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This is my 6th winter living in northern NV. The previous 5 were pretty mild. Not much snow (we might get a couple inches and it would be gone in a couple days) and fairly warm. No problem driving my Corvette most days.
This year has been exceptionally cold and lots of snow. The precipitation is needed but I haven't been able to drive my C5 since fall. We've had some nice sunny days (yesterday got up to 54) but I live on a dirt road and it has become a big frigging mud hole. I couldn't make it to the mile to pavement if I wanted to. Luckily, I have a couple 4x4's that I use as dailies. If the road was paved I would be able to drive the car on nice days.
I guess it is going to make me appreciate the car even more once summer gets here but it seems like a long way off. Maybe I should just load the car up on my trailer and haul it out to the paved road and go for a rip!
I drive my '02 Z06 year-round as road conditions allow (roads are snow plowed). I have two sets of wheels and tires for wet and dry seasons: Continental DWS06+ tires on Flow One F4 wheels for November through April; Goodyear F1 tires on GM / Speedline wheels for May through October.
It even gets dirty...just wash, rinse, repeat...wax it once in a while.
Otherwise, my car sleeps in a heated garage and enjoys a pampered and very well maintained life despite being driven year-round.
And here I am, annoyed that it’s been rainy the day before Cars & Coffee, so no one bothers coming out.
Not driving for a third of the year must be brutal. I commend you guys that have to put your toys away for so many months.
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I guess it is going to make me appreciate the car even more once summer gets here but it seems like a long way off.
This is winter storage season #46 for the Vette, and it's usually around now that I start telling myself that.
And to make things worse, I bought this about 20 years ago so it's a double whammy....
Good or bad my car is in heated storage about 10 miles away in a direction I never go so I don't get reminded I can't drive it.
On a good note we are gaining almost 20 min of daylight each week and February is more than half gone!!!!
The problem here in TN in the winter isn’t so much the snow as it is the salt and brine. On average we get 2 or 3 snow events with any significant roadway accumulation.
Apparently there is a 2” of salt application policy, per 1/4” of ice/sleet/snow or just simply the forecast of flurries. It’s evident that the Highway departments are going to use all of the salt they have on hand every year so they can keep the funds in their budget for the next year. Typical government waste!
Its 70 here today, but until we get a good hard rain to wash all that crap off the roads, I won’t take mine out.
Eastern West Virginia - 72° today. Way above "normal". And we have had almost no snow so far - just a couple of inches on a couple of days and it was not cold enough to stick around.
This is my 6th winter living in northern NV. The previous 5 were pretty mild. Not much snow (we might get a couple inches and it would be gone in a couple days) and fairly warm. No problem driving my Corvette most days.
This year has been exceptionally cold and lots of snow. The precipitation is needed but I haven't been able to drive my C5 since fall. We've had some nice sunny days (yesterday got up to 54) but I live on a dirt road and it has become a big frigging mud hole. I couldn't make it to the mile to pavement if I wanted to. Luckily, I have a couple 4x4's that I use as dailies. If the road was paved I would be able to drive the car on nice days.
I guess it is going to make me appreciate the car even more once summer gets here but it seems like a long way off. Maybe I should just load the car up on my trailer and haul it out to the paved road and go for a rip!
A photo from last fall:
Be glad you don't live in Buffalo.....they've gotten something like 10 FEET of snow, this year (so far). Where I'm at, about 60 miles east of Buffalo, we usually get about the same amount, but for some reason, we've gotten only about a foot and a half. BUT, it's still only the middle of February....
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I'm not in Palm Springs till next week!.. The drive over and thru the Siskiyou mountains to sunshine is rattling my bones and exciting the loins! ... I'm gitty with antisapation of top down driving through the Redwoods, seeing sunshine, feeling warm! .. The happyness of being at speed on eye five. The top down, desert temperatures and air whiffing thru the Torch Red C5 Corvette. Octane pumped hard on.
Here in Ohio the weather has been very good this winter instead of the cold and snow we usually get, but I take my road insurance off for the season. So it’s sitting in a warm garage waiting for April and so am I.
Another sign of SPRING, skunk season has started, I saw one running down the street and a second one that was mushed in the road. Skunks come 1st then the robins.
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Ah, the drawbacks to living in an area that has winter weather. We have had a relatively mild winter in terms of adverse weather, and only about a month and a half left before chances of any snowfall go down significantly (historically speaking). Hope your weather clears up, the road dries up and you are able to get your car out before too long and get that driving fix you crave.
Winter Blues Rant! :)
I couldn't make it to the mile to pavement if I wanted to. Luckily, I have a couple 4x4's that I use as dailies. If the road was paved I would be able to drive the car on nice days.
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