Yeah it was a weird experience to take my car out of the garage today and the entire outside of the car immediately fogged up.....and then in an attempt to warm the interior, I blasted the heat and rolled the windows down...and then the interior glass-covered panels all fogged up too! That was a first, hah.
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To this day, I have no idea what I should do with my car's climate control to prevent interior or exterior fogging. I can basically scrape ice off the outside, and after that it's all witchcraft.
If anyone here is new to ice, or is old hand at ice and doesn't have any of these yet, I will strongly suggest buying these things:
It just wraps around your shoes, and the metal bits are still only like 4-5 mm long.
Wearing these, I could sprint down an entire street of black ice as comfortably as I would on a dry road in mid june.
I have a pair I keep at home, and another I keep in my car. They're incredible for making sure you get through a winter without a sore butt.
You can also get ones like these
for heels.
Dang where were these when I was a kid in Yellowknife, I used to wear golf shoes on the real icy days for their spikes.
Tho once got a bit older, I went with the least grip shoes I could, because you got everywhere WAY faster by shoesliding down the block heh
To this day, I have no idea what I should do with my car's climate control to prevent interior or exterior fogging. I can basically scrape ice off the outside, and after that it's all witchcraft.
Inside air OFF, A/C ON, temperature can be really anything gives me the most success.
To this day, I have no idea what I should do with my car's climate control to prevent interior or exterior fogging. I can basically scrape ice off the outside, and after that it's all witchcraft.
Interior fog: open the windows (balances the humidity and temps between the outside and inside air), throw on your front defogger and back defogger. Outer fog: much harder to deal with, since your car is basically colder than the surrounding air. For me it helps to warm the car as much as possible (park it in the sun, put the hot air on, etc). I have to leave the windshield wipers on, too, because it will re-fog every few seconds.
The easiest way to remember is just to think what kind of temperature and humidity difference is occurring. All you need to do is balance the two between outside the car and inside the car, and you won't have any fog!
This driveway was almost entirely clear pavement last night, and the garbage/recycling buckets had no snow on them:
Slightly visible, the 3 foot tall, 4 foot wide wall of snow that the city's snow clearers gifted me:
I set out for about 5 minutes with the intention to go to work, but I found that the cleanest road still had ~1 foot high snow drifts randomly strewn about it, and because everything was bright white, your perspective was fucked in what part of the road you were actually driving on.
I wondered if this was going to happen, but I think I was surprised at how quickly/thoroughly it did: there's almost no snow here anymore, at all, on any surface, and almost everything is completely dry. Apparently the warmth and the rain yesterday COMPLETELY obliterated the remaining snow piles. There was easily still 1.5 feet of snow on many surfaces, and when I went outside this morning it was all gone. The roads are completely dry and clear.
Guess we won't be having any ice disaster after all!
I wondered if this was going to happen, but I think I was surprised at how quickly/thoroughly it did: there's almost no snow here anymore, at all, on any surface, and almost everything is completely dry. Apparently the warmth and the rain yesterday COMPLETELY obliterated the remaining snow piles. There was easily still 1.5 feet of snow on many surfaces, and when I went outside this morning it was all gone. The roads are completely dry and clear.
Guess we won't be having any ice disaster after all!
Hopefully not! But if you walk up to the whole foods you can marvel at the 20 foot puddle next to the gas station, that used to be a footpath.
that one's probably gonna be an issue by Monday.
Except now it's getting fricken cold. It was so warm this morning I figured I'd take my kids out this afternoon. But we all just came running back in a moment ago because it dropped below freezing. Such is life in New England.
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
I wondered if this was going to happen, but I think I was surprised at how quickly/thoroughly it did: there's almost no snow here anymore, at all, on any surface, and almost everything is completely dry. Apparently the warmth and the rain yesterday COMPLETELY obliterated the remaining snow piles. There was easily still 1.5 feet of snow on many surfaces, and when I went outside this morning it was all gone. The roads are completely dry and clear.
