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snooper2

(30,151 posts)
2. This ones even better LOL
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 01:47 PM
Jun 2012

Next time we have an ice storm I'm going to record at this hilly curve down the road from me


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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
17. Why the hell didn't folks go to the bottom of the hill and tell folks not to drive up the hill
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 10:03 PM
Jun 2012

instead of just standing around filming?



 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
18. They did, that's probably why the last idiot in the diesel Ford 4x4 didn't get out
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 11:09 PM
Jun 2012

After he smashed into 4-5 cars LOL

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
3. I could not watch either of them till the end.
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 03:37 PM
Jun 2012

I have already been in a couple of ice-related accidents. I did not know how horrid ice could be because I moved up here to North Georgia from South Florida, but I soon found out. Of course, I never experienced ice on roads in Florida.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
6. The only sensible advice in that kind of weather is DON'T DRIVE
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 05:00 PM
Jun 2012

What's so important that they have to risk their lives and property and most likely the lives and property of others?

My principle has always been that if I can't get there walking with my ice cleats, I don't go.

IDIOTS. If you see cars traveling sideways, it's too icy to drive!!!!

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
8. Once I drove south from AK
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 09:59 PM
Jun 2012

and still had studs on my tires the next winter on the East coast--and was the only one making it around in the snow and ice ....it was amazing. Everyone was sliding around but my little car was making it!! Studs are illegal--I eventually had them yanked out of the tires, but every winter I wished I had those bad boys

Ednahilda

(195 posts)
15. Are they really illegal?
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 10:31 AM
Jun 2012

Everywhere? As far as we know, we're allowed to have studded tires on the car from mid-November until mid-April. Good thing, too, because we live on a mountain and there'd be no getting anywhere in the winter if we couldn't have studs. After April 15, however, it's another story. Maybe it depends where you live.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
10. This is Seattle.
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 01:05 AM
Jun 2012

Most people here don't know how to install chains at all. some are running summer compound tires.

I can't caution visitors enough, my people do not know how to drive. You should see the new roundabout we got in my home town. It's a disaster. No one knows how to use it.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
11. I live in Southern California
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 02:32 AM
Jun 2012

Here, drivers get in pile ups from,....rain.

I lived in Michigan. I was raised where they do donuts and rooster tails for distance on lakes.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
12. Oh yea, we get that too. One week of straight sunshine, is all it takes.
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 02:45 AM
Jun 2012

Next time it rains, plan an extra half hour at least to get to work.

AT LEAST.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
14. What's funny is when you ride with someone
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 04:33 AM
Jun 2012

who doesn't know how to operate the windshield wipers, and when they finally figure it out, they can't figure out why they aren't working to clear the rain very well when they rotted away three years ago. Then they act like they didn't know they needed to be replaced and ask if they need to take it back to the dealer for that and can't understand why they would be bad when they never use them. Then you get to hear them get hysterical with their dealer because they aren't covered under their warranty. You take them over to the auto parts store, get the ones for their car, put them on and they act like you're a mechanical genius.

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