We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

wrote in news:d6lik65vb7s6ggma4tmujrj3rdlosf3sna@
4ax.com:

We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Where are you?

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On 2/2/2011 8:17 AM, Han wrote:
wrote in news:d6lik65vb7s6ggma4tmujrj3rdlosf3sna@
4ax.com:

We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Where are you?

My guess would be under a bridge...

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:10:47 -0600, wrote:

We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and

When I had 12 inches of snow on my car last year, I worried that my
top, which already had some small rips, would rip through and leave a
big hole in the top for the snow and rain.

Didn't seem to be anywhere near ripping. Didnt' seem to have more
stress on it than it has normally when raised and latched and thus
stretched.

That's why I knew you were funnin' me before I got to what follows
this, which I'm just reading now. The weight of the snow is a lot
more than the weight of air, but it's small compared to the weight of
your car or the 2 people who aren't sitting in it.


all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Han wrote the following:
wrote in news:d6lik65vb7s6ggma4tmujrj3rdlosf3sna@
4ax.com:


We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.


Where are you?



He's in BS land.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

In article ,
Han wrote:

wrote in news:d6lik65vb7s6ggma4tmujrj3rdlosf3sna@
4ax.com:

We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Where are you?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=weak+attempt+at+hyperbolic+humor

On 2011-02-02, George wrote:
On 2/2/2011 8:17 AM, Han wrote:

Where are you?

My guess would be under a bridge...

LOL!

(took a sec, but...)

nb

?
"George" wrote
If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Where are you?

My guess would be under a bridge...

Of course he is. Protects the car from getting a pile of snow on it.

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:56:52 -0500, mm
wrote Re Car tires blowing from snow load:

When I had 12 inches of snow on my car last year, I worried that my
top, which already had some small rips, would rip through and leave a
big hole in the top for the snow and rain.

Didn't seem to be anywhere near ripping. Didnt' seem to have more
stress on it than it has normally when raised and latched and thus
stretched.

That's why I knew you were funnin' me before I got to what follows
this, which I'm just reading now. The weight of the snow is a lot
more than the weight of air, but it's small compared to the weight of
your car or the 2 people who aren't sitting in it.

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.
--
Work is the curse of the drinking class.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:35:28 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:

?
"George" wrote
If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Where are you?

My guess would be under a bridge...

Of course he is. Protects the car from getting a pile of snow on it.

I think that's WHY trolls iive under bridges. If they get wet with
snow or rain, they shrivel up like a snail with salt.

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...

On Feb 2, 4:06*pm, Caesar Romano wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:56:52 -0500, mm
wrote Re Car tires blowing from snow load:

When I had 12 inches of snow on my car last year, I worried that my
top, which already had some small rips, would rip through and leave a
big hole in the top for the snow and rain.

Didn't seem to be anywhere near ripping. Didnt' seem to have more
stress on it than it has normally when raised and latched and thus
stretched.

That's why I knew you were funnin' me before I got to what follows
this, which I'm just reading now. *The weight of the snow is a lot
more than the weight of air, but it's small compared to the weight of
your car or the 2 people who aren't sitting in it.

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.
--
Work is the curse of the drinking class.

15lbs uncompressed. A lot more when the snow piles up.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:39:46 -0800 (PST),
wrote Re 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.

Oh, sorry. I missed the 7 feet part. I thought he got 12". Yes, 7'
would be tire (and building structure) popping weight. But if an area
has 7' of snow, I'm wondering if you can hear a tire pop through that
much snow. Snow is a good sound absorbent material.
--
Work is the curse of the drinking class.

On Feb 2, 7:10*am, wrote:
We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. *I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. *There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. *Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks. *

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. *That's if you
can even get to them safely. *But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. *Besides it could already be too late. *It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

And a new urban legend is born...

Joe

YOUR FULL OF ****, NOW GO TO SCHOOL !


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:23:02 -0600, Caesar Romano
wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:39:46 -0800 (PST),
wrote Re 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.

Oh, sorry. I missed the 7 feet part. I thought he got 12". Yes, 7'
would be tire (and building structure) popping weight. But if an area
has 7' of snow, I'm wondering if you can hear a tire pop through that
much snow. Snow is a good sound absorbent material.

pupp, .... pupp.... pup....pu.... pp...p...-...--.___._

wrote:
We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Heavy, wet, snow weighs about 20# per cubic foot. Assuming your car is 8'
wide and 16' long, one foot of heavy snow would be almost 2,600 pounds.

That would be an additional 650# per tire.

