General BS forumI guess this will be for anything that would seem to be off topic in any other forum here. Just general shootin' the breeze kind of topics.
This past week, I had to go to Massachusetts on business. It was bitter cold, windy ,and Thursday night we got 6"of snow. It was a heavy wet snow that hung on the wires and trees and looked like a Norman Rockwell painting. It was so beautiful that I even took several pictures. Then reality started to set in. While I was scraping the snow and ice from my non-descript Hyundai rental car the snow was getting inside my shoes, only to melt and remain there throughout the meeting I had that day. Needless to say, I was cold and miserable all day. But the real reality check came while I was on the way to the airport in Providence. By now the snow along the roadway had become dirty and gray, the road was just slightly wet so that when cars and trucks passed they sent up a fine mist of salt that only the window washers would remove. All the cars were covered with the dirty gray road salt and had big chunks of ice hanging underneath them. I suddenly realized why I have lived in this beautiful state for the last 30 years and have no intention of ever going "back home". Yesterday we spent the day rummaging for parts for my streetrod at Zephyrhills and this morning we will be going on a breakfast cruise in the Stingray. I LOVE FLORIDA
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I know what you mean. I was born and raised in Mich, and while I'll always love growing up there, I could never move back. I'm too spoiled after 14 years here. It gets in the 30's and 40's here and I get frost bite.
Yeah man! I was born and raised in Baltimore and wild horses (literally!) could not drag me back there.
Speaking of which, who was the genius who decided to use CORROSIVE salt on the roads to melt the ice and snow? Salt water and metals do NOT mix well together.
Not to mention that I have always wondered if breathing salt (when it dries and becomes a powder on the roads) is really all that good for us... We already have been breathing tons of asbestos used in brake linings for decades...........
Speaking of which, who was the genius who decided to use CORROSIVE salt on the roads to melt the ice and snow? Salt water and metals do NOT mix well together.
Reality check !
bro...
We already have been breathing tons of asbestos used in brake linings for decades...........
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