What Are Your Annual Winter Preparations in Your Area?

It does get into the teens here, and sometimes the dripping water from the car will run down to the garage door and freeze to the garage door gasket. Can't open the garage door as a result. So a bag of salt should take care of that. Install little insulated socks that velcro on to the outdoor faucets. I should be done with leaf collection by mid-December. The red and white oaks around here hang onto their leaves until their very last gasp.

Oh, yeah, and put an ice scraper in my car. We get very little snow here (normally), but the ice storms can be a headache. Everything shuts down, schools, stores, businesses, everything.
 
The ice scraper stays in the boot of the car along with de-icer.. and gloves...

In the garden I don't have to worry about many plants the ones I do will have fleeces over them. The outside electric sockets get little protective covers over them to prevent them getting any ice into them...

When the snow melts on the roof of the barn it all drips into the barn and onto the work bench and tools.. so I have the continually covered with towels....I also have an electric dehumidifier up there in there in the barn to keep any damp at bay..

here in the Uk we generally don't have winter and summer tyres.. so there's no changing .. so we have to drive in the ice and snow on regular... so we just have to ensure our tyres are always in good condition...

As I don't garage my car I put a frost screen over the windscreen overnight, to help keep the snow off..
 

Most of the veggie garden has been cleaned out. Starting to to cut back the flowers in their beds next. One more mowing in a couple areas of the yard that has grown up. Tools, garden hoses, mowers, etc. are usually the last things stored away. Porch furniture will be going up shortly except for a couple of chairs until it's too cold to sit outside.

Wood stove/pipe was cleaned back in the late spring. We will be splitting more wood from the downed trees in a few weeks & will then stack the already seasoned wood on the front porch.

Already switched out the summer clothes for fall clothes along with a few light weight jackets for now. Heavy coats will come out at the last minute with the boots.

For the vehicles, the sun screens have been put up & the snow scrapers will go in closer to the snow time.
 
KSav said:
Don't feel silly! :) Highway driving can be quite scary here, so I try to avoid traveling any sort of long distance in the winter. The weather service also recommends that if you must leave your vehicle for any reason to tie yourself to it with a rope because the visibility can get so bad. The snow here is very light, but when the winds are strong enoughā€”and they usually areā€”visibility can get to near-zero very quickly.
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Interesting, I have read of blinding snowfalls in history books but didn't think of them being in the here and now. I watched a show about Alaska truckers and it was terrifying! I have zero desire to be on such roads in bad weather. :eek:
 
No longer have to worry about it. Live in a co-op where all the maintenance is handled by contractors management hires. I no longer have a car. I hope our city has sufficient salt and trucks to do what needs to be done when it snows or is icy. But during those times, I stay in the house.
 
I live just north of what I call ā€œGeoridaā€ (you canā€™t tell whether youā€™re still in GA or if youā€™ve gotten to Florida šŸ˜‹). Not much winter prep here.

Had a couple cold spells (with an inch or two of snow that actually stuck around 2-3 daysā€” unheard of!!).

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We insulated the outdoor spigots and dripped the water in the indoor faucets at night. Thatā€™s about the extent of it
 
Not much I have to do personally because I live in a co-op and the grounds and parking lot are automatically taken care of. I just hope my son puts the plastic covers over the air conditioners that he purchased last year and never used. As far as our city...they best make sure to have enough salts, salt trucks and workers.
 

What Are Your Annual Winter Preparations in Your Area?​


1/. Have the central heating serviced.

2/. Put winter curtains up.

3/. Root out all my warm winter clothes.

4/. Make sure the larder is well stocked.

5/. Hang the sign outside my front door saying, "Come back in April next year." šŸ˜Š
 
Fortunately we are both mobile and have shops nearby so, we don't have to make a lot of preparation.

Apart from making sure that everything works, we can keep warm and have some emergency food and medicine supplies if we need them, there isn't a lot of preparation, certainly not as much as some of you folks have to do.

We always make sure that the boiler and ch system get their pre-winter service. The summer cotton bedding is replaced with cosy brushed cotton and throws. The electric blankets are working and ready for chillier evenings. Winter curtains are up when they are needed. The wardrobes have already been organised, summer stuff higher up and winter stuff all hung and ready to wear. We always get some extra food stocks including some tinned stuff.

There are gardens and lawns surrounding us but, they are all cared for by the gardeners so, apart from the balcony plants, we don't have to concern ourselves with any of that.

I am looking forward to cosy evenings, comfort food and winter woollies :)
 

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