AUstin, has .....s-n-o-w !

Not to interrupt about salts, but will any of you clue me in on antifreeze?

In Austin's defense...most cities in the South have little or no snow removal equipment. The people who live there have little or no experience driving on snow or ice. Nobody owns a snow shovel.

When we lived in Cleveland, Ohio, they had 77 inches of snow that winter. But we never once had to drive on it. The streets were cleared by 8 a.m. every morning. Here in Tulsa, they only have enough equipment and salt/sand mixture to clear major streets and intersections. Getting to those streets, though, you're on your own. With 4" of ice on these hills, a lot of people can't get out of their neighborhoods. The stores don't begin to stock enough de-icer because this hardly ever happens.

Another surprise, when it would be all icy during the day, I'd go out with my scrapper to uncover my car after work, just like I'd done all my life. In the parking lot there'd be all these people who were BORN there for crying out loud, trying to scrape their cars with the edge of a credit card or their drivers license.