slosurfer
12-27-2008, 01:00 AM
My parents rented a house for the whole family at Shaver Lake for Christmas this year. My parents, my brother with his wife and 3 kids, my fam, and my grandparents all in one house for a week. :yikes:
They all came up Sunday, while we came up Monday evening due to my work schedule. Our excitement happened before we were even in the door. The cabin has a slightly sloped driveway with a flat spot for parking where it turns and goes steeply up the rest of the way to the house. It had been snowing before for a couple days, but not much that day. They had no problem backing all the way up to the house to unload and then going back down and parking in the flat spot. Well we get there late monday night and I pull into the flat spot (4lo), turn, and back up the driveway. Things are a little slick but don't seem bad. I get all the way up no problem and only need to go another foot to have the rear be on the flat part right in front of the garage. My tires break loose, I start to slide forward, and I put on the brake, only to have the tacoma just slide down the hill. I immediately let off the brake, and just let it idle in R as I slide down the driveway straight for my bro's Tundra. Steering is useless, and it's just a matter of seeing where we hit. It looks like it will be my driver front bumper to his passenger front bumper. First thought through my head, looks like my bro and I will be getting offroad bumpers now. :laugh: Right before I'm there, I give it gas to spin the tires in the hope that they will allow the tacoma to slide a little sideways with the fall of the driveway. It worked, haha! If you looked at the tire tracks, you can't figure out how I missed his truck. It was that close! April was :yikes: and I was :laugh: My dad comes out talking crap as he's starting to walk down the driveway, saying, "I thought that thing had lockers, we've been driving up and down it all day." I tell him "it's ice, lockers won't help" :flipoff:. The words were barely out of my mouth, and he's slipping and sliding and trying not to bust his ass. :laugh: He couldn't believe it, he said they were driving up and down it all day, walking up and down it, even the little kids were walking on it and sledding on it. We had to walk up the side in the snow as it was impossible to walk on. We all laughed, I just parked the tacoma in the flat area next to the other vehicles, and we carried what we needed in and left the rest for the morning.
It started snowing right after that and didn't really stop till last night. Probably got close to 2' if not more. The kids had a blast and we made some killer sled runs for them, complete with banked turns and jumps. :laugh:
Yesterday afternoon, I was getting cabin fever, so I decided to drive into town to get some more beer and beat the boredom. My dad went with me. Well, the plow had plowed in the driveway, I decided I could drive over it. :) I was in the tacoma, so I didn't want to gun it like I would have had it been the 4runner which sits up much higher. So, instead, I took it easy and got it high centered. Ha, boredom, you have been beat!!! We tried to dig it out some, aired down, etc.., when that didn't work, my dad went up and got his 08 Landcruiser to try to pull me back into the driveway and then we could dig out the driveway and leave. Well, since the driveway was slightly sloped, and my dad haveing to pull in reverse, it just wasn't working. A neighbour came over and pulled me out from the front with his 04 4runner, so that was cool. The only bummer about all of this was the blizzard that was going on when I first got stuck. :laugh: Went out, got our beer, and made it back with no incident, funny thing is, we didn't even need beer. :laugh: I did get some good Moose Drool Ale though which was awesome!
Today rolls around and it's sunny and nice. We decide to go for a drive and get out of the house for awhile. Plow plowed us in again, bastard, but it wasn't as bad and we had the entrance dug out pretty quick. On the way down the street, I pulled some people out in their 2wd exploder that had been plowed in as well. They ended up busting a chain in the process and I was able to zip tie the busted links to the side and gave them extra zipties incase those broke. Nice mom with I'm guessing her teenagers and their friends (too bad I wasn't younger, they were all hot, haha). Turns out they are from the same area as us and had rented a house as well. They were very happy and offered to babysit for us if we needed it at all while we're up here. :laugh:
We hit up the road to Dinkey creek and drove to the end, kids fell asleep, so we kept driving. We went back to shaver and then took the road over to Big Creek to see what was there. Cool little town that just has a general store and a power plant. Jack and I played in the snow some and then we headed back.
