snowed in from noth ga

[/pine]

Thanks for the tips...should be OK then...

 

[Wakey]

Just to be clear.. We have an icing problem, not a 3 inch snow problem. People here, in and around metro Atlanta still aren't home while leaving at mid-day. I'll also point out that we have a ton of people living here from the North East that supposedly know about driving in these conditions.

You'll see it on your local news tomorrow, trust me.

 

[Wakey]

Check it out.. Wow. https://www.facebook.com/groups/397839673695382/

 

[JimRB]

I got 8 round bales of rye grass in this blizzard (not) today. 2 in the bed of my truck and a second trip with 2 in the bed and 4 on the trailer. We were supposed to get hit but it all went northwest 30 miles. I see an inch of snow on the wooden railing but not so much on the ground. I was happy to have off today as I would not have been happy with a 6 hour drive home which some people were suffering. I guess I need to call the weather line at work to see if we are open tomorrow. I suspect not as the mess will still be there if abandon cars and truck are in the way of sand trucks. What is confusing is they spent a fair bit of money putting installing new satellite quonsets to cover gravel piles after they got caught with their pants down 2 years ago. Weatherman was predicting a mess for at least a day. They just missed the prediction by 30-50 miles. There was plenty of gravel to be spread. Just no one driving trucks or operating loaders.

 

[PMA]

Skytime We are looking at the same type of snow here in NC. Dont listen to the Yankee's for tractor advice !!!! Remember they re elected Obama for his second term. Just my thoughts.

Now that was funny. Good one NC redneck.

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[3930dave]

I'm sort of in the same boat...in N.E GA and have about 4 inches...it's not expected to melt for a day or two...can a regular car drive safely with this much snow? should I blade it off?

BTW...I just ordered a set of 2-link chains for my golf cart...I learned last year "they don't go in the snow"...

Any short and sweet advice for a snow virgin moving snow with a (reversible) rear blade? also have a rake and BB...

Front wheel drive cars have a natural advantage in snow - the weight of the engine is over the drive wheels. Still, take it easy, many all-season tires aren't great on ice, or even snow.

The worst thing to drive is a 2wd open-diff pickup truck, esp. empty. 4wd trucks get going faster, but they don't really STOP any better.

Until a hard freeze (which you won't see) sets in, on a gravel drive I'll push snow with the rear blade reversed (less aggressive face). It tends to grab less non-frozen-in-place gravel that way, and also is a bit more forgiving if you push up against something you can't see hidden in the snow - like a short stump. Go slow, and be prepared (pedal pin out) to steer with brakes if needed.

Treat your diesel, if you haven't already.

Stay safe.

Rgds, D.

 

[Larro Darro]

Here in Calhoun County Florida the sleet is still 30-40 miles to the north and west of us. But the schools and courthouse is going to be closed tomorrow anyway. I don't have to go anywhere until Thursday morning, so it doesn't impact me so much. My wife is heading to Orlando for a conference, so at least one of us will be warm.

Larro

 

[Thomas]

Agree wait it out,warmer temps do better job removing snow than FEL..no lawn damage or ruts.

 

[mark02tj]

Hey, day off is a day off, full pot of coffee, dogs are happy Daddy's home
it'll melt sooner or later. Too many EXPERTS on the road right now!

I'm supposed to have an 11:00 conference call with a customer in ATL (Tucker) this morning. From your pics, I'm guessing that they won't be in today! Emailed another customer located in midtown-ATL yesterday afternoon. They shut down their office at 1;00 pm yesterday and sent everyone home. The gal I emailed lives south of the city. I got an email from her around 3:15 yesterday. She had made it through downtown and was expecting at least another 1.5 hours to get the rest of the way home. I've been in ATL when it's snowed about an inch and it really screws up traffic all over the city!

You'll see it on your local news tomorrow, trust me.

Yup - just saw live pictures of what looked to be I-75/85 running through downtown. NOTHING moving this morning.

Good luck to y'all down there. A lot of the folks where it snows a lot are making fun of you guys for not knowing how to handle it. But you guys don't have the removal equipment that we do up here.

 

[The Fred]

Thanks for the pictures folks please stay safe.

Fred

 

[Wakey]

A quick video I shot yesterday evening.

 

[joecdeere]

+1 on not having the proper equipment here, worst part is they always wait until everyone trys to escape town before they start treating the roads, by then thousands of cars and trucks are in the way. There are over a million people working in the ATL area, if they all leave pretty much at once and there is ice, it's not gonna be good. I grew up here, the snow isn't a problem, it's just that it half way melts as cars keep driving on it, then it re-freezes into ice you can't stand up on. (preaching to the choir I know!) The worst thing around here are the housewives in their giant SUV's rushing home to pick the kids up at school! DO NOT get in their way. Oh well, only supposed to get up to 30 degrees today, then 9 again tonight. It will be here a day or two!

 

[joecdeere]

Wakey, where are you located?

 

[MarkV]

Ya it is a mess here. I know ya'll up North are not impressed but ice is ice and people are just not equipped for it here. I was in the N. Georgia mountains at our cabin and made the drive to our W. Georgia home not long after it started. The normal 2 hour drive took 8 1/2 yesterday. If it hadn't been for a good samaritan with a 4 wheel drive truck that got me up one section of mountain road it would have been a long night in the car. I am sure I saw at least 200 cars in ditches on the way home. This mornings news says many on I 20 west of ATL had to spend the night in there cars. A number of major highways are shut down where big rigs jack knifed and the wreckers can't reach them because of ice. The temps are not going to reach 32 today so things are going to stay a mess for awhile.

MarkV

 

[Larro Darro]

The ice got down my way sometime after midnight last night. Glad I don't have to go anywhere. Here is a satirical look at the Atlanta situation from a guy I know on Tomahawk Nation. It's pretty funny.

Larro

 

[Gary Fowler]

my driveway up to the house is steep with a slight turn at the bottom, well this idiot sweeped the snow off and tried to take my yamaha golf cart down it and locked the brakes up and did about 3 full turns on my way to the bottom made it to the bottom and wen to check you the road at the end of my drive way and its covered and slick, i wish i could get my tractor out to plow, i dont think id make it down the hill so far we have about 3 inches, 3 more than we were supposed to get.

Golf cart tires are about as useless for traction as you could get. First time it snowed here, I thought I would use the cart to do some chores, I got the back tires about half way out of the garage and it wouldn't go forward or back. I managed to push it back into the garage. Wife got it stuck in some small bit of mud trying to go across the pond dike on a road we have there. After that, I got some bar lug tires from Buggiesunlimited.com and it was an almost unstoppable beast with those tires on it. Looked pretty cool too with them on front and back. Now we use the RTV and rarely get the golf cart out.
You should have no problem driving the tractor on that little bit of snow. Where it gets really tricky is if you have a bit of freezing rain that coats everything in black ice, then snows on top of it, then nothing short of tire chains will be safe to drive with.

 

[Wakey]

Wakey, where are you located?

Off Peachtree Pkwy. (HWY 141) How about you?

 

[Gary Fowler]

You guys are so lucky to have some snow. My wife has been B----ing for all winter because we haven't gotten any snow this year. I woke her up early yesterday (8am) to watch a few snow flakes fall for about an hour. Tiny little things that one could barely see. Clear skies and cold is mostly all we are getting with the occasional cloudy day. A little white covering over everything would be a welcome sight here. I don't have to go out on the roads every day like some, so I can just sit and look out my window while I view TBN and admire the view.

 

[joecdeere]

Campground RD off Hwy 9 in Midway. Right behind the Meal House Restaurant if you know where that is. Grew up on farm where St Ives CC is now. Sure has changed!