SantaClaraHawk":isxrfzv3 said:
What Seahwkgal said.
The weather out by the Great Lakes is vastly different than what we see on the WC or even Denver. It can turn on a dime, and when it does, it's like God mated with Poseidon and s-ted this cold, sleet rain/snow that glazes everything. The hair on your head. The roads. Your car.
I remember the first day this happened. I was working swing in downtown Detroit. Not the Detroit of even now, but of that time when you'd drive up Woodward blowing every single light, because any sign of humanity out would not be willing to help you. And there was my vehicle, englazed perfectly under half an inch of ice at midnight.
RW was a Wisconsin Badger, so I expect him to know how to deal with this, but if you haven't experienced it, it can be a shock.
We get that here once in a blue moon, last time was like in 2000 or so can't be sure, but my Grandma called them Silver Thaws, it looks like rain but is liquid ice and instantly freezes to whatever it lands on, trees break from the weight but look so cool with that half in or more clear ice on them, roads are a ice rink solid ice, weight also causes roof and if you have a carport can collapse it.
Driving on it, your an idiot attempting till it thaws, it does fast around here and then you have the floods.
