Posted on 01/12/2022 10:59:48 AM PST by RaceBannon
being an old yankee, this is a tip for those who are going to experience this storm and do not live in areas where they always get snow
Ice is the absolute worst.
I can see you’ve been through an Atlanta snow storm! LOL
We own 4 vehicles. One is rough (though mechanically sound). It’s a 90 chevy heavy half ton, 4x4, extended cab, long bed, with 5th wheel and bumper hitches. After my first 62+ yrs in nw IL, and 20 yrs as a OTR class A trucker, I am quite comfortable driving in adverse conditions. I have chains, two winches, and two generators. It’s definitely our ‘challenging times’ rig.
And I have the experience to know what I can do, and what I can NOT do. In bad conditions I don’t go near the metros. Too many bad drivers.
“Salt eats or kills many things; vehicles, concrete, plants/vegetation, etc.”
Well put. I can walk around the neighborhood and tell who used salt over the years by the condition of their driveways. And by barren strips alongside the driveways in the spring. I use sand.
Its OK to laugh at Southerners talking about snow but you know better.
You missed it on that last, it’s the French toast Holy Trinity you need to stock up on - milk, bread and EGGS!
Something about snow creates a huge hunger for French toast.
*Make sure it’s Calcium Chloride (CaCl), NOT Sodium Chloride (NaCl).
*Stock-up on Milk, White Bread, Eggs & TP.
Most of the South is about half displaced Yankees anyway.
I also avoid limited access roads in bad weather. Interstates and tollways are good places be trapped because of just one bad driver.
The threat in Tennessee isnt so much the ice as it is skidding off a cliff. Not much ice or many cliffs in Florida.
Just stay home. Snow brings out the crazies
also even if you never lose power in your neighbor hood, back up plan.
Last storm 4 days no heat because i did not think to have wood. NOW i know better.
I wonder if a patio heater would melt snow and ice on a walkway or driveway. Then you would only have to sweep away any water that didn’t drain into the street before it got a chance to re-freeze.
“Salt eats or kills many things; vehicles, concrete, plants/vegetation, etc.”
That it does.
Too bad it doesn’t work on the communist libs that way.
Another thing, and an experienced road construction worker or engineer can verify this, is that our pavement is different. I heard that up north the pavement is less porous because here in the south we need our pavement to do slight movement for hot days ("movement" meaning expanding when it gets really hot) and don't want it cracking when it does. That's not as much of an issue up north. Therefore, the pavement up north doesn't have as many small gaps for ice to stick in and make a sheet of ice cling tightly onto the pavement. But here in the south that's what happens when our roads get ice. Thus, even an experienced driver in snow and maybe ice from up north might even be less experienced at driving on our type of icy roads the few times we have them. At least that's what a programmer told me he had to get used to a couple of decades ago when he moved to the south for work and we eventually had a snow storm. He thought, "I can handle this. I'm a northerner." and learned that's not the case and eventually learned why.
Most of our problem comes when the 2” of snow melts during the day and it goes down in the 20’s that night. I stay home. I’m retired so I can enjoy the beauty from the house.
2”-4” of forecast snow is NOT time for your governor to pre-declare a State of Emergency.
That is the biggest problem.
Usually it rains, then freezes, then snows on top of that.
My BIL is from Illinois and always made fun of “southerners in the snow”. I told him for years, it was the ICE.
He found out the hard way
Get a sled, find a hilll. Figure it out from there. Used to live in GA, don’t drive when it snows., they have no clue. Grew up in Wisconsin.
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