Yaay, it stopped snowing!!!

Now, it`s RAINING!!!









Jeez it was S.L.I.P.P.E.R.Y. when I walked the dog to escort my wife to work about 1,5h ago. everything is covered in a sheet of ice. our 12kg Cockerpaniel almost toppled me several times dragging like heck, all the car windows are covered with such thick ice that a plastic scrape would be utterly useless unless the interior warmer fan has been on for at least an hour...

 

Gotta love ice storms.
We got lucky because we got the same scenario but it didn't freeze. It snowed all day, then started raining in the evening. However, the rain brought some slightly warmer air that kept everything from freezing solid. It didn't get back to freezing until the following evening. Crisis averted. lol..

When it rained it blocked a bunch of storm drains with slush, though. That was interesting in town.

 

...And back to the topic, lucky I:

1)don`t have to drive my car today

2) have studded winter tires instead of the other ones that don`t grip in ice at alll...

 

holy crap, that would be a nightmare! sorry you have to deal with that.

 

yup, boston is pretty icey as well!!(not quite as bad)
its like after the snow left, the frigid cold came right in behind it!!
edit: would anyone like to call the inventor of the internet and tell him global warming has hit us again!!

 

My eyes just slip off the screen looking at those photos Mattson. I just can not imagine how you could walk on that ice/snow mix, let alone drive.

I would not know how to deal with weather like that!

It's a lovely balmy 32 degrees C in the Adelaide Hills today so we're off for a ride

Feel free to flame away guys

Cheers, SB

 

Oh don`t worry. It started snowing again...

Practice, practice, practice...

Let me tell you a story. now I wasn`t there at the time because I was in the army but when my mom called me to tell about this she had to calm down a bit. Cause she was laughing so hard I couldn`t make out what she was saying!

There is an approx 300m long straight where my childhood home sits, pretty much in the middle, fields surround the scene from three sides. At the end of the straight there is a tight curve to the left with a slight incline to the inside curve so you cannot see what`s coming from behind it. A "grandpa" model (`89) ford Escort was traveling from the town center to the rural part and into the notorious curve, notorious because the pavement ends at the corner of our yard and that is the first gravel bend in the road and several cars drive that corner wide every year. Well, this one took it a little too in and spinned into the apex of the corner aka the worst possible place to leave your car cause it`s blind from both directions and sunk it`s front tire into the snow bank so it couldn`ty get off without help. Well, that is so common that the owner of the farm just after the corner has made a tractor powered wire winch to pull the cars back to the road that drive out from there, and came to the car with the tractor.

So, the scene is pretty much set, a car and a tractor in the blind spot of the corner trying to get it out from there. That is something passers just have to stop and stare. Not to ask if they`d need help, just to stare. So, the first car stops at the bend. Then another. A third one. And a fourth.

A fifth car drives out of the bacwoods to the place, completely oblivious of the scene awaiting behind the bend cause no one remembered to go and stop the traffic! the car comes to the place, at the last possible second sees the whole scene, tries desperately to sway to the left where all the unneeded spectators are parked:

every single car suffers both front and rear bumper damages after the car collides with the first and the domino effect goes through the whole line!

 

hey conrice,
me and my three year old son built this for you..
funny thing is, my son thought it was a scary snow man.. all I could do is laugh and yes I spray painted everything on him..

 

 

lol