Tacoma's in severe weather

South Carolina gets like NO SNOW ONLY ICE. not fun.

We did have a snowstorm about 2 years ago. My 2nd time seeing actual snow on the ground,substantial amounts anyway.

 

My sig was right before tropical storm Lee hit. To lazy to expand it.

 

Here's my little "severe" weather story. Happened in late February.


I wish I could've gotten more pictures of this!!!



So I went up to Big Bear today. There was a pretty nice little storm and there were the idiots with two wheel drive who didn't chain up and were creating HUGE problems and having accidents. A huge clusterfuck happened at the 18/330 interchange in Running Springs. There were probably 7 or 8 cars that spun out and hit each other. The traffic going up the onramp to the 18 had to stop because there was nowhere to go. A CHP officer had to come up the onramp to get to the accident scene to try to get the traffic moving again. It was at a dead stop for around an hour. Anyways, the officer is trying to go up the onramp so everybody had to move over for him. Of course, the "Eyewitness News" (channel 7, ABC) van didn't chain up and was blocking the onramp because he couldn't get his tires to gain any traction and just sat there spinning his tires. 4Runner to the rescue!

Luckily I was right in front of him and had my strap with me. So I pulled this giant Ford news van UP an icy, snowy hill in 4Lo (no chains). WIN.


This is what the van looked like:




I LOVE having four wheel drive. It's amazing. I felt good knowing I helped alleviate a potentially (more) dangerous situation.


And here's the story they shot just before I pulled them out.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?se...her&id=7968401

 

Whenever it snows here in Atlanta (which is mass chaos btw) I usually leave for work about an hour earlier and try to help people out. I usually just leave the tow strap connected to the shackle.

I pulled countless people out last year. No one around here buys 4x4 vehicles so it's hilarious watching people. We tend to get more ice around here so it's like watching a saturday afternoon public ice skating session at the local ice rink except with cars sliding everywhere.

I pulled this guy in volvo up a hill last winter that had been spinning his tires so much on the ice it actually smelled like burnt rubber. I connected the strap to him and actually had to go up the hill in the opposite lane of traffic to keep him from sliding off the road and down the bank. When we got to the top of the hill onto some pavement I hear this louch screeching all of a sudden. The Dumbass left his e-brake on the whole time I was pulling him up the hill!

 

All this snow makes me wish I didn't live in FL...call me crazy, but I miss winter and true seasons!

 

I've wanted another 4x4 for a while now. Now that I have it I'm afraid to get it out on the roads around here if it snows or ices up. Not because of my driving, but all the idiots on the roads around here. Not saying I'm the best driver in it by any means, but seems like every time I do get out in bad weather around here every one wants to ride my a$$ like it's a clear summer day.

 

You can see the tip of my windshield wiper in this pick:


This shows how windy it got after it snowed. Kind of cool effect on the snow.

 

WOW, what do you guys do if you have to drive somewhere? just clear the window and the rest falls off?

Looks like your truck in the first pic is trying to get himself out like how chickens get out of a shell when they are born, with their beaks and break a little hole first and work from their!

 

I try to get as much snow off the vehicle as possible. I hate when people drive away with a ton of snow on the roof of their vehicles and it flies off and hits your car. I lost a fog light because of that.

 

next time we have a hurricane or tropical storm here in FL, I will get some pics

 

Give you guys credit for dealing with that all the time cause i couldn't!

 

Woa! im assuming you cant get out of that one, or if you did it would take couple hours?

 

sub'd

 

I'm assuming you were getting towed on snow skis?.........i know so many people who would try that

 

i was driving and towing my younger brother. you can see the tow line in the last picture dragging along the ground. it was good fun.

old video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7d5SUYY2wU

 

Hey that looks hella fun

 

very fun. you run out of normal stuff to do when nothing is open for and week and a half.

 

Dug up some old pix's of my 2007 Tacoma Trd Access Cab from blizzard 09. Think we got hit with 3-5 feet of snow in about a months time. She was all stock...yet completely unstoppable!! Hope we get that kind of snow this year so I can try out my new truck =)

 

Oh, you Hawaiian's.

I wouldn't hesitate to drive my 5 lug through that. I was the only one who showed up to work multiple times last winter. I LOVE driving in the snow.