I opened my front door yesterday morning...

[TreasonousBastard]

and closed it right up.

[cwydro]

1. Yikes!

Is that car in the middle of the road abandoned?

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Nope-- that's mine parked at the curb.

[cwydro]

6. Oh my.

I actually love snow.

Probably because we have so little of it here!

[TreasonousBastard]

8. I kinda like it, too, but...

sometimes it gets a bit much.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Crop circles?

Good parking... at minimum.

How do you keep the snow and ice off the windshield, roof and hood?

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I didn't-- 50 mph gusts did it.

[Scuba]

3. Up in Maine that's called a "light dusting".

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Take your light dusting and...

never mind

[magical thyme]

11. we got the light dusting too. my place looks a lot like yours

except I made the mistake of opening my front door yesterday, from the inside. Snow had filtered in behind the storm door, so a small avalanche fell on my feet and into the family room.


We're going get a very light dusting this Friday, and then up to another foot on Monday.

So I have today and tomorrow to do major cleanup before I start all over again. bleaaaahhhh.

I've already shoveled out the back door (again) and 48 feet worth of barn doors. Just the beginning; a lot more to clear the doors out completely to make room for the new snow. In a little while, I'll be starting on the front door (again) and the path to the oil and propane. Then I'll go back to pushing the snow further back from the doors.

[cwydro]

9. I love that the wipers are up

in some sort of valiant attempt to thwart the snow!

[magical thyme]

10. it keeps them from freezing to the windshield

If it's a wet snow or mixed precip, or if you've been out and about and the car is warm when you park so is still melting the snow as it lands, your windshield wipers get frozen into a chunk of ice. It's work to get them free again, and they get shredded up after a few times.

[riderinthestorm]

12. You must live in the south

The windshield wiper trick is definitely something only those of us who deal with ice and snow regularly understand

[cwydro]

14. I do live in the south

but I spent some years in the north...and now that y'all mention it lol..I remember that!

[sarge43]

13. Another snow country driving hint

Get very heavy duty floor mats. Put under wheels for traction when, thanks to black ice, you whirly gig into that snow drift.

Vermont Rule: At Warp Nine, you don't feel the frost heaves.

New Hampshire: If Grandpa and Grandma can make it through two feet of road snow, so can you.

New England AAA Rule: Just keep pickin' 'em up until you meet the guy comin' from the other side of the mountain