Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:14:46 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: weather preparations
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> hysteria over a few flakes
>
> I'm from NH and learned to drive on packed snow before they began salting
> the roads. But that was packed snow, not black ice, and most people learned
> to deal with it and remembered how from year to year.  In the MD area and
> northern VA, we are in a sort of "climate edge" where instead of snow, we
> are more likely to have ice and freezing rain, and people have less
> experience so they forget how to deal with it.  Keeping a good supply of
> non-perishables (including dry milk) in the house before the winter weather
> hits means I don't have to go out in bad weather.

Your excellent driving skills in snow will do you no good with the
unskilled on the roads <g>.  Best to stay home with a beverage of
choice.

mjw