One of the big mistakes I saw on the national news tonight was drivers trying to burn the ice off by spinning their tires. All that does is melt enough so that when it refreezes it is slicker than moose snot from then on.
I recall driving around Houston years ago on one of those rare icy fog type of days. It was all I could do to stay out of the way of the inexperienced drivers. Crazy people doing crazy things everywhere you went.
You would think with as many "Northern Transplants" as Metro Atlanta has they would know how to drive in snow better. I had a neighbor form the north ask me if I knew how to drive in snow. "Yeah, I DON'T".
Andy
Robert ...
I'm surprised that there is concern for your strawberries, ours are like weeds, they have jumped out of their "spot" every spring? Cheers
-JD-
Mobile area is at a standstill, according to my unofficial probe depths we got 5" between about 4:00 yesterday and about 5:00 this morning when I got up. The worst is that it rained all morning and temps dropped to 30° by noon, nice sheet of ice underneath that skim of snow on the pavement.
Horrendous here, have 5 vehicles stuck in ditches within sight of my front door. As has been stated, we are ill equipt. Everyone that tried to get on the road at 6:30 is still where they were at 6:35, everyone that waited until 10:00 are at work.
Robert ...
west of here is a where most of the commercial strawberry farms are located.
I think that they have the ability to cover the plants. Historically, it has been a very profitable crop for this area because the Louisiana berries are the first to hit the major US markets before the Cali. berries are ready.
During the previous hard freeze here, they were mentioning the farmer's efforts to save plants. Not much mentioned during the current freeze.
