Four letter word

[Treepep 904]

What in the fresh #$*@ is this?

 

Gone once the sun peeked out, roads clear.  Stuff still shutdown or delayed.  Watch the forecast. If we get over an inch, grab a buddy or two, a sixer and head over with a sharpened stick.  You could take over the entire state.  

[ebinmaine 75,510]

We get that up north here once in awhile. Some people refer to it as snow. Others use somewhat more creative four letter words that begin with S.

 

 

 

 

[8ntruck 8,306]

That is North Carolina reaction.  We lived in Bowling Green Ky. for a number of years.  It seemed to be standard procedure to shut everything down when snow was forecast. 

 

We grew up in Michigan.  It took a minimum of 7" or 8" of snow to start thinking about shutting things down.

[Handy Don 15,040]

38 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

It took a minimum of 7" or 8" of snow to start thinking about shutting things down.

Yep. The “Back Mountain” of NE Pennsylvania was the same but a heavy icing or freezing rain was a different story.

[ri702bill 10,492]

My wife and I had friends that left Tonowanda NY and moved to RI. She referred to a foot of snow here as a "dusting"! She also mentioned that it was common back home to make a line item in your Will as to who inherits the Ariens Snowblower.!!

[Treepep 904]

 

 

Everything is online.  That said (not this "snow")

 

 I cannot bank in person or grocery?   I can go to the awful house and breakfast some garbage.  I don't bar other than a pool league.  Usually open.  

 

And frightened folks call out for work?  Uh have you ventured outside bud?  Roads are mostly salt and brine.  completely dry.  I don't want to be on them ta save my vehicle.  NOT dangerous.  

 

Great part (chin up folks)  There is nobody on the roads.  I love "winter" here.  Gotta car wash the daily driver tomorrow.

[Ed Kennell 43,660]

37 minutes ago, Treepep said:

Roads are mostly salt and brine. 

Our roads are still covered with a dusting(of brine, not snow) from last weeks forecast of a possible dusting of snow.   Can't wait till spring when the 12 million gallon of Pa brine gets washed down the river to the Chesapeake Bay.   The increased salinity should bring the rock fish and crabs up to my end of the Bay.

Maybe I can sell enough crabs to replace a couple rusted up vehicles.

[SylvanLakeWH 29,736]

SE Michigan sits on a massive salt deposit. The mine under Detroit is something else... so, salt is cheap... so we spread it roughly at an 1:1 ratio with snow... eats cars. We make cars. Hey - circular economy!!! Salt = $$$ Cars = $$$ What's not to love???

 

But to Ed's point above - massive environmental impact and it destroys our roads... 

[Ed Kennell 43,660]

PennDOT did find a use for the obsolete  snow plows.

I see them following the flair mowers and plowing the brush off to the sides.

 

 

 

 

 

[953 nut 62,868]

At our end of North Carolina there are so many steep winding roads with a drop off on one side and solid rock on the other side that it doesn't take much snow to bring things to a halt. We had only one snow worth plowing last winter. I cleared our driveway and a few hundred feet of our road to the top of the first hill. It remained very cold and by the time the NCDOT got around to coming down our remote road the snow had melted and refrozen into a mile of ice. I had to take my wife for a doctors appointment before the ice melted but having grown up in New York's snow belt I knew how to deal with it.

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,228]

4 hours ago, Treepep said:

What in the fresh #$*@ is this?

 

Gone once the sun peeked out, roads clear.  Stuff still shutdown or delayed.  Watch the forecast. If we get over an inch, grab a buddy or two, a sixer and head over with a sharpened stick.  You could take over the entire state.  

 

 I believe the proper word is snow, but as @ebinmaine said there are a few more colorful words for it. they tend to get more creative the more and the heavier it gets. 

 

 

 

[adsm08 3,818]

1 hour ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

there are a few more colorful words for it

 

I've only ever seen it in two colors.

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,228]

7 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

 

I've only ever seen it in two colors.

Yeah, There's that too. I was thinking of the words that come out as your shoveling. Don't eat the yellow snow...

Edited 5 hours ago by MainelyWheelhorse

[adsm08 3,818]

1 hour ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

Yeah, There's that too. I was thinking of the words that come out as your shoveling. Don't eat the yellow snow...

 

I rarely shovel. Around here either it's enough to plow and I love it, or not enough to worry about 

 

On the rare occasion it falls in between my kids are old enough to go do the shoveling for me.

[kpinnc 16,129]

7 hours ago, Treepep said:

I love "winter" here.  Gotta car wash the daily driver tomorrow.

 

Aside from my time in the Army, I've lived my whole life in NC. 

 

When I was younger, you learned how to drive in the snow and just did it. It didn't matter if your vehicle was rear wheel drive only. You just used your hat holder the way it was intended. Maybe after a day or two a plow truck (or your local farmers) would clear the roads. But we did well regardless. 

 

Years later, the brine trucks started running. Melted all the snow, which re-froze at night and created a two lane ice sheet. Wrecks everywhere. Someone will have to help me understand why such things are better...