Not my street. Not our snowmobiler. Not night. (From thepaintedsheep.com)
Once, twice, three times my dear wife Karen and I heard the unmistakeable sound outside our living room window tonight.
A snowmobile, going fast, with that trademark engine whine, around our Syracuse city neighborhood.
We had almost a foot of snow today.
The enthusiast who lives anonymously among us would not let the opportunity slide.
Again, he or she was too fast for me to get out there to take a picture.
I find the phenomena quite odd. And I hope nobody backs out of their driveway quickly and at the wrong time.
Do you have snowmobilers whipping around your streets?
Here’s the source for the photo above.
Mark Bialczak 
We live in a fairly rural area and the snowmobiles are out every time it snows. The noise kinda irritated me until one night a few years ago when a guy going the other way lost control and slid in front of me. I couldn’t miss him. The snowmobilers were the ones who called 911 and stayed around to make sure I was OK. They also told the police what had had happened since I was too out of it to remember. (I was fine; the car, not so much.)
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I am glad the snowmobilers were there in your time of need, Cat. In rural area, they belong. In city streets, I don’t think so.
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This is someone who needs a cabin in the woods! 🙂
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Yes, motorcycles here go whipping around. I understand what you mean about hoping people are backing out of the driveways at the wrong time. I was walking my dogs one day and we almost got run over by someone backing out of their driveway and not looking first.
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You always have to expect the worst and hope for the best, PJ.
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Not hardly just the motorcycles when it warms up a little bit more. All night racing back and forth.
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Ay. Not pleasant all night, Kim.
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Nope and it’s always when you drift off into the perfect REM of sleep.
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Sometimes I get bored and drive by writer’s homes with a sound effects machine.
Kidding. Sleep well tonight, Mark.
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Good and funny one, Chris.
Warn me when you turn the machine to ‘tank.’
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I used to sit around a big bonfire at my good friend, Bill’s house out in the country. For me, the four wheelers across the road, although it was their property and it was within their rights, got on my ‘nerves!’ It just seemed that nights should be quieter, but they would race around, up and around a creek, etc. I could see that city snowmobiling would be much more breaking the noise ordinances. But, as Beth mentioned, once it snows, all rules seem to become part of the ‘winter crazies!’ Smiles, Robin
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As much as the noise bother (and it’s really not that bad with all the windows closed up tight and the furnace running) what I worry about is a car-snowmobile accident on a city neighborhood street. The car owner would be blamed, I’m sure, but really?
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we do have some who rode them to the movies downtown during one of our earlier storms. kind of odd but part of the winter craziness i guess. all i could think of at the beginning was, ‘you’re once, twice. three times a lady….” remember that song?
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I do indeed remember Mr. Richie’s soul crooning on that one, Beth, but I do not immediately jump to the snowmobile connection.
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Once, twice, three times my dear wife Karen and I heard……. that is what did it for me 0
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Ah-ha moment belatedly slaps Bialczak upside the head, Beth!
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Hate to rain on your snow Mark, but I’m glad you have it and not me. It’s way below freezing here, but no white stuff on the ground. And happily, there are no snowmobiles in my area, since we seldom have snow, just ice. Our biggest noise will come during the flooding when the Bubba’s hit the streets in their big trucks just to see how large a wave they can create. Then the idiots in their Hondas who think that if the trucks with the huge tires can get thru then they probably can too. Now THAT’s a real sight. Idiots trying to climb out of a small car with water up to the window, while the trucks keep going by them making waves.
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That is quite the vision, Angie. Swimming Honda drivers body surfing the big truck waves. Kentucky sounds interesting.
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Kentucky has something for everyone Mark. My area is built on quicksand and the spring rain causes flooding like you wouldn’t believe. This year though, who knows? This is the year for the 10 year floods, but the 15 year floods are worse. The way the weather is changing though we could have a drought this spring. Personally I think anyone stupid enough to drive into a flooded area deserves whatever happens to them. Guess that’s because I know a lot of the rescue people who have to go in there and bring them out, and some of them have been hurt in the process.
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No….but we don’t have a foot of snow. Frigid temps. But no snow. I suspect if we had a foot of snow the snow mobilers would be the ONLY ones out !
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I think that’s very foolhardy, don’t you, Mark? I have to admit, I hate the things. Noisy and a waste of gas. They should try snowshoeing (not that I have, but…just sayin’) 🙂
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Well, Ermi, out on a trail, I’ve got no problem. In the city, I’m not much of a fan.
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Ummm… that would be a no. But then again, there is no snow on my street either, so…
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Now that would be really odd, Adder!
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Haha, still… you can never tell around here!
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Snowmobiles might put a stop to baseball season, and we wouldn’t want that for your boys, Adder.
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No… we definitely don’t want that to happen! 🙂
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