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Post by 81pumagtc on Dec 24, 2015 20:11:41 GMT -5
Merry Christmas everybody!
Show of hands, how many members will be taking their VW's out sometime during the holiday?
Dave Riedle
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Post by vwrick69 on Dec 24, 2015 22:24:16 GMT -5
MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!!!!! Probably won't get DC out, too much mud.......
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Post by MadMike on Dec 25, 2015 8:39:33 GMT -5
I'm driving the Bus  we Have no Electric(windstorm) same thing as last year  ,No problem, I'm cooking the roast in the woodcook stoves oven anyhow  |
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Post by MadMike on Dec 27, 2015 7:31:11 GMT -5
Took the bus down to the river and filled 100 year old cream cans w/water for the Horses,These cans were use by my Grand parents for the same thing  |
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Post by 81pumagtc on Dec 27, 2015 10:13:12 GMT -5
How long will it be before you get your power back?
Dave Riedle
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Post by MadMike on Dec 28, 2015 5:56:48 GMT -5
It's back on, only took them 3 days |
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Post by 81pumagtc on Dec 28, 2015 11:34:51 GMT -5
That's good! They are saying that we are going to get killed by an ice storm this evening...
Got the generator all gassed up!
Dave
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Post by MadMike on Dec 29, 2015 7:11:36 GMT -5
We finally got snow,over a foot and still coming down Glen & Budd picked up the VolksRod yesterday about 1pm ,, just before the storm ,, hope they made it home safe & sound??? |
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Post by Southpaw on Dec 29, 2015 10:52:26 GMT -5
Yes Mike we did and Thank You .
6:00 am Bud picked me up , 7:00 picked up trailer , good ride up saw roads being treated way up North , picked car , weather man said 3:00 PM it would start it did ....... Drove thru all the warnings with car trailer in tow.Snow , sleet freezing rain , heavy cross winds .
From way North of Grand Rapids NOT ONE plow for the next 150 miles or so . We were down to 35-40 mph and in 4x4 . slush between lanes was getting up to maybe 5" and people still passing . Saw a tractor trailer rig with a trailer his ass end at times swaying back & forth a foot till he got to a rest area .
We got to Bud's road ........ it starts with a HILL ....... after 3 trys we backed down back out on the main road "river bottom" still have a HILL but not as steep and had a few more cars over it . we made it up and on to M43 drove 3 miles into town then North a mile to Bud's road . now we still have 2 more hills , one mild and the second steeper and higher but you get a running charge at it and we did it . now I need to back in the trailer to unload , only took two trys to get back far enough due to lack of traction on 4" of BB's . got unloaded and still have to return trailer a another 70 mile round trip got home 10:30 PM .... What a day .....
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Post by MadMike on Dec 31, 2015 6:22:52 GMT -5
 Wow,, So glad u made it,, budd never called,,, so ,I thought no news was good news
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Post by vanapplebomb on Jan 1, 2016 14:48:51 GMT -5
Lower Michigan sucks at maintaining roads in the winter. A lot of places don't bother sending the plows out until six or seven in the morning...even if it was snowing all afternoon and the night before. Up in the Keweenaw pininsual they would come by with a plow truck or road grader (with side plow so they can clear two lanes at once) every hour or two even it it was just flurries. Then when it isn't snowing they cut the banks along the roads back with giant diesel snow blowers and load it into trucks and dump it outside the city to keep the roads wide and reduce snow drifting back onto the roads. They don't let the snow build up in the first place. 2014 when we had 338 inches of snow, there was not one snow day. 8 inches a night was pretty normal, yet there was hardly ever more than a couple inches of snow on the roads at any given time night or day. Expensive? Yeah, but man is it nice. Lol
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Post by MadMike on Jan 2, 2016 8:56:22 GMT -5
I here ya Dirk,, Lazyass flatlanders/Cityidoit road commisions  we have a new county driver and took him till 12:30pm to make a pass down my 'Boulevard' |
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Post by gokart on Jan 5, 2016 12:57:36 GMT -5
Merry Christmas everybody! Show of hands, how many members will be taking their VW's out sometime during the holiday? Dave Riedle I drove the Thing to the beach on Christmas day. |
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Post by 81pumagtc on Jan 5, 2016 13:47:52 GMT -5
Might be mighty cold today...it was 11 degrees when I looked this morning...
Dave
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Post by MadMike on Jan 5, 2016 15:29:16 GMT -5
My bus looks like a 'Hightop' with a foot of snow on it  |
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we Have no Electric(windstorm) same thing as last year 
,No problem, I'm cooking the roast in the woodcook stoves oven anyhow 
Wow,, So glad u made it,, budd never called,,, so ,I thought no news was good news 
