storm of the century

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Boy, I bet that was fun w/out heat

Heat is overrated. Amirite Twist?

[twisteroo]

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Boy, I bet that was fun w/out heat

Heat is overrated. Amirite Twist?

I do remember that at a rest stop some guy offered me $50 for my Sorrels, I mean at least I hope he meant my boots. Either way I knifed him and left him for dead.
I also remember the gas gauge didn't work and I'd be driving in the shitty deep snow in like 2nd or 3rd gear for hours and I'd stop to get gas every chance I had because I had no idea how much I was using. Then the closed the highway down in WV, and I remember thinking that if I couldn't get off the road and find somewhere with heat that we were gonna die. The would find our frozen bodies in the car the next day.

Speaking of that kinda stuff. Anyone see this?
http://www.rgj.com/viewart/20131210/NEWS/312100032/

Now I wasn't there and I really didn't study the whole ordeal to know all the facts. But......My first move would have been to get the six of us or however many of us that could provide a tiny bit of muscle rocking that fucking jeep, roll it back onto it's wheels and drive the fuck outta there.
Again, I wasn't there and don't claim to know all the facts.

Here's a pic, not knowing if the jeep would run or not after up righted, (I'm guessing it would) I think a full grown man and woman could roll that back over on it's wheels. Or I mean just me by myself.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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From the angle that Jeep's lying, I'd say you can upright that thing with 6 people. Hell, the engine should still run upside down anyway to provide some kind of heat. And how do you wind up upside down? Look at the tire tracks? am I missing something?

[LKTraz]

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Hell yeah they could have righted it. Just goes to show how damned stupid people are these days.

It looks like there is almost no damage to it either. Maybe a few little dents where it rolled but nothing that couldn't be fixed at a body shop. Probably would have started right back up and they could have driven themselves away.

Come the zombie apocalypse those folks are food.

[TenFour]

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Hell yeah they could have righted it. Just goes to show how damned stupid people are these days.

It looks like there is almost no damage to it either. Maybe a few little dents where it rolled but nothing that couldn't be fixed at a body shop. Probably would have started right back up and they could have driven themselves away.

Come the zombie apocalypse those folks are food.

excellent suggestion this thread is now about preparing for disasters

[twisteroo]

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Three of the kids were little and one was a 10 year old girl. I'm thinking that myself a woman and a 10 year old girl could have rocked that thing back onto it's wheels.
I doubt that the engine would run very long upside down, the oil being in the wrong place at the wrong time would probably kill it in pretty short order.

But to the guys credit, the did survive.

[AnthonyG]

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If they weren't going to attempt to flip it over they should have taken the tires off and set them on fire if they could, one at a time for heat and possibly to get attention. Tires burn for a very long time granted its kinda toxic but hey, you do what you gotta do. The smart move though was staying with the jeep regardless of flipping it or not. Its when people leave the automobile to get help they heavily risk surviving the situation.

[BarEdul]

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That whole situation sucked...

Remanents of the sto here a damn icy pile that is hard as hell to get a huge g 20 van over and leave the exhaust on

[MaryPat]

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I think the worst snow storm of the century was in 93 when ithad all the state Road, well everything shut down. I‘ll never forget that storm.

[ralgith]

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I think the worst snow storm of the century was in 93 when ithad all the state Road, well everything shut down. I‘ll never forget that storm.

'93 is part of the previous century