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Be safe out there on the roads this morning as the BIG winter snow storm moves thru the Midwest US. I drove in this morning in Mizzou and visibility was less that the length of a Szabo blade, some parts even a ladybug.

Also be safe as you drive to visit loved ones this holiday season.
Take care all.

I live in New Hampshire, where, like many other states each and every year, it snows...sometimes a little, many times, a lot.

Yet somehow between April and November a great number of my fellow Granite Stater's seem to forget how to conduct themselves behind the wheel when this odd looking white stuff falls to the ground, coats the roads and obstructs visibility. There's also this other mysterious phenomenon called ice that seems to stump folks who put foot to accelerator.

Nobody wants to see you in a ditch or facing North in the South bound lane on the Interstate so please, SUV, Semi or Prius, ya' got's ta' take it easy while winter driving!

Indeed, BAL, let's all be cautious and safe out there.

This is the weirdest weather. 9pm last night it was 40. Its was 54 today at 7am. I think by early afternoon its going to drop to 30 with a windchill of -05.

1623 wrote:I live in New Hampshire, where, like may other states each and every year, it snows...sometimes a little, many times, a lot.

Yet somehow between April and November a great number of my fellow Granite Stater's seem to forget how to conduct themselves behind the wheel when this odd looking white stuff falls to the ground, coats the roads and obstructs visibility. There's also this other mysterious phenomenon called ice that seems to stump folks who put foot to accelerator.

Nobody wants to see you in a ditch or facing North in the South bound lane on the Interstate so please, SUV, Semi or Prius, ya' got's ta' take it easy while winter driving!

Indeed, BAL, let's all be cautious and safe out there.

first snow fall is the worst -takes a few snows to retrain the idiots-lol

.357 mag wrote:This is the weirdest weather. 9pm last night it was 40. Its was 54 today at 7am. I think by early afternoon its going to drop to 30 with a windchill of -05.

sounds alot like syracuse in july

BAL wrote:Be safe out there on the roads this morning as the BIG winter snow storm moves thru the Midwest US. I drove in this morning in Mizzou and visibility was less that the length of a Szabo blade, some parts even a ladybug.

Also be safe as you drive to visit loved ones this holiday season.
Take care all.

So visibility was pretty good until it got near the length of the ladybug blade? :)

Yeah, I leave home around 4am every morning, so the traffic is always light.
I have 15 or so miles of gravel and state highways before I can get to a major
Highway. (I-29 in Missouri) What normally takes 15 minutes, took about 45 due
to the lack of visibility. I literally had to stop and get out to see where I was a
couple times. The winds were 40+ mph and they are blowing across the farm
land over the roads. You can't tell which is which in the early morning darkness.
It was awesome.

After I got to the highway, it was ok. I could then see well enough to pass people
in my lifted Chevy Silverado to get on up the road to the office. You gotta love the
first big snow storm of the year. People tend to forget that snow is part of winter.

Hey, It's winter, it snows, it blows, it makes thousands of Julienne fries.

Hah, you guys oughtta see people try to drive in the snow here in northern Va. It would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous. Mind you, this is an area where they cancel school if six snowflakes fall out of the sky, and people behind the wheel seem to take crazy pills when the white stuff comes down. Growing up in NE Ohio, I was taught to SLOW DOWN in snow and other inclement weather. Here, I swear folks actually speed up the worse the weather becomes. I guess they're trying to get wherever they're going before things get worse(?).

Tod

tr4022 wrote:Hah, you guys oughtta see people try to drive in the snow here in northern Va. It would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous. Mind you, this is an area where they cancel school if six snowflakes fall out of the sky, and people behind the wheel seem to take crazy pills when the white stuff comes down. Growing up in NE Ohio, I was taught to SLOW DOWN in snow and other inclement weather. Here, I swear folks actually speed up the worse the weather becomes. I guess they're trying to get wherever they're going before things get worse(?).

Tod

Some of them must have along commute, because I think that I
saw the same people this morning. I saw tons of people in the ditch
and I wnated to help pull them out, but they say not to, because you
will create a worse situation, they need to call a tow truck.

I think that a ditch is thE safest places for some of them.

Just last week I was driving up the 101 in California from Ventura up to San Jose and right around 3AM near SLO it was getting to where I wouldn't have been able to see a car in the lane next to me. Had to slow down to about 40MPH to even be able to see the lane and feel safe driving.

So be safe anyone and everyone!
Make sure to drive for the conditions, and remember. It's better to be an hour late than wrapped around a telephone pole.

Apparently, some of us are in for a white Christmas after all. (Just prefer to find the silver lining this time of year.)

sounds like you are all having fun over there,I thought it was just England that had the"drive silly in bad weather" rule. :D be careful when helping people that have gotten stuck or crashed as I nearly got splattered twice when helping a lady and kid out of a car only to find that everyone wanted to do the same after her. :eek:

goodbloke wrote:sounds like you are all having fun over there,I thought it was just England that had the"drive silly in bad weather" rule. :D be careful when helping people that have gotten stuck or crashed as I nearly got splattered twice when helping a lady and kid out of a car only to find that everyone wanted to do the same after her. :eek:

I helped some woman who was stuck in snow once and just spinning her wheels. She was parked at the curb and trying to get out. I told her to stop spinning because it just made the snow and ice under her tires that much more compressed and slicker. I told her to try to rock the car gently and I would help by pushing. Well, I was able to help push her out, but she as she left her space, she started spinning here wheels again, throwing snow and ice in my face as she drove away. She was parked in front of an embassy in D.C., so maybe there were some communication problems. That's what I tell myself, anyway. :cool: Jeez, I just realized this was probably a quarter century ago. Crud.

Tod

Invective wrote:Just last week I was driving up the 101 in California from Ventura up to San Jose and right around 3AM near SLO it was getting to where I wouldn't have been able to see a car in the lane next to me. Had to slow down to about 40MPH to even be able to see the lane and feel safe driving.

So be safe anyone and everyone!
Make sure to drive for the conditions, and remember. It's better to be an hour late than wrapped around a telephone pole.

Driving across the Allegheny Mountains on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the worst snow storm I've ever been in. Traffic creeping along at 15 mph. Scary. I think I was driving home to Akron from D.C. for Christmas.

Tod

glad I'm not the only one who is thanked for helping by being almost killed,soaked or inconvenienced in some way. :D still remember thinking how funny it must look jumping across a ditch out of the way of sliding cars :eek: lost a good torch too now I'm thinking of it.

"when your back is against the wall sometimes you have to turn around and fight." Wait a minute.... are there any finger/toeholds on the wall I could try to climb? :D

Tod

well if there isn't I'm sure you could find something pointy to make holes with if it's a brick wall however then you are on your own. :D

We havent had much snow this year, we need more