My 86 in the Snow...post a photo of yours
 

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And this is where mine is staying for a while...Diego is hitting Piedmont North Carolina hard...not stopping until Monday

'Tis merely a flurry. You can still open the doors.

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Best so far, many more to come! This car has one of the best defrosters I've seen, it's a great winter car. If only the U.S spec came with heated mirrors

Yah...I've spent my share of winters in Rochester NY...If I had been out and about and got this dump I would have no problems getting home...as long as the FR-S was not plowing the road...

This was the picture I sent my boss saying I was going to be late.

brrrrrrrrrrrz

haven't gotten much snow in my area yet, mostly just cold, misery and ice so far. hopeful january brings more!

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More like "Snow on my 86"

I guess that's the point...photo was early this AM...now we have about 9" of accumulation...in any amount over a few inches in NC...you are on your own...had to venture out in the xTerra to Church (16 people attended Mass) and the drug store...getting out of the drive way and leaving our little neighborhood was an adventure...turning off Main St. to the drug strore required a running start to blow through the piled up snow from the few plows our city owns...

Snow plows are over rated. My street gets one about 3 times a winter. The rest of the time my car IS the plow. After a heavy snowfall the neighbours all wait to hear my car start before they even bother clearing theirs off.

Tcoat gets it. My driveway goes uphill at a pretty steep angle. When we get 8" or more of snow at a time (which is frequently), I need a running start from the nice clear bay of my garage to get the FR-S up it w/out shoveling (assuming there's not an 18" bank of solid plow-ice at the top yet), but usually I'm successful. Sadly, both garage bays are full with other vehicles this year, so the FR-S is based outside. Probably looking at a bit more preemptive shoveling this year. No worries.. I like to shovel.

Those 18" frozen plow banks (the few times a year I have to deal with them) are a game changer.

Are you sure?

Apparently a picture of a Whiteout in a whiteout!

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ILT 3x^


Some more from our Carolina86 FB page...


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That's more like it! It isn't "in the snow" until you can't open the doors.

LOL...seldom is it that we in the sunny South gonna compete with teh Great White North...


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Eh?? Take off ...

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^Yeah...that’s the sunny south of North Carolina early December...stuff stayed around till the following Monday...to be washed away in a rain storm...that resulted in flooding

My area wasn't that bad,they just decided not to plow or touch the roads. Driving home from work I was literally going sideways down the road at about 15 mph. Scared the crap out of me until I got the hang of it. Should have put the winter tires on, but I've been working far too much and didn't even think about it until I was in it.
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LOLLOLOLOLOL That is the worst map I have seen but it, and the blanked out maps shown in the US, really explains why people think Canada is all up north. The most populated part of Canada is in the section that sticks way down in-between the Great Lakes but it is always just blank so people think it is all water there. According to that map I actually live someplace around Kentucky. There are actually 20 States (11 full and 9 partial) north of where I live. There are 27 States north of the most southern part of Canada. If I could drive in a straight line it would be shorter trip to North Carolina than the 49th parallel that people think of as the border to Canada. The reason we get so much snow is that we are not on a coast with oceans to keep temperatures up so we get cold air from the north and nice moist air from the south and when they meet over the lakes they create snow. Lots and lots of snow. Most of our weather comes from Texas not Alaska.

And that is the secret! We have massive fleets of plows on standby 24/7, use a beet juice and brine mix to pretreat the roads if snow is forecast, pour tons and tons of salt on the road when it does snow and people are generally just more prepared for it. But still we get taken by surprise at least a couple of times a year and the roads can be almost impassible until they get caught up. It must be hellish where all those preparations just don't exist!

And then add that most people down here cannot drive in the dry or rain, and in the snow they should all just stay home, yet they go out and act like it is dry and wonder how they ended up in the median backwards and their car is totally stuck. And they act like 4 wheel drive is the be all end all and forget that it does not help you stop.

That all happens here as well. It shouldn't but it does.

And unfortunately the trend to drive like a jerks in snow has been growing since the SUV/CUV fashion started... People think that because have a "whale " (CUV/SUV) and is 4WD or AWD have a permit to drive like if it was a dry /summer day...I think they watch too much TV where shows that this whales are great in snow and can defeat the physical laws...

wish i had snow

I lived in Rochester New York six years, still visit relatives-friends there...every winter the first couple of snow storms created havoc with those seasoned northern drivers until they realized it was time to slow the heck down

I'll just leave this here

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To put in a contrast, this is what my country calls a snow-blizzard. The government even advised to stay at home (I'm not joking). Everybody here thinks that snow tires are expensive useless pieces of crap... But this kind of snow is the cause of a 1100km combined trafficjams.
To give you an idea of the size of my country, You can pass through my country going from the top left to the right bottem in 3u hours or 300km's (without traffic jams and roadworks).

Pic of my car in said blizzard:

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Honestly... "My G-Class/Pick-up/x6 can handle any amount of snow" Says the guy at the used snow tire shop getting cracked Pirelli sottos from three years ago.

Highway driving in winter scares because it doesn't scare certain people as much as it should. That being said I am sometimes very impressed with winter driving here and how generally well handled the snow is. (I live in Oakville, ON)

Super sad we have only gotten one good day this season so far. Spent about 5 hours with my brother and his g37 doing tandems that day (In safe places)... Snow is the best.