More Adventures With Ice and Company

It's been snowing on and off, melting away then accumulating again. We've had some good fun with it, and learned some new lessons about life in snow. See Exhibit 1- why you should always give yourself 30 extra minutes to get anywhere in the morning after a snow: (we've learned how to put videos in the blog, so thankfully no more having to go to you-tube! Just press play below.)

Scraping off the snow and ice without a scraper and warming up the car.

(we will be investing in a scraper soon!)

See Exhibit 2- Things are only temporary in the snow:

We have had some experience now with driving in the snow, and we've learned that up here they don't put salt on the roads due to environmental concerns. The salt would melt with the ice and runoff into the river affecting the natural habitat. To help with the traction on the roads they spread this reddish material called scree, which is ground up volcanic rock. Happy to say it works quite well, we haven't had any slipping or sliding at all while driving.

All in all for the little annoyances snow and ice bring, their positives make them welcome in our lives anytime!