North vs South

[maynard]

 

[Popeye]

I'm definitely a Yankee... I have a shovel in front of the house for the walk and driveway - and a shovel in back to clear a path to the weber.

 

[mikephillips]

Snowstorm and the power goes out up north, most won't be in line at the plumbing supply place the next day. We already know, gets cold inside let the water run or better hit the main shutoff till the lights are back...

 

[Basil]

Back in the day, while attending Air Force Tech School at Keesler AFB, MS (Biloxi, early 70's), the area was hit with a rare snow storm (what we in Colorado, my home state at the time, would call a light dusting). To say that the locals were not accustomed to driving in snow would be a monumental understatement. Never saw so many cars mated with telephone poles and ditches in my life! :grey:

 

[LarryK]

Yep, have the front cleared and back patio cleared and path to garage. Rover goes thru driveway as too much to shovel. Was stationed at Camp LeJune, NC., and it snowed 2", a record back in the late 60s. Me and the buddies were from IL and MI were playing on the highway as it was clear with all the cars in the ditch. Got into town and a tow guy asked if we could do tows for him as he saw the Michigan plate. We went on a couple, he just mainly needed to block his tires to pull cars from ditches.

 

[James A Martin]

In the mid '50s I lived in Fairbanks Alaska. My father was a Arctic Survival Instructor at Ladd AFB. He bought an XK 140 FHC (Red W/ Chrome wires)for his daily driver (circulating heater and a super8 light bar mounted in a foil lined plywood box under the block), replacing our Renault Dauphine which he drove up the ALCAN. That old song 'When its springtime in Alaska it's 40 below' is not an exaggeration. We drove the XK140 down the ALCAN (before it was paved). My dad was my hero...
We moved to San Antonio for his next duty station where he was a T. I. and there was a sleet storm one day. Someone in authority hit the panic button and our school closed mid day in the worst part pf the storm...1/2" accumulation. I walked 3 miles home in the precip, and had a blast in my mucklucks and faux bear parka. By the time I got home the sleet had stopped and was all melted by 7:00 pm.
The news that evening was solid sirens and pics of accidents, most during the school closing hours...
Never had a snow day in Fairbanks...

 

[DrEntropy]

Too many of the folks down here don't have an understanding of the need to adjust their driving in the rain, nevermind a little snow. The couple times we had freezing conditions and a bit of glare ice, the body shops must have been overwhelmed.

 

[DavidApp]

The lack of understanding or practice driving on icy roads makes for a scary journey down here when it gets icy.

ur daughter goy caught in the great freeze in Atlanta some years ago. She got off the interstate and walked the last 4 miles home as she could see traffic was piling up all around her.

David

 

[Brooklands]

I understand that a lot of the homes in Texas run their water pipes over top rather than in the crawl space below to make access easier, but when pipes freeze, then the damage is much worse. We also know to shut off the well pump and drain the pipes when we leave our vacation home, and shut off the water valve in our main home when going away...just in case.

The best thing we ever did to our place in the Pocono Mtns of PA was spray the floor and walls of the crawl space with closed cell foam. No more ground water coming in, and the house stays warmer in the winter too.