I was shoveling the driveway this morning, making my way to the van. I was about to walk under but I heard a cracking noise. The next thing I knew, that came crashing down in front of me and onto the van.
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Wow, that was close.
Holy crap! What the duce was it that crashed unto your van? It looks like it’s some sort of supported tarp that you put over it.
It’s a winter garage.. commonly known in Quebec as a Tempo Garage (after the company that makes 90% of them over here). It’s a lightweight steel pipe structure with a kevlar clith over it. Think of it as a small winter house for your car. Basic models are held in place with a series a straps leaping over it and connected to a rod in the ground and they often get loose under heavy winds…with spectacular results.
same thing happened to me once on christmas D:
Tell ya, it’s amazing what we sense subconsciously.
Close call. >
holy freaking snikerdoodles! Did the van make it out in one piece as well? ^_^
the same thing happened to me last year. well hope theres not any damage.
What was that? Tree?
At least it didn’t fall on you like some girl, who died.
Whoa is the van ok?
Haha, man, everything just seems to be pointing at the two of us staying inside the house today. I looked out the window early this morning and saw two cars slide out on Seven Locks … they rammed into each other. No one was hurt, thankfully. Later, when my neighbor tried to pull out of their driveway, they just got stuck by a snow pileup.
Glad you didn’t get owned by that tarp!
To the Ananth above me…
JESUS CHRIST! MY FRIEND LIVES ON SEVEN LOCKS AND SAW THE SAME THING! Its pretty rough here in MoCo
I dodged a renegade sledder earlier do to my (for legal purposes) Imminent Doom Sense. NO ONE CAN SUE ME NOW!! (maniacle laugh)
You didn’t hurt the snow did yah?
That’s Mother Nature’s way of saying “I’ve got my eye on you.”
Wow lucky you.
One time my brother re-parked his car from the driveway to the street in front of his house for no particular reason. A wind storm the next night brought down a huge tree limb that would’ve clobbered his car if it was still in the driveway. The limb came from a tree that the city told him not to cut down. After that incident, they let him cut it down.
Whoa! O_O I’m glad your Spidey-senses saved you, who knowes what could of happen to you?! *Huggles you.* Keep your Spidey-senses clean Hawk!
Holy Shnikies!
That’s no tarp, it’s a space station!
…or a cleverly disguised assassination device from mother nature.
those covers were not designed for holding a lot of snow. I suggest either you have a stronger shelter built for your van (like, say, a GARAGE), or, when you buy a new one, CLEAR THE SNOW OFF before it fails.
hm okay. we do have a garage.
Wow, that sucks. Back in january I moved my car from where I parked to a big parking lot before that huge ice storm clobbered OK - a tree branch fell on the spot I moved it from! True, it was a fairly small branch - it probably won’t do anything but put a dent in my hood - but it was still lucky.
I had the craziest catch during that storm - I was walking home from class, and stepped on one of those ramps that go from the street to the sidewalk - covered solid with “Snow”. AKA, 1″ ice, with just enough snow to make it look “safe”. I skidded around for almost 15 seconds before catching myself bent over sideways…. If you’ve ever seen Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, you might remember how Marv flailed around on that green goop in the basement - exactly the same type of motion….
Yah, my family has a lot of lightning stories too. Back in ‘58, my grandma slept through the “Great Tornado of 1958″ In Saint Louis - missed her house by less than a block. No damage, but her yard was full of debris… (This was an F4 too!)
Then, back in the 70s, she was cooking dinner on her electric stove. She heard some noise out front, so left the room to see what it was. 5 seconds later? The power line outside was hit by lightning - the oven’s heating element flash-melted and splattered molten steel all over the kitchen.
And about 3 years ago, she went outside after a big storm to inspect her roof - a huge branch fell of a tree, crushing her trash cans outside. When she was walking out onto the back porch, a bright, blue positive-lightning flash (the most powerful kind) hit the tree less than 10 feet from her…. She was ok, but the tree didn’t survive very long….
Then there’s the lightning that fried my cousin’s N64 and PS2, one that fried my OTHER cousin’s TV and DVD player, and one that missed my family by about 100 feet while on the Blue Ridge of Virginia…
So many memories…..
