• Jiggle_Physics
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    6 hours ago

    It has been a long time since most of those places have been cold enough, long enough, to have a lake become that solidly frozen. It has been 30+ years since I have seen this happen in the mid atlantic.

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        5 hours ago

        I think by “mid Atlantic” they mean a city in the US on the Atlantic coastline, but not the northern tip of the country, or the southern end. The mid part. But they’re talking about lakes or rivers in those areas, not the ocean itself.

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      4 hours ago

      I’ve lived in the mid Atlantic my entire life and have never driven on a frozen lake.

      I do my donuts in parking lots that haven’t been salted or plowed yet.

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        2 hours ago

        back in the 90s there was a couple times lakes in western PA/NY froze over enough people were out driving on them.