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Okay, so we're really into winter now. And you've neglected getting your car ready for the cold and snow.

Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. Don't panic just yet; for automobile advice, we went to the ultimate source‹ no, not Henry Ford the 8th, but Click and Clack of NPR's Car Talk. Guys, tell folks what to do:

Click: Slowing down is perhaps the most important thing to do. It's interesting that lot's of people don't understand that.

Clack: Actually, even more basic than that is staying home.

Click: Ah, that's slowing down at the limit. Zero.

Clack: You're right. That is the limit to slowing down. Our culture has always encouraged people to go out and brave the elements and go to work, do your job, and I think it's nuts. I think more people need to heed the warnings of the governor, for example, when the governor says, non-essential personnel, which is everyone that works with us, should stay home when it snows. And, I think a lot of people think that they're too important.

Click: As we know our neighbors to our north.

Clack: The Granite State.

Click: The Granite State of New Hampshire.

Clack: Whose motto, by the way, is Live, Freeze, and Die.

Click: Live, Freeze, and Die, right. I mean, they look forward to the snow so that they can go out because they've been waiting to use that four wheel drive thing all summer and they're just dying to get out there and tell stories, so they'll have something to tell stories about. I was doing 45 miles per hour and I went into a 360 and then a 480 and then I went into a tree, and it was great!

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the Tappet brothers are from Cambridge, MA. The Weather Notebook is produced by the Mount Washington Observatory, and funded in part by the National Science Foundation.