Chains for ice???
And I'm reasonably sure that every vehicle I've ever owned said not to use them in the Owner's Manual.
St. Louis is dealing with an ice storm this morning... but not very well.
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And I'm reasonably sure that every vehicle I've ever owned said not to use them in the Owner's Manual.
You ever drive a fire truck?
I grew up in St. Louis, MO.
it is definitely not flat, drive through i-70 through Missouri, it is rarely flat and straight...Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, even big chucks of Illinois on i-55 are very flat...
Fire truck isn't a car... I've actually seen a couple FDs using cable chains, which seem to be a lot easier on everything. Yes, I have snow tires here in "tropical" SW OH! We don't get it often anymore, but we do still get it!
Illinois is nicknamed the Prairie State. Probably not to many outside of Illinois who think it's the "Land of Lincoln"
But the "official" nickname is the Prairie State.
"The Land of Lincoln" is the state slogan.
We're forecast to have freezing rain overnight.
We'll see just how well we deal with this locally.
We never saw this up north on the shore of the lake, but we get this once or twice each winter down here in SW Ohio.
I'll walk out of the house as I normally would tomorrow morning and see what it looks like. If bad, I'll go to work an hour or two later.
We'll see just how well we deal with this locally.
We never saw this up north on the shore of the lake, but we get this once or twice each winter down here in SW Ohio.
I'll walk out of the house as I normally would tomorrow morning and see what it looks like. If bad, I'll go to work an hour or two later.
A lot of trailers carry chains. Some are even self-installing. I've seen the chains just hanging from the bottom of the trailer. I think the way these work is that they spin around and allow the tires to go over the chains where it bites.
Missouri apparently has zero chain laws. Some states require commercial vehicles carry chains or have some sort of automatic traction control system like those rotating chains.
I looked up which states (plus D.C.) have no tire chain law whatsoever. D.C., Missouri, New Hampshire, Vermont, Florida, and Hawaii.
This reminds me of the infamous videos from Portland, Oregon in 2008 I believe. What would actually work would be studs or chain. Dedicated winter tires might help a bit but when it's that icy it really needs something to break through the ice.
that makes sense, mostly flat then.
