Subject: Re: [V8] Jingle Bells

[Tom Winter]

On 12/21/06 8:46 PM, Dennis wrote:

> Don't be too jealous.
> We spent the better part of 4 hours digging out the drive way. The street  is
> still impassible. 3 tall clearance SUV's still getting stuck.
> When my wife got home Wed PM she was plowing snow all the way up the  street,
> and is now a walking commercial for Quattro. She went through stuff all  the
> other 4x4's could not. Since then we got another 20"
> Total accumulation around 32".

Intense storm for sure. I was in Boulder on Wed, and watched it snow more
than an inch an hour for most of the day. Bailed at 4 and headed towards
Denver to pick up my wife, highway 36 closed resulting in a crazy trip via
the back roads, passing approximately 500 stranded motorists, maybe more.
Very stoked with my new snow tires and quattro. Also helpful was more than
my share of winter driving miles racked up over the years (see a drift,
PUNCH IT!!! and carry an avalanche shovel to dig yerself out if you don't
make it).

It took 2 hours to reach my destination in Denver (normally a 30-40 minute
trip), had some dinner and then rallied up to my house in Vail. I-70 was
plowed and EMPTY: easy, easy driving 70 mph the whole way. Only a few inches
here in Vail. Fun driving for sure, if only more folks invested in snow
tires, there would have been many less stranded folks: they would have made
it home before it got really deep. But that's what comes from living on the
front range: storms like this are rare and people don't want to spend the
money. Too bad it didn't hit Vail harder, the skiing is good, but not the
kind of epic deepness that 3 feet brings. . .

Tom
95 S6 Avant