NJ here and at no point could you drive on lakes. It doesn’t get that cold. Most of the winter you cannot skate on ponds.
ND we use both. I can’t even say what is more common.
We definitely whip shitties in WI, too.
In Canada whipping a shitty means an illegal U turn
I call that flipping a bitch
Here too in Illinois
That’s also what I’ve known it as in Texas
That’s cuz Texans are fucking stupid.
😂
I know…It’s not nice to laugh, but the unexpected hostility caught me just right.
We call illegal U-turns “flipping a bitch” in norcal
We should reframe climate change as an attack on winter recreational activities. Then Republicans might actually give a shit about it.
“Oh, I’m not worried about climate change. But I’m very concerned about the impending demise of snowmobiling.”
“How will the homeless freeze to death without cold winters?”
Make homeless freeze again.
Wait until they learn about parking your half-tonne on it, building a hut and sitting there fishing with some beers for hours.
Only ever done this in an empty parking lot after a few inches of fresh snow
There was one particular parking lot near my house that was not plowed for years. The snow would fall, melt a little during the day, and then refreeze. Spent many evenings there.
You are missing out then, frozen lakes are so much fun.
I was gonna ask “is there a term other than ‘doing doughnuts’ specifically for when it’s on ice?” because I live where we don’t drive on frozen lakes. 🤣
It has been a long time since most of those places have been cold enough, long enough, to have a lake become that solidly frozen. It has been 30+ years since I have seen this happen in the mid atlantic.
The water’s really deep there, too, so it’s riskier. Isn’t that were the Titanic sunk?
I think by “mid Atlantic” they mean a city in the US on the Atlantic coastline, but not the northern tip of the country, or the southern end. The mid part. But they’re talking about lakes or rivers in those areas, not the ocean itself.
I think there may have been a joke in there.
Or maybe not.
I think you missed the joke.
That’s the north atlantic ocean
I’ve lived in the mid Atlantic my entire life and have never driven on a frozen lake.
I do my donuts in parking lots that haven’t been salted or plowed yet.
back in the 90s there was a couple times lakes in western PA/NY froze over enough people were out driving on them.
You know the old trope about how people in the South can’t drive in snow? We do donuts on the roads unintentionally once the snow falls and refreezes to ice. No lake needed. I guess if you only have snow on the roads you have to seek out places where the car will slide around.
