PSA — ❄️for residents in snow areas — let’s share tips❄️

petaliqueFebruary 8, 2025

❄️☃️ We are in New England, but a wide area beyond that will be dealing with snow and icy roads.

Let’s share some tips for winter weather with snow and ice.

I will offer a few:

❄️ Finish doing car errands way before snow and ice is expected. A lot of regions treat roadways with Magnesium Chloride ahead of expected precipitation. This stuff is extremely corrosive to metal and other automobile components. Even though you may wash your vehicle after a snow and ice storm, it is best to avoid getting any of this material on your car. It is often applied in brine form, but can remain on the roadways and in snowbanks after the storm is over.

Magnesium chloride is much more corrosive that salt.

❄️ After the storm, be careful when you are out and about. Plow drivers and other trucks and vehicles seem to blithely whiz through and across parking lots — at shopping centers, condo areas and town or city streets. Every year, people, including children are injured by cowboy drivers. Avoid walking across parking lots on in areas where snowbanks or darkness impede visibility. Get a small very bright LED and put it on flash blink mode. Communicate to others, elders, kids not to assume that drivers are paying attention and will see them. In the past month a 14 year old was hit and killed by a truck while he was walking across a parking lot. Laast week a woman was clearing snow of her car in her condo parking lot when a plow driver hit her and knocked her under his truck.

Plowing snow is fun and plow drivers are eager to make as much income as they can and are sometime young and inexperienced. Be mindful.

❄️ Remind children and other to avoid walking or playing beneath trees, the snow laden branches can suddenly snap and crash down. A few years ago a young girl was home from school because of a snowstorm. She was playing outdoors, enjoying the snow when the branch of a tree crashed down upon her (fatally). We have large trees close to us and try to be mindful when going to the roadside mailbox in windy or snowy weather. It doesn’t take a very large branch to injure of kill a person beneaht it when it falls.

❄️ Of course, have a few things like batteries, flashlights and extra water on hand. Then relax and enjoy the snowfall. We also fill our suet and birdseed dispensers up the day before and day of any big storm.

I could not cross post this from The Kitchen Table. Geez. I thought Houzz fixed this.