I totally agree with you about driving in snow, total bollocks!
Of course much of US culture is built around the automobile, so people naturally try to keep right on going no matter what nature is trying to say. I dream of ditching the car life but have no clue how to proceed, (not real great at dreaming up ways to move to a car-optional city).
Incidentally: I just got back from a two-day work stint in Michigan's upper peninsula, and up there, (and in much of the southern peninsula as well), lots of people get around using snowmobiles. The cities up there even have snowmobile routes so they can skip across the regular highways. Snowmobile isn't very practical for shopping or going to the opera, but then the yoopers don't do much of either.
sometimes I think it would just be easier if no one shoveled snow, no one melted it with salt, and everyone just got around via snow-shoe and sled. It would be hella less slipery!
here we try to melt it with salt. the whole country is being weird after 4 cm snow. in the mountains of austria and france they spray little rocks on the road the increase the grip.
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It's one sculpture with two heads :-) It's a ceramic siamese cat-snake sculpture I made back in 2002. Photo of it not covered with snow:
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Of course much of US culture is built around the automobile, so people naturally try to keep right on going no matter what nature is trying to say. I dream of ditching the car life but have no clue how to proceed, (not real great at dreaming up ways to move to a car-optional city).
Incidentally: I just got back from a two-day work stint in Michigan's upper peninsula, and up there, (and in much of the southern peninsula as well), lots of people get around using snowmobiles. The cities up there even have snowmobile routes so they can skip across the regular highways. Snowmobile isn't very practical for shopping or going to the opera, but then the yoopers don't do much of either.
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here we try to melt it with salt. the whole country is being weird after 4 cm snow. in the mountains of austria and france they spray little rocks on the road the increase the grip.
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