On the way back, we were going up hill and on the outside of a corner (the dropoff side as well), when a chevy coming downhill didn't make the corner and hit us. I saw him coming and gave it more gas and got over as much as I could (not much room, no shoulder and we were up against a 4ft. snow bank from it being plowed. It wasn't enough and he hit us, mostly on the bed, but did get the cab/rear driverside door some. It was slow motion and for a split second, I thought he was going to sneak it by. Kids seem fine, I'm fine, but April is having some neck and back pain. I think she turned in her seat some to look at the truck coming and tensed up. We didn't spin, as we were up against the snow to begin with, he hit us and the rear just nailed the snowbank.
It seems to drive fine and straight (although we'll see once we get off of snowy roads and hit freeway speeds). The rear tire got hit, but it seems fine and there is no noticeable wobble when watching it while driving. He got the rear door barely, the rear bottom of the cab, the whole side of the bed, and the rear bumper. The camper shell seems fine as it was high enough and doesn't seem to have shifted or anything. He only got a pushed in and bent bumper. :laugh: He was very apologetic (young kid 20 yrs old), just going a tad too fast, and I think he tapped the brakes when he saw us coming around the turn, since he was a little wide on his turn, and the ice, made him lose traction. He was in 4hi, so it was just pretty unlucky. I'm hoping April's neck and back pain are gone in the morning. Oh, and we have to buy new carseats, since these have been in an accident. :(
So, now we have to do the whole insurance thing and who knows how long we'll be without the tacoma. We'll have to get a rental, as I don't want april having to drive the kids around for a long time in the 4runner with no swaybars. I'm hoping to get a good look underneath tomorrow as it was almost dark when we got back and with all the ice and stuff under there it was hard to see. I do know that the elocker still works. :)
Anyways, on to the pics. I'll try to get better pics, the combo of silver truck, snow, and cloud cover wash away a lot of the detail.
Cliffnotes: Shenanigans at a cabin in the snow for xmas, the tacoma got hit by a chevy k20, April has neck and back pains, pics of carnage to follow. :)
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His damage, I think most of the damage was actually from his front tire and not his bumper.
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They all came up Sunday, while we came up Monday evening due to my work schedule. Our excitement happened before we were even in the door. The cabin has a slightly sloped driveway with a flat spot for parking where it turns and goes steeply up the rest of the way to the house. It had been snowing before for a couple days, but not much that day. They had no problem backing all the way up to the house to unload and then going back down and parking in the flat spot. Well we get there late monday night and I pull into the flat spot (4lo), turn, and back up the driveway. Things are a little slick but don't seem bad. I get all the way up no problem and only need to go another foot to have the rear be on the flat part right in front of the garage. My tires break loose, I start to slide forward, and I put on the brake, only to have the tacoma just slide down the hill. I immediately let off the brake, and just let it idle in R as I slide down the driveway straight for my bro's Tundra. Steering is useless, and it's just a matter of seeing where we hit. It looks like it will be my driver front bumper to his passenger front bumper. First thought through my head, looks like my bro and I will be getting offroad bumpers now. :laugh: Right before I'm there, I give it gas to spin the tires in the hope that they will allow the tacoma to slide a little sideways with the fall of the driveway. It worked, haha! If you looked at the tire tracks, you can't figure out how I missed his truck. It was that close! April was :yikes: and I was :laugh: My dad comes out talking crap as he's starting to walk down the driveway, saying, "I thought that thing had lockers, we've been driving up and down it all day." I tell him "it's ice, lockers won't help" :flipoff:. The words were barely out of my mouth, and he's slipping and sliding and trying not to bust his ass. :laugh: He couldn't believe it, he said they were driving up and down it all day, walking up and down it, even the little kids were walking on it and sledding on it. We had to walk up the side in the snow as it was impossible to walk on. We all laughed, I just parked the tacoma in the flat area next to the other vehicles, and we carried what we needed in and left the rest for the morning.
