Tom McGee's Blog

Our first big win­ter storm hit today. Up at the work site in extreme north­ern New Jer­sey there was a cou­ple of inches of thick, greasy slush. Down here in Maple­wood, lots of ice on all the branches (pretty!) and the power lines (dan­ger­ous!). One of the lat­ter was down in the street across from us, knocked down when one of the for­mer landed on it.

Some­thing I’d never seen before, despite spend­ing 20 years dodg­ing lake-effect snow in Cleve­land. About a third of the cars in the park­ing lot this morn­ing had their wipers lifted straight up, point­ing out from the wind­shield. Appar­ently to avoid the prob­lems involved in dig­ging them out from under. I don’t know, it seemed sketchy to me.

Item the sec­ond, I got new Toyo tires a few months ago and they played nicely with mr. frosty. It’s the first time I’ve ever got­ten any­thing but the cheap­est tires and they’ve really been a plea­sure. A 40-mile trip home and I didn’t get the ALB jit­ters once.