Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[NH homesteader]

At least they stay home and don't crash. Can't say that for people here. Not only is 4wd not 4 wheel stop... But 4wd doesn't help if you don't engage it. Nor does it matter when you hit straight up ice!

 

[TAH]

When it snowed in oregon almost know one knows how to drive on the road. My dad coming from alaska knew how to drive well in snow got hit by a semi on the hwy.

 

[babsbag]

Tip to those people 4 WD does NOT mean 4 wheel STOP.

It means 4 wheel SKID.

When I learned to drive in high school we had to learn to install tire chains to pass the class. I was driving in snow at the age of 16.

 

[samssimonsays]

Hahaha yes! And semis seem to be the worst here! I got blown off the road in zero visibility by one going well over the speed limit last year. And middle of November with no snow in Minnesota....? It was bound to happen! First show is hard tho due to no build up of sand or ice on roads. My direction had zero accidents, garricks had tons. Lots of cars just couldn't push the snow any longer and came to a halt in the road. County pulled all plows, shut down hwys and advised no travel.

We plowed (meaning my husband did) the neighbors out and they were so happy.

 

[Bruce]

More places should be like that Mike. So many people in SUCH a hurry. They will speed up to get in front of you on the interstate then get off at the exit 1/4 mile farther on.

 

[Bruce]

It means 4 wheel SKID.

When I learned to drive in high school we had to learn to install tire chains to pass the class. I was driving in snow at the age of 16.

So was my wife. Her birthday is in early January. She didn't have to do a real parallel park on her license test because the snow banks were too high. Curb? What curb? Don't know that she had to know how to put chains on to pass DE though.

I learned to drive in snow in 1980, the first winter I was in Vermont.

 

[NH homesteader]

I briefly lived in CT and they would call a state of emergency all the time. For snow.... And everyone would stay home. Umm this is New England right? Also the plow trucks would drive like 70mph and cut you off. As if plows work well at that speed.

 

[Bruce]

One of Rusty DeWees' (AKA The Logger) jokes about growing up in Stowe, VT (he was 1 year ahead of my wife) was that they only canceled school if the bus was upside down in the snow filled ditch ... and burning. They NEVER cancelled school for snow.

And my wife will tell you that there was a lot more snow in the '70s than we are getting now. Her sister lives in Alexandria, VA and like @Mike CHS, an inch of snow shuts the place down. No one has snow tires, have NO idea how to drive in snow. Cancel work and school until it melts.

 

[NH homesteader]

OK sorry this is so off topic but I was under the impression that The Logger was a flatlander who pretended to be from around here. Guess I was told incorrectly. They close school a lot more than they used to... A lot.

 

[samssimonsays]

Yes. They shut down and delay started schools here and they only got rain. But made the call the night prior. Oops! I took my driver's test in February and it was the day after a huge snow storm. I got away with a lot more that day than anyone else hahaha.