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[email protected] mkirsch1@rochester.rr.com is offline
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Default Car tires blowing from snow load

On Feb 2, 11:06*am, Caesar Romano wrote:
Indeed. *Snow weighs about 15 lbs/cuft. So then, 12" of snow on a car
that has a footprint of 6'x12' would have 6x12x15 = 1080 lbs on it.
That's about 5 fat people. *That doesn't seem like tire-popping weight
to me.


But the OP said he got SEVEN FEET of snow.
7x1080 = 7560 lbs of snow on top of the car.

That's definitely tire-popping weight.

I wonder if this guy is trying to get on mythbusters...