This damn polar vortex!


dbk

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Will it ever end?

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KJD

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Yes it will. In April. :lol
 

Xcentric

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Missed a record today by 2 degrees. It only hit 84.
 

Vince H

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That is painful to look at Dave. Put a blanket on that girl.

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dbk

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That's an ancient pic from a user in Germany back in 2005. I would never actually do that to a GT. :lol
 

Vince H

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That's an ancient pic from a user in Germany back in 2005. I would never actually do that to a GT. :lol

I thought it didn't fit you oh owner of the garagemahal. When you gonna tell us where the heck we're going in October?

Vince H
 

Mark McGowan

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Jul 31, 2006
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Dave as you know if you live in Michigan you need to embrace winter. Had a long weekend to go play in northern Michigan and with record snow and the GT being tented to by, The GT Guys, Lynn and I did a little winter snow testing. Not to offend one can walk under the Mackinaw Bridge while standing on lake Huron. Running the snowmobiles on the winding Michigan trails is a great workout and prep for the upcoming track days. Mack bridge feb 1 2014.jpglynn and i mack bridge.jpgme and the skidoo.jpgmack bridge 2.jpg
 

Indy GT

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Very Cool Mark!
And glad you are having a good time.
Sharpen up your skills so we can all be thrilled at R9!!!
 

GTdrummer

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Yeah, the vortex is a bitch just like global warming , oh, I mean climate change.
 

Cobrar

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Dave as you know if you live in Michigan you need to embrace winter. Had a long weekend to go play in northern Michigan and with record snow and the GT being tented to by, The GT Guys, Lynn and I did a little winter snow testing. Not to offend one can walk under the Mackinaw Bridge while standing on lake Huron. Running the snowmobiles on the winding Michigan trails is a great workout and prep for the upcoming track days. 32788[/ATTACH]

Looks like great fun - but be careful out there that ice is under some serious pressure from the current under the bridge.
 

Mark McGowan

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Jul 31, 2006
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Did not go out too far as there is open water where the ice breaker keeps the straigts open. Somewhere in the white are the towers but never did see them due to the snow from the polar vortex:lol
 

Specracer

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Shouldn't you be back in az by now?
 

Mark McGowan

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Not till the 15th (with Lynn) and whats the issue with driving gt in the snow

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Specracer

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Awesome, enjoy! Then after you both will be very busy about!

Splitter probably worked great up to about 4".
 

twobjshelbys

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Jul 26, 2010
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Missed a record today by 2 degrees. It only hit 84.


I missed mine too. I was figuring low teens. Temp on the truck when I went to the bar was 9, when I came home in the blizzard, 6. Going to Vegas.
 

AJB

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More Polar Vortex coming in tonight . The good news is that the Army Corps of Engineers announced today that this snowfall and SnowPack will raise the lake levels of Lake Superior , Lake Michigan and Lake Huron by 3 to 5 inches !!.
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are projected to stay at current level.
I called Al Gore about the Polar Vortex and Global Warming ( Climate Change) and he just huffed-and-puffed at me on the phone and said he did not have time to talk. His private jet was waiting to take him to some warmer climes...

andy (AJB)
 

twobjshelbys

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Jul 26, 2010
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The bad news here is that the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA are keeping my best friends from rebuilding their house after the devastating floods last September. This whole thing is the biggest cluster f*** you've ever seen. A whole street has been told they have to have a new survey because one of the benchmarks wasn't right. Folks, we are talking 1-2 inches and in once case .1".

We are here to help you. We're from the government.
 

BlackICE

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Nov 2, 2005
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Photos like this remind me why I am still in CA even though MI is better in many other ways.

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FBA

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Alright people; stop whining. We have well into sub zero temps here now with several feet of snow. My cars and bikes have been sitting on C-Tek's since early November now...
 

Xcentric

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Yes, but you have walrus blubber to eat and caribou skin to chew. Hard to find the good stuff down here.