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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:02:39 PM EDT
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Yea, there were a ton of snide remarks leading up to and following hurricane sandy. I would also like to state that comparing a hurricane to a bit of snow and ice is fucking absurd. THIS. Besides, plenty of power crews from up north go south every time you guys get another hurricane. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:03:14 PM EDT
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Obviously someone has never thrown a set of chains, they are the best thing for ice, good ones will cut thru the ice and right into the pavement if there isn't enough ice. So right off the bat I know you don't know what you're talking about.
4WD will help with going from a stop and pulling hills or loads, can also help with directional stability. I spent 19 years in interior AK where ice is an issue more often than snow, I was born in NC and have returned, these sorry f'ers can't drive on dry roads, and slow down way further than neccessary on wet ones, they lose their damned minds when it freezes, and can't seem to tell wet from frozen, and continue to creep along even on the dry stretches. This shit ain't complicated and astounding numbers fail here. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:03:26 PM EDT
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Mostly I'm enjoying the indignant butthurt of a particularly arrogant region of the country.
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:04:39 PM EDT
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Mostly I'm enjoying the indignant butthurt of a particularly arrogant region of the country. It's fun, isn't it? 
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:05:20 PM EDT
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Didn't get that part about where we don't really get a chance for much practice did you. Come on down! Show us how to do it! I'll be the one laughing when you spin out and end up in the ditch. It's ICE! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You mad bra? We have an inch on our roads and it was -17 today. No problems driving around, you just need more practice Didn't get that part about where we don't really get a chance for much practice did you. Come on down! Show us how to do it! I'll be the one laughing when you spin out and end up in the ditch. It's ICE! It's ice!!! Big fucking deal. Quite bitching Nancy. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:05:23 PM EDT
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When/if it ever snows down here...it's not really a snow storm. It's an ice storm with snow flakes and falling tree branches. And it's literally like driving on an ice skating rink as the ice melts and freezes overnight.
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:06:14 PM EDT
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Oh! My bad! I guess you guys can't drive in the snow either! http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-pileup-indiana-20140124,0,5202718.story#axzz2rqWKuYU7 Probably caused from truckers who live in the south |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:07:15 PM EDT
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My favorite part of these threads is that people in the south think we don't get ice
Almost as funny is they think salt does a goddamn thing at single digit and below temps. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:07:19 PM EDT
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When Sandy hit NJ and NY there were plenty of Southern people on here who made comments like "derp, it was a just a cat 1 derp, you yanks don't know how to take a cane."
I myself tried in several posts to point out that while Sandy did only have Cat one winds at landfall it was still packing a storm surge indicative of a cat 4 or even a 5. It had a higher surge than Hurricane Charley in '04 which had 150 mph winds at landfall. These people had no concept of what "storm surge" means and they live in states prone to canes. I feel it is a failing of their public school system. As for driving in the snow, we have some people up here that put their mall cruising SUV's in ditches too. These are the ones who put their makeup on while texting and driving. They drive like shit in perfect weather and drive the same way in snow because they have a "4x4". I see them in ditches, with bewildered looks on their faces, while on their phones calling their husbands. It really is not hard to slow down and not drive like an idiot even if you have a "4x4". |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:07:35 PM EDT
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I live in the middle of the desert and can drive in icy conditions better than all those people in Atlanta.
It snows here and you get up and drive to work. They shut the schools down but for everyone else it's business as usual. We get ice storms too and it's the same story. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:07:44 PM EDT
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I thought the whole thing was overblown till I saw the piece Greta VanSustrin (sp) did on it tonight. Good Lord!
Fail of epic proportions. That bunch around Atlanta should be ashamed. The fools would not even pull off to the sides of the roads. They just left their shitboxes in the middle of the road and left. 
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:08:08 PM EDT
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You southies are awfully defensive about your lack of abilities.
