Holy crap, its a whiteout!

[AUTO XX]

Drove over to the gf's place today, even in 4wd I was having trouble keeping the truck on the laneway.
Drove into town busting through 3-4 foot drifts with about 20' of visibility.
Here is a pic, visibility has improved a lot but it's not nice out there.

1.6W 445nm on the left, ~600mW 405nm on the right

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

Welcome to Iowa.

HMike

 

[GBD]

Welcome to Iowa.

HMike

It snows for 2-3 days straight and this thick in Iowa on a regular basis?
I thought it will be nicer in Iowa..

 

[Flaminpyro]

And I thought I had it bad cuz it's 40deg and clear outside :crackup:

 

[joeyss]

Whoa talk about beautiful lasers and we just got some snow here in PA.

 

[qumefox]

We're supposed to get about 4" of snow here starting tomorrow. It sucks I don't have a functional 445nm build.. Guess i'll have to settle for RGV snow beamshots.

 

[AUTO XX]

Well its dark now, I can still hear the wind rippin out there so a couple more snowy beamshots might be in order, the 405 isn't very pretty in that pic

Wish me luck braving the elements ^_^

Cancel that, there is a snowdrift blocking the door closed.......
Howinnahell am I gonna get out of here?

 

[GBD]

Battering ram?
And I thought I had it bad when I shoveled about 8"-12" of snow out of the driveway.

 

[AUTO XX]

Was going to get groceries today, decided tomorrow would be better.
That may have been an error in judgment

Oddly, my girlfriend likes to shovel snow. She is a little strange I know, but I don't think her car will even be able to make it up the lane lol.

 

[HIMNL9]

Howinnahell am I gonna get out of here?

..... flamethrower ? ..... :eg: :eg: :eg:

..... my girlfriend likes to shovel snow .....

See ? you've already solved the problem

(J/K )

 

[qumefox]

Simple.. Crawl out a window!

 

[AUTO XX]

Thats exactly what I had to do.
I popped the screen strip out of the channed, popped the screen out, tunneled my way out but loading the snow in a pot and dumping it into a sink full of hot water (overflows into the other sink's drain), and then I shoveled the doorway clear.

It is still a whiteout....

I didn't get pics of the door but this is my truck

Chatted with the gf on msn before I got out, she did offer to shovel her way up the driveway, shovel open the door and rescue me :crackup:
I think I've got a keeper

 

[Leodahsan]

102.2ºF here yesterday.
:cryyy: I want it to snow here too.

 

[umss]

Wow o_o that snow is insane.
The most i've seen is it struggling to reach the height of my ankles..
That's England. ;[

 

[AUTO XX]

Yeah, that is all flat ground by the way, the driveway has 4 foot drifts across it and they are really hard now from busting through them yesterday.
I'm thinking a few truckloads of salt would be easier >_<

 

[umss]

When we had our "crazy unbearable snow" (10cm.. ;l ) about a month ago we didn't have enough salt and grit haha ;p
It looks great sitng in that pile of snow
*jealousy*