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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 11:44 AM
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BLIZZARD! ftw

Here are some shots from colorado of my car. p.s. Please dont flame because the car is outside, nothing else I could do.





These were after I had already cleared off the snow the night before. Here are some of the gfs truck to show how much came down.




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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 11:46 AM
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I can't see the pics cause i am at work....but my evo had to spend the night outside last night too. I feel your pain.

But it is a lot of fun to drive around in.

How many inches did you guys get??
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 11:47 AM
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Damn, Im so jealous...up here in MN its dry.
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 11:47 AM
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about 30 inches. And the wind sucked!
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:15 PM
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I haven't been home yet...cause they stuck us in a hotel 2 blocks from work so that we could be working today.......but I heard SE Aurora got like 25-30inches also.
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:18 PM
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Did they open I-25?
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:20 PM
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Hope those arnt Advans under that white stuff!!

Time to hit the slopes.
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:20 PM
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I am looking at 1-25 at Orchard in the Denver Tech Center and i see people going north and south on I-25....not many but there are some.
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:21 PM
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damn i want my evo to experience some snow! haha even when covered up in snow the evo still looks badass
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:24 PM
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NICE...snow evos RULE
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:25 PM
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Hope those arnt Advans under that white stuff!!

Time to hit the slopes.
Nope. Gram lights. DIA is shut down until noon tomorrow.
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 12:28 PM
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Yeah, the snow yesterday was mad! I set off from work at 1:30pm and made it home within the hour (the usual journey length is less than 30 mins). It wasn't too bad in the Evo - my neighbour took a similar route and didn't quite make it all the way home. He took 3 hours in total, though he was in a RWD Lexus.

The most difficult portions of the drive were the piles of snow made by the snowploughs at the on-ramps and exits to I-25. I had to cross two, and I could feel the car bogging in the snow a bit, but it pulled through and up the off-ramp when I got home. I have Michelin Pilot Alpin 2 tyres. I also had to avoid a lot of abandoned cars that were beginning to get buried. The only vehicles still moving were SUVs, trucks and AWD cars (I saw a lot of WRXs).

The Evo pulled like a monster through the snow drifts. When I got home I was faced with a 2 foot drift on the driveway, sloping off to one side with 1 foot of powder at the lowest point. I gunned it and somehow managed to slot into my garage before the snow really started to fall. By the next day there was a 5 foot drift on the driveway.

All in all, a lot of fun, but not for the poor people who braved it without a suitable vehicle.
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 01:06 PM
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holy crap! Ive never seen or been in that much snow....but then again Im not a big fan of the c-c-c-cold...lol
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 02:12 PM
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I'm in Snowmass right now and the skiing is unbelievable...best part is hardly anybody is out skiing cause all the people who come for Xmas are stuck at DIA
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Old Dec 21, 2006 | 02:18 PM
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I just put on a set of Hankook W300s, but you guys robbed us of all the snow in Colorado! :-)
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