One huge advantage of not driving a car anymore, is not having to scrape the ice off the windshield. No windshield, no scraping. My last car took 20 minutes to warm up enough, due to the 110 F capable radiator I installed. Made a grocery run, 8 blocks R.T. Tuesday at 10 F. Ice was in patches on the shopping center parking lot, but I did not fall. Giant brand knobby tires.
Louisville news reviewed footage from the 1994 ice storm yesterday. 3/4" sleet then 18" snow. I took my step-daughter to her sisters apartment the night the sleet layer was pouring. "mom said you had to". Tuesday PM she called, out of food and the heat had stopped working. Cranked up the 62 Fairlane with shovel & kitty litter (clay) and a blanket in the back seat. Roads were "closed" in Kentucky. Fairlane has 50% weight on the back wheels, so climbed the Ohio bridge, then motorvated fine past dozens of froze up semis and a couple of froze up snow plows on the interstate. Drain your fuel filters, truckers! On Manslick Rd snow was not plowed, 14" deep, but kept moving and got there. After the step-daughters loaded up, I had to shovel a 30' long clear path to get the Fairlane moving again. Kitty litter the first 4'. Fine, but ran the red light getting on the freeway. Did not see a single police car. There is a reason police drove Crown Vics until Ford quit making them. All weather mobility. In 1982 I got stuck in Herington KS unable to get to work at Ft. Riley in my 80 chevette. I was able to shovel and get going when got stuck, but the drifts were so deep on US 77 snow was blowing over the hood and I could not see. US 77 snow plow had been pulled to plow the interstate. That day the 65 year old telephone operator for Division Hq got to work on same road in a '68 Country Squire station wagon.
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