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Just be glad they guess on the low side and you don't have 36 inches.

My first winter in Oklahoma was in the late 1970s. I lived in a crappy garage apartment and I did not have access to the garage. The only good thing about it was it was close to work and $90 per month furnished. The forecast was for up to one inch of snow. I woke up and it was snowing like crazy and there were 3 inches on my car. The weatherman always forget the wrong forecasts and just carried on as if they had said up to 4 inches. Then they revised it for up to 6 inches. Then up the 8 inches. It quit and 9 inches. I was in my 914 with not much ground clearance. It just pushed through the snow with no issues.

It was 4 years before I could save enough money for a down payment on a house and have a garage for my 914. The driveway at my house was steep and I could not make the turn in icy conditions to make it up my driveway. I ended up hooking up a hand operated (I was too cheap for an electric) winch that I could hook to the tow hook on the 914 and I could pull it up the driveway into the garage when it was icy or heavy snow. The driveway was steep enough that I had to go up at an angle and it was a 90 degree turn from the street. The winch worked fine for many years until I moved.
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