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:08:29 PM EDT
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I can't help but notice all the MIDWESTERNERS (aka FLAT Landers) talking about how easy it is to drive on ice and snow. Since I grew up in OH, as well as lived in MA, CT, PA, WI, MN, & IL as well as Finland and Sweden...I know how to drive in the snow and ice. What Atlanta has (especially north of ATL) are things called "hills". When ice gets on hills...the cars slide back down the hill if they do not have the traction I drove 15 hours in it yesterday...it sucked. It was the worse winter driving I have ever encountered due to the solid 1-2" of ice layer under the powder snow. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You mad bra? We have an inch on our roads and it was -17 today. No problems driving around, you just need more practice I can't help but notice all the MIDWESTERNERS (aka FLAT Landers) talking about how easy it is to drive on ice and snow. Since I grew up in OH, as well as lived in MA, CT, PA, WI, MN, & IL as well as Finland and Sweden...I know how to drive in the snow and ice. What Atlanta has (especially north of ATL) are things called "hills". When ice gets on hills...the cars slide back down the hill if they do not have the traction I drove 15 hours in it yesterday...it sucked. It was the worse winter driving I have ever encountered due to the solid 1-2" of ice layer under the powder snow. You've apparently never been to southern IN. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:08:54 PM EDT
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Somebody takes shit on the Internet way too seriously.
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:09:23 PM EDT
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I can't help but notice all the MIDWESTERNERS (aka FLAT Landers) talking about how easy it is to drive on ice and snow. Since I grew up in OH, as well as lived in MA, CT, PA, WI, MN, & IL as well as Finland and Sweden...I know how to drive in the snow and ice. What Atlanta has (especially north of ATL) are things called "hills". When ice gets on hills...the cars slide back down the hill if they do not have the traction I drove 15 hours in it yesterday...it sucked. It was the worse winter driving I have ever encountered due to the solid 1-2" of ice layer under the powder snow. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You mad bra? We have an inch on our roads and it was -17 today. No problems driving around, you just need more practice I can't help but notice all the MIDWESTERNERS (aka FLAT Landers) talking about how easy it is to drive on ice and snow. Since I grew up in OH, as well as lived in MA, CT, PA, WI, MN, & IL as well as Finland and Sweden...I know how to drive in the snow and ice. What Atlanta has (especially north of ATL) are things called "hills". When ice gets on hills...the cars slide back down the hill if they do not have the traction I drove 15 hours in it yesterday...it sucked. It was the worse winter driving I have ever encountered due to the solid 1-2" of ice layer under the powder snow. Yeah, it's actually pretty bad says the man who learned to drive in the snow and grew up in WI. There are multiple problems here: A) Texans aren't used to the snow so if we get some there is a general freak out B) It's not snow we are driving on but rather a sheet of sheer ice. You know the stuff you scrape of the windshield when it sleets, the stuff that literal ices all of your doors completely shut so you have to damn near chisel them out of wrench open the door with gorilla strength? Yeah, we would have a quarter to half inch of that covering all our roads C) Traffic here is fucking awful from all the roads being filled to the brim with Yankees escaping Socialism for more Capitalistic states sp traffic already sucks. A lot of those cars I see off the road have NY plates D) Texans generally drive like shit and will crash at any given opportunity E) There is no infrastructure or experience here for inclimate weather, I suspect they use illegal aliens to shovel the salt on to the roads and bridges, but since they don't know what to do in shitty weather they put all the salt and sand on a single bridge here in S. Austin because it would be funny. There's at least a half inch thick layer of sand over a single bridge near where I live. Cliff Notes: Cold and Texas are a bad combination and all the Yankees coming here voting D can all suck a big AIDS filled dick. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:12:54 PM EDT
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Here's a good article by a Yankee that explains how we feel:
http://gizmodo.com/why-the-south-fell-apart-in-the-snow-1511566912 |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:14:35 PM EDT
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Not only can't you drive in winter weather but even after 13 years here you can't hotlink?
 Good edit. Now edit some snowchains on your ride. 
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:14:49 PM EDT
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Sometime in the mid 90s I passed a Charlotte NC cop on Pineville Matthews Road during a snow fall, he was plodding along at about 15mph and I passed him at about 35, he hit his lights to come after me. I guess he thought I was driving recklessly for the conditions, and was going to straighten me out. He promptly did a 180 right onto the right hand curb and over into a parking lot. Good times Okay, that's funny! |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:14:51 PM EDT
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Come on down! Show us how to do it! I'll be the one laughing when you spin out and end up in the ditch. It's ICE! Studded tires, winter tires, and/or chains get the job done, even on ICE! (ice, baby). |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:16:27 PM EDT
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Yeah, we don't get ice up here. Never happens. Ever. It's a myth. There's no such thing as freezing rain up here. Nope. There's no such thing as salt melting all the snow, then having all of it freeze solid overnight, because salt doesn't work for shit below about 15F.
