I'm reading the New York Times and following the BBC to keep track of your snow storm. It looks pretty serious seeing you're not equipped to deal with it. I hope your power comes back quickly. Stay warm and safe, but do try to go play in the snow while you have it. It's fun.
Well, I'm happy to report that the power came back on sometime in the night. Woke up to it this morning, and was very grateful to do so. We'd have been fine....there's a gas fireplace in the den, and we've enough food, and a few friends with 4 wheel drive vehicles who promised to come get everyone, or bring supplies, should the outage last too long. But we have a very efficient city power crew who had us back up and running again relatively quickly. The real problem is McCrory Lane, the road that leads to the two main thoroughfares from our subdivision which is situated close to the top of a steep hill. Doesn't matter whether you turn left or right, it's about 1.5 miles of very hilly, winding, shaded, and all but impassable snowy and iced up road. Reports from the folks who've checked in with our neighborhood website are that McCrory is just AWFUL! And to not try it unless you absolutely have to! I don't absolutely have to.....not till Monday anyway. Temps will continue colder today than yesterday, but tomorrow should be slightly warmer, and it will be in the 40's by Monday, so there's relief in sight!
I'm glad to hear that, Ronni. Please don't go out with your car! You'll get the same temps on Monday as we've got now. Our temp forecast for Monday is 9°C or 48°F. Almost summer temps.
I don't guess it looks too horribly daunting.....but that's solid ice on the roads. A very brave soul from our subdivision braved the roads to get some idea of the conditions, and reported back. *I* certainly am not going to be getting out in that. My son in law William however is stir crazy....he was trying to convince Paige and me that it'd be OK for him to drive to the local convenience store late yesterday afternoon...5.5 inches of snow on the roads, ice, still coming down, low visibility, hilly and winding. Um...no! He begrudgingly acquiesced.
Snow always looks so much prettier when it's not here! haha Glad you got your power back Ronni, and that the kids got a chance to play in the snow.
Oh my. Icy roads are no fun, especially not with snow on top. I guess you don't have tires with metal studs or chains for your cars?
No! Of course not....that would assume that we Nashville dwellers, AND the city, is actually remotely prepared for weather like this! <sentence dripping with sarcasm, in case it's not obvious> It's really quite ridiculous. I don't think you can even BUY those kinds of tires here, and I think even the chains are an online ordering thing.
It is rather pretty when the sun brightens the snow, isn't it? Sort of a forgiving factor as it were. I suddenly remembered that I posted a thread on ice and how we cope with it. If you want to check out my car tires, have a look: http://www.gardenstew.com/threads/ice-ice-baby.31320/
When we lived in town, a born-and-bred-Texan neighbor mentioned "snow tires." I asked him how he knew about these things, since it hadn't snowed in our area of Texas for years, and even then it was just a dusting. He said he had seen them on ads on TV. Television is such a broadening medium.
Your neighbor must have lived in southern Texas all his life. I am bred and born Texan too and have helped put chains on tires many times and have had cars with snow tires. We have an old set that won't fit any car we own but we have a set of chains.....once things come into our house they can't escape. I haven't seen chains on tires in years. The snow and ice usually don't last long enough to get them on and start driving. Studded snow tires, I believe, are illegal in Texas. The ice is never thick enough to really need them and some people who have moved here from northern climates have been known to put them on in Sept and not take them off until May even down here and that has cased major street and road damage.
We don't drive anymore since we moved to Wisconsin. The snow that we had is still hanging around but this has been a mild winter for here. Even when we had a lot of snow there still seemed to be a lot of cars on the streets. I guess if you live with it every winter you learn to drive in it. When we lived here 20 years ago I drove everywhere all winter long. We had snow tires. dooley
I hear you. We also get road damage from the studded tires since we often have to put them on at the end of October or beginning of November when the frost and snow starts. Then we have a thaw, but it won't last long enough for us to bother changing the tires back because suddenly there's an unforecast freeze and we're stuck. The main roads are salted and often bare so the wear and tear is pretty heavy and we get air pollution which is bad for allergics or asthmatics. Many use stud-free winter tires now, but they won't grip properly on snow and ice unless some of us drive with studs. The surface will then be uneven and give the stud-free tires a better grip. But on the roads I usually drive there's no way I'll be using stud-free winter tires. The roads are too winding and steep for me to risk it.
On an unnamed 'other' forum, New Englanders have been passing around a still-life painting of; a loaf of bread, a jug of milk and, a roll of toilet paper. Titled "blizzard".
