# The Great Polar Vortex that hit Hampton Roads Virginia on January 5, 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-great-polar-vortex-that-hit-hampton-roads-virginia-on-january-5-2025/198676 "2025-01-12T03:46:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-great-polar-vortex-that-hit-hampton-roads-virginia-on-january-5-2025/198676/18 "2025-01-12T20:32:42Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > I used to always go out with the cars and play in the snow… As I mentioned in an earlier posting, I grew up in snow country in Upstate New York and we teenager drivers often took our cars out onto the lakes to race them, and practice our slips and slides, counter steering, braking etc… And even as a teenager, we raced out studded tires on the frozen Lakes. So we learned to drive in snow early on… > [@Tire talc - do you use it?](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tire-talc-do-you-use-it/193086/20): > > I use it routinely when repairing bicycle tires. But that’s my only need for talc, so my current supply will likely last beyond my last bicycle tire repair. Then it will be estate-talc … lol … … Speaking of bicycle tubes, I watched a tv show last night about a fellow in Japan who makes stuff out of old bicycle tubes, womens’ purses for example, selling for over $100 each. Do you folks use old bicycle tubes for anything? I use them for rubber bands, robust rubber-straps for face masks,… But now, even with my 4-wheel drive Dodge Ram, I will not go out on the roads after a storm here is Virginia; the drivers, for the most part, have no idea how to drive, or stop, or anything else on winter roads… (and the same could be said about their driving on dry roads…). > [@bing](#): > > He showed me the method of cutting the snow into blocks to shovel it As small kids, we also cut the snow into blockS, but for fun, to make snow forts. Much better than just piling up the snow and then digging out a trench… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-great-polar-vortex-that-hit-hampton-roads-virginia-on-january-5-2025/198676)._