Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning. Jeesh!

We can’t see the lines on the road either, because they were covered in 6 inches of snow that got compacted down to a sheet of ice and maybe given a sprinkle of sand at some point.

Lucky you. All we get is sand.

Penndot uses salt where you live?

Our roads here in the northern tier looked like they hadn’t been touched at all on Christmas Day, but it hadn’t snowed since Friday.

I don’t like how the AT misses most of scenic PA.

58,000 people in a city isn’t exactly what I would call rural.

Reddit thinks that anything outside center city Philadelphia or Pittsburgh is rural.

You and I must have a very different definition of rural, or you’ve never been to Mansfield or Clarion.

It’s a town to the west of Williamsport and east of lock haven.

Little ones are still fast asleep. Barn work has been done, firewood has been brought in, just killing time for the time being.

Interacting with others on Reddit is hardly a necessity. It has nothing to do with making sure my family and I are warm, fed and have shelter.

It’s a time killing luxury, that isn’t needed to survive.

Too many people rely on others for their every day necessities. No one is prepared for anything.

I have a wood stove, If my house is cold, it’s my fault. No one can come to me and say, “listen, your neighbors didn’t cut enough firewood last year and they are going to run out, please don’t burn as much so they can have some.”

When hearing of the impending storm and high winds, I ran our generator for a bit, refilled our 25 gallons of water jugs for flushing toilets etc, topped off our oil lamps/lanterns and made sure we had plenty of fuel for the generator.

I don’t know when everyone became so helpless.

Do you have the ability to put in a wood stove in the future?

It’s a good bit of extra work, but I don’t have anyone dictating how warm my house can be.

And you were trespassing.

I’m not a coffee drinker, but I hear that a lot.

Never been to a Starbucks, I think the closest one is like 2 hours away.

Most of western NY, outside of a few areas is also very flat.

I live in northern rural PA. We get a ton of snow and very little winter maintenance as compared to the more populated areas.

I have always run snow tires on all my vehicles and made sure to have them on by Election Day at the latest. All season tires do fine in most conditions, but snow tires really excel in hard packed snowy roads, which i spend a good amount of time driving. The rubber is softer and they have a better grip than the harder all seasons.

I also carry chains for each of our vehicles and have to use them a few times each year.

153 is a terrible road when it snows, especially for someone who isn’t accustomed to driving on twisty mountain roads.

NY takes far better care of its roads in the winter compared to PA. We travel into NY a fair bit and I’m always amazed a the difference between the two states. PA is very reluctant to use salt where we’re at, all we get is sand, and no pretreatment.

219 from Ridgway to Bradford can get real fun in the winter time.

I’d take 81 to 15 to Buffalo.

If you had to drive 4 hours to play golf, would you?

I mean I could, but then I’d be that guy having to drive hours to do his preferred hobbies.

We’ll I hope you enjoy it. I was very excited for the Gladiators to come out, as I thought I could get a vehicle that met all my needs. Having the truck bed, off-road capability and it was rumored to have an increased towing capacity over the Wrangler.

However when I went to look at one, I found a truck with a bed too short to be practical, a towing capacity too light to be useful and a jeep with a longer wheelbase and no weight over the rear axle, not ideal for traversing steep, icy roads.

I’m not prevent anyone from doing anything. Hell I even gave them a suggestion on where to find a place to ride.

I simply commented that it seems odd to me that people purchase things like Jeeps and ATVs and then have to go out of their way to enjoy them.

Maybe it’s because of how I was raised and farm life that I don’t view things like ATVs and big trucks as toys, but as tools.

I don’t think that’s a valid comparison. I fish, and I’ve been known to travel a bit to fish a specific lake, but I can also use that gear to fish on lakes only a few minutes down the road.

A better comparison would be this, hypothetically living in North Central PA, my hobby is marlin fishing. I have a 28 foot center console that I have to drive to the outer banks to use. The marlin lures are way to big for anything in this area to eat, and the boat can’t be used as no ramp is large enough to handle it and all the local lakes are electric motors only.