• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Wait until they learn about parking your half-tonne on it, building a hut and sitting there fishing with some beers for hours.

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    We should reframe climate change as an attack on winter recreational activities. Then Republicans might actually give a shit about it.

    “Oh, I’m not worried about climate change. But I’m very concerned about the impending demise of snowmobiling.”

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    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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        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.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      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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        back in the 90s there was a couple times lakes in western PA/NY froze over enough people were out driving on them.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    You know the old trope about how people in the South can’t drive in snow? We do donuts on the roads unintentionally once the snow falls and refreezes to ice. No lake needed. I guess if you only have snow on the roads you have to seek out places where the car will slide around.