Screenshot: Ambition Strikes Snow may be pretty to look at when it’s freshly fallen, but when you actually need to do anything in it, it quickly becomes a giant hassle. Even just shoveling a short driveway can be a chore, but if you have an especially long driveway or live at the end of a … Read more
I am a native Angeleno, born and raised apart from two years in Boston where I didn’t drive much, so I had never really driven on snow until I was recently invited to the Bridgestone Winter Driving School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Thankfully the weather was in the high 40s to low 50s during the … Read more
New York City Public Schools failed the city’s “test” of snow day remote learning on Tuesday after experiencing “technical difficulties” when a nor’easter dumped multiple inches of snow on the region, the city’s public school chancellor said Tuesday. Chancellor David Banks said Tuesday was a “challenging morning,” after NYC Public Schools learned parent and students … Read more
Reese Witherspoon has responded to a flurry of comments criticizing her for making a tasty treat out of freshly fallen snow. On Thursday, the “Big Little Lies” star shared a recipe for what she dubbed a “snow salt chococcino” on TikTok. “We got a ton of snow over the past few days, so we decided … Read more
Image: ODOT The year 2024 is just 19 days old at this point, and the Ohio Department of Transportation has already reported nine snow plow trucks have been hit by passing cars. That’s more than twice the number of driver-on-plow-truck impacts compared to the same period in 2023. ODOT plow truck struck by driver on … Read more
DES MOINES, Iowa — Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump all canceled campaign events Friday amid an Iowa blizzard that’s expected to dump a foot of snow on some areas of the state just three days before Republicans caucus for their preferred presidential nominees. Haley canceled her midday events and is replacing them with … Read more
Photo: Andreas Rentz / Staff (Getty Images) Clearing snow off your car sucks. We get that. It’s also incredibly dangerous for other drivers to leave snow on your roof. So it’s great to see WGME report that Maine finally passed a law making it illegal to drive with snow or ice still on your car. … Read more
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Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect someone in the Arctic—like high BMI and faster metabolism—could become liabilities. Many of Ocobock’s study subjects have been overweight and obese with normal cholesterol and blood sugar. Being “fat but fit,” which has been beneficial … Read more
Many people meet Dale Atkins for the first time on their worst days—ice climbers who are stranded and injured, skiers that have been swallowed by an avalanche. Atkins, a skilled mountaineer as well as a climatologist and former weather and avalanche forecaster, is one of the experts on Colorado’s Alpine Rescue Team that local sheriffs … Read more
