My SIL drives from Manson to Ames every day, she runs the salon in JC Penney's. Hope she's OK, she should be because she comes into town on 69 (down thru Jewell).
Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)
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Well, I'd best haul a$$ for home.....gotta fire up the snowblower so the vixen can get in the garage. We have a very steep driveway, and that little FWD Hyundai doesn't have much power.
Did the fact that Hyundai contributes to certain charities make an impact on your buying decision? I thought their SB commercial was just awkward. I would feel like a fool being drug into a room so a stranger could thank me for buying a certain car and helping them when they know full well that it had zero to do with why I bought the car.
Got a feeling that if the Kempt thread is left open for another week, it may crash the site with 100 pages of gifs.
Then only place I ever struggled was the Kelley hill, before they put the right turn lane in. One schmuck would slow/stop to make the turn and everyone else would get stuck on the hill. If you could keep steady forward motion it was fine.
CycloneErik
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That hill is bad.
I found the road wasn't good in snow, ice, or rain, but 35 would generally be relatively fine.
I've probably seen her - that's where I've been going for the last oh, 20 years or so...
Drove the route for 20 years...still rather be on 69 than 35. Mostly because of the semis.
That would have been 1.5 blocks from home for me way back when.
Lived in the apartments behind the strip mall with the grocery store on the north side where the road bends and goes east/west for about a quarter mile or so. 1994
I'd never heard of the latter til I moved up here. Think it was always Younkers in Dubuque.
Just curious, Erik - what sort of vehicle did you drive? I was usually in a smaller car, low to the ground. I'd get the snow blow from the trucks really badly. I'm okay with 30 because most folks are smarter on there...but I don't drive it if it's blowing snow. It's the mini-blizzard effect that gets me.
Lived there from 1983 to 2003, when we bought the acreage. And the road kinda skews NW/SE - never really goes E/W (IMO).
CycloneErik
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It was an Impala for most years on that job, but a smaller Cavalier the first few months or year.
The snow was always a thing, but I didn't have too much trouble with the wipers, and nothing was really changing in front of me enough to hurt much.
PapaLew did NOT go to his mom's, by the way. Now that the snow is [mostly] done, he's out in the Bobcat, pushing snow off the lane for our neighbors to get home. He's a keeper.
Only thing I can figure is that I probably sit lower in the car than you do. I hated the lack of visibility.
Lived there from 1983 to 2003, when we bought the acreage. And the road kinda skews NW/SE - never really goes E/W (IMO).
Now that I think about it, it was not a true E/W, been long enought you could have said it went in a circle and I probably couldn't have disagreed.
Do you remember that town around there, Kelley? My roommate and I bought a fish tank stand from a guy who had a giant pink hand pointing to his property. Or was that you and papalew?
Nope. No pink hand. But one of my sons was in the last class that went K-6 at Kelley elementary. They shut it down & moved the students to Slater & Cambridge for elementary, and the Jr/Sr high was in Huxley.
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