Welcome to New England. If you don't have all-wheel drive, please stay home.

[lagilman]

Well, we have had our ice storm. We can not do that again this season, please? Because yes, very pretty and shiny and eye-wateringly bright this morning, but a righteous pain in the patoot to clean up after.

Darcy, however, once again comes through like the trooper he is -- while other people on the street were trying to cut out of the ice banks and swearing as their cars slipped, skidded, and generally didn't want to move, with a little digging around the tires, my little Audi That Could just hopped over the ice crust and rolled out into the plowed areas.

*pets Darcy*


Next time? More snow and less sleet, please. Much more fun.

Comments

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

All we got was rain, instead of the ice they predicted. Yesterday, we got the wind, but not the snow they also predicted.

We needed the rain- in the summer. Heh.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

our storm was disappointing. there was ice that had delusions of being snow but of course, this being the city - it turned to muck and ice the minute it hit the ground. Yesterday some of it started to melt a tad and today the wind (bone-rattling) is turning it all BACK into slick, icy accidents waiting to happen.

Made my trip to Housing Works much more treacherous than anticipated

[otterdance.livejournal.com]

Cat litter (clean of course) is useful on ice, and less of an environmental problem than rock salt. Stove ash works too, but is way too messy.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Re: Stove ash

Don't emulate a former co-worker and burn old lumber and cedar shingles complete with nails, and then use the ash on the driveway...

[otterdance.livejournal.com]

Heh! There's such a thing as being too frugal.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

There's also such a thing as being a drunk. I'm not sure how sober Lew might have been when he pulled that trick.

[lagilman]

ooops.


(we never used rock salt because of the damage it does to critter-paws, not to mention the water supply. The trick was not to shovel down to blacktop, but leave a thin layer (1/4 inch or so) of snow. That way, there was crunchy white slush to walk on, not slick black ice, if it melted and refroze. Gave much better traction)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I tried that "thin layer" routine yesterday, running our snowblower before the end of the storm. We got enough rain to soak through the remainder...

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

I had fun (not) standing on top of an ice pile waiting for the bus to the train station this morning. I was stunned that the bus was only 5 minutes late, despite the fact that the traffic heading downtown on Whitney was *crawling* and stretched all the way down to Trumbull St. All hail, New Haven Public Works!! :P It took half an hour to get to the train station. (Fortunately, I just made my train.)

[lagilman]

I thought of you this morning, hearing people scraping ice off their windshields at 6am...

(Darcy gets parked in where the sunlight hits, so by 10:30 or so the melt had already begun, and the scraping was easier)

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

woj broke his ice scraper, trying to dig out at 7am. Oy.