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Gotta get our stipend for the increased grocery store traffic.
Not really, Salt Lake City, Cheyanne are not any larger cities than DM, out east you slide around Chicago and Cleveland. They also close the highway up in the mountains when it snows, or force you to have chains on your vehicle.
This shows the worst places on the interstate, they rate DM as #8.
Top 10 Counties with the Highest I-80 Crash Rates | Interstate 80 Accident Reports/News
Top 10 Counties with the Highest I-80 Crash Rates | Interstate 80 Accident Reports/News
i80accidents.com
I did the same thing last week, it struggled starting last season and had to get it worked on, cracked right over last week after refilling the gas tank. Ready to go this weekend.
I took the mower deck off my tractor two weeks ago. Got the snow blade and chains on. She’s ready to go. I’ve been spoiled being in Vegas this week and having mid 60’s. Getting back Friday eve is going to be a rude awakening.
More south more south!!
Hmmm… should I go outside and freeze my ass off today cleaning up/mulching the leaves the wind brought me or should I wait until tomorrow and also freeze my ass off?
3 years ago I got one of the 20" smaller snowblowers from EGO and honesltly it handled the wet stuff better than the neighbors on each side of me that had the bigger gas snowblowers. I had the one with the steel auger and not the rubber paddles. Friends with the rubber paddles version were not impressed.
After last season I found a guy moving south that bought one of the bigger EGO snowblowers a year ago, used it twice and selling it on the cheap so got that so I'm excited to see how it works.
Is this storm tracking north or south at all? Twin Cities meteorologists are kinda all over the place basically saying 0-8 inches.
Mercer. Looks like about Hwy 8 was the cutoff which is funny since that's considered when the North Woods starts.
Not sure where Mercer is but Ladysmith, Bruce, Cameron all them are on 8 if I remember correctly, been awhile since Ive been up that way.
Mercer is NE of all that maybe 2 hours' drive.
It's maybe an hour north of Minoqua etc on Hwy 51 headed up toward the U.P.
The list at that link is interesting, showing a mix of urban areas and extreme rural ones as well. There are a surprisingly small number of larger cities on I-80 west until you get to California. From Des Moines, there is Omaha, Lincoln, Salt Lake City, and Reno. That's it. Everything else is smaller than Ames until you get to the Sacramento metro, which is adjacent to the San Francisco Bay Area with all the cities over 100k there right along the interstate (Vacaville, Fairfield, Vallejo, Richmond, Berkeley) before 80 ends just south of downtown SF. So seeing Alameda County on the list is not surprising. I had to drive a 20 foot delivery truck on 80 and 580 there for a job once upon a time. Definitely a challenge on that stretch. And it's (usually) decent weather there, with just rain in the winter season to make things dicey-er.Not really, Salt Lake City, Cheyanne are not any larger cities than DM, out east you slide around Chicago and Cleveland. They also close the highway up in the mountains when it snows, or force you to have chains on your vehicle.
This shows the worst places on the interstate, they rate DM as #8.
Top 10 Counties with the Highest I-80 Crash Rates | Interstate 80 Accident Reports/News
Top 10 Counties with the Highest I-80 Crash Rates | Interstate 80 Accident Reports/News
More south of us. Looks like metro is a maybe for 4" or so at most. I generally ignore the local news peeps unless it's the day off and than might tune into Belle on KARE11.
Sort of disappointed city peeps didn't treat my street. They usually pre-treat spray/dump deice stuff on my hill but couldn't because of the rain. Mail carrier couldn't get up the street in his piece of crap Postalmobile. I come and go via the alley which flat (hill in front, walkout in back) so no worries but watching others try to get up the hill is entertaining. At least no Amazon/UPS/FedX today.
