[Magdalen] Is the Pub closed?

[Roger Stokes]

On 16/01/2019 21:43, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>
> About 3 years ago, renting at the Nashville Airport in February, an 
> SUV was all they had to give me for my economy car that was not there, 
> and they would not even give me gas credit. I have to admit that all 
> worked out for the best as I had the car for 5 days and the worst ice 
> storm and snow storm in many years hit in TN while I had the SUV and I 
> felt much safer driving a larger, heavier vehicle.  The biggest hassle 
> was cleaning the frozen ice off the car when I moved it from my first 
> location at Sewanee to travel to several parts of the state - it took 
> me at least an hour to make the car drivable. On my way back to 
> Nashville several days later, there was still heavy ice on the road 
> cuts where the cold, and several days of total cloud cover, had 
> prevented any thawing. It had been a long time since I had to deal 
> with icy or snowy roads, I guess I still had deeply buried skills to 
> do so : )


That reminds me of my last trip to the States just before DJT was sworn 
in. I had thought that visiting some of the Southern states would 
guarantee reasonable weather even round the turn of the year. Heading 
South from Birmingham I managed to stay ahead of the snow but when I 
stopped for the night I foolishly parked with the car pointing North. I 
couldn't chip the ice off the windshield but managed to gently turn the 
car round so the early morning sun eased my problem. I had seen plenty 
of the signs warning that the bridge ices before the road but this was 
the first time I encountered it - follow the tracks to get across until 
I got to the point where the ice was an inch thick across the road and 
the traffic was at a stop because of a crash on (IIRC) I-35. It had 
tailed back to before I needed to turn off to head down into LA and the 
better weather as soon as I crossed the state line.

As for equipment not supplied I can't recall the year but I had flown 
into Atlanta and the agreement included a GPS. The unit supplied would 
not take a charge from the car but fortunately I had brought my own from 
home, loaded with a North America map, so was able to use that 
throughout my trip once I had switched over in the grounds of the Carter 
Presidential Library and Park. I was sure glad to see the signs pointing 
to it so I could find somewwhere to park up and sort out the problem.

Roger