NOT the Trans Am, lol, just my winter beater. My g/f, myself, my buddy and his g/f decided to take our Jeeps up to north Jersey. There's a sick waterfall and some good hiking (even in snow) so we ventured up there today. Here's our trip in photos...

Lower MontCo:


611 north of Doylestown, PA:


611 near the 29 split in PA:


Middle of nowhere Northwest Jersey:






Clearing one of the hundreds of trees that fell over the road:




Then, about 45 minutes later we're cruising along at 10-15 MPH on a downhill. All of a sudden I see a huge white puff/cloud off in the woods. Then, a second later I see this tree fall across the road. I hit the brakes as I saw it start to come down. Unfortunately it landed about 10 feet in front of us. Nothing I could do. I thought to myself that I needed to avoid the trunk of the tree, and hit the upper branches if I am going to hit anything. So that's what I did. We made it through the tree and I started to turn back toward my side of the road. Just as I thought everything was fine, I hear a THUD... The Jeep stopped. I open my door to see my rear, driver side tire about 4 feet off the ground, over a small stream bed. Great!






Got out to check the damage. Didn't look horrible. The Jeep was resting on the hitch on the rear. Gas tank was not touched. We had some great help from the locals who provided a couple thick boards for the rear tire to "ramp" up as my buddy pulled me out in his MJ (Comanchee). Drenched and cold, we decided to cut our losses and head home. Easy, right? Not really... This was I80 East, just west of Route 206 where dozens of trucks were stuck on the incline, in almost every lane. Crazy:


Route 206 was even worse. Power was out and large trees covered 3/4 of the roadway every 1/2 mile or less, nearly the entire drive on 206 from 80 to 202. I'm a huge fan of driving in inclement weather, but this was one for the books. I've never seen so much devastation from wet snow on trees before. It was quite an experience....

Damage report:
-Passenger side headlight
-Passenger side fender
-Hood
-Cat, muffler, tailpipe
-Antenna

Not too bad for driving through a tree!

 

as much as i hate the fkking cold, that looks fun!

 

Adventure much - lol

 

Snow is fun, but -30deg weather, salt, and having to store my car for half the year is not

 

I second this!!

 

seeing all that snow is kinda depressing

 

Global Warming, folks... is a total biotch!

Looks like, damage and all, you guys got exactly what you were after... F U N ! Still, glad I wasn't driving in that mess. I have AWD and heated seats, but I'm still no fan of snow driving. Some of the worst conditions I've ever driven through were on I-80. For me, it was way out west though, and the snow was beautiful, but I lost count of all the low speed crashes I saw.

 

Poor tree! I mean, I hope everyone is okay!

 

lol it was really a fun time until this tree incident. Could've been MUCH worse, though, so I am happy we were all okay.

 

man, that's one hell of a snowstorm for this time of year!!

glad nobody was hurt.

 

that's one helluva mess for this early in the year, glad everything worked out and you were safe....if that's what it is now, i wander what the weather will get like down here in the south this year.....

 

Sucks that your Jeep got smacked like that but it looks like it was a lot of fun. I love cold/snowy weather but never really had a vehicle I could have some fun in the snow with (without feeling bad about it anyway.)

 

Well it can be fun, but as we saw 2 winters ago, any amount of snow anywhere NEAR Irving, Tx is going to cause havoc! I was amazed at the lack of driving skill in foul weather conditions.

Drivers from the northeast are generally ready by the 3rd snow fall, to keep things civil.

 

I love driving in the snow, I hate driving around people who are deathly afraid of it though lol.

 

that's when you start to mess around, get them to REALLY freak out