We had some snow here in the Hampton Roads area last night. Now I know that it’s unusual, but Learn the Fuck How to Drive. I mean think about a few things before you do them. Just because you’re in a 4-wheel drive with $120 tires that let you think you can drive across a frozen lake, does not mean that I do. Don’t cut in front of me assuming that I can somehow throw a fucking anchor out the back of my car and stop. Don’t ride my ass thinking that somehow the Road Gods will stop you in time to keep from hitting me. I know that reading is difficult for some of these morons, but the sign’s that say “Bridge Freezes before Roadway” really mean it. When you go across them, slow the fuck down!..and that doesn’t mean jam on your brakes, it means take your damn foot off the gas. I mean G** Damn people, it’s only an inch of snow…but since we’re driving at only 15 mph, that shiny stuff you see on the road?..That’s ice moron.
Over 600 accidents last night…54 injuries…only 1 death. 3 hours for me to drive 25 miles to home.
And VDOT?..How about a little common damn sense from you too?..Maybe get the sand trucks out before rush hour?..How about re-scheduling those bridge lifts for a little later?
Here in Northern Virginia, people are just as stupid. I took the Metro home, and all I saw on the streets as I went by was gridlocked traffic.
Last night, it took some Prince George’s County, MD, school buses until 11:00 to get the kids home.
They’re talking about 1-3" of snow tonight, and the schools are already considering closing. Jeez! I lived in Colorado all through public school, and we only had one (1!) snow day in twelve years.
I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright
I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush
Years ago, I remember watching the news about a heavy snowstorm in Texas. I laughed my ass off watching some intersection where idiots couldn’t stop on the black ice that had developed. They just skidded in and bounced around obstacles like pinballs.
I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright
I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush
We are definitely not equipped for snow in the south. DOT doesn’t know how to deal with it and neither do the drivers. Best advice is stay off the roads and let the northerners that think they can drive in it have the roadways. We got four inches of snow yesterday. I sat home and watched on TV as one car after another slid into the ditches. And there must have been at least 6 tractor-trailers that jack-knifed in the highways so evidently these guys aren’t that great in it either…they just got bigger vehicles. It’s the people that get out there and think that they can drive in it that are the ones you have to watch out for.
I grew up in San Antonio, and I’ve got to say, at least the people there know that they don’t know how to drive on snow or ice.
During the winter of 83-84, with almost no warning, it snowed 13 inches overnight. Broke every single record for the city. What did we do? We stayed the fuck home. The only people who went out walked. The city was literally shutdown for three days until they got sand trucks and bulldozers from points further north in order to clear the streets.
Unfortunately, I now live in Dallas, which sees just enough snow and ice that people think they can handle it. Everytime we get inclement weather, it’s a free-for-all game of car hockey on 635. If I have to go out, I drive 15 miles an hour in the right lane with all the other sane people and watch future Darwin Award winners zoom past me at 80 mph (I kid you not) on an inch of ice. It’s utterly insane.
In Raleigh, where 3-4" of he stuff paralyzed the city, the roads were practically empty. Which is good, because none of them know how todrive in the shit. I love when I see the local news giving their driving tips:
Slow down. Well, no shit, Sherlock! I thought I was supposed to drive FASTER then usual…
Always have 1/2 tank of gas, blanket, other stuff… Well, if you can’t DRIVE in it to begin with, what’s the point of all of that?!?
Having lived in both cities, and travelled through much of the country, I can safely say that people in the Baltimore/ Washington metro area are the stupidest people on the planet when it comes to snow. Snowfall apparently induces an instant 40 point drop in IQ.
I never have understood what the big deal is. Yes, you do need to take some steps to drive safely. Such as increase following distance, slow down, etc.
This does not, however, mean you have to creep along at 2 miles per hour! If you’re that worried about it, stay off the fucking road!
Oh, I forgot, everyone has to make the obligatory trip to the grocery store to buy milk, bread, and toilet paper! How could I have forgotten? These morons, with their sheeplike predictability, think “Oh shit! Snow! I better make the trek to the grocery store to prepare for the coming ice age!” You’d think armegeddon was hours away.
