Cheers. Yeah learned all about grip and momentum riding. No stops and no sudden change of speed, steady is the way.

Good luck with your trip!

local company much higher % of the profit goes to employees. Starbucks fucks over your neighbor so that Charles down in the Florida keys can buy a second boat

It appears I do not, well my partner doesn't :p

Sounds good. I asked a local friend and now I'm looking at getting snow tires. But yeah definitely go slow. We do snow enough for us to need brush and scraper, so have that lol XD Cheers appreciate the list.

She was out there this morning about 7:30 crossing Florence rd. heading your way. I think they den up in the marble slag pile off of North st. That’s where we hear the noise coming from in the summer. We don’t spend much time outside in the winter to hear them.

If you’re sliding on light snow you may want to invest in snow tires or, even better, studded snow tires to deal with the ice.

Snow isn’t that bad, it’s the ice that will get you.

Should I get snow tires? ;)

Good to know, asked a friend who said the same thing about Bolton access road. Definitely don't want to be that guy. Cheers.

Definitely. A strongly-worded letter is pathetic, basically Elizabeth-Warren-energy.

> A simple look at their positions shows they are a liberal policy group.

Yea, because suppressing the vote and gerrymandering have become key tools of the GOP since they can't win the war of ideas. Any effort against that instantly gives the organization a left-leaning label.

It's my partner's car, and I'm on the insurance. I'm doing the research for both of us. And for front/rear wheel drive it doesn't matter where we drive. If the knowledge mattered I'd have known it, but not here. In Iceland it mattered, so we got an all wheel drive car. Can we be less judgy and more onto the topic at hand? Ever cross your mind people have reasons for thing?

Never knew these guys were a thing until growing up my dad came inside after walking out in the woods. He said all of a sudden he started hearing these growls and hissing and looked up and there were three of them in some trees ahead of him just watching him. He said he turned around and headed right back home after deciding he wasn’t fucking with them.

Thanks. Our landlord has made comments in front of us to the health inspector that they're not sure how long they're going to rent out the place. My landlord is also close with a family member, who told me that the landlord has been complaining about the situation and seems like they don't want to continue.

Cheers, very good to know.

Bit of local knowledge: The majority of accidents on the interstate around Bolton due to snow and ice occur in an area known as the Bolton Flats. I don't know if people become overconfident on the long flat stretches of road, or if the wind picks up and blows the vehicle into sliding, or what; but be sure to go SLOW on the flats in bad weather.

If we didn't have a pet, we would probably try poison at this point. I get that mice coming into houses is just something that happens, but my issue is that our landlord isn't taking enough action. They told the health inspector they have been doing lots of trapping and filling holes but they were totally exaggerating about their efforts. Placing 5 single traps and checking them twice in 5 months, and filling 3 out of the many many access points isn't really trying to make a dent in the problem. We ourselves regularly set and check traps and know it's not only something our landlord is responsible for, but when they keep telling us they will do it and that they don't want us removing certain panels to set traps in case the panels break, but they never come around to do it themselves, there's just no effort or follow through on their part and we have no choice but to remove certain panels to set and empty traps because there's always mice in those places.

I don't think our landlord is super wealthy but I know they're far from poor, they just don't want to spend any money on anything to do with the rental unit. They bought a fixer upper and just slapped some paint on the walls and made things look decent for our tour. They shocked the well before we moved in and told us to drink bottled water for the first week. That shocking didn't solve the e coli problem so they kept shocking it about 5 more times, and it still didn't solve the problem. Eventually they had to have a water sanitization system installed. Apparently they knew there were potential major issues with the water and septic but didn't take the time before renting it out to try to fix them.

OK, so you didn't know that the Matrix is either Front or All wheel drive. Sometimes people just don't know or care to know anything mechanical about the cars they're driving. I don't understand that personally, but fine.

However, in a comment below, you said that the Matrix is not your car. So, if I have this right, you are asking Reddit whether you should buy snow tires for someone else's car? What?

All I'm saying is alot of people will loose there jobs if a large company goes under. I would hope in return the local place makes up for that but then they become the thing they hate and it turns into a cycle?

Lol! That’s exactly what it sounds like!

Coming up skiing & boarding on an open ended vacation I would definitely go to the side of caution and security and put 4 snow tires on the Toyota, for a few reasons.

You're not used to driving in snow and they're going to give you a huge advantage in traction, which is everything. You'll have a stress free drive to and from the slopes or anywhere rather than a white knuckle experience. It's a vacation, relax!

It's not just your vehicle you have to be concerend about, that other car out there can also lose control and having the traction to successfully and quickly maneuver out of their way can be the difference between a close call and a ruined day, or days. It's happened to me, dodging the 'other guy' is sometimes a very critical ability/move. The days you most want to get out will also be the worst days to be driving. Fresh snow falling is the siren call of the slopes, and everyone is heading there, heavy traffic with people in a hurry, some/many who have little experience in driving in snow. You want easy somewhat effortless control of the vehicle and the ability to get where you're going. Snow tires give you access.

Matrix is not really a snow adventure vehicle, things like its low ground clearance with the wrong tires can get you stuck in a simple situation like plowing through the furrow of snow the plow trucks left at the road entrance. The roads may be plowed but the parking lots where you're going/visiting, not so much.

Snow tires would be a very small part of the total cost of a trip for weeks on the slopes, and an accident could be a very large part of the trip. What do you really gain by having less traction, less mobility risking a tow me out bill or accident? The deducable on the insurance is probably a lot more then the cost of the tires.

TLDR; I wouldn't risk my vacation on the possible consequences, get the snow tires.

Though Bolton is a reasonably priced resort, you are making a luxury trip and will be spending thousands and thousands of dollars. (Thank you.) So... take a hour or two and install some snow tires and remove the worry.

You'll go out to eat twice, have a couple of bottles of wine, and you'll have spent the money on that frivolity without thinking about it. But, you are questioning whether it's wise to put your life and others at risk because you don't want to spend the same amount? fuhgeddaboutit.

[edit: And that road up to Bolton is pretty gnarly if there's been weather. No matter what you are driving, you'll want to take it slow.]

Glad you were able to get the mice more under control! If we were allowed to do more major fixes while renting this place, we would, but aren't allowed to and it probably wouldn't make much financial sense anyway.

Rumors have it that late at night, when the moon is full, if you listen carefully you can hear the blood screams of Howard Dean.

Silly. Liberal does not equal progressive as you imply.

A simple look at their positions shows they are a liberal policy group.

Who founded this group is irrelevant as people can and do change their political affiliation.

Not sure why that bothers you that they are liberal. It doesn’t mean they are nefarious actors or does it mean they are saints.

They are a Washington corporation who’s main objective is to provide a good living for themselves. If you think they are honestly working to help you, you are delusional.