Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
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Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
It didn't start doing anything until after dark. At 0545 EST, the temperature was 28F, the wind was 23 MPH with gusts into the 30+ range.
And this was what it looked like out the front door {our car is at the left}:
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And this was what it looked like out the front door {our car is at the left}:
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
I had over a foot of snow a couple of weeks ago . . . I looked at it and went back to bed.
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
But where do you live?
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
Seattle, basically.
Substantial snow is quite rare here.
And drivers go berserk when it happens.
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
We lucked out here. Only 3 inches of snow with rain at the end. I didn't have to shovel at all.
Brother and I were at our old place in the Alleghenies for the weekend, left Sunday morning ahead of the front. Half the eastbound traffic on the PA Turnpike was electric utility service trucks. Never seen so damn many snorkel trucks.
Brother and I were at our old place in the Alleghenies for the weekend, left Sunday morning ahead of the front. Half the eastbound traffic on the PA Turnpike was electric utility service trucks. Never seen so damn many snorkel trucks.
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
We get the opposite effect, here...
We get lots of snow (just got a foot of it yesterday), and drivers fall into two categories: slow down to a crawl to keep it safe, or trust your vehicle so much (4X4, etc.) that you keep driving at "normal" un-snow-hindered speeds (whether that trust in your vehicle is well-founded or not depends on both the vehicle and the driver...)
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
My town is proof against snow accumulation this year.
My old snowblower destroyed its engine (repairable but I don't feel like wasting the time/money on a 10+ year old machine) . I ended up buying an obscenely expensive new machine because it was either that or obscenely cheap junk.
As such, it will not snow to any accumulation I can't clear with a shovel this year.
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
I have no comment.
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
"Look, there's a snowflake! Close the city!" - some guy as we were coming out of our daughter's dance performance at Seattle Center, circa 25 years ago.
(We really didn't get much snow on that occasion - just an inch of ice on all the roads. Which, yeah, pretty well closed most of the city the next day. And I saved a couple people at a stoplight from possible injury and definite inconvenience: after a minor bumper-bump on an icy road, the two drivers were standing BETWEEN THE TWO BUMPERS talking it over - I yelled at them to move out of there, and not 20 seconds later a third vehicle contributed to the conversation and put those two bumpers hard against each other.)
(The mystery is why so many people in and around Seattle don't know how to drive in the rain.)
Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
My sister's first husband was into off-road driving - in mountainous, heavily-wooded territory - and explained to me that the advantage of 4-wheel drive is that you can get stuck deeper in the woods.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:18 amWe get lots of snow (just got a foot of it yesterday), and drivers fall into two categories: slow down to a crawl to keep it safe, or trust your vehicle so much (4X4, etc.) that you keep driving at "normal" un-snow-hindered speeds (whether that trust in your vehicle is well-founded or not depends on both the vehicle and the driver...)
I got the impression that he didn't think highly of this advantage.
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
As I used to teach my students: "Four wheel go does not mean four wheel stop. You have four wheel stop all of the time. In the rough, coefficient of friction is NOT your friend."
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Re: Gainesville GA 0545 16 January 2022
"What's the matter, Bjarni?"Warrl wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:37 pm"Look, there's a snowflake! Close the city!" - some guy as we were coming out of our daughter's dance performance at Seattle Center, circa 25 years ago.
(We really didn't get much snow on that occasion - just an inch of ice on all the roads. Which, yeah, pretty well closed most of the city the next day. And I saved a couple people at a stoplight from possible injury and definite inconvenience: after a minor bumper-bump on an icy road, the two drivers were standing BETWEEN THE TWO BUMPERS talking it over - I yelled at them to move out of there, and not 20 seconds later a third vehicle contributed to the conversation and put those two bumpers hard against each other.)
(The mystery is why so many people in and around Seattle don't know how to drive in the rain.)
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