Jesus Christ on a hopped up moped, the grocery store will be there tommorrow! You don’t need to go to the grocery store now!
You have enough TP to wipe your ass for one day! Stay home, Fucko!
I say this because the area is supposed to get a major blizzard (1-2 inches) tonight. I am dreading the ride to work tommorrow. The moron brigade will be out in full force.
Sheesh.
Still trying to think of something witty to say here
I once lived in Utah. Now, Salt Lake City has gotten lots of snow, every winter, for the past TEN MILLION YEARS!
And people still don’t know how to drive in it. First storm of the season, every year, we would have massive pile-ups on the highway. Like 50+ cars at once. It was kind of funny, so long as you weren’t in the pile up.
And every storm for the rest of the year, people would be in ditches all over the place.
Morons.
I saw an interview with a cop who said he would rather see people out in hondas and geos than in SUVs. Because if you’re in a little, two-wheel-drive car, you are careful. It’s the idiots who think 4WD means you can go 60 MPH on ice that cause accidents.
I live at the base of a big ass hill, which means we get in our yard/driveway:
people who make it down the hill, then slide off the road
people who get a running start to try to get UP the hill (impossible) then find they can’t get up it and they can’t get back down the road because of the ice.
I just put on some coffee and pick up the house, because everyone and their brother needs to use the phone and wait for a tow truck. Ah, the joys of small town life
Zette
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
Around here we have all these soccer moms who drive shiny new 4WDs because it is cool. It snows and they think that 4WD means “drives-perfectly-no-matter-what!” In my opinion, not knowing how to drive in snow is worse in a 4WD because people think that the vehicle will magically correct for any problem. At least in a smaller, non-4WD people are more careful.
Let’s face it. Driving in weather is DANGEROUS! The more time you spend on the roads in poor conditions, the more likely you are to die. So DRIVE FAST AND REDUCE THE TIME YOU’RE OUT THERE!!!
Seriously though, I’ve spend a fair amount of time off-road in a 4WD '48 Willys CJ-2A. I currently have a 4WD Cherokee. The best way to use 4WD is to DRIVE SLOWLY. Sport Futility Vehicles are heavy. This guy named Newton figured out some laws of motion, and people should learn about them.
Actually the lightweight, front wheel drive '85 Chevy Sprint I used to have, while generally gutless going uphill, was one of the best cars I’ve driven up snowy mountain roads.
It needs to rain more in So. Cal. Maybe then, people might have a clue how to drive in it.
I don’t want to hear it. We don’t even have to wait for snow here in Seattle (which is a comedy in and of itself). Just wait for a little rain-every Microsoftie transplant/Californian refugee piece of crap creeps along in their Range Rovers while locals (like me-who guessed?) sit behind them, imagining their twitching bodies impaled on sticks.
And, it being Seattle it rains from September to July anyway! Ack! We had a 26-car pileup last week, with just a little drizzle. Lord help us all if we get some serious snow. Then again, if enough of them wreck their cars, maybe traffic will lighten up a bit.
-sb
They say the Lord loves drunks, fools and little children.
Two out of three ain’t bad.
spankboy,
I wish you wouldn’t say “Californian refugee piece of crap”. I fully intend to move to Washington, and I’m NOT a piece of crap! Aside from the fact that I have more friends in Washington (Bellingham, Seattle, Hoquiam and Puyallup… family up there too) there than I do here, I LIKE rain!
Geez, what I would do if my damn car would start in the snow. LOL. But the other day i saw a horrible accident caused be reckless driving in the snow. I think we were up to about 6 inches(this is philadelphia im in)…I was walkin to the store and I dunno if the driver was drunk or what not but he was goin at least 65 and he drove straight to an intersection with a car going about 15/20. The car going slow had no time to think and either way if he had turned, he would have been hit and if he slowed he would have been hammered. So I watched as the 65mph 4X4 drove right into the small sedan and killed a mother and a small son that were sitting in the passenger seat and the back right seat. Its a shame people are so selfish that they will risk other peoples lives just so they can get home 5 minutes earlier. What a moron.
Thoughts by Chrissy
“What you think is what you think…but what I think is how it is.”
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