Just thought I'd share some pictures of the ice storm that has just passed through here......
Freezing Rain on and off for the last two days......quite beautiful but destructive also....lots of power outages and downed trees. They've kept up well with salting the roads though......
:rain: :cold:
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absolutely stunning pics, pity about the downside to the power supplies.
keep up with salting the roads ?
overhere they seem to spread it when ther isn't any snow, then run out by the time they need it
b****y councils >:(
Quote from: class37025 on December 22, 2013, 08:01:13 PM
absolutely stunning pics, pity about the downside to the power supplies.
keep up with salting the roads ?
overhere they seem to spread it when ther isn't any snow, then run out by the time they need it
b****y councils >:(
Thanks,
We're well equipped here to deal with snow and ice.......the stores are sold out of de-icing products though...luckily I've stocked up......
It was fun "breaking" into our car this morning!!!
Some areas close to us got even more ice than we did and people were actually ice skating on the roads. Did that once when I was young....a novel experience......
Nice pics!
Reminds me of when I lived in Minnesota and we had one - very beautiful but it took me well over an hour to get the ice off my car so I could get into it and make it drivable. :veryangry:
Quote from: Brooksy on December 22, 2013, 08:24:55 PM
Nice pics!
Reminds me of when I lived in Minnesota and we had one - very beautiful but it took me well over an hour to get the ice off my car so I could get into it and make it drivable. :veryangry:
No doubt you would get this and worse in Minn........
Thankyou for posting these pictures it brought back some interesting memories!
Between 1969-76 I lived and worked in Norway and one memorable storm left my car completely obliterated and frozen solid to the ground merely breaking it away from the soil required a pick axe!
Getting into the car entailed pouring boiling water around the door edges and over the lock just to allow me to start the car to warm it from the inside! Starting was not a [problem since it had engine heaters running from the mains electric indoors.
Yes, it was both beautiful and deadly! A local man got drunk and was caught, his body was found frozen to a tree the next morning.
Thanks again, Peter.
Quote from: petercharlesfagg on December 23, 2013, 09:55:25 AM
Thankyou for posting these pictures it brought back some interesting memories!
Between 1969-76 I lived and worked in Norway and one memorable storm left my car completely obliterated and frozen solid to the ground merely breaking it away from the soil required a pick axe!
Getting into the car entailed pouring boiling water around the door edges and over the lock just to allow me to start the car to warm it from the inside! Starting was not a [problem since it had engine heaters running from the mains electric indoors.
Yes, it was both beautiful and deadly! A local man got drunk and was caught, his body was found frozen to a tree the next morning.
Thanks again, Peter.
Ah yes the old hot water trick....done that before....or a hair dryer / heat gun......or when the locks freeze heat the key up with a lighter if you're out of lock de-icer.......
Finally got our driveway de-iced today......
I've never found anyone frozen to a tree though....I'd like to keep it that way..... :)
Winter fun....... :laugh3:
Quote from: Croxy on December 23, 2013, 09:01:14 PM
Ah yes the old hot water trick....done that before....or a hair dryer / heat gun......or when the locks freeze heat the key up with a lighter if you're out of lock de-icer.......
Indeed - that what I resorted to in the end depsite my housemate (MN born and bred) insisting that it was a silly idea because the water would then refreeze and I'd be stuck out. I told him that there was an inch of ice on the car and unless I used hot water then I was never getting in and I'd deal with the refreeze problem if and when it came to it!
A few years back I was on a Logistics systems course and the principal lecturer who owned the training company was over from Canada. One morning he was late and eventually turned up from his hotel room but was very preoccupied and kept going off to make phone calls.
He finally apologised and told us his wife's car had broken down in the drive back home. Should have been easy even with it being winter we thought - call whatever passes for the AA in Canada. Eventually it was solved because she was helped by the postman.
Turns out that "home" was a huge logging estate in Alberta and the drive was more than 10 miles from highway to house!! If she stayed in the car she risked freezing to death - and if she got out of the car to go for help she might get eaten by the local wildlife.