yeah, it's a city thing.
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yeah, it's a city thing.
Ah, ok, that makes more sense then. Still rather ridiculous though; I mean, even last week when I was driving home in the middle of the snowstorm, with 4-5" of snow on the ground, the only real problem I had was when I tried to go too fast (shortly after getting on the road and not realizing really what the situation was). ..ok, I also got stuck in my driveway, but snow tires or chains would not have helped me with that...snow tires don't give me more ground clearance. :P Other than that, as long as I realized that I wouldn't be able to stop/start/turn/etc as well as normally, I was fine. The problem isn't people not having the right equipment, it's people not knowing how to drive in snow. What really got me was during that drive, the people who were being the worst about it; going 5mph down the highway, etc...were always people in big 4wd SUVs! :facepalm:Quote:
Originally Posted by PartyLikeARockstar
I'm guilty of driving slow in snow/ice in my 4wd truck but I would rather be going too slow than too fast. I'm not in a hurry to get anywhere and anyone that is is asking for problems. It has been over a day here since the snow stopped and the roads are worse today than yesterday. It is almost solid ice underneath a very little amount of snow.
Agreed. But when the conditions are fine for me in my low-ground-clearance FWD car to go at least 30mph, and someone in a big SUV is making everyone on the road go 5mph... :facepalm: I just think it's ridiculous when the slowest people on the road are in the vehicles best suited to the conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrkSide
Yea, I agree with you. I try and go with the flow of traffic and just allow enough room between vehicles.
What pisses me off the most is the idiots that try to pass. I get that it is a 5 lane road but the path is only for one lane in each directon and you can't even see where the edge of the road is.
That would be people like me.:devious: I keep my vehicle in control at all times. And I will quickly pass anyone that is causing me to lose control or keeping me well below reasonable speeds. I had to pass a lot of people yesterday night because they keep hitting their damn brakes on hills... I wish I could pull them out of their cars and slap them and then tell them "NO! NO! BAD!!". There's no better way to lose control of your vehicle than to brake hard when going down a hill (even with anti-lock) and no better way to not make it up a hill than to slow down... :facepalm:That baffled me the most. "Hey, I might not make it up this hill. I'd better slow down to guarantee I get stuck and force everyone behind me to stop on the hill too!" /throatPunchQuote:
Originally Posted by DrkSide
I think there should be a separate drivers test for snowy conditions. If you fail it, you walk during the winter.:up:
I guess I should have said it a little better. People trying to pass me when I am going 25-35 in the lane that has been plowed and they pile in the other lane going 50.
The hill thing just seems like common sense to me, I saw so many people who got stuck on a hill next to my house it was hilarious. I just watched and laugh.
We got slammed. I work for an emergency management agency in our county and just got back a few hours ago from a 21 hour shift. Basically at the county building who was there last night, was there. So only 3 of us down in EMA and then they started to rotate jail guards, sheriff deputies, and dispatchers. That is if the deputies weren't stuck on the roads. At one point we had 300+ pending calls for stranded motorists, and that was just for county roads (we passed calls that were city jurisdiction to that city). That also didn't count most of the deputies that were stuck, DOT personnel and other emergency equipment. The state of Illinois was declared a disaster area and so was our county. We started to get personnel via snowmobile to high priority areas like fire stations and hospitals which helped. But had this been worse, it would have gotten real bad. We had fire stations with only 24 hours of fuel left, we had hospital generators running out of fuel, DOT trucks not being able to make it back to their garages to get fuel.
So overall, it was a hectic night but considering how it could have turned out, it wasn't TOO bad.
We got maybe 6 inches here in Great Falls Montana. Artic air + eastern slope of the Rockies = -50F with the windchill in some places.
We were above freezing today.. was pretty nice for a couple hours. I walked around in a tshirt.. pretty big change from Monday @ -41'C.
Completely snow free at this point.... WOO La Crosse!!!! Side note, all this weather is really making me miss my Audi.... the Prius (borrowed) that I've been driving scares the piss out of me... Going from an AWD V6 with a manual transmission to an automatic with no power is very unnerving... not to mention that that audi successfully pulled itself out of 2 ditches. Note, only one of those was my fault (just got my first car and hadn't driven in winter much), the other was the safe alternative. Story if anyone wants it. lol.
If you mention that you have a story, you generally have to tell it :P
Agreed. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by crenn
First time in the ditch. I was up hunting with my grandpa, around eagle river, and all the guys decided to go to geroge youngs (kind of a YMCA combined with a bar and a restaurant ) The pickup was full, so i decided to take my car so i didn't have to cram into the back seat of the truck. The roads by the cabin were gravel, and covered in ice, so i was going somewhat slowly, following, until i hit a curve, now the curve was banked, however the genius that banked the curve went the entirely wrong direction, so it was a 90* turn, coated in ice, and sloping towards the ditch. The pickup with snow chains had no issue, my audi disagreed with the bank however and slid into the ditch. The guys in the truck see this happen and suddenly everyone stops, guys pile out of the truck, grab tow chains, ect. they hear my engine rev, and the audi pops out of the ditch and keeps driving. The guys look completely flabberghasted and are still laughing about it when we get there. Turns out that at that same corner some guy got his SUV stuck and couldn't get it out for about an hour. GO German Engineering!
Second time in the ditch i was on a rural highway, again in adverse weather (i lived in the middle of nowhere) the person in front of me spins out(popped a bald tire) and i swerve into the ditch to avoid him, get out, check on him and help him change the flat, then get in my car and pull out of the ditch again... God i loved that little car. lol
like this guy, except with a manual, and in awesome audi burgandy....
This color
What happened to it that you're not driving it anymore?
My parents sold it and kept the $$... Not a story I'm fond of...
:( I take it you didn't buy it? ..or is that related the story you're not proud of.. <_< >_>
it was a gift for my 17th Bday, i paid for everything on that vehicle. except the startup, i changed the entire exhaust system out on it to, and when i got into an accident i paid out $1200 to fix it up. It was upsetting that it was sold after i had spent so much time and money on it.
Were your parents having financial troubles at the time?
I shoveled quite a bit today. My shovel needs to be replaced after all this too, it has taken a beating! I've been at several stores and Salt is still impossible to find as well.
Side note:
I am soooooo sick of going to stores that don't have salt, shovels or even sleds for my kids and it's still freaking snowing outside!! What do they have plenty of??
Bathing suits and shorts!!
Wouldn't it be odd though if they were selling out of bathing suits and shorts but had plenty of salt and shovels during a major snow storm?:think:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan
If it snows in Alabama the stores run out of EVERYTHING: milk, bread, salt, shovels, batteries, possibly even bathing suits and shorts...
