my holiday laugh

[gigolo]

so most of you know I live in WY, well I had to work today and so I was inside most of the day getting double pay wooohoo. Well over the past 3 days we have been getting snow and wind and snow and wind and some freezing drizzle, needless to say the roads are crap. This guy I work with has a 99+ body 4 door blazer sitting on 22's. Now I am sure 95% of the time he would be fine rolling a 2 wd blazer on 22's around here. He made the mistake of not putting weight in the back for traction and running all seasons.

he left about 5 mins before I did since I was lead staff and was waiting for the second replacement to show up. so as I leave I let the car warm for a bit so he has prolly been gone a good 10 minutes. I pull onto the road to go home for christmas meal and get a little nap, I get to the main intersection and what do I see a big 2500 dodge cummins blocking the intersection and his blazer stuck in about a 10" drift and about 3 or 4 ft wide and covered the whole street.

This genius didnt roll through the drift like he should have and roll the stop sign but he stopped dead in the drift and wondered why he couldnt go anywhere. So this little mid 40's lady in the ram backed up to him and chained him up while he stood there dumbfounded. so I helped make sure traffic was clear and helped out all in sub zero windchills while this guy just wondered how my little grocery getter slid right through the drift that left him high and dry and had to get pulled out by a little ole lady good Samaritan.

I guess it was a you had to be there thing but it is funny how people will go for looks over functionality. I havent looked into 22" tires but I am sure they dont have low pro snow tires.

[wjcollier07]

Hah, I used to even pull stupid people loose with the bonneville when I had a chance when they were running summer tires, or just had horrible low pro tires that wouldn't stick to anything.

But seriously, even in general...a blazer on 22s?

[gigolo]

now for those of you not familiar with what kinda drifts we can get this is just from overnight when I went to work at 11 and this person decided to leave it right in front of my place and the road I take to get home and had to take the longer way because I wasnt stupid like this person to try and shoot the drift.







here is a shot of the driveway all the wbodies r l67 powered and not stock lol

[laxmangl]

I still don't understand this whole abandoning your car in an actual traffic lane thing.

To me, if the car is still on a paved surface, there is no chance in the world that I am going to leave it stranded anywhere other than my garage. In a ditch is another story, but come on people that drift was big, but nothing twenty minutes of kicking snow out of the way wouldn't fix.

[Jrs3800]

I tell you what... If i was close to my house... You would have seen me walking back with a shovel........

[LeSabre in Buffalo]

Why folks go without good all-season or preferably snow tires in snowy areas of the nation is beyond me. My last car had snows, my fiancee's car has snows, my Buick has grippy all-seasons on it.

That person stuck in the drift clearly didn't get the memo about going like heck if they're going to ram through the drift. Or about clearing the snow from the underbody to get free...

[BonneMe]

All seasons have NOTHING on a good winter tire.

Does he just want to trash his pricey wheels anyways?

[yourgrandma]

These threads make me miss my snow tires a lot. I hate being one of the general public.

[bonnevillain]

Agreed that all seasons aren't a snow tire, not by a long shot. But I've never been in a situation where my all seasons weren't good enough.