No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius.
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:17:37 PM EDT
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no place is "prepared" for hurricanes, so that's a moronic argument
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:17:45 PM EDT
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In the last ice storm here in the Dallas area, I did stay home and telecommuted when there was 6-9" of ice on the roads. Knew it would last just a couple of days at most. No BFD. Once it got down to an inch or so, I drove into work.
But the road crews had sanded everything almost everyday. Not sure why that wasn't done in advance like it was done here. Not like it sneaked up on them. I'm sure that the RCA of this screw up will be an interesting read. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:18:08 PM EDT
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OP is right about the ice. Here in TX, we rarely get snow. It's almost always solid ice which does screw things up for a few days. Plow equipment can't be justified for what little snow we do get, so sanding the bridges is about the extent of the help we get.
The flip side is that since they don't salt the roads, you almost never see a rusted out car. Lots of pieces of shit on the road, but almost none are cancerous. Every time I travel up north I'm reminded just how bad salt is for car bodies. So, you northerner can have your fun, but in a few weeks when it's 70 again, you'll still be burning trees for heat. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:18:15 PM EDT
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Yeah, we don't get ice up here. Never happens. Ever. It's a myth. There's no such thing as freezing rain up here. Nope. There's no such thing as salt melting all the snow, then having all of it freeze solid overnight, because salt doesn't work for shit below about 15F. No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius. 
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:18:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, we don't get ice up here. Never happens. Ever. It's a myth. There's no such thing as freezing rain up here. Nope. There's no such thing as salt melting all the snow, then having all of it freeze solid overnight, because salt doesn't work for shit below about 15F. No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius. Needs more cussing, but damn fine job. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:18:50 PM EDT
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It's not that folks down south can't drive on ice, because no one can really. It's just how ridiculously out of hand the situation has gotten down there due to a tiny amount of snow. Yep! We are not prepared for it! Why should we be? We don't get it often enough. If anything I fault my fellow Georgians for is relying on the government to close the schools down as an indicator as to how bad it was going to be. People at the office thought I was over reacting when I pulled the field techs off their jobs and sent them home at 10:00 and when I left soon there after. The field techs and I slept in our beds last night. All but 2 of the other 14 people that stayed at the office made it home last night. Point is, we just are not equipped or experienced enough for this type of stuff. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:19:50 PM EDT
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tl;dr
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:20:43 PM EDT
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We seriously don't "need" to, except once every ten years. Hurricanes are another story....we got that covered.  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You guys seriously just can't drive in the snow.  We seriously don't "need" to, except once every ten years. Hurricanes are another story....we got that covered. Except for New Orleans, we're gonna blame that on democrat yankee infiltrators!
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:20:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How hard is it to throw a snow plow on the front of a dump truck? You do have dump trucks, don't you? What about a sander? Texas alone has 79,535 centerline paved roads, 3,233 Interstate highway miles and 12,102 US Highway miles. That's just short of 85,000 miles of roads...not counting city streets. Tell us how many dump trucks it would take to plow all those roads before July?  The entire DFW area only has 30 snow plows owned by the state. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:20:55 PM EDT
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The whole problem is these big city folks don't know when to turn off the "drive like a fucking douchbag" switch when the weather gets bad.........  OUTTA MY WAY MOTHERFUCKERS! LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING YOU COCKBITERS111You nailed it. If you watch the news it's the worst thing ever because they show the cities that suck to drive in to begin with. In two days of driving I've only seen one vehicle in the ditch and no one else seemed to be having much trouble. It was slick as glass on the secondary roads this morning but out of 14 employees 13 of them showed up for work. The one that didn't just bought a new Cadillac and she didn't want to take a chance on the 40 mile commute. I even made it home last night and to work this morning driving my 2wd truck without having any extra weight in the bed. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:22:00 PM EDT
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In the last ice storm here in the Dallas area, I did stay home and telecommuted when there was 6-9" of ice on the roads. 
