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.
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.
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 you missed the joke.
I think there may have been a joke in there.
Or maybe not.
Nope, nobody jokes on the Internet. In fact, it’s illegal.
That’s the north atlantic ocean
Am from NE Ohio and have never heard people driving on frozen lakes except to ice fish. We would do donuts in large parking lots. Bonus if you do it with the windows down. Bumper skiing was another one. Ah to be young and insane again…
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.
Sadly it still doesn’t matter when people believe that God guarantees four seasons in the Bible
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. 🤣
Where you live, you apparently add extra letters to “donut” for no reason.
They’re nuts made of dough, not nuts made of do. 😌
Y’all need to try them nuts made of d’s
Maryland can be included in this. We have parking lots…and empty roads…and neighborhoods…and intersections.
I’ve heard people call doing a u-turn “whipping a shitty” and always thought it was a dumb term.
I much prefer “flip a bitch”.
I prefer whip a bitch, or pull a nut
But I’m a bit of a sadist.
I once heard it refered as ‘bang a uey’ from a relative from boston and it just sort of stuck
I’ve always heard it called that regardless of what you’re driving on. I assumed it referred to the circle of tire tracks it leaves.
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.
You could a few years ago.
Where? I have lived here since the 1970s and 85% of the winter it would be dangerous to skate on most of the ponds let alone bring a car onto ice
Well, within 100 mi of NJ and we raced motorcycles on them.
Motorcycles are lighter and 100 miles from NJ could place you in a much colder climate as you moght be in the mountains.
Fellow NJ-ian here. I have definitely driven on frozen lakes when I was a stupid teenager. TBH they were more like tiny ponds though.
Ripping shitties? Lol wtf Maine is way better, “ripping titties” and it makes more sense.
In Canada whipping a shitty means an illegal U turn
I call that flipping a bitch
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.
Here too in Illinois
That’s what I know it as in Minnesota. No idea where people are getting the donuts thing from.
The last time I saw a meme like this I asked around and everyone else said “whipping shitties” was an illegal U turn.
Am Floridian, can confirm. Istg every few months I learn something about cold places that’s terrifying like ‘black ice’
We definitely whip shitties in WI, too.
ND we use both. I can’t even say what is more common.
North Dakota doesn’t exist.
'Course it does, it’s just left of East Dakota.
Idk about the etymology of the American “whipping shitties”, but seeing it’s popular a saying in States where there have historically been Finns, I guess there could be a connection. Or not.
But in Finland we call it “ajaa paskarinkiä” “driving in a shit circle”
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.
In the PNW, we don’t get a lot of snow and it doesn’t get cold enough to freeze lakes, but we do get plenty of black ice. Rain + tons of shade under evergreen trees can cause a lot of issues.
