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Leave the snow blower at home. It snows. It ices. I saw snow/ice maybe three times in the year I was there. It's not like PA. In Cary many people don't have much of a yard on which to catch any snow when it does fall.
Leave the snow blower at home. It snows. It ices. I saw snow/ice maybe three times in the year I was there. It's not like PA. In Cary many people don't have much of a yard on which to catch any snow when it does fall.
I was told people in NC don't even need, or own shovels.
1. True, it rarely snows in the piedmont and coastal areas of NC. The mountains (Boone area esp. ) do get some snow. Our official average snow is about 7"/year, but we haven't gotten that lately. Typical year is a dusting one or twice in December, then a single snow event in Jan/Feb of a few inches. I was here when we had a storm of the century snow event and received about 18", but that was highly unusual (and everthing was closed for a week).
2. You don't need your snowblower. If we get a big snow (more than a few inches), you can just wait for it to melt. Everything closes in this area at the threat of snow (and it's for the best--people do not know how to drive in snow). Our home is over a 1/2 mile from a paved road and getting out in a "snow storm" without shovelling is simply not an issue.
FYI, ice is more of a worry. We had a terrible ice storm in the triangle in 2002 and do routinely experience more mild ice storms that cause power outages and tree fall. I never thought I needed a generator until I moved to NC! (between hurricanes and ice storms) A chainsaw is a useful purchase too :-)
If you happen to have one of those trucks that drops salt brine on the roads before they freeze over, do drive that down. It'll do some good eventually. The state and city try but if you venture off any of the main roads when anything frozen is coming out of the sky or laying on the ground you might as well be ice skating. The difference is you can make a quick stop on ice skates.
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