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Recomendations on winter footwear/ clothing.
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jpvanderwerf2001



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
teacher X wrote:
jpvanderwerf2001 wrote:
You can't go wrong with Sorel boots with the rubber bottoms. Well worth the money.


I just checked the prices. No thanks. Not when they'll just melt after 5 months due to the street salts put down.


I had the same Sorels in Vladivostok for 6 winters.

I'm pretty sure they hold up.
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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Do the city authorities there spray the roads with the same chemicals as in the capital?
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Peg Leg Pete



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Right now the best footwear would appear to be that which helps you move quicker toward the departure gate....
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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tsk tsk! Such lack of socialist faith! Are you all going to be so lilly-livered if NATO rockets start to fly? Or they land boots on sacred Russian soil?

Don't even know how lucky you are!
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jpvanderwerf2001



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sashadroogie wrote:
Do the city authorities there spray the roads with the same chemicals as in the capital?


Actually, that's a fair point. From what I could tell, very little was sprayed on the icy hills of Vladivostok. It was, in essence, a skating rink.
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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aha! I think then that both points of view are right, but from different points of view. Once you know the boot is one the other shoe. So to speak hic!

In Moscow, even the dogies need to cover up there paws or the chemicals will cause problems after a walk in the street...
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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
doggies...hic!
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spiral78



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Same in Canada; my neighbor with four dogs spends half her day booting up her dogs for walks. 18 boots X 3 walks per day - can you do math at the moment, Sash? Laughing Laughing Laughing
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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm a little cross-eyed at the moment... Don't have any dogs. Or cats. And fish don't need any footwear protection.

Now there's as unlikely a sentence as every has been uttered in the face of economic turmoil : )
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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can't your neighbour just drive the hounds around?
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spiral78



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote