Subj : low-lying 4x4
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Tue Jan 21 2020 06:09:18

   Aug wrote --

> It has actually managed plowing through 8" snows quite well.

  I don't recall ever going though a snow that deep.  Even when I lived in
in SE Colorado and get a big snow sweeping in off the mountains.
  Not saying I hadn't been in snow that deep, just never drove through it.
  The best car I ever had was my '65 Falcon.  I swear, that thing must of
been part Jeep, nothing stopped it.  Just slow and easy and I could go
anywhere, ford streams, climb mountains, roll through deserts...

> But over time (12 years, in fact), I'd swear it's looking a bit lower
> than that.  I currently have a few heavy boxes of books in the back
> which are probably contributing to the lower profile.

  No doubt, but would tend to give some traction in the back.

> These are pictures of a very large dump of snow

  Very pretty.  
  That's the kind of snow I like, just looking at it.  :)
  we don't get big snows in WV.  
  We had a blizzard at Thanksgiving 1950, several feet.  Then again in
1993, around St Patrick's day, that hit the eastern half of the country from 
the
Carolina's into New England.  
  WV was in a state of emergency and everything was shut down.  Officials
asking citizens to loan them 4x4's, etc.  
  Here in downtown was a deadly quiet.  Not a sound.  There were mounds
here and there with a car underneath.
  We got about two feet and being mid March by the next weekend all that
remained were piles that had been plowed here and there.
  People were told to stay home and off the street, so naturally I went for
a walk around to see the snow.
  We had another storm that dumped a couple of feet in January, '96 (I
think) and that lingered a bit longer.
  Now the mountains of WV will get snow and have ski lodges here and there.
  When I was in the Navy in Norfolk, VA I knew a guy from FL who had never
seen snow.  We had a big snow one day, about an inch (that shut down the
town) and he was like a kid out playing in it.  :)
  We are a little hardier here, it takes almost three inches to shut this
town down.  :)
  Joe
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