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few icey pics from buckhead

My, doesn't that pool look inviting?


To penguins maybe.

Back from picking up the Magster, she was nice enough to buy me a hot chocolate for my efforts!
Ansley Mall
only in a Libby!
Back at the ranch
bud protection
Jeeper
got ice?

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Originally posted by Aksor+Raskol:
Posted by AtlantaGal

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4-wheel drive with chains doesn't even mean jack on ice. Guess you've never lived outside the south If it was snow, you'd have a point. But NOTHING moves on ice... except maybe a pair of speed skates
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Back in the "old days" up north (early 70's) you could get tungsten studded snow tires - tires plugged with about 300 steel spikes, and you could drive safely and surely on greased glass if you wanted. But they did about $6 gazzillion worth of roadway damage before they were outlawed. They wore ruts on the Interstates.

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Actually, I remember those. Not having them on my car mind you, but getting them on my parents cars for the winter when I was a little kid. And they did tear up the roads.

We also used chains a lot when there were big storms that dumped 20" or more over night.

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My, doesn't that pool look inviting?

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That may be a great view, come July.

A couple more icey no caching day pics
Slip and Slide

Wish I had noticed this topic yesterday.

I had to go into work yesterday to clear up some payroll problems we had on Friday. Was on the road by 7:00 and got back home around 3:30 or so.

The roads weren't all that bad in my area of Gwinnett. Sure, plenty of ice and slush, but no real problem areas. It probably helped that not a lot of people were really out in that mess to begin with.

The hardest part of driving yesterday, for me, was going out to my car from my office and finding over a 1/4" sheet of ice covering the entire car and having to scrape that mess off of the windows while standing on a frozen parking lot. (Gotta love good hiking boots!) There was just enough traffic to have broken up the ice on the roads I needed to travel, so there were only a few patches of the slick stuff to worry about.

I'm sure it would have been pretty bad, though, if more insane people like myself had been out on the roads. My little Escort wagon is not suited for slick-road conditions. It seemed the busiest areas I traveled were between subdivisions and grocery stores, and I admit that I stopped at the one nearest my home to get the fixin's for some stew last night.

Glad this weather's going to be moving on.

S-4-C

We're supposed to be at 37 by noon today. Am so sick of being cooped up inside. So we're heading down to JB territory to do some caching

Wish I could go out caching today. Unfortunately, I have to be downtown for work. So much for doing Conspiracy Theory for 300, though. Not unless I decide to get crazy and head up that way later today after work... I guess it depends on how icy things are at that point, if at all...

MariettaGecko:

The weather should be warming up (so to speak) throughout the day. If you decide to pursue the cache, feel free to give me a call if you get stuck.

Good luck,

S-4-C

Nobody lost power? The lights flickered here a couple times yesterday, but stayed on. The ice is slowly melting, but the driveway is still a skating rink. Must have 1" of ice on it.

There's an easy locationless I could do this afternoon

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Originally posted by Aksor+Raskol:
Nobody lost power? The lights flickered here a couple times yesterday, but stayed on. The ice is slowly melting, but the driveway is still a skating rink. Must have 1" of ice on it.

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Our neighborhoods' utility lines are all underground, so we didn't lose power, but man did it flicker quite a bit last night. The UPS units were going nuts. Then again, we're not too far from a transformer step-down station, so I suspect it was under weird loads as other locales were brought online.

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Originally posted by MariettaGecko:
I have a 4wd vehicle, so it'll be a little more safe for me, but still... I have no interest in unnecessarily endangering myself.

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I agree with that, and it reminded me of some good advice from a fellow who lived in the NC mountains. He had a 4WD Jeep Cherokee and a Front Wheel Drive Japanese sedan. He would not let his wife drive the Jeep in icy conditions ... he said the 4WD would not STOP any better on ice than the FWD ... it would just allow you to get up enough speed to get you hurt. From my experience, the FWD vehicles are the safest on ice ... much less likely to spin around and easier for an in-experienced driver to handle in a slide.