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?

  • weariedfae@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not necessarily about fresh snow. Old snow packs down into hard, slick ice and sometimes fresh snow gives you way more traction. Depends on the temperature.

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      2 months ago

      Also I moved into an area where there is less snow, but when we get it it almost always starts as rain… Then snow… Which melts on the pavement… And eventually the pavement hits zero and all that water turns to ice.

      Now you have snow on ice, which is awful.

      Where I grew up is exactly how you described it though. Generally fresh snow is fine if the road was previously plowed / treated with gravel or deicer / salt.