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Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

Well I was not off today & worked very hard. But.......I can't complain. I am off Friday through next Friday. Heading to Gatlinburg, TN for some Smokey Mountain R & R. Boy do I need it. I will only have limited web access so you won't hear much from me during that time. You guys will have to hold down the fort!

Ruby, sounds like you'll have a good time.

Originally Posted by With envy

Today, I took the freeway to work because I figured it would be cleared better than the back-roads I usually take. (I don't usually take the freeway because around here they are normally clogged with traffic and useless.) With today being a holiday for some, and others who panic at the sight of a snowflake, staying home; traffic was light. Just before my exit, in the opposing lane of traffic, I spotted a small SUV heading South. The windshield was completely obscured by an inch-thick layer of snow and ice, with the exception of about a two foot swath that had been cleared just in front of the driver. All I could say was SERIOUSLY! I wish I could have taken a picture to post here. I've seen these lazy, stupid idiots before on side roads, but never on the freeway. God help anyone trying to merge onto the freeway in their 80-degree blind spot!

I remember some drivers doin' that in MN. Never understood it as a snowbrush is just as much a driving necessity as a steering wheel, but there was always one or two.

Not so much a problem here in LV, though.

In the 100 years that I've lived here, there've been only 1 or 2 really BIG snow falls here in LV valley. The most recent one was 4 or 5 years ago with the storm front moving from the NW to the SE part of town. There was already 5-6 inches on the ground when I left the office at about 2 figuring I'd work the rest of the day from home once I got there.

I took my snowbrush from the trunk (one of the last relics of my former life as a Minnesotan ) and was brushing 5 inches of thick, wet snow off of my Firebird. It took me 20 minutes to clear of the hood, roof, rear window and tail, by which time I had to go over it again since the snow was still coming down.

Building security was out patrolling the parking lot and the guy asked me what I was using and I showed him. This guy had never heard of a snow brush much less seen one , but then he probaby never sat on a bucket in a plywood and canvas shack in the middle of a frozen lake on a zero-degree day hoping to catch a fish, either.

Disclaimer: I only ice-fished as a kid when I was dragged along by my folks. Once I was old enought to know better, I said, "Thanks, but no thanks."