It was tough, but I managed to dig myself out from the nearly six inches of snow I got over the weekend.

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Originally posted by c1steve:
18" is nothing. I lived for a winter, in the mountains in Cali, where it snowed 60" in one night. Typical storms bring 2-3 feet each time. In a canyon near where I lived, the snowfall for the season would be about 80 feet.

Thanks California. For NC 18 inches isn’t nothing.

12+ inches will stop things even in the north. Enjoy it. Doesn't happen often. At least most down there understand and don't expect you to kill yourself getting in. Go easy on the shoveling. It stresses ya more than you would think.

14” in the Greensboro, NC area. And a neighbor’s tree on my truck and garage. Good times.

There are professional level snow removal people. It depends where you live.

When we lived below Buffalo in Chautauqua County NY (Jamestown/Lakewood) we once got 14" of lake effect at 4am in the morning.

-And the school buses ran on time. Say what you want, but one thing they can do there is move snow (when you do it every day ya get good at it...).

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Originally posted by Rinehart:
There are professional level snow removal people. It depends where you live.

When we lived below Buffalo in Chautauqua County NY (Jamestown/Lakewood) we once got 14" of lake effect at 4am in the morning.

-And the school buses ran on time. Say what you want, but one thing they can do there is move snow (when you do it every day ya get good at it...).

If you live somewhere that routinely gets a lot of snow annually removal becomes an art but other locations that dont get large amounts of snow can be paralyzed by as little as a couple inches.

It took me about a dozen attempts to get my Sienna up the driveway. I was surprised just how good traction control is when going up a frozen driveway. I turned it off at one point and didn’t get anywhere near as far up the driveway.

AWD Highlanders do excellent in snow and ice, FWD Siennas not so much.

calugo is right about people getting good at something like that.

Here was our driveway in Western NY for last five years there before we moved...



Impossible to work without a tracked snowblower... sometimes two or three times a day in heavy snow bands.



I don't miss lake effect snow, although I did learn how to properly land if you fall on ice.

But in NC around Winston Salem/Salisbury they get ice on the crowned roads. Not good.