of sucked. No traction problems but I could only see about 5 feet in front of me, sometimes less depending on the wind. It took 2 and a half hours instead of the usual 45 minutes.. lucky being so late there wasn't any traffic. Unfortunately there were no snow plows or tracks on the road either, so I drove in the middle of the two lanes since I really had no idea where the road was.

me too, i drove the chef from the restaurant i work at from gig harbor to bremerton and back saturday night with no more than .5 mile of visibility . no traction problems and i took it easy on the way there, on my way out of bremerton there was an e30 burried in snow sitting on the shoulder. On the way back i decided to test the ix a little more and she performed beautifully. Hitting 10 inch snow drifts at 50 while passing cars was quite fun. Driving around during the day is fun because people give you the weirdest looks when you go cruising passed them up hills in a "little bmw"

[Farbin Kaiber]

There is not any snow on the ground here, quite a strange winter, and, I finally have a face to go with the username gwb72tii. Exactly what I imagined.

[assoutE12]

none at all? thats crazy, when I went up there a couple winters ago that shit was insane. carved out an audi sized parking spot out of a snow drift with a cookie sheet.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I'm working outside, in a tshirt. Not right now, but you know what I mean, last winter it didn't get above ten degrees most of January, there was a high of fifty a few days ago...

[Pantless Spency]

I'm working outside, in a tshirt. Not right now, but you know what I mean, last winter it didn't get above ten degrees most of January, there was a high of fifty a few days ago...

the seasons are a changing.