• @MothmanDelorian
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    NJ here and at no point could you drive on lakes. It doesn’t get that cold. Most of the winter you cannot skate on ponds.

  • @CptOblivius
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    35 hours ago

    ND we use both. I can’t even say what is more common.

    • Bizzle
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      610 hours ago

      Here too in Illinois

    • Scott
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      That’s also what I’ve known it as in Texas

      • @Dkarma
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        That’s cuz Texans are fucking stupid.

        • @TheOneAndOnly
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          😂

          I know…It’s not nice to laugh, but the unexpected hostility caught me just right.

  • @[email protected]
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    6517 hours ago

    We should reframe climate change as an attack on winter recreational activities. Then Republicans might actually give a shit about it.

    “Oh, I’m not worried about climate change. But I’m very concerned about the impending demise of snowmobiling.”

    • snooggums
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      4416 hours ago

      “How will the homeless freeze to death without cold winters?”

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
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    813 hours ago

    Wait until they learn about parking your half-tonne on it, building a hut and sitting there fishing with some beers for hours.

  • @recklessengagement
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    2117 hours ago

    Only ever done this in an empty parking lot after a few inches of fresh snow

    • Mike D.
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      There was one particular parking lot near my house that was not plowed for years. The snow would fall, melt a little during the day, and then refreeze. Spent many evenings there.

    • snooggums
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      416 hours ago

      You are missing out then, frozen lakes are so much fun.

  • @[email protected]
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    It has been a long time since most of those places have been cold enough, long enough, to have a lake become that solidly frozen. It has been 30+ years since I have seen this happen in the mid atlantic.

    • @[email protected]
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      2616 hours ago

      The water’s really deep there, too, so it’s riskier. Isn’t that were the Titanic sunk?

      • Zagorath
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        I think by “mid Atlantic” they mean a city in the US on the Atlantic coastline, but not the northern tip of the country, or the southern end. The mid part. But they’re talking about lakes or rivers in those areas, not the ocean itself.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      515 hours ago

      I’ve lived in the mid Atlantic my entire life and have never driven on a frozen lake.

      I do my donuts in parking lots that haven’t been salted or plowed yet.

      • @[email protected]
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        313 hours ago

        back in the 90s there was a couple times lakes in western PA/NY froze over enough people were out driving on them.

  • Rhaedas
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    514 hours ago

    You know the old trope about how people in the South can’t drive in snow? We do donuts on the roads unintentionally once the snow falls and refreezes to ice. No lake needed. I guess if you only have snow on the roads you have to seek out places where the car will slide around.