Well it has been two days now since the snow stopped... Most everyone is now dug out around here, and the roads are in good shape... I say most, because, the apartment complex I live in doesn't think it necessary to do much more than a cursory plow job... What they really need, is not only salt/calcium/potasium to do in the sheet of ice now facing the residents on the sloped parking areas, but they need a front end loader to actually get the piles of snow up on to the lawn areas, rather than in teh middle of the really tight parking areas...
I drive a big, long pickup... Now, I don't have four wheel drive, because I simply could not find that in a used truck with all the other options I needed... So that said, I have always had two wheel drive pickups... I know how to drive in snow and ice with that handicap... Mostly it involves good tires, lots of additional weight in the bed, and rideing the clutch to let some of that torque slip away... Has any of this helped me?... Nope... I swear the ice here looks like they used a zamboni on it to get it to a nice mirror smooth surface...
I'm just about ready to have my neighbors from where my shop is come down and salt the whole lot... (landscape/snow removel company are my neighbors)
Posted by Backstage at December 8, 2003 06:19 PM