De-icer anyone? - Page 2

Christopher · 14th February 2009, 22:16

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Originally Posted by Dragrad

Must have been an on-shore storm the night before... even sea water freezes when spread thin

If its Switzerland surely it would be a lake then??

I've seen that effect in 1998 in Montreal, when there was a massive ice-storm that caused chaos for a few weeks bringing down power-lines etc. We had no power and the heating was gone, we took teh food out the fridge and put it outside so it would keep! Another day without power and would have had to have gone to an emergency shelter ... we were lucky though (and wifey was pregnant at the time too!)

It can happen.

Dragrad · 14th February 2009, 22:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christopher

If its Switzerland surely it would be a lake then??

I've seen that effect in 1998 in Montreal, when there was a massive ice-storm that caused chaos for a few weeks bringing down power-lines etc. We had no power and the heating was gone, we took teh food out the fridge and put it outside so it would keep! Another day without power and would have had to have gone to an emergency shelter ... we were lucky though (and wifey was pregnant at the time too!)

It can happen.

Sorry missed the Switzerland bit

Eskimos use fridges to stop their food freezing... or so I've heard

Petrow · 17th February 2009, 20:01

Back in the early sixties there was freezing fog here in Essex, and elsewhere, that put a centimetre of ice over all our cars - and most of the rest of Essex.
It took quite a while just to get into the car, and a lot longer with the engine idling to warm up enough to clear the windows and other vital bits. Driving on the icy roads was a bit hairy, too. Luckily, I'd been on the Chelmsford police skid pan for a bit of practice not long before, which turned out to have been a very useful lesson indeed.

BMC123 · 25th February 2009, 00:40

Oh are those pictures doing the rounds again?

From 2005

http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/index.html

W953 BJX · 4th March 2009, 08:43

It is real, what happens is the air gets really really like superchilled and so does the rain but it doesn't freeze, I can't remember the exact reason why not, but anyway so the wind combined with this superchilled rain goes nuts and hammers it down, and because the rain is supermegaturbo cold as soon as it contacts with the ground and cars and trees it freezes, so you get that awsome effect with the icicles and stuff.... I think they get it in Chicago quite regularly

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Petrow Avid contributor 75 V8 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Brentwood Posts: 179 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Back in the early sixties there was freezing fog here in Essex, and elsewhere, that put a centimetre of ice over all our cars - and most of the rest of Essex. It took quite a while just to get into the car, and a lot longer with the engine idling to warm up enough to clear the windows and other vital bits. Driving on the icy roads was a bit hairy, too. Luckily, I'd been on the Chelmsford police skid pan for a bit of practice not long before, which turned out to have been a very useful lesson indeed.

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W953 BJX Loves to post 1953 and 1955 series 1 landrovers, two series 3 landrovers, range rover, rover 75 saloon Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Leicestershire Posts: 367 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	It is real, what happens is the air gets really really like superchilled and so does the rain but it doesn't freeze, I can't remember the exact reason why not, but anyway so the wind combined with this superchilled rain goes nuts and hammers it down, and because the rain is supermegaturbo cold as soon as it contacts with the ground and cars and trees it freezes, so you get that awsome effect with the icicles and stuff.... I think they get it in Chicago quite regularly