Snow Accumulation Totals!

[Sijray21]

like Kyle said, about 25-26" here in the tysons area. i volunteered with the inova fairfax hospital since i saw they needed 4x4 vehicles on the news and retrieved 4 physicians from their homes and dropped off 2 patients, and 4 physicians and nurses on saturday and earlier sunday - including one very cute doctor who was into e36 bimmers :wink: . the best comment i received was from a nurse i picked up from springfield on sunday. she lived at the bottom of a hill with a decent gradient and it wasn't plowed. there were some tracks, but for the most part it was all the usual near 2' totals. i went about half-way down the hill (about a 1/4 of a mile) and found a driveway that was plowed, turned around and asked her to walk up the 500 feet or so to meet me since after that it was unplowed and untracked. she was surprised i came down that far and said, "thanks for coming down here, the hummer who picked me up yesterday couldn't make it down here and i had to walk all the way to the top". i grinned and laughed in my head. i did have a tough time when i dropped off a nurse in burke when her neighborhood wasn't plowed and only one truck made tracks. staying in the grooves was kinda tough, but i got stares from everyone shoveling their driveways since i really had to keep my momentum up (nothing ridiculously fast, but i had to prevent from getting stuck).

i was able to travel in the 2' deeps stuff and larger snow drifts/plow dunes as long as i kept moving - i did this in an apartment complex parking lot after dropping off a patient and was kind of surprised that the truck could handle it; the snow was above the axle. i did get stuck twice this weekend when i stopped in 2' of snow. digging out the snow under the chassis, putting the snow in the bed, using the locking rear diff and rocking in 4wd-Low got me out though. not bad for a stock Titan with the off-road package.




picture of I-495 inner loop on saturday afternoon (around 1pm or so). somewhat plowed, but i was easily in 6"+.


downed trees off beauregard in alexandria near Clydes