www.iFourWinns.com

Not a fan of winter or snow any more, other than got to have snow for water to fill the lakes for boating.
Here is a video of our storm yesterday, the video captured the start of the snow storm... The street is up on the hill, kinda steep. This road is only a few miles from my house.
Video made me laugh, but only because I was at home on the net, vs out driving....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrJuigh2aCc

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2000 248 5.7L DP
'92, '94 SXI 750, '08 STX 15F, '12 Ultra LX 300
Videos

Wow....total carnage!

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

WOOOOOOOW!

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Brian Borchik
The Winds of Cold Springs Harbor Marina
Baldwinsville, NY

So much for the presumption that only Southerners drive like that (ice will do that to you). Talk about a front row seat. Great video.

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

Man!!!!! that is slippery. I never see snow here in Adelaide

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Ardy
Adelaide South Australia
Red H180 3.0 Merc

Hey, isn't bountiful the home of polygamy? Snow storms are always fun, I can sit back and watch the unprepared people. Happens all the time in Toronto. We have two AWD vehicles and always swap on winter tires, so I get a blast out of seeing people who refuse to prepare for winter until a storm hits and they get owned.

At least those guys in your video handled it relatively well

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2011 SL242 5.7 VP GXi - 320 HP Dual Prop

Thanks Powellcrazy,,,,best laugh I've had all day.


John

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07 Azure AZ200,
Previous boat,
95 278 Vista,
And a lot of others.

Ontario, Canada

Ha Ha Ha.....

You have been watching A&E's Sister Wives?? HBO's Big Love?? Yes its true there are polygs around here, but nothing like every one thinks.

Funny whenever I travel and say where I am from (Utah) EVERYONE thinks polygamy.....

I watched again today, just for laughs The video really doesn't show the incline of the hill, at the top of the road, really out of sight of the video, it has to be over a 12% grade then I am guessing where most of the video was is 8% grade. Good grade when iced!

All of my vehicles, the 2 Jeeps and the 98 Subaru, run on studded snows each winter. Even though we don't get tons of snow, we do get some every year and have icing because we are on the coast. My neighbors, look at the studs like they are something they have never seen before (and they have lived in NY all their lives), think its overkill till the first bad day then they want me to drive their kids to school because they are too chicken to drive up and down the hills in the snow.
I feel that all season tires are a bad compromise for winter driving, all the cars in that vid, had ABS brakes (except the speeding old Dodge Dakota, that managed to miss all the crashing cars) but they were all rendered helpless because their owners are either too ignorant to put on snow tires or too cheap.
Safety lessons learned driving in upstate NY many years ago....learned on rear drive, no ABS. Studded snows and 4 sandbags in the trunk, LOL.
In Quebec, all of Scandinavia and in Germany, winter tires are required. Now I am not in favor of even more government interference, but this makes sense, at least.
How much is your life worth.....

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

That was crazy

The video made our local news today up here in Syracuse, NY. The irony is that we win the Golden Snowball award every year as the snowiest large city in the US so this amount of snow generally does not phase us much...but for some reason everyone seems to love this video!

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Brian Borchik
The Winds of Cold Springs Harbor Marina
Baldwinsville, NY