Brings back memories of Dicks Last Resort

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"When the Team Chief said.... You're trapped in a hole with nothing but a goat and a slinky, what do you do? Stubby said, I'm not sure but it won't end well for the goat...." ~(Overheard) Last day, Phase 3, Q Course

I've been caught by early snow before putting my scraper in the car. Credit card will work well for de-icing. Of course if thin enough so will heated sprayer on X5.

I use brass blade scraper for frost. I have a 12" wide "snow broom" for snow

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E53 / M54 2001 3.0i gas LHD (pair of them: his & her)

I had about a quarter inch layer of ice on my E53. I won’t even bother with her, until she thaws out.

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02 BMW 5 Speed Supercharged Ethanol Burnin Meth Injected E53

You guys got more ice than we did I think. Though we are getting more sleep and ice tonight according to forecast. The power failures are bad too. Hope you and your family are staying warm and safe.

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2005 X5 4.4i Build 04/05 Maintenance/Build Log
Nav, Pano, Sport (Purchased 06/14 w/ 109,000 miles) (Sold 8/15 w/121,000 miles)

2006 X5 4.8is Build 11/05 Maintenance/Build Log
Nav, DSP, Pano, Running Boards, OEM Tow Hitch, Cold Weather Pckg (Purchased 08/15 w/ 90,500 miles)

2010 X5 35d Build 02/10
Nav, HiFi, 6 DVD, Sports Pckg, Cold Weather Pckg, HUD, CAS, Running Boards, Leather Dash, PDC, Pano (Purchased 03/17 w/ 136,120 miles)

We’re going nearly 24 hours no power. We’ve had the gas logs running all night. We camped out. I was dripping the faucets, but it appears the hot side did not have adequate flow, so as of right now my hot is frozen. Gee whiz!

Some here have had no power or water. It’s a rough situation right now.

E53 related: I hope I had a high enough methanol content in the cooling system. Because if not, you can probably bet the system is ruined. But who cares about a vehicle when your house is freezing up.

Oh well.. Soon we will see better days.

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02 BMW 5 Speed Supercharged Ethanol Burnin Meth Injected E53

In parts of Chicago 17" of snow in two days. Pulled 3-4 people of being stuck but broke tow rope on the last one so fun is done.

Driving through alleys is "at your risk" with polished ice ruts with the center the height of the last car that made it through clearance. All the side roads are similar they didn't plow the last storm of 10" either so roughly 25" of snow since the roads were cleared.


SUV parking only.

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E53 / M54 2001 3.0i gas LHD (pair of them: his & her)

Fingers crossed for you. Vehicles are far less critical than the homestead for sure.

Power restored to most of SA today but of course it's snowing and 29f outside so we'll see if that lasts. Red has been in the garage since she came back from the detailer. Fully charged battery and then hit the battery cutoff switch a week ago. She's spoiled.

My BiL also had a hot water pipe burst. Fortunately it was in an accessible area and he got it fixed same day. Hope yours is easy to get to as well.

Andrew, I'm sure the north is laughing at us. Our grid (like everything else) is run by a bunch of idiots. If we had what you guys deal with down here, the city would shut down completely. People here don't think ahead or plan for anything other than the status quo. Which reminds me, I need to start looking at generators after all this is over.

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2005 X5 4.4i Build 04/05 Maintenance/Build Log
Nav, Pano, Sport (Purchased 06/14 w/ 109,000 miles) (Sold 8/15 w/121,000 miles)

2006 X5 4.8is Build 11/05 Maintenance/Build Log
Nav, DSP, Pano, Running Boards, OEM Tow Hitch, Cold Weather Pckg (Purchased 08/15 w/ 90,500 miles)

2010 X5 35d Build 02/10
Nav, HiFi, 6 DVD, Sports Pckg, Cold Weather Pckg, HUD, CAS, Running Boards, Leather Dash, PDC, Pano (Purchased 03/17 w/ 136,120 miles)

Yeah, it looks like she should be thawed out by Saturday afternoon. I’ll fire her up, and let her idle for about a half an hour, and then assess the impact that the freeze had on her.

I’ve been known to be stubborn. Maybe it paid off this time. I went to all of the faucets, and wide opened the hot valves. Then vacuumed them little by little, with the cold flow valves. Over a couple of hours, a drip, went to a full flow. Thank God! I just pray, that the lines have not been compromised.

We were literally off the grid! LoL.. A generator sounds nice! It’s just the whole house types are extremely expensive. Crystal, I can tell you for a fact, our neck of the woods were completely shutdown. No electricity, No water, and Nat Gas was running low. I haven’t heard that type of silence, since I can remember. In a way, it was actually peaceful.

Well, we will be hunkering down again tonight. Another hard freeze is coming through. See y’all on the other side.

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02 BMW 5 Speed Supercharged Ethanol Burnin Meth Injected E53

We put in an outside plug and wires into out load center years ago where we can pull out a portable generator and hook up backfed though a 30a 240 breaker If we loose power.

It would take an hour to get up and running but we could have our furnace running pretty quickly.

We only used once when a storm knocked down our power line up or house and they came to reattach. They cut the power for half a day it was nice to have the fridges and furnace running.

Our generator is 5kw or 20A and can run pretty much our whole house save the electric dryer you don't need a fully automatic natural gas powered generator for $10k, a $500 unit and $50 worth of cord and plugs will get your house mostly operational.

Also: an SUV is an excellent back up fuel tank holding 25 g of the liquid gold should you need to run the generator for extended periods.

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E53 / M54 2001 3.0i gas LHD (pair of them: his & her)