Ice and snow

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Sun 8 Feb 2015 15:06
Ice and snow - hillman

We are having more than our fair share and it's not melted after more than a week. The footpaths are treacherous.

I travelled on country roads last night at 10pm with the temperature close to freezing in fairly thick mist. Apart from being concerned for the health and well being of one or two clowns who overtook me I was aware of the fact that when the temperture is hovering about 1 deg.C the road surface can either freeze or thaw. The surface had been treated but looked wet. I was very carefully listening to the tyre noise hecause I've been told that when the surface is covered with black ice the tyre noise stops. Any BR comments ?

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Sun 8 Feb 2015 15:09
Ice and snow - Dwight Van Driver

Yup that is what I have always understood.

Travelling this time of year and weather and you suddenly lose tyre/road noise then you is on black ice and a car travelling in a straight line does not slide.........................................(whoops)

dvd

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Mon 9 Feb 2015 13:55
Ice and snow - hillman

dvd, I wear a hearing aid, have done so since my teens, and find that I can concentrate better when the aid is swithed off and the earpiece acts like a plug - peace, perfect peace. Last weekend SWMBO and I were delivering our grand-daughter back home in freezing road conditions and thick mist, lonely country road etc, and the two girls were talking animatedly in the back seat. I was tempted to switch off my hearing aid to concentrate and then I remembered the risk of black ice so I left it on. Then again, there is always the chance of ambulances and in thick mist, compounded by the bends in the road, you can't always see the blue lights, .

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Mon 9 Feb 2015 16:04
Ice and snow - RobJP

In thick mist, the penetration of the blue lights is sdtill considerable - you're far more likely to see that than you are to hear one with all the windows up.

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