The winter seems to have started a little earlier in parts of the world, right? The entire East Coast of the United States, which was hit by a tropical climate less than half-a-year – tropical climate may continue in the winter, believe it or not – is being battered by the winter, very, very early.
It seems that global warming pessimists can have a field day, but who knows what is happening? Even the meteorological community is divided over the reason for it – El Niño, La Niña, the cat’s maiden Aunt Matilda – nobody knows.
What we do know is this: with the previous winter weather comes the need to lead healthier than ever. Why is this true? To answer the question, just look at the foliage still on trees, the amount of rain that has soaked the area above 30 degrees north and earth still damp.
Trees that are usually synonymous with hundreds – yes hundreds – of years are rotting out. Just the other day, arborists came and took a massive Aspen pine out of the house that was almost 100 feet high. Some thought that the timber company would make a killing on the board where it could be the court records as the trunk was straight and free of knots, but after the crane crew and took the tree arborist, were found with the same heartwood of the tree rotted out. You can not even use it much mulch. The tree, by the way, was somewhere over 160 years old – which is where the rings were stopped rotten heartwood and could not have more – so nature is taking its toll on us for abusing environment.
So what on earth you may be asking does this whole side has to do with road safety? It’s just that with soggy soil to the point of saturation, huge trees broken by the weight of the leaves still on them and, when adding two feet of snow, or even six inches, has potential risks road until the trees are cut.
If you are not cut then it will fall and we will have more cases where trees fall on cars, hopefully, parked – so that nobody gets hurt. Equality is noteworthy, however, is that these leaves that fall somewhere and you are quickly into the land to roads, intersections and accumulating in the corners and leaving huge piles all over the place.
This puts a driver in double jeopardy:
1. Sometimes you have piles of leaves so hard that it has the edge into traffic to see if someone is coming in some narrow streets
2. The leaves themselves, are as dangerous as if you’re driving in the snow.
The cumulative risk or near frozen leaves is this: even if the earth heats up, so many layers of leaves from the bottom, now that the farther down is likely to remain frozen or at least almost in a state of permafrost. Therefore, the average driver is facing a double whammy:
1. Slippery leaves in a corner or cornering
2. Frozen leaves can not even see
Every part of this particular problem is very serious.
In the first stage of image, a pile of leaves – some of which have dried and are perfectly normal and thinks it should be easy to stop. Wait, stop, stop, and I do that!
These leaves represent a hidden danger in the upper leaves can be well and goes out of his car tire tread to deal with, and generally succeed in grabbing. However, lying just below the nice dry-looking leaves are layers and layers of wet leaves, and, quite possibly, in the end leaves a layer of semi-frozen – even on a day of 50 degrees – these are the leaves to take into account (and can not be seen, one must assume they are there unless you rake the area and turn them over). How can we say for sure? It is a certainty born of years of driving above 30 north.
The leaves are lying on the road surface to act as their own lubricants. In other words, the tires can grip the upper well. The only problem is that the lower layers are wet and slide over each other as the snow slides, and if the background is semi-frozen, which are incorporated in the skating ring that can send your car into a skid .
How do you handle this situation? The best advice is:
• Slow
• Assume that all batteries are left wet and humid
• Treat the leaves with respect to the ice treatment
If you take these actions, you’ll be fine.
How it works It is obvious, but we will detail:
• As you approach an intersection (or stack of sheets) slower
• Take the leaves will be wet, although they are dry
• It is assumed that if you hit the brakes hard, your tires will lock in the upper and lower layers slide across each other like oil bearings
• Assume that the vehicle should be slowing to a stop before the stack in the corner of the strength of his car in a skid
• Use the brakes lightly and assume that not everything is as it seems, a slight pressure and low speed will keep you safe
• Ask your tree department for any batteries that interfere with clean line of sight as soon as possible and, if they have the workforce, taking into account all the work you have to do now is take yourself to get some neighbors and remove piles of leaves or patches. In this way, you can help take responsibility for their own driving safety.