Nov 05, 2022
This puzzler today is about the weather.
We are used to very extreme winters up here. So one weekend, we had the mother of all snowstorms. That is what the weather people called it anyway. They said it was gonna snow harder than it has ever snowed before. And it did. All weekend long. It was windy but changed to sleet and freezing rain. We get everything thrown at us. You know, everything we have come to know and love about New England... ha!
So, Monday morning we go into the garage to start shoveling ourselves out. Immediately, the phone starts ringing. People asking if we are open or not. People are calling up about one particular problem. Lots of people. The phone keeps ringing and it is people with this same problem.
During the snowstorm, something had happened to these cars that made them virtually undrivable. In fact, over the course of the morning, several of these cars were towed because the owners were absolutely terrified to drive the cars.
So, what happened to these cars during the storm that made driving these cars so terrifying?
Good luck.
So, the snowstorm of the century. The mother of all snowstorms came through here, or so they called it.
This is very normal for New England though. We are used to it. Snow, sleet, freezing rain, high winds, then snow again... The works. Your basic New England weather. It happens all the time for us.
On Monday morning, we went to the garage to start to dig ourselves out from under the snow. The phone immediately starting ringing off the hook, people calling about one particular problem.
Something happened to these cars during the snowstorm that made many of them virtually undriveable. In fact, during the course of the morning, some of them got towed in because the owners were so terrified that they couldn't drive them.
The puzzler question was what happened to these cars during the storm that made driving them so terrifying.
So here is what happened. Because the storm was so peculiar, snow, then ice, then rain, then snow, then freezing tempteratures... the accumulation of snow and ice on the wheels, the backsides of the wheels where it couldn't even be seen, the snow and ice collected there unevenly that it made the wheels so unbalanced, that driving the car even 30 miles an hour, the wheels felt like they were gonna fall off. People thought they had major axel damage, like there was something terribly wrong with the axels, and made it very scary for people to drive.
There you have it.