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:22:51 PM EDT
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We will still make fun of you. Fuck all, when I was working in Port Arthur, TX back in '08/'09 they shut the bridge down because of a half-a-fucking-inch of snow. A. Half. An. Inch. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. If I had a time machine and knowing you would post this, I'd go back in time and put myself in a position to let you, and just you cross it. ...okay, no, I really wouldn't waste "my time" even with a time machine. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:23:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yeah, we don't get ice up here. Never happens. Ever. It's a myth. There's no such thing as freezing rain up here. Nope. There's no such thing as salt melting all the snow, then having all of it freeze solid overnight, because salt doesn't work for shit below about 15F. No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius. Needs more cussing, but damn fine job. God bless him on the Fair Tax, though. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:23:24 PM EDT
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Comparing Sandy to Ice on the road ...... Seems legit. I live in Las Vegas. 120 in the summer and it snows maybe once every 15 years...... I HAVE CHAINS IN THE GARAGE. 
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:24:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: In the last ice storm here in the Dallas area, I did stay home and telecommuted when there was 6-9" of ice on the roads. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d157/Gatordonald/Jennifer-Lawrence-ok-thumbs-up_zps5c0357b9.gif Again, I say, BULLSHIT. These tall tales get taller every year.
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:25:43 PM EDT
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Exactly. Bullshit. Again, I say, BULLSHIT. These tall tales get taller every year. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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In the last ice storm here in the Dallas area, I did stay home and telecommuted when there was 6-9" of ice on the roads. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d157/Gatordonald/Jennifer-Lawrence-ok-thumbs-up_zps5c0357b9.gif Again, I say, BULLSHIT. These tall tales get taller every year. 9 inches of ice 
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:25:59 PM EDT
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Everytime you guys have a hurricane all I see is our power company trucks heading south by the hundreds. All it takes is common sense to drive in bad weather. Chains and 4 wheel drive don't work? Watch Ice Road Truckers sometime pal. Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:27:11 PM EDT
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Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Everytime you guys have a hurricane all I see is our power company trucks heading south by the hundreds. All it takes is common sense to drive in bad weather. Chains and 4 wheel drive don't work? Watch Ice Road Truckers sometime pal. Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. no excuses Amazon: Snow Chains |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:27:47 PM EDT
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Exactly. Bullshit. Again, I say, BULLSHIT. These tall tales get taller every year. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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In the last ice storm here in the Dallas area, I did stay home and telecommuted when there was 6-9" of ice on the roads. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d157/Gatordonald/Jennifer-Lawrence-ok-thumbs-up_zps5c0357b9.gif Again, I say, BULLSHIT. These tall tales get taller every year. I recall when that storm happened and posters were saying 3".... which was also BS. I asked for pics. Didn't see any. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:27:47 PM EDT
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I can't help but notice all the MIDWESTERNERS (aka FLAT Landers) talking about how easy it is to drive on ice and snow. Since I grew up in OH, as well as lived in MA, CT, PA, WI, MN, & IL as well as Finland and Sweden...I know how to drive in the snow and ice. What Atlanta has (especially north of ATL) are things called "hills". When ice gets on hills...the cars slide back down the hill if they do not have the traction I drove 15 hours in it yesterday...it sucked. It was the worse winter driving I have ever encountered due to the solid 1-2" of ice layer under the powder snow. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You mad bra? We have an inch on our roads and it was -17 today. No problems driving around, you just need more practice I can't help but notice all the MIDWESTERNERS (aka FLAT Landers) talking about how easy it is to drive on ice and snow. Since I grew up in OH, as well as lived in MA, CT, PA, WI, MN, & IL as well as Finland and Sweden...I know how to drive in the snow and ice. What Atlanta has (especially north of ATL) are things called "hills". When ice gets on hills...the cars slide back down the hill if they do not have the traction I drove 15 hours in it yesterday...it sucked. It was the worse winter driving I have ever encountered due to the solid 1-2" of ice layer under the powder snow. Yeah I forgot that point! We also have banked curves! If you think you have what it takes, come try and figure out the exact physics to hit a banked curve so you do slide up and over the top side or down and into the low side! |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:27:50 PM EDT
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Our roads are getting pretty clear after school being cancelled 7 out of the last 9 days. Good thing I'm not from the south, or I'd be trapped at our house. The wife is actually in Alabama this week for work, so I didn't clean our driveway like I usually do so it is covered with ice/packed snow.
She sent me a picture from her hotel window that looked like a scene from the Walking Dead. People just walked away from their cars.
