Thank heavens the Atlantic coast did what she does best and turned most if not all of this weekend's predicted snowfall into rain. In doing so, she averted the 6+ inches we were meant to receive, and also removed quite a bit of what was left from previous storms. That's the good news. The bad new is that as innocent as the sugar-dusting of snow may have looked this morning, there was Narnian-like witchcraft afoot (quite literally!) and what seemed innocuous and picturesque was really a treacherous sheet of ice. After an aborted attempt to leave the house (which resulted in an embarrassing interpretive dance in the middle of my driveway) I remembered my fall-back plan.
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| Yaktrax |
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| Stabilicers |
In the absence of Sherpa DNA, either of these run a close second.
Highly recommended for navigating black ice that is
cleverly masked by a morning coating of alleged snow.*
* Best if donned before you leave the house, to avoid false starts and discomposure
Those boots look pretty wicked themselves! i just finished reading your last post and I'm exhausted at ten a.m.! I hope you get a break soon!
ReplyDeleteI would kill for those boots. Alas! they are the advertisement for those wonderful ice-grabbers. I have both kinds (the Yaktrax and the Stabilicers) and actually prefer the Yaktrax. A word to the wise: never enter a building wearing these and expect to stay upright on anything other than carpeting. I learned this by skating right across a tiled lobby once and nearly landing on my backside.
ReplyDeleteAren't those cool! What clever ideas for having to deal with ice. I am always so careful walking across the icy driveway. Treacherous!
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