On 2/2/2011 7:10 AM, wrote:
We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.


smoke another, needledick.

--
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remove the "not" from my address to email

On 2/2/2011 10:39 AM, wrote:
On Feb 2, 11:06 am, Caesar 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...

Actually even that weight (if it could be applied) would not pop tires.

--
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remove the "not" from my address to email

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:08:18 -0600, Steve Barker
wrote Re Car tires blowing from snow
load:

On 2/2/2011 10:39 AM, wrote:
On Feb 2, 11:06 am, Caesar 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...

Actually even that weight (if it could be applied) would not pop tires.
How do you know that?
--
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What about my full of ****? Can't you write complete
sentences?

Your full of **** is...... (now, finish the setence for the
class.)

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On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:10:47 -0600, wrote:

We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.
Fat chance.
More likely to break the springs.

In article ,
Steve Barker wrote:

smoke another, needledick.

I see you've read "Eats, Shoots & Leaves."

On 2/2/2011 7:10 AM, wrote:
We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.


Tires are blown by queer loads. :-)

TDD

On 2/2/2011 9:52 PM, Smitty Two wrote:
In article5c6dnYdXX43zSNTQnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@giganews. com,
Steve wrote:

smoke another, needledick.

I see you've read "Eats, Shoots& Leaves."

nope, missed that one. Is it next to "attack of the killer tomatoes" ?

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HeyBub wrote:
wrote:
We just got something like 7 feet of snow and the drifts are up to 25
feet. I was wondering what all the banging and popping sounds were
until I figured out it was car tires blowing out from the weight of
the snow on top of the cars. There's a large parking lot nearby and
all I've been hearing are tires blowing. Some of the louder sounds
have been buildings collapsing and I can see several homes and
businesses gone in the piles of snow. It looks like the tire companies
are going to be real busy in the next few weeks.

If your tires have not yet blown, shovel off your cars. That's if you
can even get to them safely. But dont risk your life for a set of
tires. Besides it could already be too late. It's likely that your
car windshield and/or the roof of the car may also collapse or burst,
and it may already be too late, particularly if the tires are blown.

Heavy, wet, snow weighs about 20# per cubic foot. Assuming your car is 8'
wide and 16' long, one foot of heavy snow would be almost 2,600 pounds.

That would be an additional 650# per tire.


We had one building collapse in MN - a flat roof hardware store. A news
station talked to a structural engineer. The design roof load for snow
is 35 psf in Minneapolis. He said that is about 6 feet of snow. (The
design load is higher further north.)

The hardware store collapse made it on the national news. Multiple
building collapse plus many car tires is a much bigger news story.
Anyone seen it? Was anyone hurt in the multiple collapses where the
building is "gone"? Where did the OP say this happened?

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"notbob" wrote in message
...
On 2011-02-02, George wrote:
On 2/2/2011 8:17 AM, Han wrote:

Where are you?

My guess would be under a bridge...

LOL!

Ditto!

--
Bobby G.

Steve Barker wrote:
On 2/2/2011 9:52 PM, Smitty Two wrote:
In article5c6dnYdXX43zSNTQnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@giganews. com,
Steve wrote:

smoke another, needledick.

I see you've read "Eats, Shoots& Leaves."

nope, missed that one. Is it next to "attack of the killer tomatoes"
?

No, it's a small volume on misplaced commas and apostrophe's. Quite
hilarious, really. The author makes the point that:

"Eats, shoots & leaves"

is way different from

"Eats shoots and leaves"

or even

"Eats, shoots, and leaves"

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:35:28 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:

Where are you?

My guess would be under a bridge...

Of course he is. Protects the car from getting a pile of snow on it.


http://www.funnyhype.com/files/funny...in-a-truck.jpg

HeyBub wrote:
Steve Barker wrote:
On 2/2/2011 9:52 PM, Smitty Two wrote:
In article5c6dnYdXX43zSNTQnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@giganews. com,
Steve wrote:

smoke another, needledick.

I see you've read "Eats, Shoots& Leaves."

nope, missed that one. Is it next to "attack of the killer tomatoes"
?

No, it's a small volume on misplaced commas and apostrophe's. Quite
hilarious, really. The author makes the point that:

"Eats, shoots & leaves"

is way different from

"Eats shoots and leaves"

or even

"Eats, shoots, and leaves"

Not to worry. The misplaced apostrophe in my previous post conforms to the
"Law of Conservation of Apostrophes", that is, for every apostrophe used
properly, there is another that is not.