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Yes it does, a small pile of really hard snow at the end of the driveway, at -20 will destroy the plastic bumper cover on a Chevy Tahoe.....

This weather officially sucks.

My next day off is MLK day. We're not even allowed in the building...but we can work on Christmas if we want. Bassackwards if you ask me.

Well....

on 44 weeks til deer camp. Or 308 days but who's counting?

Don't even get me started on Chevy Tahoe's and broken parts!

Take it easy out there Rooster. visibility going to be down to zero if they're right. Wouldn't be surprised if they close I94.

I'm not sure it's supposed to snow this far south, but man the north sure doesn't need anymore snow!

Thanks Bill. I'll be traveling I 90 and then I 29 North. Some of the most wide open, desolate country in the region. This is gonna be a real treat.

You might be ahead of it Jim (Hopefully). Keep checking on the conditions.

Update, wife just told me schools will be closed in most of MN on Monday?

Yep. -60*F windchills. As a dad to little kids...I do agree with this move. Though I would have just brought them to school if they didn't close it. I wouldn't make em wait for the bus in those temps.

I was actually planning on doing something that used to make me laugh when I saw it: Driving the little guy a block to the bus stop and having him stay inside it until we saw the bus.

Granted, I laughed at it when I saw it done and the temp was 20-30 degree ABOVE zero, but still......

Daughter just called. She teaches in the Mosinee school district. They're closed Monday along with Everyone else in Marathon and Portage counties.

I am getting ready to go to work and just looked at the temp. It is 5 above, maychance I orta go start the truck and let the old girl warm up a wee bit.I know it ain't anything like you guys are having, but it is the coldest we've had this year. Another week or so and we might even get out on the ice. See you later, nearly time to go babysit halfwits.
Bill

Made it!

It was a combination of high wind and drifting snow. High wind and pillow drifts. High wind and streaky ice. High wind and rain. High wind and glare ice. High wind and snow. It was an interesting trip!

That said, the inventory went smoother than it ever has in this companies 40 year history. From all accounts, it appears that the powers that be are very impressed and happy.

So, I'm having a drink the size of my head right now! lol

P.S. There was LOTS of cars in the ditch in that stretch. Why can't people just learn to slow down?

Glad you made it safely. I grew up between Fargo and Grand Forks and know what you are talking about on the highways there. Family still lives in that area and said it was bad all day.

Between Grand Forks and Fargo is always bad. Especially when you hit that one bridge by Hillsboro I think it is. I deer hunted by Grand Forks one time and 3 of us in 4wd pickups were following each other driving home in this kind of weather. We came over the bridge and there was a state tropper sitting there in a blind spot because someone had hit the ruhbarb and was way down the ditch. The trooper was blocking half the damn lane. While, I see him at the last second and played Dukes of Hazzard around him completely sideways going downhill and got straightened out somehow! I looked in my mirror and seen both my buddies trucks turn sideways and straighten out just like I had done. I laughed and thought now THAT's boys that know how to drive!

Yeah, the only way one leans to drive in it, is to drive in it.

Goofin around in the trucks in fields, parking lots and snow filled back roads is about the beat way to figure out how your rig reacts.

I was curious if you made the trip safely, I went from south Fargo to North Moorhead for lunch today, the trip back to South Fargo was slippery as hell with 2 vehicles on their side and another 3 had got together at the 25th street overpass/onramp...and this was all within a couple miles.

I believe the bridge is near Buxton ND, and I have seen many vehicles with the shiny side down...

Yep Tzone, that is so correct. My cousin and I had a great time learning to drive in a bean field that had froze one year and then we got some warm weather so it was greasy on top. I really learned a lot that day. For one, I learned that my cousin's hands were strong enough to leave permament marks on the dash from grabbing on so hard in fear of his life from my driving skills (at the age of about 13)! I did make it across the approach over the deep ditch though. Somehow. He still talks about it....with fear evident in his voice.

The bridge that was worst for me was the one north of the road to Mayville over the rail road tracks on a curve that is up in the air without any protection. That bridge over the Goose River at Hillsboro is always an adventure too.