• @[email protected]
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    817 hours ago

    as someone from Florida (USA) who has only ever seen snow once on a winter trip, literally every few months I learn something horrific about snow that makes it seem a little bit worse

    Last months was that the salt that melts snow can essentially melt cars metal over enough time

    Then it was that there’s invisible ‘black ice’

    Now paint lines literally don’t exist?! How do you exist over there? I’m literally dieing in like 50°F weather (10°C)

    • @dingus
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      45 hours ago

      When it gets cold enough outside, it kind of hurts to breath because the cold air kind of stings the inside of your lungs.

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      6 hours ago

      Now paint lines literally don’t exist?! How do you exist over there?

      Like this

      and this

    • Track_ShovelOP
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      814 hours ago

      We get down to -50C (-58f) here, on a cold snap. Working outdoors sucks in that.

    • @thejoker954
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      316 hours ago

      Even during the summer the lines are usually faded away so even on good nights you can barely see them. And because of plows no reflectors like down south.

      • @Hobbes_Dent
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        214 hours ago

        We gots sunken reflectors in BC. Some escape the scrape.

    • @sulgoth
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      116 hours ago

      Oh 10°C sounds so nice right now. Short answer is drive more cautiously, you can get undercoated for the salt issue and black ice is just hope and pray.