If you never lived where it snows and were moving North to where it does snow, what would you have liked to have known? What would you do to prepare?

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    A lot of people have pretty well covered how to drive in snow and ice, but here’s a little secret they won’t tell you:

    • Over the summer, the locals forgot how to drive on snow, too.

    The first big snow will bring the car fairy to sprinkle wrecked cars along the side of the road. Most of these are given by people with plenty of experience driving on snow.

    Stay home that first time. If you absolutely must drive, be the one going too slowly. After that, you can kind of do as the Romans do.

    • nicgentile@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      My first time driving in snow ever was in January. From Columbia, MD, through DC into Arlington, VA. At 5.30 AM. Big truck guys we the most guys on the snow. I drove a FWD 05 Jetta and drive painfully slowly and made it. Patience and sensibility paid off abundantly.