Lol, I think I need to stay in during storms! :)
O.o Or you should go into a bunker some where.
You have a very lucky family… that or a guardian angel looking out for them. I seriously think if that had happened to my family, they would have never survived… except for the Tornado I slept through one going through Little Rock, AR when I was living there back in 92′ 93′? forgot when, but it wasnt a big deal. Also thank god Hawk id fine, it would be a shame if he somehow got hurt.
Agreed. But does Hawk really have spidey-senses? Wouldn’t it be hawk-(future) vision or something? :P
Yah, I’m a bit unlucky (or lucky, depending on how you view it). I don’t think my family is particulary unlucky, I just have a lot of good storm stories! That, and I vividly remember most of ‘em, unlike many people.
It’s no wonder I’m so fascinated by weather… all these crazy great-plains storms really had an effect on me. There was this one awesome supercell that we flew under while landing in STL back in ‘94 - it was absolutely extraordinary to see lightning flashing from the air. We were many miles away, but it looked like it was all around the plane because of the brilliant flashes in the clouds and the spider lightning raking the horizon… That was the most extraordinary lightning storm I’ve ever seen - I stayed up for almost 3 hours after we got home watching the back yard being lit by a natural strobe-light - literally, that fast. There’s also no better place to experience how turbulent a storm is than descending through 20,000 feet of it - I’ve never seen a pilot make a final approach so fast! Once we got the go-ahead to break our hour-long holding pattern, the pilot cut power, dropped flaps, pushed the nose down, and we decended through this several-mile thick stratus deck seemingly in mere moments. We finally pulled out of the dive and dropped gear only a minute or two from the runway, buffeting up and down the whole time in the crosswind. I think we were the last plane to land that night before they started diverting people to Chicago… Aw man, that was one heck of a great storm! I’ll never forget how beautiful those pale, moonlit cumulus “mountains” looked on the flight up…. broken stratus revealing sparkling citiy lights below, brilliant stars and full moon above, and these huge castles rising up all around….
I have many, many other stories…. I suppose I should stop rambling though. Once I start sharing these stories I just can’t stop! :) In case you haven’t noticed, I’m studying weather, and I’m having a lot of fun recalling this stuff too - weird ones, we meteorologists… Just the sheer power of the weather is absolutely awesome and beautiful… (reminisces…)
Yeah, Oklahoma has some pretty amazing weather. Like last nights snow storm, lightning was every where. Although as usual I didn’t see any ball lightning, though every one says we get it nearly every storm. Isn’t snowstorms when it occurs most often?
Not sure. Ball lightning is pretty obscure to begin with, and nobody really knows exactly what it is, let alone particular circumstances of formation.
Wow, thunder-snowstorm. Where was this? Oklahoma? I don’t remember seeing any particularly powerful storms on the radar, just heavy snow. Interesting.
I DO remember that ice storm back at the end of november. That was nuts. We (my classmates and I) were about to start an evening test, when it started to storm outside. and I mean STORM. Lotsa lightning…. Of course, it was just cold enough that it all came down as sleet and freezing rain. I think that within 30 seconds, every window in the area had 1/4″ glaze of ice on it. It continued to drop sleet and heavy snow for several hours afterwards. It was interesting driving home - the normally 5 minute, 3 mile drive took 20 minutes - I had to scrape the windshield clear a couple of times during the idle home… Boy, that was fun scraping half a windshield clean in 5 degree winds and driving sleet! :\
Lol, at least the 1/4″ of snow that’s still falling outside (now) is nice and fluffy and light - the best kind!
Now that I think about it-about 2 years ago now I was outside during a snow storm and I saw lightning and heard thunder while it was snowing.Strange
Yayy for Hawk not being crushed!
Y’know, I must admit, I’m kinda surprised that Mini-Hawk and his squirrel friend aren’t standing there, pointing the finger of blame at each other.
That would make an interesting AG lite.
hehehehe.
i saw snow like that this winter.
