out of the Man Cave to be able to make a beer run.
Posted on 01/29/2014 1:46:20 PM PST by Dick Bachert
We get a serious snow/ice storm that lasts two days every seven to ten years. Those tend to pop up expectantly. Otherwise, the winters are very tame. It would be foolish to invest a lot of money in road clearing machinery, snow tires/chains for use just two days every ten years.
It makes more sense to stay put in the office or stay at home when one knows it is coming. Also, it is hard to expect Southern drivers to become accustomed to such driving conditions with such infrequent foul weather. Those of use who are "imports" don't spin our tires or slam on the brakes like most people in these parts.
Yup, my point exactly!
Sales of Evil 4x4 SUV’s and Subaru’s are going to SOAR now.
This generation has had to lean, the hard way, the lesson that we learned in the winters of 78,79, and 81.
No matter how politically-correct that little hybrid sh*tbox you are driving is, is that political correctness worth killing you or your family over?
>> “Carry chains in your 4x4?” <<
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All four of our vehicles are 4x4s and we have tire chains and tow chains in all of them from October to the end of June.
Forget the Subarus!
They don’t have enough torque to crawl over an extension cord.
A day's rations would be a helper in the SE in these daze of Global Warming. ;-)
out of the Man Cave to be able to make a beer run.
I never cease to be amazed at how many government employees at every level are referred to as non-essential when it comes to not reporting for work for any number of reasons. If they are non-essential, why are they even on the payroll?
OTOH I’ve never understood why any company in the service industry thinks employees have to commute to an expensive office building to work every day. Call centers for every business could easily be located totally in the U.S. and allow the employees to have a computer and work from home.
Not to call them industrious, but the folks handing out building permits, collecting utility bills etc can certainly take a day off but are required in some form eventually.
We have freeze dried meals, water and sterno in all of the vehicles, along with ponchos, space blankets, lighters, and lots of paracord.
Beat me to it.
Of course there is always personal responsibility.... My daughter and her husband both took the day off. The weather was in fast and furious here in the north and neither one of them wanted to try and navigate what they knew would be out there.
Because we Georgians were warned well ahead of time, each of us could have made different choices
that’s great IF you have a four wheel drive vehicle and a place to buy chains.
Most places don’t sell chains or even snow ropes. And in the metro area not that many people drive 4 wheel drive vehicles.
Let’s see..... people here do not know how to drive on these roads under black ice conditions; no one has snow tires on their cars because no one does ( Saturday it will be 60); It is not as if NYC or other cities do all that well under similar conditions, in fact the cities in the northeast have waaaay more equipment and really don’t do as well
I think GDOT and generally every one did a good job. People went to work KNOWING that snow was coming and that temperatures would be in the teens after sun down. The city had their deicing trucks out and working.
What people forget is that sanding and deicing have to happen at a specific time in the storm. Too soon and it is all gone by the time temps drop; too late and it is ineffective; PLUS there is always the case where the stuff works and then temps drop again really fast and refreeze.
You exactly right when speaking of plowing equipment and deicers. The state has quadrupled the number of plows and increased the deicing trucks as well. They even found a new brine solution that helps break up the ice on the road way better.
I think the state was as prepared as they could possibly be. I have seen empty street shots of NYC when they get hit with snow. Denver is notorious for housing the snowplows in a location that no one can get to if there is a storm.
Come on folks how unreasonable can one be?
And since you didn’t ask... no one was injured or killed in the metro area. There was one death in Coweta county.
Though I agree that schools should have been closed. Many did but no all are
And you live in place that obviously needs them. You don’t live in Atlanta or even northern Georgia.
Snow tires can tear up the tarmac on most highways ( depending on the type of snow tire). Moreover it is hard on the tire to be driving in normal weather (temps 60 and above)....
I grew up in snow country and I know how to be prepared and stay safe. Now that I live in an area that only occasionally has snow it takes on a different meaning
oh ! the huge.manatee
(Back in the day) After my wife and my very young son had to leave the road to avoid a head-on, they got an old skool (but new at the time) double solid axle 4x4 Suburban to use in the winter. Fortunately no further issues were encountered, but that sukker would get me to work even on the worst days (when the rest of the fam didn't need it 'cause they stayed at home).
Naw, I run new snow tires in the winter and then use the older ones in the summer as they make good rain tires.
Just now Blizzaks.
I even have qa set of studded snow tires for the sates where they are allowed. I just pull the studs from the worn tires to use them in the summer 'till they are done.
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