Re: [MV] Snow update

From: Stu Ellis (stuellis@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 11:13:55 PST


You can have some of mine.

                "Stu"
 Southern New Hampshire, USA
        'Live Free Or Die"

MVPA #14790 MVMVC
1967 M151A1 Jeep
1964 M416 1/4 Ton Trailer
1986 M1009 CUCV Blazer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Snow update

> Hi Bruce,
>
> Congrats on your freedom! Consider yourself lucky! A fried of mine in
> Germany, who got nearly 7 feet in 2 weeks, had to wait FIVE DAYS for
> someone to get a frontend loader up to dig out his street. Similar
> problem... the plow truck couldn't make it up the hill due to weight of
> snow and gravity working against it.
>
>
> Here in central Maine today is also a cause of joy... first day in a week
> that the temp is in + column during the day. Now if we could only get
> some more snow we would be all set. We are short about 2' to 3' of our
> normal ground cover at the moment, and that sucks for us MV owners with
> purpose built MV snow machines :-/ Too cold and snow cover not fun
> enough to run my Weasel on. 12" of frozen snow and - temps just don't do
> it for me!
>
> Steve
>
> >Unbelievable. The township dump with the 10 foot plow tried to get down
> >my street - and got stuck. They hadn't cleaned from the previous
> >snowfall, so the ice and the weight of the snow was just too much. Then,
> >to my great surprise a front end loader showed up. Not only did he clean
> >the street, he actually went part way into the driveway to avoid the
> >normal pile up that the plow leaves.
> >
> >Gentlemen, I am out of here! See you later.
> >
> >--
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> >The Largest Historic Military Vehicle Convoy in US History
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> >
> >
> >
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