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RickB

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Here's what I met when I got home last night.
We are supposed to get a bunch more in the next few days...
 

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I don't have the courage to leave mine outside. We had about 1/2" of snow in Portland (in my specific location and to your south about 180 miles), but "Iris" was snug in my neighbor's garage... where they let me keep her while the house has sat for sale for a LONG time. :yesnod:
 
Heh - I feel the same about my MK2 Sprite but somehow leaving the 78 Midget mongrel Bugeye outside doesn't bother me... :smile:
Even though it is insured for more than the Sprite.
 
You can keep that stuff on the left coast.
 
Here in Northeast Ohio we finally started winter with temps in the teens and about 6" of snow over the last 2 weeks. It's raining today and the snow is almost gone. My DD Volvo sits outside, my Sprite and Miata are in the garage,

If I was still married things would be different :laugh:
 
Mine are inside. My wife parks her Ford Escape under the lift where one of the Spridgets sit. My garage has 10.5 ft ceiling. That is just enough to put a spridget on a lift and have the lift rise high enough that I can walk under it with out ducking. However, if my welding helmet is flipped up it gets rather comical. :smile:
 
As I vaguely recall, this was in Portland in 2007 or 2008. People wonder why we can't drive in this snow (which is partly true), but it's important to realize that when you combine snow/ice with seriously steep hills, it's tough to do anything. Seattle... Portland... the same in this regard. There's another YouTube one with a guy in Portland just going around and around banging in to cars.
 
TOC said:
I don't know. It's a KOMO (Seattle) video...
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KING... but there is an affliate here (KGW). On the other hand, I may have it mistaken with another video that went viral back in 2008 (of a guy going around and around on one intersection). I do remember that that video got a lot of air time in Seattle too. :yesnod:
 
I used to race motorcycles on the ice, on icy days like that in town I would put the screws in all the way across the treads and tear around town. That was fun about 30 years ago, I no longer care to freeze my.....off on a motorcycle. :laugh:
 
OK OK... I let mine go outside today (with the dog - our Westie, Busby - and thankfully he didn't pee on it). Didn't stay out long there on the deck.
:yesnod:
 
Well- power just came back on. Had been off for 1.5 hours. Thought that we were going to have a cool evening.
BillM
 
We have been getting some wind on Bainbridge Island most of the day, but so far, no outages. About 4-6 inches of snow on the ground here.
 
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