Brain freeze...not just from Ice Cream

Don

Don

Darth Camaro 12/27/15
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Last night, it took me more than 2 1/2 hours to go less than 5 miles. Ok, so this was the first major snowfall of the year, and we got over 6" in as many hours, but c'mon people.

We would move 1/2 car lengths at a time at LONG intervals, and the snow drifting down was covering mt car all over again since there was no movement to cause it to blow off. I would have had plenty of time to get out and rebrush all the snow off of the car if I had chosen to. You could tell these people were TERRIFIED the way they were gripping their steering wheels with both handle, white-knuckled and putting their nose prints on the windshields. What gets me is that the ones who were MOST afraid were the ones in 4WD/AWD cars :dunno

As for the semis...they are the ones who caused the largest parts of the backups. There were no cars spun out or crashed, but there were PLENTY of semis half jack-knifed blocking multiple lanes. To top it off, their drive wheels were spinning uselessly.

The people that were moving were going so slow that I couldn't even idle in 1st gear, I had to play the clutch to prevent stalling out.

Look here, I have tires with 66,000 miles on them, with low tread and I had absolutely no problems. The ABS never activated once, and the only slipping the fronts did were on starting, and when I had to avoid a Mercury Cougar that, for soome reason, was driving between lanes and spun out in front of me.

I'm not the best driver in the world, and I don't have the best car. But I'm NOT AFRAID of snow. I RESPECT THE SNOW and what it does to driving conditions but that's it. I counted several dozen people who should have their driver's licenses pulled during the winter...if not for good, all because of brain freeze.

My normal one way drive to work is 45 min/hour in traffic, 40 minutes without traffic. Today it was almost 4 hours :mad: :mad:
 
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yes i know what its like. we havnt gotten much snow yet but from past expeirences other people suck when driving in the winter. at school people go to fast and anywhere else in town drives to slow. usally the plows dont go out untill it stops snowing (mostly) so people are nuts beofre they plow. like i said around school when it lets out i usally sit in my car for 10 min to let everyone leave because most people dont see the power of what snow does to normal driving.
 
It never ceases to amaze me what happens at the first snowfall.
Given that it snows here every year, it would seem that some of these people might remember at least something from previous experiences. It sure doesn't seem that way, though. It's kinda like once they are in trouble it's "dam, that stuff is slick, isn't it?" Yep, just like it has always been folks.
Hey, it hasn't even snowed here yet and already I'm venting.:D

Charles
 
The "fearless" ones don't bother me, I see them again a few miles down the road in a ditch. It's the ones that panic and set off chain reactions that bother me
 
I am sure we could argue all night, but the worst drivers are in N. Virginia. I have lived all over the world, and never seen worse driving anywhere.

We get a bit of rain and people freak! Not to mention when a cop pulls someone to the side - nothing is blocked but traffic gets backed up for a mile. :mad: then as soon as these drivers pass the cop, they speed up again. I can't figure out why they have to slow down THAT MUCH.

Sorry about your situation.
 
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