Welcome to my world, y'all. Temps in the 20s and light snow overnight, but the snow hasn't gotten deep yet. A number of people ice fishing, but only a few shelters seen on the lakes. By the end of the month, there should be a road plowed across the bigger lakes that allow the cars, trucks mostly, to traverse the ice safely. When I went to boot camp, a group of guys from Alabama were switched from Orlando to Great lakes. When we told them about driving on th ice, they thought we were pulling their legs. Nobody can drive on ice. In the bush, we had an ice road over 150 miles long upriver.
I remember one winter when I was in high school, even the shipping lanes on Lake Michigan were frozen over, and we were able to cross from the Upper Peninsula to the Lower Peninsula on ice. Since that saved at least a couple of hundred miles, there was a makeshift highway across the lake. Of course, they usually keep Lake Michigan open for shipping on the Great Lakes, so I'm not sure what happened that year.
No, dear. I would not do that. I had two choices: 1-Too Much Information 2-This Thread Is Worthless Without Pics I chose #1 because it put the onus on me for calling you out, while #2 would have unfairly put you on the spot. For a better man, #3 would have been to say nothing.
Not to me. Whenever I find myself thinking that our first snow has come awfully early or awfully late, I can go back and see when it came in previous years.
He might have to update his Polar Bear Club card and even then, he has to wait for his group to join him.
You still have time to register for this, @Faye Fox and @Ken Anderson . Polar Bear Jump There is a similar thing that goes on on the Arctic Coast but it is done in the summer, as the ice is too thick to get through in winter.
I posted a pic of my Civil War long johns, so I've no room to talk. And what are lined jeans? I've never heard of them.
Why should you have living in Virginia?! A while back, Wranglers came out with these wonderful fleece lined jeans for people not afraid of the look of added bulk to their frame. I got a couple pair. Next year they cost twice as much. A competing company lined theirs with flannel. Not as great but work in a pinch. And then I bought a fleece lined pair on ebay of all places and they FIT. Unfortuantely, over the years I have lost weight and I have to tie baling twine through the belt loops half the time cuz I am not buying any more. They are just a few of the items in my arsenal against winter.
I can't imagine living through such winters, but when they are forecasting "humiture" here in the summer (heat + humidity), I see the sanity of a different locale.