It's the Holiday Season

[bob3160]

Our local Government offices are all closed. Senior Center is closed.
Quite a few people have no electricity. I’m lucky, electricity is working and so is the TV.
I have my internet but, a planned trip to the city tonight will not happen.
The roads are all ice covered. The main roads have been plowed but the ice is still there.
Temperatures aren’t expected to get anywhere near the thawing state.

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[DavidR]

I did some trips to Norway 2 three month sessions, Jan, Feb and March. One for my Arctic Survival training and large NATO exercise above the Arctic Circle. The second for my Arctic Survival Instructors course followed by my Units Arctic Survival training for those who hadn’t done the training before.

Norway and Germany (I was based there for a couple of years each time) and they don’t have those problems. The snow ploughs didn’t take it down to the road surface, but left some packed snow. Almost everyone changed over to winter studded tyres, giving much better grip on the packed snow or ice.

[mchain]

Don’t know of anywhere in the USA one can run studded snow tires (Alaska, maybe?) but Bob’s problems are the same in the South as well. No snow plows, no salt, no nothing as a snow event is rare, about once or twice a winter here, so they don’t budget or plan for it. They just wait for it to melt away. Might take a few days or so.

If we could run studded snow tires, it would be a different story…

[alanb]

Here in Southeast England it’s a sunny, windless 12°C. A world of difference…

[bob3160]

@mchain post:23

Don’t know of anywhere in the USA one can run studded snow tires (Alaska, maybe?) but Bob’s problems are the same in the South as well. No snow plows, no salt, no nothing as a snow event is rare, about once or twice a winter here, so they don’t budget or plan for it. They just wait for it to melt away. Might take a few days or so.

If we could run studded snow tires, it would be a different story…

I left studded snow tires in New York when we moved to New Mexico back in 1989.
The snow drifts we had here actually got me stuck trying to get the car out of the garage.
That was a lot of fun the day after it happened.

[kls490]

@mchain post:23

Don’t know of anywhere in the USA one can run studded snow tires (Alaska, maybe?) but Bob’s problems are the same in the South as well. No snow plows, no salt, no nothing as a snow event is rare, about once or twice a winter here, so they don’t budget or plan for it. They just wait for it to melt away. Might take a few days or so.

If we could run studded snow tires, it would be a different story…

Happy Holidays everyone!

For anyone interested about the various U.S. State laws/regulations related to using studded tires - the link below (to the AAA website) shows what the rules are in each state:

https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/studded-tires/

Here in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, I’m usually able to get around just using the 4-WD in my 17 year old Explorer, with all-season radial tires. (Although, I generally try to avoid driving during major winter weather events. Not as young…or as daring as I once was ya’ know).

Cheers!