6 ft surrounding my house.
the neighbors had to dig me out so i could get out the door.
oh my goodness! thats crazy! *huggles you tight* …. *sticks you in a big plastic bubble* no hurty teh hawk (btw… any chance you did something to piss karma off lately?)
If that ever happened to me I would have woven a fine tapestry of obscenity over the entire town.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist a little Christmas Story humour)
Nah, no need. the previous one is still floating over lake michigan somewhere….
:)
Zomg. I was nearly fried earlier this morning when a giant torrential pile of SOLID ICE fell from the 40 foot tall tree above me and landed two feet away, sending ice shards everywhere EXCEPT at me. I think the snow has had so much time to spawn, it’s becoming sentient… Sort of like the iPods on Simpson’s, I think the dumb snow is planning on overthrowing humans. Get the flamethrowers, guys, we’re having a war on snow.
(about the LITE)Wow, i think some one is jealous. :)
*in a cliche evil voice*Come to elite side, we mod, we have half-life, we kick ass.
“we have half-life, we kick ass.”
quoted for truth.
lol, thanks.
steam: th3soulreaper
Lucky dogs….i have school today and there’s not a trace of snow in sight…only rain….and it was about 20C yesterday…damn weather!
Ah, warm….
It’s been -20 C here…
Just watch out so you’re not serial crushed by some huge, fricking (snow)man.
Find quote source, get a cookie.
Oh…thats gotta suck….close call I’d say…
damn. you’re damn lucky to have not been hit
Daaaaaaaaang! The Almighty must loooove you!
I had something similar happen back in December. well it was my neighbor but: The carport fell on his van
huh, well the line “the carport fell on his van” is a link to a pic.
it was nice of you to point out that it wasnt your car crushed, lol
Yikes! 0_o
You know, move out here to California and you won’t have that problem….
…well, there’s a little thing called ‘earthquakes’ but…eheheh…n/m. At least you can shovel snow. Earthquakes, not a whole lot you can do…
Of course, I just realized…Hawk narrowly evades a snowy death…and his first thoughts? “I gotta get a picture of this!” :p
I was actually thinking the same thing….
Lets hear it for priorities!
Lol. Sounds like me!
Erm…uh…yeah, me too, in all actuality.
I wish we had that much snow up here, the mountains have sucked all year
ps: I live in glenwood sprins, a pleasant town which should have awesome snowboarding for half the year
except for the sucky snow weve had this seaseon, oh well, I guess its just so my car doesn’t get crushed by snow.
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Wow. Glad you’re all right! I know the Northeast is being hit with more snow than the Northwest did, I just hope everyone is keeping save and avoiding hills. In the Northwest there’s hills everywhere and this is what happened when only five inches came down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hngivjDQVM
Happened in Portland, Oregon.
Woah, that’s nuts. Was everyone OK?
Yes, only minor injuries. Unfortunately it was a lot of people who little experience out on the roads, there was a layer of ice under the snow (there was snow one day, warmed up the next and froze in the night. Next day it snowed), and steep hills. The hills on the west coast are not whimpy and no matter what your have for transportation, it will slide if there’s ice.
Doesn’t help we also have people would come from areas with no snow or lots of snow and tiny hills/flat.
Today was the day That the gods desided to shit on me. I was drving to work and some asshole Almost hit me so i surved to the right and went into the snowbank, I had to get AAA to get me out. Then I finish my drive to work and i get out of my car I shut my door and BAM! my back window explodes into 5000 tiny bits of glass.
My back window is now being held together with duct tape…
=( I swear if I die on the way home I would not be suprised.
whoa…in Singapore we don’t GET snow so I’ve never seen stuff like this happen. Guess year-round summer has its perks.
You know… I think your spidey sense is stronger than you think. It reaches all the way to New York. This was the talk around the water cooler. Crazy…
We had the same problem in our country (Poland)last week.
It’s good that your van was crushed - not you :)
Respect from Polish PPl :)
Glad you’re okay. Hopefully, lesson learned, tents + snow = death.
We got so much snow in Sherbrooke, QC, that the UNIVERSITY had to close down for a complete day. That is NOT normal :D
Drats. I’ll get you next time, I swear!