Remember that big blizzard back in the early 80's? My brother came home
from college that night in a '67 Plymouth Fury VIP. That car had a 383 and
a Sure-Grip (did they call them that back in the 60's?). He was bucking
snow banks higher than the hood of the car. They had 4x4's out looking for
him. The 4x4's got stuck, but that Plymouth got him home OK :~) - That was
also the car I learned to drive in.
Then in '87, they were calling for a light dusting of snow - we got 35" out
of that storm........I was in college at the time and the whole town was
shut down. A friend of mine had a snowmobile and he would race all over
town. Cops tried to stop him but there was no way they could catch him
(they didn't have snomobiles).
-----Original Message-----
From: Luslugger <agm@win.net>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Snowstorm! Dak in ditch tonight!.... DOH!
>In Central Indiana you can expect heavy snow every year. In 1973 I worked
>at the automatic transmission plant, lived in Wabash In. After 6 hrs of
>trying to geet home I stayed with people at a farm house who invited me in.
> In the late seventies on one Sunday it snowed 20 inches. The only thing
>on the roads was snow plows and dirt bikes. On monday morning the
>transmission assembly lines started on time. That took about most of 6000
>people showing up on time. This is in contrast to Louisville Ky a few
>years ago when a storm blocked the city for a week. Stuck,broken, trucks
>blocked major hyways, heavy equipment was not available to remove them.
>The wreckers were out ripping off really big money. This is the dak part
>,my youngest son was 16 and was just bieginning to drive. We put tire
>chains,left over from kokomo, on the 2wheel drive 3.9 and had a ball. We
>picked up friends who had power outages,pulled people out of ditches, I was
>suprised how many people try impossible feats with their automobiles. One
>of the highlites of the week was with a ford explorer. Brand new,made here
>in Louisville.. He was stuck in the middle of in intersection and we could
>not get past him. We back tracked several blocks and came back to the same
>intersection form what had been an unobstructed path . He had moved far
>enough to now have it blocked. form our current direction. I practiced
>getting the smirk off my face and the aproached the ford explorer. I ask "
>would you like me to drive that for you." He gratefully said yes. So I
>drove his new pride and joy back to his garage and my son drove the dak by
>himself for the first time.
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