It started snowing right after that and didn't really stop till last night. Probably got close to 2' if not more. The kids had a blast and we made some killer sled runs for them, complete with banked turns and jumps. :laugh:
Yesterday afternoon, I was getting cabin fever, so I decided to drive into town to get some more beer and beat the boredom. My dad went with me. Well, the plow had plowed in the driveway, I decided I could drive over it. :) I was in the tacoma, so I didn't want to gun it like I would have had it been the 4runner which sits up much higher. So, instead, I took it easy and got it high centered. Ha, boredom, you have been beat!!! We tried to dig it out some, aired down, etc.., when that didn't work, my dad went up and got his 08 Landcruiser to try to pull me back into the driveway and then we could dig out the driveway and leave. Well, since the driveway was slightly sloped, and my dad haveing to pull in reverse, it just wasn't working. A neighbour came over and pulled me out from the front with his 04 4runner, so that was cool. The only bummer about all of this was the blizzard that was going on when I first got stuck. :laugh: Went out, got our beer, and made it back with no incident, funny thing is, we didn't even need beer. :laugh: I did get some good Moose Drool Ale though which was awesome!
Today rolls around and it's sunny and nice. We decide to go for a drive and get out of the house for awhile. Plow plowed us in again, bastard, but it wasn't as bad and we had the entrance dug out pretty quick. On the way down the street, I pulled some people out in their 2wd exploder that had been plowed in as well. They ended up busting a chain in the process and I was able to zip tie the busted links to the side and gave them extra zipties incase those broke. Nice mom with I'm guessing her teenagers and their friends (too bad I wasn't younger, they were all hot, haha). Turns out they are from the same area as us and had rented a house as well. They were very happy and offered to babysit for us if we needed it at all while we're up here. :laugh:
We hit up the road to Dinkey creek and drove to the end, kids fell asleep, so we kept driving. We went back to shaver and then took the road over to Big Creek to see what was there. Cool little town that just has a general store and a power plant. Jack and I played in the snow some and then we headed back.
On the way back, we were going up hill and on the outside of a corner (the dropoff side as well), when a chevy coming downhill didn't make the corner and hit us. I saw him coming and gave it more gas and got over as much as I could (not much room, no shoulder and we were up against a 4ft. snow bank from it being plowed. It wasn't enough and he hit us, mostly on the bed, but did get the cab/rear driverside door some. It was slow motion and for a split second, I thought he was going to sneak it by. Kids seem fine, I'm fine, but April is having some neck and back pain. I think she turned in her seat some to look at the truck coming and tensed up. We didn't spin, as we were up against the snow to begin with, he hit us and the rear just nailed the snowbank.
It seems to drive fine and straight (although we'll see once we get off of snowy roads and hit freeway speeds). The rear tire got hit, but it seems fine and there is no noticeable wobble when watching it while driving. He got the rear door barely, the rear bottom of the cab, the whole side of the bed, and the rear bumper. The camper shell seems fine as it was high enough and doesn't seem to have shifted or anything. He only got a pushed in and bent bumper. :laugh: He was very apologetic (young kid 20 yrs old), just going a tad too fast, and I think he tapped the brakes when he saw us coming around the turn, since he was a little wide on his turn, and the ice, made him lose traction. He was in 4hi, so it was just pretty unlucky. I'm hoping April's neck and back pain are gone in the morning. Oh, and we have to buy new carseats, since these have been in an accident. :(
So, now we have to do the whole insurance thing and who knows how long we'll be without the tacoma. We'll have to get a rental, as I don't want april having to drive the kids around for a long time in the 4runner with no swaybars. I'm hoping to get a good look underneath tomorrow as it was almost dark when we got back and with all the ice and stuff under there it was hard to see. I do know that the elocker still works. :)
Anyways, on to the pics. I'll try to get better pics, the combo of silver truck, snow, and cloud cover wash away a lot of the detail.
Cliffnotes: Shenanigans at a cabin in the snow for xmas, the tacoma got hit by a chevy k20, April has neck and back pains, pics of carnage to follow. :)
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His damage, I think most of the damage was actually from his front tire and not his bumper.
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