10 Things No One Tells You About Surviving An Iowa Winter
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Rachel Morey Flynn
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Iowa has a reputation for delivering harsh winters. It also has a reputation for occasionally skipping “real” winter. Here are 10 things that locals may forget to tell newcomers about exactly how to survive our huge temperature swings and the sometimes-frigid temperatures.
The road may look safe, but an invisible thin layer of the world's slickest ice awaits. Proceed with caution.
It's much easier to live in a state with four distinct seasons if you embrace every change in the weather as it comes.
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Depending on where you live, a generator could be helpful.
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Pretty much anything slides on snow, even pizza boxes.
On ice, you can go slow. On snow, you can creep along and keep your distance from other cars. When Iowa winter weather causes low visibility, it’s time to stay where you are and wait it out. Four-wheel drive won’t help you if you can’t see what’s in front of your vehicle.
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A walk is the anecdote. Unless the temperatures or wind-chill is really low, you’ll be fine. Bundle up and breathe in that crisp winter air.
Kids around here love a snowy 30-degree day. You may be freezing, but they’ll want to stay out for hours.
But we don’t always use it right away. You may have to drive through drifts, alleys are the last places snow gets removed (if at all), and during a stretch of particularly snowy weather, you’ll be glad if you have a four-wheel drive vehicle.
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Those building-sized mountains may not be completely melted by May.
Make the best of it.
Do you have any advice for surviving an Iowa winter?
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