Not in this weather!
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Snicklefritz
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Lol. I have heard about you deep southerners who panic when you get half an inch of snow and it drops below freezing. Schools shut down. Drivers skid off the road and rear end each other, etc. You are probably right to stay put until normal weather resumes, after the giant "polar vortex" passes into the Atlantic.
jinthadell
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Yeah, as soon as weather changes people somehow forget how to drive.
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LordKOTL
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Not just southerners. This also happens just about everywhere in the Pacific NW west of the cascades. A few flakes fall and everyone forgets how to drive. Either they dangerously overreact under the guise of caution and are a huge accident risk (like those who fail to get up to highway speed on an on-ramp and try to merge going 20mph less then the prevailing traffic speed); or those who have an SUV or a crossover (usually those designed to only get you to and from the grocery store) and they think its a serious offroad vehicle, don't respect the conditions, and are a huge accident risk.
In my case, I'd love to be able to take her out in the snow when I can (when we get snow), but the major issue is not that I don't know how to drive in the snow; it's that everyone else around here doesn't know how to drive in the snow. Last thing I need is some jackwagon in their RAV4 plowing into me because they thought AWD means it handles like it's on rails when it's icy out..
Buzzman12
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Wow. You poor bas***d. How will you survive?
Roads must be closed, schools and stores shut down. Tough life.
In the meantime, it was minus 14F over the weekend here, with a foot of snow, just overnight.
Got up yesterday morning, brushed off the car, and hit the road. Went for a coffee at the local casino.
Took me 5 minutes longer than usual. It was rough....lol
Roads must be closed, schools and stores shut down. Tough life.
In the meantime, it was minus 14F over the weekend here, with a foot of snow, just overnight.
Got up yesterday morning, brushed off the car, and hit the road. Went for a coffee at the local casino.
Took me 5 minutes longer than usual. It was rough....lol
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jinthadell
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I wish. But I don’t trust others in this weather. This city and its residents ain’t built for this. They just get retarded in bad weather.
Buzzman12
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I hear ya. It's like that every fall when the first snow hits.
It's like people have forgotten how to drive in this stuff, even though it was only 6 months ago.
Once the first snow day or two hit, it's like everybody remembers and goes...oh ya, now I remember...and we're good the rest of the winter.
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around here, its the soccer moms in AWD SUV's on *all-season* tires that think they are invincible ... they're the scary ones.
back in the day, we'd find an empty parking lot (usually the local high school), and do donuts, slides, and practice braking in the snow. that's how i learned to drive in the snow ... and it was fun!
i should do this again soon to "brush up on my skills"
LordKOTL
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I think that's the same everywhere; you can spot them by the fake stanley cup (hockey fans know...).
I did the same when I could; unfortunately a lot of schools in the area started adding the concrete parking "curbs" to the slots which prevents anyone having fun like that.
The only problem was when you'd get that chunk of snow and ice in the wheel well which would throw the wheels so far off balance it'd be like riding a jackhammer home.
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