It's warmed up a bit from 13º last night.
It's a Sunny Sunday, and the temp is 25º at 10:15AM
Tonight is supposed to be an Ice Event (so they say )...and tomorrow AM will be a road nightmare if that happens.
In my book,"It's Not How Fast You can Go....It's How Fast You Can Stop!" LOL
Today, In this modern era, The snow removal is so much more efficient, and road treatments have been improved....its amazing how quickly a snow / ice event can be over with so quickly.
I remember (really?) growing up in North East PA, dad would load the car with cinder blocks, a pail of coal ashes, and a shovel. The car had snow grippers (tires) and a set of chains that sometimes even with a small amount of snow like 10 inches....that those chains would stay on the car for sometimes three or more days.
There were no such things as "Snow Days" at work or even school. We got around, and the car went everywhere.
If Mom wouldn't make it to work to sew in the factory, that would mean $5.00 less in the Friday Paycheck. Couldn't afford that back then, and even now to some extent. LOL
The only good thing...was we had a 5 car garage (dads plumbing business) that we could at least roll on the chains on the rear tires.
It was so funny! that one garage wall had about 10 sets of rusty old chains hanging up that dad saved to make good chains from the broken ones.
The car trunk also had like three sets.....all stuffed in a burlap bag, and when time came to pull them out to put them on, they would all be tangled up and so full of rust, that our hands would turn brown, so that only Comet Cleanser could remove that stain. Ha Ha Ha Ha H .....
there was even a bucket of kerosene in the garage, and dad would soak the old chains in it to get the rust off. LOL
What a fiasco!
then when the chain (s) would sometimes break, and get wrapped around the axel. Oh! Boy!... Dad had a old hacksaw and a cold chisel and hammer in the trunk so he could lay down in the street wherever they came wrapped around...and the old old rag carpet that was unfit to even wipe your feet on...was rolled up in the trunk too so dad could lay on while making repairs. It was so funny when I think of it now!
Usually, Dad would buy snow tires from this tire recapping place. that is a place that took old tires that were worn, and they would scar the old threads, and with a rubber moulding machine, they would adhere a brand new set of rubber onto the old tires that would make them like new again. They were cost appreciative too...like $16.00 a tire.
The only problem, was a lot of those recapped tires would come apart and there would be huge chunks of the capping that would fall off, or flap flap flap as the car rolled along. I believe that recapped tires are illegal now? At least I havn't seen any ads for their sale in this day and age. LOL
Oh! Dear! ..... The Good old Days! .. and...They Were Good Times!
Sorry! for the side track....just was enjoying going down memory lane here! LOL
