Erik88

I'm not sure if I shared this but when we went to Finland in November our rental had studded snow tires. I was amazed at how much traction I had. They mandate snow tires there and do not use salt. They put down crushed gravel. Even the buses had no issue getting up and down snow covered hills. Never saw a single wreck. I'm a believer in studded snow tires. Took me 15 minutes to get my wife's car out of our driveway this morning even with traction boards. This storm taught me you really have to shovel the snow before it turns to ice. I won't make that mistake again.

What were their sleeping bags rated to? That's impressive.

You'd think they would learn by now that this has no impact on us. If anything, it just distracts me and makes me less careful.

Yours is worse than my Darrell. Not good.

As if I didn't have enough to worry about, I have ice dams in my gutters. Anyone deal with this yet?

That's a bold statement.

I had to drive a complete strangers car earlier. Older woman was visibly shaking trying to make it down my hill. I got in and got her turned around. She wanted me to drive her KIA down the hill but I vetoed that idea. This has been a crazy week.

I tried to go to the gym this morning but turned around. The snow has been compacted into a sheet of ice in my neighborhood. Still haven't seen a plow. They are hoping to have all the roads treated by Saturday.

A lot of my neighbors chose to shovel their driveways. I never thought I'd see that here and I don't even own a snow shovel. I'm wondering if I should have done the same.

Tennessee's population has grown by 1.6 million residents in that time period. I can't imagine these companies have been great about updating infrastructure like they should have been. We've also had back to back severe cold weather events the last two winters.

Transplants? I thought that too but some of the comments came from locals. You'd think they would know better. Some people just want to complain about everything.

Man I'm always amazed by the stupid comments online. People are complaining that Knox City/County has not plowed or treated certain roads. What limited plows we have are working 24/7 to treat the roads. This isn't Buffalo, NY. We don't have the resources to quickly deal with 10" of snow.

Both. I try to avoid sharp turns while in 4x4 because it's hard on the CV axles. They can bind. So I flip back and forth as needed. I think our roads can be a lot steeper here than middle TN so 4x4 is definitely needed at times. It also just helps increase traction at times when all 4 tires are working.

I wasn't going 6 but I did go slower than normal as I think we should. Other people were going way too fast. I even had a guy tailgating me. My Tundra is capable but I'm not looking to crash.

We just made a Kroger run. I have never seen the roads this bad in Knoxville. With temperatures at zero tonight I expect the roads to be covered in ice by tomorrow.

I measured 9-10" in my yard earlier. I'll remember this snow storm for a long time. I'm used to always being disappointed and for once they underestimated how much snow we got. The forecast the rest of the week looks rough. It will be a test for TVA to see if their grid improvements prevent more rolling blackouts.

Heat pumps are really inadequate sometimes. And we haven't even gotten to the worst of the cold yet. Not sure about middle TN but tomorrow night it's going to be down close to zero.

6-7" here depending on where I measure. This is way more than I expected.

I had to keep it under 12mph and move my weight around. The front tire wants to wash out like it does on loose gravel.

This was a weird storm system. The middle valley got more than the Southern valley and mountains. It's usually the opposite. We have a solid 5" here and still coming down.

Yeah, I did...

The roads are completely covered in West Knoxville. I watched a guy pull a minivan up a hill. The woman never bothered to release her brakes so he had to drag her.

Woke up to a dusting in West Knoxville. Maybe 1.5" inch but now it's coming down pretty hard. Supposed to snow through the afternoon.

I thought this was going to be a post about crude oil prices.

When money is involved, there is no such thing as loyalty.