4

#1513 Preparedness

I don't think I even have an ice scraper in my car anymore. A snow shovel is just too much! (In my defense, I only park my car in a garage now. Ice scraper is hardly necessary!)

4 thoughts on “#1513 Preparedness

  1. Born in Massachusetts, live in Chicago area. Brother was posted to Little Rock, met a girl, got married. Other brother and our wives and I all drove to Arkansas for the wedding. It had snowed. Cars all over the place; sidewalks, shoulders, ditches, everywhere but on the actual road. Even police cars. Meanwhile we, with our actual skills in driving on snow AND studded tires (legal then) just blew down the road with no actual traffic anywhere.

    I have never seen so much red mud in my life.

  2. Another four inches of ‘global warming’ in the yard this morning 🙁
    At least when we lived out west it was too cold to snow…
    You don’t have to shovel cold.

  3. An American had asked me:
    “How do you get anything done, shutting down the whole country for four months when it snows?”

    (Spock-like eyebrow raise) “… we don’t shut anything down; we put on our big boy (flannel-lined) pants and go to work or school like any other Tuesday.”

    “B-b-but… HOW?”

    “Tell you what; when your president stops talking about conquering his neighbours in the name of his ego, we’ll consider sharing our secrets for traversing snowy terrain THEN.”

    “… Yeah that’s fair.”

    1. Heh, my husband is from the northern US and they don’t shut anything down up there, either! He has plenty of stories about walking to school in near blizzard conditions. But I’m from the southern part and it’s amazing if we get four consecutive days of snow, let alone four months…There is rarely ice and when there is we shut down for the day or two that it’s there before it melts. (There was no ice this time, and all the snow melted off the streets by the next morning)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

*

*