Hey Gang,

Here at the GF in Round Lake Beach. Enjoy the pics.

 

Nice pics Dustin. Makes me glad to have a garage for the MINI, too bad the truck is out in the snow!

 

My MINI's garage is in Westchester, at Karens she's sits outside, keeps her hearty. LOL

 

my civic and legacy looked like that this mornining. I measured
over 15" on some parts of my driveway due to the wind. street was
6" deep and not plowed... i helped literally numbers of neighbors this
morning pushing their cars out of their driveways only to find they get
stuck in the middle of the street and needed to push them back into
their driveway. :impatient

 

Last Night

 

I don't know how you people live in such a god-forsaken climate

 

Driving in snow is really fun when you're alone in your private track~

 

If you have to ask ...

 

What a mess! Nothing like in like a lion right? I'm just happy that I take the L downtown every day so our MINI isn't a daily commuter. Gus is home warm and dry in his garage!

Is it June yet???? (I really would move if this wasn't the greatest city in the world!!!)

 

Well uhh lets ust say, my mouth looks like this I develop a giggle that I never heard before.

Driving in the snow is the best!!!

(as long as there aren't other cars around)

 

i decided to not take the MINI as i didnt think id make it down the driveway on my summer tires. So i took my moms mercedes. I made it down the driveway ok, but a block away i got stuck and i ended up dropping the transmission fluid...needless to say i didnt make it to school today, i was snowed in.

 

DITTO, love the snow, grew up in South Fla, and LOVE THE WINTER, and like everything in Chicago, Chicago does snow BEST.

 

There's nothing like the first good snow of the season. It makes everything feel right; well, at least up until the first accident.

 

ouch, hope the Merc isn't hurt too bad.

I'm still on my summers too, actually wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected last night (3in no plows many roads I was first car to leave tracks) only got stuck on one hill, let it roll back knock snow out of the wells, kicked up the slush I created and managed to get going again.

Today was the most people I've ever seen in my neighbor hood, I was just begining to think the houses were abandoned and then all these pople pull out there snow blowers while I'm shoveling Warming up on NAM before I go continue digging.

 

DOH!!! so how do you get out of that one ?

 

Is she driving your MINI?

 

wat i need to get is a beatup miata or something and do some dorifuto
practice in the snow with a half-full cup of water in the cup holder.

Initial-D in slow motion.

 

man, my back is hurting from shoveling and pushing cars around...
how about you guys?

 

yeah shoveling sucks..........i should just move to phoenix where there are lots more of fun roads!

 

3 hours of shovelling replaced my need to work out, still can't feel my toes, and my shoulders are a bit tense but it really wasn't that bad just took forever, Deep and wet up here to the north.

 

I remember the first year I lived in Chicago. Snowed on Thanksgiving weekend and I never saw the grass again till April.

Don't miss that much.

 

I had to run up to Wilmette to pick up something last night from downtown around 10:30p (a wife-induced errand of course), and the MINI was fantastic. There wasn't much snow then, just the ice and sleet, but I was pretty impressed. I just had a set of Pirelli snow sports put on my stock R91 wheels, and the car was extremely stable. The Pirelli's are much quieter than the runflats, and with the LSD and DSC (and the heated seats ) I felt pretty confident in the crappy weather.

I have a Volvo V70R with AWD, and when I returned from the little jaunt my wife noticed which car I took: "You took the MINI up there? How was it?" I said it was a great little winter car, and asked her if there was anything else she needed me to go out and get.

 

Well I just got home from working 48 hours straight at O'Hare and what do I come home too; an Iced over driveway with about 8" of packed snow. I had to park on my neighbors drive last night.

I'm not even sure the snowblower will move this.

 

Where was Austin? He couldn't do this? Did he have a snow day yesterday?

 

Buy yourself some real snow tires and driving in the snow becomes a very enjoyable thing. Just be careful of the other guy out there because so many just don't have the foggiest idea how to drive in the snow. And there are idiots out there with blading tires sliding out of control, wondering why their AWD SUV keeps getting stuck.

Can't wait for the snow to fly here in the Shire so I can go have some fun.