Wow...my roommate REALLY doesn't know much about snow

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Originally posted by: YoYoBabyYo
Sorry I have to ask, but I have lived in Southern California all my life so I do not know a thing about snow. What did you mean by "Prevents icing and helps cars with traction" ?

In snowy climates, it's common for various things to be used on the roadways to assist with traction. When snow gets driven over repeatedly, it packs into ice. ALso, if it rains and then gets too cold, it will freeze on the roadways as well. By sprinkling cinders, road salts, gravel, sand, and whatever else on the roadways, it greatly enhances the traction between a car's drive wheels and the ice. Otherwise you get people stepping on the gas but they move about as fast as if they were in neutral because the wheels simply spin around and around but go nowhere.

Salt has the added benefit of lowering the freezing point of water, thereby requiring a colder temperature for ice to form.

 

[Bootprint]

Better warn him not to stick his tongue on a metal post.

 

[Giscardo]

Is this the same guy who wanted to clean the bathroom so he flooded it with water and then asked where the plug was to drain the H2O?

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Giscardo
Is this the same guy who wanted to clean the bathroom so he flooded it with water and then asked where the plug was to drain the H2O?

I'm betting yes 😀

 

[sonoma1993]

Were is your roommate from?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: sonoma1993
Were is your roommate from?

you're fired.

 

[silverpig]

I work on golf courses part time to pay for school and on one of the ones I used to work at they had to close the golf course because of a foot of snow. The regular guys showed up to golf and were upset that the bosses had closed the course (go figure). The bosses told them to go home. They got upset.

"Why can't you just turn on the irrigation system and melt all the snow?"

😕

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: thereds
Aren't you Indian too UNCJigga? Your roommate probably is your acting like your dad when he first came to the US.

Doubt it. My dad's family is from Himachal Pradesh (foothills of the Himalayas) so he knows a thing or two about snow.

But funny story...when my parents first moved to North America, they decided to settle in Edmonton, Alberta first as that's where my dad had earned his engineering degree, and he had friends in the area. My mom had never been there though. They arrived in July. They moved out the following July!!! 😀

OMG THAT STORY WAS SO FUNNY I FELL OFF MY CHAIR!! OMG !!! HILARIOUS!!

hahaha