Guess we won't be having any ice disaster after all!
Hopefully not! But if you walk up to the whole foods you can marvel at the 20 foot puddle next to the gas station, that used to be a footpath.
that one's probably gonna be an issue by Monday.
Went skiing today for the first time in a few years and had an amazing time. Great day for it. Snow gets a lot of shit because of the shoveling and driving and general coldness, but giddamn can it still be fun.
I posted this in the car thread but my trailer park sucks at winter.
since before that storm blew through the other day we had two nearly 60f days the entire front road of the park to get out onto the proper city streets is turbo fucked.
The never plow or salt this time of year and never repair potholes or repave in the summer.
So now every time I go over the giant ice skating rink that is the front of the park I'm scared of hitting one of the brand new giant gouges in the pavement covered in slush and fucking up my tires or undercarriage.
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Dang where were these when I was a kid in Yellowknife, I used to wear golf shoes on the real icy days for their spikes.
Tho once got a bit older, I went with the least grip shoes I could, because you got everywhere WAY faster by shoesliding down the block heh
Inside air OFF, A/C ON, temperature can be really anything gives me the most success.
Interior fog: open the windows (balances the humidity and temps between the outside and inside air), throw on your front defogger and back defogger. Outer fog: much harder to deal with, since your car is basically colder than the surrounding air. For me it helps to warm the car as much as possible (park it in the sun, put the hot air on, etc). I have to leave the windshield wipers on, too, because it will re-fog every few seconds.
The easiest way to remember is just to think what kind of temperature and humidity difference is occurring. All you need to do is balance the two between outside the car and inside the car, and you won't have any fog!
That sounds terrible!
So it took me almost an hour to go 2 miles, that's how bad the roads are here tonight.
So how y'all doing?
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It's just ice everywhere. The air is ice.
A Bucket of Air is so good.
glad you don't have to work today? @bowen
I went outside to get in my truck this morning
ICED SHUT
I woke up this morning to near a foot of snow on the road.
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that doesn't happen around here very often.
This driveway was almost entirely clear pavement last night, and the garbage/recycling buckets had no snow on them:
Slightly visible, the 3 foot tall, 4 foot wide wall of snow that the city's snow clearers gifted me:
I set out for about 5 minutes with the intention to go to work, but I found that the cleanest road still had ~1 foot high snow drifts randomly strewn about it, and because everything was bright white, your perspective was fucked in what part of the road you were actually driving on.
Just not safe to be out atm.
Guess we won't be having any ice disaster after all!
that one's probably gonna be an issue by Monday.
Yeah that area definitely was wetter than others.
But hey, free ice skating!
Then in the span of 45 minutes it dropped from 60 to 30!
Then it dumped a foot and a half of snow!
WHY
Snow blowed it.
That thing is FUCKING AWESOME.
SNOWFUCKER 9000
I FUCKED THAT SNOW!
FUCKED IT GOOD!
since before that storm blew through the other day we had two nearly 60f days the entire front road of the park to get out onto the proper city streets is turbo fucked.
The never plow or salt this time of year and never repair potholes or repave in the summer.
So now every time I go over the giant ice skating rink that is the front of the park I'm scared of hitting one of the brand new giant gouges in the pavement covered in slush and fucking up my tires or undercarriage.
but the roads are worse today than they were friday night during the massive snowstorm
what are you even doing plowtrucks/salters?
How cold is it there? Below a certain point salt doesn't even do anything.
It was low teens the other day.
They haven't even tried laying dirt on the roads as an alternative either, just solid layers of ice on the "non emergency routes".
Oh no salt should still work at that point, it's really negatives where it loses effectiveness. Yeesh.
Theoretically road salt should have another 2-10 degrees F depending on which mixture they're using I think?
Apparently the old record for the same rough time frame was 13 cm in 1979.
Climate Change.