Things no one has in Orange County

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Worries about "bridges freeze first."

Um ... ever drive the canyon over toward Temecula on certain winter mornings?

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by pacific2

• WORRIES ABOUT-
• Black ice on the roads.
• Worrying if the frozen river shortcut on campus will give way, taking you down under.
• Temperatures so low there is thick ice inside the dorm's hallway window.
• Salt eating away at your car's undercarriage.
• Conditioning your boots so that salt doesn't destroy them.
• Your car hitting ice and then rolling into a drainage ditch.
• Freezing you arse off while waiting for roadside service after your car has slid off the road in the middle of nowhere.
• Carrying a shovel for those inevitable days when you will have to first dig your car out before going to work.
• Hitting ice and sliding across the freeway, all the time hoping your car doesn't become intimate with a big rig.
• Being in a statistics class watching the sky turn black when the prof says,
  "Don't worry, the only chances are the tornado will either hit OR not hit; nothing else. Now where was I?"
• Putting on full winter gear just to walk one block to the grocery store.
• Having fingers and toes so cold and numb that you wonder if they are still there.
• A snowplow burying your parked car in a snowbank.
• Frozen car door locks.
• Scraping ice off your windshield.
• "Winterizing" your car.
• Sky high heating bills.
• Pipes freezing in your home.
• Thunder and electrical storms so loud that you are sure your property has been hit (Sometimes it has been struck).
• Scrambling from an open space like a golf course or picnic area, when an electrical storm is approaching.
• Bricks falling from a building's facade after a heavy "windstorm."
• Trees blocking the sidewalk and street after a storm.
• Listening to weather reports about a nearby tornado and deciding when to hit the basement.

Ask how busy body shops were right after New Year's Day a couple or three years back (e.g. when they had sticking snow in Temecula ... and ... lots of ice in many places away from the water).

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by Chava61

Actually people that live in Orange County that like to go skiing in Big Bear Lake do have all the cold weather and snow gear.

People who like to go camping in the summer will definitely have insect repellent.

This thread is obviously by and for transplants whose main reason for relo was escaping 4 season climates. A lot of such people don't do winter sports after they move (assuming they ever did them in the first place).

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by Eeyore1954

Fall foliage like in the east.

Maybe not "like in the East" but you need to get out more.

California Sycamores, Big Leaf Maples, Buckeyes (in the middle of summer even!), Cottonwoods, Alders, etc, etc.

Interestingly, it's in our natural areas where you will find the above hard woods in large numbers.

Landscaped areas, not so much, but plenty of non native hard woods in such areas.

[pacific2]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Ask how busy body shops were right after New Year's Day a couple or three years back (e.g. when they had sticking snow in Temecula ... and ... lots of ice in many places away from the water).

Temecula is in Riverside County, not OC.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by pacific2

Temecula is in Riverside County, not OC.

Right, but the route there is in OC for a decent distance.

http://www.pe.com/2015/01/01/winter-...8211-for-most/

"Authorities reopened the Ortega Highway between Lake Elsinore and Orange County at 6 p.m. Wednesday after rescuing about 50 stranded motorists earlier in the day and clearing the two-lane mountain road of snow and fallen tree limbs."

[mrwumpus]

A large display of bear spray canisters at their local Wal-Mart.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by mrwumpus

A large display of bear spray canisters at their local Wal-Mart.

Don't ask for it.

I don't know if they can buy it at Walmart yet, but some folks in the SGV have bear spray now as normal supplies. With range expansion that is now ongoing .....