[Sca-cooks] freezer burn and black ice

[Audrey Bergeron-Morin]

Try living around here...
Snow falls beginning November, starts staying at the end of December, leaves
around middle of April depending good/bad year.
Change the tires on the car to winter tires in the Fall so we don't kill
ourselves driving around town in the snow all winter. Btw, winter tires
really DO make a difference.
And when you've driven in the snow enough, you don't really mind anymore. I
guess I just had to adapt :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Siegfried Heydrich" <baronsig at peganet.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] freezer burn and black ice


>     You know, I've never really appreciated being a Trimarian enough . . .
>
>     Sieggy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > Ted Eisenstein wrote:
> >
> > > (And I thought black ice was simply ice/snow/slush/sleet that had
melted
> > > slightly, and then refrozen clear, sort of like perfect ice cubes. If
> it's really
> > > clear, it's transparent, and you can't see it, and the road shows
> through.
> > > I didn't think black ice was black, just transparent enough to let the
> > > asphalt show through. Hmmm.)
> >
> > I've never hear the 'frozen exhaust' explanation. Hmm. It doesn't
> > explain black ice in low traffic areas though.
> >
> > I learned to drive in Washington state, and have been driving in Oregon
> > since '85. The terrain is very similar and you get alot of black ice in
> > the winter both places. Not much else, except for the one storm a year
> > that dumps 3" of snow and follows up with sleet- Portland in particular
> > is known for nasty freezing rain storms.
> >
> > As to black ice, what I have always been told is that there's a couple
> > of different ways to make it. 1) light rain during the day, road is wet,
> > then the temp drops and you have a thin crust of ice. 2) fog, freezing
> > to the ground as the temp drops. This leaves a pretty, lacy covering of
> > ice, looking like a heavy frost, with crystals. If you stand and look at
> > the road, you can see it, but if you are in a moving vehicle- nope. 3)
> > If the dew falls just before the temp hits freezing, it can freeze up.
> > In your garden it looks like there's a sugar glaze on everything. On the
> > road you don't know it's there until it's too late.
> >
> > I had one serious encounter with black ice- it was in the shade even,
> > and I couldn't see it until I was doing 360s in the oncoming lane. I hit
> > the side of the hill next to me, pointed the wrong way, and came very
> > close to rolling. Car was totalled, I was ok. SEATBELTS WORK!
> >
> > Tips for driving on ice: 1) if you can avoid it- don't. Stay home. 2) if
> > you can't avoid it: KEEP YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKE! use the
> > clutch/downshift/foot off gas, whatever, but don't use the brake if you
> > are sliding at all. 3) like in snow- don't completely stop if you can
> > avoid it. California stops are ok then- slow, roll through, and *gently*
> > accelerate. Drive like a wuss- it'll keep you alive. No jackrabbit-swing
> > that tail starts, not sudden stops, and watch those curves!
> >
> > Enough for now, from she who was once dubbed by a local Laurel
> > 'Le Mans Elaine'
>
>
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