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An obviously-very-badly-needed hint to people who don't know how to drive in winter:
DO NOT SPIN YOUR TIRES IN SNOW.
When you spin your tires, you're just polishing the ice under your wheels.................
Slow and easy (and then steady) is what is going to get you going, and keep you going.
NO SPINNING.
When you feel your tires start to spin, GET OFF THE GAS.
Less is more.
Really.
To go in snow, take it slow.
More gas will get you nowhere, fast.
Finesse is called for, not brute force.
Gently steer (and brake), of course.
Take it slow.
Go, in snow.
Now you know.
[taking a bow -- that is my first poem published here]
We got more snow on the 20th-21st than in the blizzard there was such a fuss about a few weeks ago. I think there were 6-8" in the driveway when we shoveled it at 8:00 pm the night of the 20th, and another 2-4" fell after that.
So glad that we generally do not have to go out when the weather is bad (we retrieved our daughter from the train station at 1:00 am the morning of the 21st....).
My better half is an excellent snow driver. No problems in our little, light-weight, 2-wheel drive car, despite all that snow (and mostly unplowed roads).
Here's another helpful hint. This one from the University's health system may be of interest to anyone who suffers from a stuffy nose, or post-nasal drip.....
If a person borrows someone's snow blower, they ought to have the courtesy to blow the snow blower owner's sidewalks out for them. In my humble.
The University really does have a beautiful campus. Or, to be accurate, several beautiful campuses. North campus is spectacularly beautiful, and main campus is also quite lovely. The U has just received an award for its trees. Go Blue!
As an amateur naturalist, my observation is that birds (or, at least, cardinals) begin their spring territorial guarding based on hours-of-daylight, not temperature.
The boys started their crack-of-dawn song at the beginning of this month, when it was Very Cold Indeed.
1. I really hate picking up after other people
2. I really mean to leave things at least as good as I found them
I know that, sometimes, a kleenex falls out of my pocket when I'm fishing for my keys. I bet that, sometimes, I don't notice and walk away, leaving litter. I mean to use that supposition to get myself to pick up things I know I didn't leave.
In order to meet the goal of not making things worse, my new plan is to pick up one thing each day that I know I didn't leave (as well as anything I may drop).
Very little effort for one person, but imagine if everyone did that......................
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. . . and, as you brake, shift into neutral so your tires stop spinning. At least you live where people are used to driving in snow. In Albuquerque, if it clouds up, people feel obligated to run into one another. If it snows, it is mayhem!
"If it clouds up, people feel obligated to run into one another."
:-) :-)
My brother went to Georgia Tech. He reported that half an inch of snow brought the entire area to a complete standstill.....
One would think that people in Michigan would have a clue or two about driving in snow. Some do. But I have been amazed at the number who are spinning their tires. To no avail, but they don't change their behavior. I watched someone spin them, hard, for 25 minutes the other day. On the clock, 25 minutes. He'd still be sitting in that car, I think (though no longer spinning, as he'd have run out of gas!), if two guys with shovels hadn't shoveled/pushed him out..........
Ai yi yi.
I fear for the human race when so many people seem utterly unable to learn anything from what they are experiencing!
"Push gas = Go. Push harder = Go faster."
That's what they know, and they don't seem able to take in that different conditions may need different rules.
Scary.
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