PSA — ❄️for residents in snow areas — let’s share tips❄️

petalique

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petaliqueFebruary 8, 2025

❄️☃️ We are in New England, but a wide area beyond that will be dealing with snow and icy roads.

Let’s share some tips for winter weather with snow and ice.

I will offer a few:

❄️ Finish doing car errands way before snow and ice is expected. A lot of regions treat roadways with Magnesium Chloride ahead of expected precipitation. This stuff is extremely corrosive to metal and other automobile components. Even though you may wash your vehicle after a snow and ice storm, it is best to avoid getting any of this material on your car. It is often applied in brine form, but can remain on the roadways and in snowbanks after the storm is over.

Magnesium chloride is much more corrosive that salt.

❄️ After the storm, be careful when you are out and about. Plow drivers and other trucks and vehicles seem to blithely whiz through and across parking lots — at shopping centers, condo areas and town or city streets. Every year, people, including children are injured by cowboy drivers. Avoid walking across parking lots on in areas where snowbanks or darkness impede visibility. Get a small very bright LED and put it on flash blink mode. Communicate to others, elders, kids not to assume that drivers are paying attention and will see them. In the past month a 14 year old was hit and killed by a truck while he was walking across a parking lot. Laast week a woman was clearing snow of her car in her condo parking lot when a plow driver hit her and knocked her under his truck.

Plowing snow is fun and plow drivers are eager to make as much income as they can and are sometime young and inexperienced. Be mindful.

❄️ Remind children and other to avoid walking or playing beneath trees, the snow laden branches can suddenly snap and crash down. A few years ago a young girl was home from school because of a snowstorm. She was playing outdoors, enjoying the snow when the branch of a tree crashed down upon her (fatally). We have large trees close to us and try to be mindful when going to the roadside mailbox in windy or snowy weather. It doesn’t take a very large branch to injure of kill a person beneaht it when it falls.

❄️ Of course, have a few things like batteries, flashlights and extra water on hand. Then relax and enjoy the snowfall. We also fill our suet and birdseed dispensers up the day before and day of any big storm.

I could not cross post this from The Kitchen Table. Geez. I thought Houzz fixed this.

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Indigo Rose

last month

Great tips! When buying my retirement home, top of the list for a one floor home was a garage. I am amazed by how many people keep their garages so filled with stuff there is no room for a car. To me, driving out of garage in my dry, snow and ice-free car in the winter is a joy. It goes without saying if one uses a snowblower to tune it up before winter and keep it fuel filled before storms. Keep vehicles topped off in very cold temps as well. I take my cell phone out with me when I shovel/clear the driveway in case I were to fall. Because I'm having painful circulation issues with the tips of two fingers on my right hand I'm wearing glove liners - which don't fully help - but keep another liner warming in my pocket. When the pain is too much I pop on the other glove and can keep going for a while.

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bpath
last month
It’s been a while since we had a good snow, but basically, a couple of days before, go to the grocery store. Get whatever your normal grocery needs would be for the next few days. The day or two after the snow clears will be as busy at the stores as the day before.

Get a bag of sand from the hardware or garden store, and put it in the trunk of the car. If you don’t need it for driving, you can use it on your driveway or walkway where melted ice refreezes.

Shovel before the snow is done. DH disagrees, but if he wants to knock himself out, again, I know the way to the chiropractor. Shovel the base of the driveway towards the right side. Shovel some snow from the road to the left of your driveway, so that the plow doesn’t push it into your driveway. Clear space before, in front of, and beyond, your mailbox so the mail truck can get to it, and out again.

Relax. Watch for drips inside, in case of ice dams.
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petalique
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last month
Great ideas! Thefe are more on The Kitchen Table version.Iwas not ableto post (Houzz…grrrr).
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Faron79
last month
I live in Fargo ND.

Therefore I have no snow tips!

;-)
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bpath
last month
Hi, Faron!
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Feathers11
last month
Chicago is getting hit by a snowstorm today. Tomorrow is garbage collection, so I've moved my bins from behind to the front of the fence. I failed to do this one snowstorm, and I had a difficult time opening the gate.

And by "hit" I don't think it's going to be as much snow as predicted. Nonetheless, I did get to the store yesterday, and am about to bundle up and go for a long walk! We've had hardly any snow this winter.
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