Well, it paid to spend 6 hours on Tuesday, February 6th, clearing out the 3 to 4 feet of snow from our driveway, we are registered for MOT2007. Oh, that snow fell in just about 10 hours.

The total for the 7-day Lake Effect snow storm was 96 inches. Yes, 8 feet fell during this "Winter in a Week". Great to live just 'downwind' of Lake Ontario.

With all that snow, strong winds and sub-zero wind chills, it felt like being top of Mt. Washington on a good day in February. BTW, today's snow fall pushed us up over 102 inches.

I think that is a special effort to get out of the driveway to the post office. :D We only had the cold to deal with over here! Thanks for sharing the pictures!

With your registration and a few other folks - we passed 50 MINIs registered today! Just a couple hundred still to go ;)

Lasagna is much more popular this year than last ... is everyone going vegetarian?

PalTMQ, great pictures...do you have any more posted somewhere online of all the snow?

Ian...last year I stayed away from the lasagna because anything with Vegetarian in it scares me. Then I realized it is just normal lasagna (not lasagna with meat sauce) and wish I got it. So I've ignored that V word this year. :)

Yeah, vegetarians don't taste very good. *ick*

For those that would like to get a feel for how much snow piled up in last week's lake effect snow storm, "Winter in a Week", here is a local news site with losts of pictures all around the county:

Sorry, apparently I do not have enough posts to be permited to "...post URLs to other sites...".

I had better get posting. Try again later.

BTW - We are now getting hit with another lake effect snow storm. Driveway is filled in with another 3 to 4 feet of "wind packed" snow that you can walk on. And, its going to continue until tomorrow afternoon.

"Fire up the tractor... (so the MINI can get out)." :D

Best of luck with the shoveling, Paul. :D

Yikes. So how many feet in total over the past 2 weeks?

I realized that the snow is so hard here I can drive on it, and it barely leaves a tire mark. No hope for shoveling that hardened cement, all I can do is hope the next two sunny days melt it.

The snow that has fallen from these lake effect snow storms is not the light and fluffy powder stuff the skiers like. This stuff is damp with Great Lakes moisture, wind blown, packed in place and frozen so its more like foam insulation.

Today I could walk out to the road on top of the 30 inches that was in my driveway. But, the first thing I bought when we moved here was a 20 HP tractor with 42 inch snowblower attachment. Even with that 'horsepower', it took 3 hours to clear my driveway.

Look at this:
http://www.gbmini.net/images/albums/general2007/JimMcDowell_AutoChannel.sized.jpg (http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2007/02/r56_press_launch/)


MINI USA will surely attend MINIsOnTop again this summer and join in the fun & friendliness - make sure you're there too: register now (http://minisontop.com/2007/02/04/mot2007-registration-is-now-open/)!

You know you've made it when your cling makes it to a Powerpoint slide!
Though the pose looks like "stab him while grabbing his privates"...;)
But you all should come 'cuz it hasn't happened yet!
Drive safe - Have fun - Come to MOT :) :) :)

BTW -

For those of you who don't recognize the gentleman giving the presentation, it it none other than MINIUSA Head Jim McDowell.

Let it be known that we have friends in high places!

Theo :yellow:

And if you don't recognize him you were not at the past couple of MOTs...
To help sread the word you may want to put this on any of the MINIs you see. Its a great way to litter and meet new friends (Just ask Peter )
http://www.mini2.com/galleries/data/500/thumbs/MOT07_Flyer.jpg (http://www.mini2.com/galleries/data/500/MOT07_Flyer.jpg)

just reserved our room for saturday night @ T&C

Us too!! and we're working on Bar Harbor reservations now.....I can't wait !!!

Finally, Pete! I was beginning to think you were going to be camping outside again! ;)

Open the TIME magazine that came in today and look what I found:
The Worst Weather in the World -- Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 -- Page 1 -- TIME (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590454,00.html)
That's part1 - Which I missed - Part 2 is in todays...

In a message to those of us who have subscribed to the MINIs On Top mailing list (http://minisontop.com/subscribe/), Ian writes:

Have you registered for MINIsOnTop yet? We have over 70 registrations already!

Have you booked lodging for the MINIsOnTop weekend? The Town & Country is almost full - they just released an extra 15 rooms for our event at the MINIsOnTop rate of $74/night plus tax.

If you can't book with the Town & Country, there is other lodging available in Gorham - we can recommend the Royalty Inn just a mile or so from the Town & Country; a special rate of $79/night (or $85/night for room with two beds) has been provided for MINIsOnTop, with 40 rooms held for us until April 1st.

So please, act now if you want to book lodging in Gorham!

Town & Country:
Town & Country Motor Inn (http://www.townandcountryinn.com/)
1(800)325-4386

Royalty Inn:
Welcome to the Royalty Inn in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (http://www.royaltyinn.com/)
(800)437-3529

(More coming soon)

I heard baker is cancelling the whole event and changing it to Honda's on top !:o

That's HOT!

sorry.

Don't be....

Don't be....


I agree, that IS hot!!:cool:

The MOT2007 vinyl clings have arrived:
http://www.gbmini.net/images/albums/general2007/MOT2007cling.sized.jpg (http://www.gbmini.net/wp/2007/03/minisontop_2007_cling/)

Thanks to Ricardo for the design ... I think the yellow/black combo has come out really nicely :) I want to see loads of yellow/black MINIs at this years event!

I think it will look just as good on a yellow/white Mini! :)

It's Bruin colored, I've been waiting for that since 2003. Now we just need to do green and gold and I'll be completely happy...

-Ricardo

But you have to register too ...

What? You mean I actually have to come to this thing, too? I'm just in it for the window stickers! ;)

-Ricardo

It's Bruin colored, I've been waiting for that since 2003. Now we just need to do green and gold and I'll be completely happy...

-Ricardo

But the Celtics are green and white.

thrilling conversation... ;)