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EEEEEAUGH snow
Dec. 14th, 2008 07:21 pmI have owned tire chains for 10 years. Until today, I have never had to deploy them.
Yes, its only a few inches of snow, but this is western Oregon. It is wet snow that pretty much instantly melds into ice when pressure is applied. Makes for vicious snowballs, and turns the roads into a sheet of ice by the time about three cars go by. This is then compounded by overconfident morons in Excursions who take the hills sideways. Its not like the granular stuff you get in colder and drier climates that doesn't bond to itself and can actually be moved out of the way.
As it stands now, the weather droids are saying we don't get above freezing for at least a week, with an inch or three more snow midweek, and a pattern that could bring us a foot of snow next weekend. I sincerely hope that they're very very wrong about that one. I'd just say home, but Grandma needs groceries and meds, and I'm taking care of a friend's dogs starting midweek.
Yes, its only a few inches of snow, but this is western Oregon. It is wet snow that pretty much instantly melds into ice when pressure is applied. Makes for vicious snowballs, and turns the roads into a sheet of ice by the time about three cars go by. This is then compounded by overconfident morons in Excursions who take the hills sideways. Its not like the granular stuff you get in colder and drier climates that doesn't bond to itself and can actually be moved out of the way.
As it stands now, the weather droids are saying we don't get above freezing for at least a week, with an inch or three more snow midweek, and a pattern that could bring us a foot of snow next weekend. I sincerely hope that they're very very wrong about that one. I'd just say home, but Grandma needs groceries and meds, and I'm taking care of a friend's dogs starting midweek.
