Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

alexpops · Mar 1, 2023

yeah ... the casinos used to pay to keep 50 open, but 80 used to shut down all the time.

BigBlue1 · Mar 1, 2023

deezler said:
Lot of hack job towing going on in this video. All of the sierra mountains are absolutely CRUSHED by snow right now. Not sure I've seen sno above the power lines before. Too much snow to go skiing! bummer.

That's epic! Lucky bastards! I miss those days here in MN...

deezler · Mar 1, 2023

kenmbz said:
They used to close these passes in the 80s and 90s and I guess they forgot about doing this since they have not had heavy snows in years.
Totally mismanaged and no learning from history. Like what happened to the Donner party.

I mean, just about all the highways show as "closed" right now on google maps traffic. I think they are, but probably not barricaded off. Lotta idiots still attempting to take their ill-equipped luxury cars and brodozers through the pass anyway. I'm not sure I would have much patience for that if I were driving the road grader..... (smash).

jjeff · Mar 1, 2023

I like snow but admit that's just to much of it.

California · Mar 1, 2023

deezler said:
Lot of hack job towing going on in this video. All of the sierra mountains are absolutely CRUSHED by snow right now. Not sure I've seen sno above the power lines before. Too much snow to go skiing! bummer.

Yeah. Last night I sent that vid's link, to my cousin and his wife who have a 3 story 'cabin

' on one of the streets shown. Like in the vid their snow can be 3~4 times the height of the parked cars, level with their second-story deck.

His wife's reply this morning:

Will definitely share this with our Serene Lakes neighbors and friends. Sure reminds us of the winter of 1979 when we had to dig out our cars before the county would come by with their plows and blowers. Five of us spent all day Christmas digging out our cars. We weren’t even sure where they were as the entire road was filled with snow.

I put in a few weekends helping my cousin build that place in 1981. Double income, no kids, they are now comfortably retired. Ski from there, spend spring and fall in Arizona, sometimes home in the SF Bay Area.

The RR plow leaves 3 ft ice berms blocking access in/out to their neighborhood. One year I found a line of cars waiting for the county to clear the berm. Gunned the Wagoneer and crashed up and over the berms on each side, inertia in place of traction. Nobody in their Lexus SUV's or mall-cruiser raised pickups followed me.

ning · Mar 1, 2023

deezler said:
Lot of hack job towing going on in this video. All of the sierra mountains are absolutely CRUSHED by snow right now. Not sure I've seen sno above the power lines before. Too much snow to go skiing! bummer.

omg
he attached the tow strap to the spoke of the wheel
and it may've been an AWD car too, that wheel turned (the opposite direction from the wrap force too)

California · Mar 1, 2023

kenmbz said:
They used to close these passes in the 80s and 90s and I guess they forgot about doing this since they have not had heavy snows in years.
Totally mismanaged and no learning from history. Like what happened to the Donner party.

My wife said the news last night reported 70 miles of I-80 closed, that would be about Auburn to the Nevada state line. Caltrans needs it closed so the plow trucks can work without having to go around all the spun-out SUV's.

Along with the safety hazard of flatlanders driving in whiteout conditions, hurrying to get home.

It's normal on an ordinary ski weekend to see a few SUV's stuffed backward into the roadside snowbanks. Nobody buys snow tires in California. Road-skiiing on 'All-Season' tires doesn't work too well.

deezler · Mar 1, 2023

ning said:
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omg
he attached the tow strap to the spoke of the wheel
and it may've been an AWD car too, that wheel turned (the opposite direction from the wrap force too)

That part had me laughing out loud. A wheel is a strong thing to pull a vehicle from, if you can't find any place better. But then the guy has the car in reverse and is punching the gas? And the pickup is getting all jostled around from it, and no one is screaming to stop? ridiculous. Leave the idiot behind to get buried by the snow plows.

jjeff · Mar 1, 2023

Maybe he thought it would work like a winch lol.

California · Mar 1, 2023

deezler said:
That part had me laughing out loud. A wheel is a strong thing to pull a vehicle from, if you can't find any place better. ... Leave the idiot behind to get buried by the snow plows.

Look how far the idiot is out from the snow poles. He's blocking at the minimum one traffic lane plus the emergency-parking lane. Looks like two traffic lanes blocked. He likely stalled where he was driving in a snowy lane, lost traction, got snowed in.

The Caltrans maintenance-division guy with the pickup isn't going to risk tearing the idiot's bumper off. This isn't his first rodeo. Tying to the wheel is the only place he can't damage. (But he probably assumed 2wd). He likely has been towing idiots off the road all day, responsible for prepping so the plows can get through.

That's not an elegant solution to the blocked lane but this is all-hands-on-deck just get out there and get the road open again, whatever it takes. And using whatever you have, to tow with. Those Maintenance Division guys are proud of how fast they can get the Sierra passes open and back to safe driving condition.