Most were drugs, one was a murder suicide and the suicide doesn’t count toward the five murders last year.

Probably, the upside to having winter tires is they help you deal with other shitty drivers. I’m a cautious and attentive driver but most people are not and having snow tires has made the difference on more than a few occasions between a near mess and a crash. Like when idiots turn out in front of you or decide to throw on the brakes instead of indicate.

You say that but I’ve already seen plenty of Subarus in the ditch along the same stretches of road that my rwd car navigate to just fine with snow tires.

That’s not crazy at all. When I moved out here some years ago I drove through Colorado in late May not knowing that they could get tons of snow and ice that late in the season. Chains or snow tires were required going through the Vail pass, The road had been closed to all traffic the day before because it was that bad the next day the state put out PSA is about either having snow tires or chains. Obviously I don’t mess around now I have good snow tires. I just didn’t know any better back then.

Probably because their only experience with snow is driving through a few hours of it. When I lived in CA we would sometimes go to big Bear Mountain and snow chains are a hell of a lot cheaper than a set of winter tires when you’re only going there once every five or six years. Visitors don’t understand that snow tires are a good idea bordering on a necessity for about five months a year and that snow chains are supposed to be left on for hours not days. It’s the same reason why tourists come here in winter in freeze because they have no idea how to dress for winter.

Public transportation is lacking and it’s easy to Uber somewhere and have zero chance of Ubering back and you take the same risk with taxis.

I never complained child, I talked about something that happened in my life and you’re the only one that got offended. And I’m gen X sweetheart.

Way ahead of you kid, the gray in my beard proves that.

So you ran your mouth and expected to have the last word and now you’re complaining about it, congratulations you’re an asshole.

I don’t know why you’re being an asshole about it, I told them I’d pay if I needed to. It’s not like I was blaming the power company for 70 mph winds or my line being down, I was just hoping they would fix it.

Well guess I’ll owe them some $$$ since they fixed it. Glad I always have emergency funds that aside.

I get you the problem is they seem to think I have power and I’ve had to explain a few times that the power line is down. Really hoping it’s fixed by tonight, don’t want to pay for another night at a hotel.

What is your budget. A $100 pair of insulated leather boots and a $5 can of Sno Seal will get the job done.

If you like having wet frostbitten feet buy boots that aren’t waterproof. Like having feet? Buy waterproof boots.

Same problem here, I’ve had to remind them twice that my power line got torn off my house and is lying in the snow. The neighborhood has power, my neighbor and I aren’t hooked up.

12°F at a hotel in Colchester because my house still doesn’t have power.

Linemen got power back to most of my neighbors early evening yesterday. My house had the cable ripped off the side and the line broke so it’s taking longer. Fingers crossed it’ll be fixed tomorrow night. 60+ hours w/o power ain’t a good time.

This is true.

Snow tires work all year round and they are a wise investment considering the number of Subarus I see in the ditch every year. It’s anecdotal but just yesterday I drove into town on route 2 and on my way back a Subaru wagon was deep in the ditch. Not sure how since I’ve been doing 55 mph down that same stretch just a few minutes prior and had zero problems. My best guess is they didn’t have snow tires because I do and it’s not like I was going slow. My point is all wheel drive vehicles are not a substitute for snow tires if anything the owners seem to drive faster than the conditions permit because they feel invincible and when things go wrong they are traveling at a higher rate of speed which leads to worse outcomes that someone like me in a rwd car with snow tires. I get a little warning before things go wrong and can usually sort the car out and since I’m traveling at a lower and generally legal rate of speed if something does go wrong it’s not going to be as bad.

Greatly doubt it, yes it’s currently warmer than it should be but I would not assume that that weather would hold for another month or more.

Seconded, most of these kids aren’t working part older alone full time jobs trying to make ends meet through college. Never understood why college kids get a pass for things like not bathing and wearing filthy clothes let alone destruction of property when they may be go to half of their classes do a couple hours of homework and spend a great deal of time doing nothing productive. I remember the first time I visited my brother at college, he went to a UC in California. His room was a mess, all of his clothes were dirty including the ones he was wearing anyhow obviously hadn’t taken a shower. Makes me wonder what they’re doing with that time, I got the boot at 18 and things like cleaning and bathing were not hardships.

It’s not as cheap or simple as you think, you’re going to need a modern septic system and the permits to go with it and neither are cheap. Compost toilets don’t fly here. Then you’ll need to have a well dug and you’ll have to pay for permitting for that too.

Those can actually be good deals if the house itself is still fairly solid. But on a Tyvek suit, respirator, goggles and get to clearing. Or better yet pay a pro 5-10k to do it and disinfect the place. Then tear out any carpet, paint the walls and all that.

Anything under $100,000 is going to be a trailer on next to no land or a teardown. Vermont has the oldest housing stock in the country and even if you find something that looks like a good deal it’s probably way off grid. Dealing with septic tanks, inground propane tanks, a well and maybe even satellite Internet because you can’t get anything else can get annoying when things go wrong.

So a while back I was trying to find a reasonably priced hotel for next year. The idea was I could get multiple home improvement projects done and not have to live there with the house torn apart and stove, fridge, washer, dryer etc in the garage. I found nothing livable through 2023 at least nothing under $250/night. That was eye opening.