ETA- I've never had chains, of course like previously covered "Yankee" ice isn't a slippery. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:28:57 PM EDT
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Salt, motherfucker! Do you spread it?! Yep! With as few salt trucks as we have. Why would have the same fleet as Wisconsin? They sit and rust in between the every 10 years we needed them. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:29:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, we don't get ice up here. Never happens. Ever. It's a myth. There's no such thing as freezing rain up here. Nope. There's no such thing as salt melting all the snow, then having all of it freeze solid overnight, because salt doesn't work for shit below about 15F. No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius. You do realize that about half of Ohio is south of the Mason-Dixon line? The Ohio River isn't the Mason-Dixon line.  |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:29:34 PM EDT
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Huh, I wonder what that many southerners are doing in Indiana this time of year. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Oh! My bad! I guess you guys can't drive in the snow either! http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-pileup-indiana-20140124,0,5202718.story#axzz2rqWKuYU7 Huh, I wonder what that many southerners are doing in Indiana this time of year. Deliver your goods to Wal Mart. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:29:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Everytime you guys have a hurricane all I see is our power company trucks heading south by the hundreds. All it takes is common sense to drive in bad weather. Chains and 4 wheel drive don't work? Watch Ice Road Truckers sometime pal. Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. Seems like you should be ordering some right now so you will be ready for the next time this happens. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:30:12 PM EDT
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Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Everytime you guys have a hurricane all I see is our power company trucks heading south by the hundreds. All it takes is common sense to drive in bad weather. Chains and 4 wheel drive don't work? Watch Ice Road Truckers sometime pal. Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. You guys still get all your auto stuff from brick and mortar auto stores? Is that the ONLY consumer product the public hasn't switched to internet sales sources when buying stuff for their cars? |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:30:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yeah, we don't get ice up here. Never happens. Ever. It's a myth. There's no such thing as freezing rain up here. Nope. There's no such thing as salt melting all the snow, then having all of it freeze solid overnight, because salt doesn't work for shit below about 15F. No, you folks south of the Mason Dixon have special ice - it's more slick than ours, because...I don't know, SOUTHERN! Chemistry doesn't apply down there. Our ice? Well, our ice is more like Velcro, because the laws of physics and chemistry are suspended, above the Mason Dixon. So good fucking point, Neil Boortz, you God damned genius. You do realize that about half of Ohio is south of the Mason-Dixon line? The Ohio River isn't the Mason-Dixon line. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:31:08 PM EDT
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It's fun, isn't it? Ah! Shutup you southern er Dakotan!
Seriously though. The butthurt is funny to watch. I will say there is a lot of inexperience when it comes to driving on ice down south. For good reason. But it still is the damn drivers fault, should have used common sense and stayed home. |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:31:30 PM EDT
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You guys still get all your auto stuff from brick and mortar auto stores? Is that the ONLY consumer product the public hasn't switched to internet sales sources when buying stuff for their cars? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Everytime you guys have a hurricane all I see is our power company trucks heading south by the hundreds. All it takes is common sense to drive in bad weather. Chains and 4 wheel drive don't work? Watch Ice Road Truckers sometime pal. Chains? Come on down and walk into a auto parts store and try and buy some. You can't. Know why? Cause there's not enough of a demand for them! This doesn't happen 3 months out of the year down here..it's more like a couple of days every 10 years. You guys still get all your auto stuff from brick and mortar auto stores? Is that the ONLY consumer product the public hasn't switched to internet sales sources when buying stuff for their cars? Do they know about amazon and online stores I wonder? |
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Posted: 1/29/2014 6:31:48 PM EDT
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I guess all you yanks can drive on this (some one embed please). This is the Destin Bridge over Desin pass just a few hundred yards from the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaIVsWAQ7Nw Ive lived in the south and the north, originally from the south though. YOU CANT DRIVE ON ICE. Period. Another couple things come into play in the south besides the obvious. One, its pretty much impossible to find snow tires, hell its even hard to find all season tires around here. Most local tire shops only carry summer/performance tires for many wheel sizes. From experience, a summer tire SUCKS in the snow.
The other thing, with the big cities like Birmingham and Atlanta, no one was expecting this snow. Usually every one stays home if winter weather is in the forecast, but it wasnt this time. My dad lives in Birmingham and when he went to bed Monday night the local news said the weather would be well south of them. Well it wasnt and they got hit. When they got hit every one hit the roads at once. Atlanta traffic is a NIGHTMARE on a good day and that is with a three hour "rush hour" window. I cant imagine the absolute hell when a million+ people hit the road all at once in that weather. 
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