Still seeing vettes

[Keith Tedford]

Here they are now spraying the roads with a calcium chloride brine. It does a great job of clearing the ice and snow from the roads. Talk to any heavy truck mechanic about what this is doing to vehicles. This stuff gets past the weather pack electrical connections and corrodes the terminals and wire. Brake lines are rotting out if not undercoated regularly. If they are doing a brake job on a big rig, they make sure they don't disturb anything electrical or there is a good chance that something electrical won't be working when they are done. The stuff needs to be banned.

 

[Riley P]

They would just back up, drop the blade and wing the pile off into the ditch.

That's what I do with all my problems.... The ditch is getting pretty full but I'm sure I can fit a few more wings worth of trouble salt in there.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Drove north from Toronto yesterday and saw a C4 headed south on Highway 11. It was 12 degrees but raining and very foggy. Saw a blue C7 sitting at a business on the north bound lanes so he must have been out and about at well.

 

[williame3590]

Yellow C5 vert at the liquor store here in town today. Bugger!


Bill

 

[Rruuff Day]

Had mine out last night in the snow... made it half way to Banff before the alarm went off and I had to get up and go to work..... Doh!

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Saw a very highly polished Black C6 coupe with chrome wheels heading west on Highway 7 Boxing Day Afternoon at 2.

Roads were dry Toronto to Bracebridge.

 

[Rruuff Day]

That's very cool Murray.... Would really make me want to cruise though.... and then I think of the six months of insurance payments we are saving out here on the frozen prairies. If it weren't for winter, we couldn't afford gas in the summer....

 

[Nik]

Lots and lots in TO. Even today (British summer time day) of all days I saw a couple.

 

[Rruuff Day]

Lost me with the "British summer time day" Nik but I'm sure there is some obscure old country meaning you will no doubt enlighten me with... Is anyone concerned about the effect all your mild weather could have on the vegetation down there? When you have mild weather this time of year, does it not trick the trees and such into thinking it's spring and they start to bud out, only to be hit hard when winter does show up? I remember a year I was at a friends wedding on Vancouver Island in January and there were frozen rose buds everywhere. It had been mild and the roses started to bloom again and then got hit by frost. Just curious if that ever happens down there where you are?

 

[Nik]

British summer time day can be equated to any drizzly day with an average temp of 13C. I believe it's in the dictionary

There's fresh grass in my backyard. I don't know what to do with it but give it a sharp sideways glance and talking to.

 

[Keith Tedford]

3-4 inches of snow and lots and lots of salt in Petawawa this morning. Salt all the way to Peterborough this afternoon. Looks like a real winter storm coming into Southern Ontario tomorrow evening. Our driving season is definitely over around here.

 

[Rruuff Day]

British summer time day can be equated to any drizzly day with an average temp of 13C. I believe it's in the dictionary

There's fresh grass in my backyard. I don't know what to do with it but give it a sharp sideways glance and talking to.

Ahhhhhh.... I learn something new every day.... But that does make sense. As far as talking to your grass, it really depends on what language your grass speaks whether it will do any good... Unfortunately most of my grass speaks Duck. I have no idea what it's saying. My neighbours call it quack grass!