Re: [MV] Snow update

From: Steve Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 11:46:13 PST


You and Dr. Deuce load 'em up, and come on over! :-)

Steve

>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.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Bruce Kalin (Convoy Coordinator)
>> >The Largest Historic Military Vehicle Convoy in US History
>> >http://www.trackpads.com/webs/bkalin/convoy.html
>> >bkalin@trackpads.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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