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Snow day in south Louisiana
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BenAllgood
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It's coming down here in Gonzales, LA too.
Merle Hawggard
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All we're getting is the cold. 
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Native Hunter
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You boys take care down there. Good time to track down and harvest rabbits with a ball peen hammer.
M. R. Byrd
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Just saw on the news that most snow in Baton Rouge since 1914. Stay warm and safe down there.
Mennoniteman
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Snow in Louisiana? Wow, I'm guessing a lot of cars were in the ditch!
We've had a nice little cold snap up here in PA as well, minus 7 at daylight this morning
We've had a nice little cold snap up here in PA as well, minus 7 at daylight this morning
BenAllgood
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We aren't equipped for this type of weather. Supposed to be 10 degrees tonight. For the cars that did get out, yes, a lot ended up running off the road. But, most people aren't getting on the roads. We got 8 inches of snow in my parish.
1100LT20
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I believe you received more than me. I haven’t heard an official measurement for New Roads but my yard is 5” deep. It’s definitely rare as a hen’s tooth and I’m hoping my employer doesn’t bother me until Friday. I don’t want to drive in this because I have zero experience in snowy and icy highways.
MarkDarvin
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I saw a video of a bunch of cars not being able to get up a hill. I suppose you guys can let tires go a lot further before you have to swap them out because you don't regularly get snow.
1100LT20
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Yes we usually get over the mileage warranty on tires down south if we rotate and stay away from drag racing and towing heavy equipment. Also, we can’t drive in these conditions, the videos proved that, lol.
Mennoniteman
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I taught 4 children how to drive in snow and I said the same thing to all of them; most of the skill of driving in snow is just slowing down to a safe speed.
On the other hand, black ice from freezing rain is impossible to drive on; pull into a parking lot and wait it out.
MarkDarvin
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I've got cheap factory tires on my new suburu. That was nearly a hard lesson learned in the first snowfall. It's undriveable with my current tires on ice and snow. I'm working to get new tires now.
yoderjac
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I used to live in the DC metro area. All kinds of folks have 4x4 jacked up trucks and such. Our ice and snow is so infrequent that few of them know how to drive in the snow. I grew up in PA where we put on studded tires in the winter. Folks in the metro area are confused about how 4x4 works. None of them seem to realize that it helps you go, but does nothing to help you stop! Most of the vehicles I see crashed along the road are 4x4s.
Mennoniteman
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I'll let you in on a little secret about tires that my garage man taught me, there's one tire that ranks higher than it should for the money.
I live up a steep driveway back in the hills in 4wd territory, and I've been driving in the lane uphill on hard packed snow and ice for the past week, into a place where Amazon vans can't deliver until we get a thaw, and I've had really good luck driving on snow with these Hankook Dynapro AT2 tires on my Jeep Grand Cherokee. This is definitely a really good high mileage all weather tire that runs well in the summer or the winter, and the price of them is reasonable. I buy these by the dozen for years already, and put them on all my sales vehicles at work too. Not a mud tire, but runs quiet and is good on wet roads too.
