Cold Starting Problem...

**clocker** · 10-31-2009, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by j2k4

A red penis extension, at that.

I wanted the symbolism easily grasped.

Here's one for you Kev...DaYoopers Rusty Chevrolet.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IgzksUqpQ[/youtube]

**j2k4** · 10-31-2009, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

Originally Posted by j2k4

A red penis extension, at that.

I wanted the symbolism easily grasped.

Here's one for you Kev...DaYoopers Rusty Chevrolet.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IgzksUqpQ[/youtube]

Yeah, I believe that was filmed just down the road.

Da Yoopers "Tourist Trap" is just down the road as well; out front they have a working chainsaw (about 12-15' long) powered by a small-block Chevy.

True story.

Oh, yeah-

Here it is:

http://www.dayoopers.com/thetrap.html

**j2k4** · 11-01-2009, 12:30 AM

Okay, here we go-

This was kind of different - we'd lost all of our snow to spring, then had a front roll through - I woke up for work and opened my front door only to find the top eighteen inches or so open, so I got dressed for shoveling and jumped out the hole as best I could, found my snow shovel by feel, then found my way to my car, etc.

This pic was from two or three days later, all shoveled and plowed.

This would have been (I think) about mid-April of '95.

That's my Grand Prix peeking through the hole.

That storm was probably 32" snowfall, all of it between midnite and six am.

This was the same storm, after my plow guy had back-bladed his way to my car, which I had to move before he could continue.

This is the view out the back door of one of the state liquor stores I used to run.

It used to snow every day - it was 35 miles north of my home (where the other storm pics came from), and the snowfall was significantly heavier in that distance.

This pic was from about mid-October of '96.

This one was the store parking lot (about the same time) which, as I recall, was about 50'x80'; these snowbanks were about 2-3 days accumulation; I had to have a front-end loader come in with a dump-truck every Friday to keep the snow below the power lines.

That's my G.P. again, on the right (where it belongs).

**j2k4** · 11-01-2009, 12:32 AM

Shit.

Bear with me, gang...ah, that's better.

**clocker** · 11-01-2009, 01:06 AM

We have a real love/hate relationship with snow here...we want it to snow like hell in the mountains but not here.
Which is usually the way it goes.

The ski areas love it when the Broncos play on Monday Night Football and it snows...people book vacations, fly into DIA and see no snow at all and wonder WTF happened.

We just laugh and laugh.

**j2k4** · 11-01-2009, 03:20 AM

We have that (and I'm sure you do, too) with the snowmobilers - they get in their diesel duallie rigs, pulling a four-sled trailer down the road, driving all over the countryside in search of snow, never once having checked a forecast.

Talked to a fellow from downstate Illinois at a gas station early last winter; he said he'd driven to the Montana border across Iowa, South Dakota, etc., then driven back across North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the U.P. without taking his Thundercat off the trailer once..

We really haven't had a "winter-worth-a-damn" since the El Nino/La Nina cycle of '95-'96.

Snow fall rarely breaks the 250" barrier anymore, and we don't get any real storms before the first of the year.

Fine with me, that is.

**brotherdoobie** · 11-01-2009, 03:53 AM

Winter is kinda cool. Apple cider, snowballs, watching people slip on ice, hot chocolate, cabins and sex on rugs, like.

Oh, and Christmas. I love Christmas.

-doobs

**clocker** · 11-01-2009, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by j2k4

We have that...

The point of my story is that the ski areas do have lots of snow but Denver doesn't.
It can be a blizzard in Vail and nary a flake down here, but tourists deplane expecting a winter wonderland- like the one they saw on Monday night.