@seaglass As I was walking along suddenly I came up on some ppl engaging in a friendly snowball fight. I so wanted them to accidently throw one at me so I could have my first snowball day too 😀
@Milwaki414 That's another thing to be wary of. People have put a rock inside a snowball. You just don't know until you get hit with one. If the rock is small enough the snowball will completely hide it.
If it snows and then later on in the same day weather calls for freezing rain or sleet, don't clear off the snow until after the freezing rain/sleet has stopped falling. It's harder to get ice off of a surface, but if there is something soft under the ice like snow, the ice comes right off with the snow.
Right on. That's fun. It is a lot of different living in it. But you'll learn how to roll. Pro tip? When a storm's coming do your shopping in advance. :) Foot traction devices aren't the worst thing to have either.. Enjoy it.
Yeah, that's nothing. It's when snow falls off your roof and block your view out the window, and you gotta dig a tunnel to your neighbors house to check up on them, and when you tear up from the cold it freezes to your face is when you get to say you are adjusting fine.
@Milwaki414 Go buy a snow shovel and a big bag of salt now, and get some of those hand warmers.
You can also order some ice grippers off amazon.
I always keep some handy in my car door incase I step outside and decide my shoe traction isn't enough.
Always carry a tobaggan and thin wool gloves in your jacket, and don't ever, ever, ever touch metal with your bare hands in freezing temperatures. You'll get contact frostbite, and might have to have it amputated (I've seen a guy lose both hands fixing a flat tire, and another just momentarily brushed aluminum HVAV outdoors our barracks when he was pushed backwards in Alaska and got frostbite on his arm for 6 months.
Pay attention to wind chill advisories for how long to be outdoors, and in extreme cold don't wear plastic like glasses on your face, or earings or nose rings.
Others live in cold weather on this site so ask questions in other winter threads as the season progresses. Have fun.
