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Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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Re: Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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Post by ghaff »

ghc wrote: post #173
yokoprime wrote: post #25

> In the first really heavy winter storm of the year, your power might go off. This is understandable Having lived in Norway most of my 40+ years on this earth, I can with some confidence say that this is not an universal truth. I don’t think I’ve experienced any power interruption of over 1 hour in winter ever, and it’s been at least 5 years since the last time. Yes it snows here. A lot.

living in New England, I have also never heard of this and I don't think it's understandable at all. Trees are pruned around power lines for a reason .

Live in ex-urban MA and it’s not common but have had a couple of multi-day power outages in both winter and summer over the decades I’ve lived here. Don’t remember the details of the summer outage but the winter one was a massive ice storm.

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Post by nancyminusone »

wellf wrote: post #104
Tor3 wrote: post #85

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Cold and dry is not a problem. You can always add more layers of clothing and get very comfortable. Warm and humid is a real problem. You can't just remove clothing until you're comfortable. And the humidity.. there's no remedy to fix that.

The remedy is swim or air conditioning.

I'd rather just not live somewhere hot and humid.

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Post by HugoTea »

BrtByte wrote: post #152
bigchorizo wrote: post #140

Here's a lifehack my dad taught me. If you have cold feet and no way to warm them - stuff some newspaper (or any kind of paper really) in your boots or socks. Most of the cold comes from moisture and paper is incredibly good at sucking it all up. The difference is huge and instant . I feel like this trick has saved me from catching a cold on quite a few occassions.

Old-school winter hacks tend to be simple physics, not magic

If they turned out to be magic I'd be more surprised

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Post by swiftcoder »

ghaff wrote: post #191
ghc wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

living in New England, I have also never heard of this and I don't think it's understandable at all. Trees are pruned around power lines for a reason .

Live in ex-urban MA and it’s not common but have had a couple of multi-day power outages in both winter and summer over the decades I’ve lived here. Don’t remember the details of the summer outage but the winter one was a massive ice storm.

Couple of tail-ends of hurricanes in summer offlined a big chunk of Massachusetts when I was living there. Likely one of those?

Re: Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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Post by rypskar »

dlcarrier wrote: post #59
brettgriffin wrote: post #4

Put winter tires on your vehicles. I'm surprised by the number of people who tool around in snow and ice in 'all season' tires. Also, that writing tone is obnoxious.

I'm in the foothills in Northern California, and I've never met anyone here that changes their ties out for winter. When there's chain controls, they'll let you through if you have winter rated tires, including all-season, and all-wheel drive, otherwise you need chains. Everyone I know who drives a lot in the snow gets a vehicle with all-wheel drive and everyone else carries chains. (really they're cables, on a small…

All-wheel drive doesn't help you at all where it is most important, and that is in braking. Having all-wheel drive only helps you get up to a dangerous speed faster when the grip is low

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Post by wffurr »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #168
dlcarrier wrote: post #59

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I'm in the foothills in Northern California, and I've never met anyone here that changes their ties out for winter. When there's chain controls, they'll let you through if you have winter rated tires, including all-season, and all-wheel drive, otherwise you need chains. Everyone I know who drives a lot in the snow gets a vehicle with all-wheel drive and everyone else carries chains. (really they're cables, on a small…

All-season tires are not winter rated. They are 3.5 season at best. True winter usage only exists in all-weather or snow tires with the 3PMS symbols.

I have some 3PMS all season tires: Michelin Crossclimate 2. So far seem to be doing well on my FWD Chevy Bolt EV. I live in Boston though and we don't often get enough snow to really need snow tires. Also I usually ride my bike when it's snowy instead of driving.

Re: Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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Post by wnolens »

bigchorizo wrote: post #140

Here's a lifehack my dad taught me. If you have cold feet and no way to warm them - stuff some newspaper (or any kind of paper really) in your boots or socks. Most of the cold comes from moisture and paper is incredibly good at sucking it all up. The difference is huge and instant . I feel like this trick has saved me from catching a cold on quite a few occassions.

This advice was also given to me if I ever get caught in the rain while camping and soak my shoes. Bring some newspaper for both a firestarter and for leaving in your shoes overnight, and wake up to dry shoes!

Re: Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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Post by wffurr »

slillibri wrote: post #2

The main lesson I learned was I didn’t have to live in a snowy place. I left SW Michigan in 2000 and haven’t looked back. I don’t like being cold, but I loathe snow and ice.

Just before the Superbowl, the Boston Globe had an article full of interviews with New Englanders who have moved to California. One claimed to still be a New Englander but didn't miss the weather, "I haven't slipped on ice in 30 years". I had to think, are they really New Englanders if they can't handle the weather? I think that's a big part of it. Having some Patriots and Dunkin Donuts swag doesn't cut it IMO.

Re: Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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Post by doubled112 »

b112 wrote: post #93
eitland wrote: post #88

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It is really interesting for me to hear your experience. I have lived in Norway all of my >45 years on this earth and I can say that in the first half of my life were I lived on the west coast, power outages was totally expected. We had a generator, and we had a gas stove ("everyone" in Norway use electricity for cooking) for those days, a kerose lamp and a wood stove. The longest power outage I experienced was 3 day…

Likely city vs rural.

Parts of Ottawa, Canada were without power for 10+ days after a windstorm in 2022. Not rural, but the suburbs.

> Ottawa Hydro restored power to just over half its customers after one week

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2022_Canadian_derecho

Fortunately, you can't freeze to death in May, and the roads are clear so you just go to where the power is.

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