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hgujr said:
The worst we had here this winter really was there was an ice storm and black ice issue one Sunday morning and the weather people totally dropped the ball and didn't warn anyone. If it's icy out and you see it don't get on the highways thinking that the roadway has been salted or maintained. 3 people died that Sunday in those separate pole up accidents.
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My car thermometer has an idiot light that comes on @ 36F, warning you that the roads may be icy.

Winter driving required extra care. Not saying that things can't go wrong, but a little discretion goes a long way.

I drove in the mountains in France and Switzerland during the winter where your going up mountains 8,000 plus feet up where going around a switchback turn can yield snow. I purchased snow chains to use on my rental car. The police have no sense of humor, use chains or get a ticket and ordered off the road until the plows deem the roads safe to drive. They use a lot of Unimogs for snow removal. They don't use salt at all only sand and cinders.

Prayers for those that lost their lives.
 
markr6 said:
Ahh I miss doing that!! But several years of those trashed my e-brake. Well, it still sort of works but defintely needs fixed.
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Got the car to spin nearly 90 degrees for the turn into the driveway. But something about getting alarmingly close to my truck parked in the street stopped me for some reason.
 
They've been using so much salt this year, my fire-red car turns white in about a week.The thing is they mostly stopped using salt. Thank God it's only mostly.

One day (last week) I was on a 3 hour drive to a client. I stopped and turned towards the office after 40 minutes from home. The car was oscillating left and right (yaw for those who are familiar with aeronautics terms). I was really pushing it by going 45-50 on a 60MPH highway. The entire road looked and felt like black ice.



nbp said:
You need a block heater on your car!!!

I can't even picture -40F. -15F or so is about as cold as we typically get in an arctic blast, like right now. Last night was about -12. You know you're nuts when you start saying things like "oh, I'll head out later this morning when it warms up to 0F, that's not so bad." Haha
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Block heaters are mostly standard here... and they're pretty much useless around -50C. At -60C you're lucky if you get one crank out of the battery, but luckily that has happened only once in the last ~60 years. Lowest ever recorded here I think is -68C. I have to imagine the radio announcers had to sleep at the studio for 2-3 days...


It's now been almost a month of 3F temperature with one day of 19F and one of 17F. That's not taking into account wind chill... I HATE FEBRUARY! They announced that this has been the coldest February in 20 years.

Snow has not thawed even ONCE this winter, but our roads are so bad they're full of wheel-sized holes and bumps so bad all the anti-freeze and windshield gallons in my trunk sometimes jump up and hit the trunk lid!!!! That usually happens only starting in very late March.

I am now shopping for a 3'X6' picture of a green mountain-top trail for my living room.
 
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I'm starting to get used to waking up to 0F and it's not bothering me as much. The last few days it's been single digits but sunny and no wind and it's actually fairly pleasant. I'd take this over 35F and raining and windy any day.
 
4-6" of snow fell on the DFW area Friday and we got a dusting of sleet on Saturday morning. Region is basically on lockdown until it melts.
 
Capolini- Weekends (for now) in Wayne County, near Lake Wallenpaupack. Day-to-day, in the lower Hudson Valley, NY, hopefully for less than one more year. My wife is diligently getting the NY house ready to sell... :)
 
The "Boss"...Capo wanted me to post a few pics!

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RIP "SPOCK"
 
Nice pics, Capolini.

It finally got above freezing here. It's almost 40 right now. We're supposed to be hovering slightly above and then below freezing for the next several days.

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Back to the weather. Right now ~32F w/ sleet and freezing rain. It was no fun walking Capo tonight!

Tomorrow in the low 40's w/ rain. Wednesday night into Thursday getting colder w/ 4" to 8" of snow,,,,,Friday night~ 7F.:cool:
 
Finally back to freezing point here (you know you live too far up north when you say things like...). Last Saturday almost felt like spring with some birds singing in a tree. Yesterday some of the permafrost started melting off the asphalt.

Only 5 days before the time comes back to what most of us consider NORMAL time. You know, that stupid thing we have to do like 20 days before the solstice, but have to wait 4 months AFTER to put back to normal? Someone's making a fortune off of this for sure...

Capo: you need a little work on the eyebrows for a better lookalike pic :D


RIP Nimoy
 
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~4" of snow on the ground in much DFW and it's still falling. Tomorrow's commute will be most amusing.
 
We had a couple of days of mid 30s and now we're going back down to the teens and single digits for a bit. The nice thing about March is that the lows tend to be shorter-lived.
 
Yeah its about over. -5°F here tonight, but we're easily looking at 40s next week and even some 50s. I like winter, but if it's not going to stay strong and consistent, I'm ready for spring!
 
I certainly do not live in a "Snow Mecca"!!! Especially this year!

With that said we have not[until NOW!] had a snow fall over 4" this winter! Total so far this winter[excluding the ongoing snow] is ~ 20"! Yearly Average is ~ 27". Last year was 68",our second highest ever!

We already have 5" and should get~ 8". Maybe a little more! The Boss[Capo] is happy and so am I to finally get a half decent snow fall!

Over night is is suppose to be ~4 or 5F...then the 40's and low 50's for next week!
 
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