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re: To northerners criticizing the way we handle ice and snow
Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:43 pm to VAvolfan
Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:43 pm to VAvolfan
I lived in Gunnison, Colorado one ski season and drove my Honda Accord to Crested Butte many days in snow. I never had a problem. Was that because I suddenly became really skilled at driving in the snow or because the infrastructure kept the roads much better prepared. I drove up the long winding road to Crested Butte one morning just after a good 6-8 inch snow that covered the roads the night before. When I drove up the next morning the drive was a breeze. I'm telling you from experience that driving on winter prepared roads in snowy areas is 1,000 times easier than the untouched roads in the South during/after a snowstorm. I guarantee the particular circumstances and conditions present in Birmingham and Atlanta yesterday would have also cause mayhem in Pittsburgh or Milwaukee or any other northern city.
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Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:45 pm to Govt Tide
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Govt Tide
The Wooden Nickel.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:46 pm to ThaKaptin
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As someone who visits Houston fairly regularly, I'm with both of yall. Them frickers out there scare the fricking shite out of me even with its dry and sunny as hell.
There is nothing like doing 75 on I-10 and seeing a shitty 03' F-250 trying to hump your decklid, while the lanes on either side of you are empty for 6 car lengths.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:46 pm to Bamad
Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:50 pm to 10888bge
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Texans can't drive for shite
You can say that again
Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:50 pm to CayceCock13
To all the people saying southerners don't know how to drive on the ice, I challenge any northerner to come down to Georgia or to Alabama and attempt to drive over the inch thick ice sheets that covered the roads yesterday.
The reason why it was so bad in Alabama and Georgia yesterday is because the meteorologists got the forecast wrong. Everyone expected a little dusting but instead they got two inches of snow (not really a big deal) and roads covered with sheets of ice up to an inch thick (a very big deal).
The reason why it was so bad in Alabama and Georgia yesterday is because the meteorologists got the forecast wrong. Everyone expected a little dusting but instead they got two inches of snow (not really a big deal) and roads covered with sheets of ice up to an inch thick (a very big deal).
Posted on 1/29/14 at 9:55 pm to RollTide1987
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To all the people saying southerners don't know how to drive on the ice, I challenge any northerner to come down to Georgia or to Alabama and attempt to drive over the inch thick ice sheets that covered the roads yesterday.
I got around just fine on it yesterday. Once again people down here don't know how to drive on it. People down here drive to fast, make sudden pumps of the brakes and gas, and don't allow enough distance between themselves and the car in front of them. I grew up in Virginia and saw many storms like this on untreated roads and never once saw my father get stranded going to and from work. It can be done.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:01 pm to VAvolfan
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I got around just fine on it yesterday.
And so did my parents, though they had never driven on ice before. Not every area was like the other.
I live in Denver right now. It snows at least once a week. There are areas where I can go the full speed limit due to lack of ice and there are areas where I am forced to slow down due to heavy ice.
Even if you drive slow on inch thick ice you are more than likely going to slide when you put on the breaks.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:30 pm to RollTide1987
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To all the people saying southerners don't know how to drive on the ice, I challenge any northerner to come down to Georgia or to Alabama and attempt to drive over the inch thick ice sheets that covered the roads yesterday.
I did just exactly that in 2010. I've live in Minnesota and have driven in winters here my whole life. The drive from Atlanta to Auburn was the worst of my life. It was the most scared I've ever been while driving. We went 25 MPH as any faster and we'd start losing traction. Since then I've told people that school closings and accidents in the south aren't because they don't know how to handle a little snow. It's because the roads are glare ice with no sand or salt on them.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:33 pm to Bamad
I'm not a northerner, but the way the South has responded to this "snow" is adorable.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:42 pm to Govt Tide
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Northerners are absolutely clueless about winter storms in the South and the differences in road conditions and resources where they live vs the South. They pre treat their interstates, highways, and roads with melting agents before storms and have plows constantly clearing roads because they get regular snow and ice. They very rarely drive on ice covered roads. They also have snow tires that few in the South have.
I'd challenge Northerners to navigate all the very hilly interstate and major highway stretches in Birmingham and Atlanta during rush hour with an untreated, unplowed inch thick sheet of ice on the road. Let's see how they drive on roads and navigate large hills that have haven't been touched by plows and see how many wrecks result. Better yet, find the longest, steepest driveway in your Midwestern or Northeastern neighborhood and run hoses of water down it all night tonight. See how well you get up and down it in the morning.
Jesus. Some of you cant laugh at yourselves. No, southern folk dont handle or know how to navigate in snow well.
Lighten up.
Also; 3 inches of snow is the max amount?
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:47 pm to kilo
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Also; 3 inches of snow is the max amount?
Yeah and states are shut down because of it.
I'm not sure they are aware they can put on their toboggans and shovel that shite out of the way...
Posted on 1/29/14 at 10:55 pm to RollTide1987
There is no real skill to driving on ice, it involves being cautious above all other things. It sucks for everyone, north and south.
With snow there is art and skill involved without a doubt.
With snow there is art and skill involved without a doubt.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:00 pm to DaleDenton
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I'm not sure they are aware they can put on their toboggans and shovel that shite out of the way
Really? Why the hell didn't we think of that? Let me just send out a group text real quick and me and my friends will get right started shoveling off all the interstates and highways and backroads. I'm sure by the time it starts to melt tomorrow afternoon we can finish at least my block. Tell this poor southern if you think garden shovels will work? I know the local Home Depot stocked up on snow shovels before this, but I'm sure their emergency stock of 5 snow shovels is sold out by now.
I can't believe us dumb southerns didn't think of just shoveling the roads! DaleDenton for governor of Alabama!
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:04 pm to BowlJackson
The snow wasn't the problem yesterday. It was the ice.
The meteorologists thought it was going to get into the 30s yesterday but instead it only got to about 20 degrees. The roads started to freeze almost immediately.
You can't shovel ice and the South lacks to the tools and equipment to clear the major roadways of the stuff.
The meteorologists thought it was going to get into the 30s yesterday but instead it only got to about 20 degrees. The roads started to freeze almost immediately.
You can't shovel ice and the South lacks to the tools and equipment to clear the major roadways of the stuff.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:07 pm to RollTide1987
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You can't shovel ice and the South lacks to the tools and equipment to clear the major roadways of the stuff.
The south is suppose to be big on agriculture.
That means you have tractors.
That means you have an implement with a blade on it, like a box blade.
The south has dirt roads.
That means you have road graters.
Quit being lazy south.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:10 pm to LoneMDG
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Wasn't Sandy a category 1?
I was up there for 4 months last winter flood adjusting, and still working on claims from up there daily. Sandy affected more people than Katrina did. Those people got hammered by tidal flows.
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:14 pm to DaleDenton
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The south is suppose to be big on agriculture.
Because Birmingham and Atlanta are the agricultural meccas of the South.
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That means you have tractors.
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That means you have an implement with a blade on it, like a box blade.
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The south has dirt roads.
I-20, I-459, I-65, I-85, and I-285 are dirt roads? I must have overlooked that.
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That means you have road graters.
Hell...the U.S. Government has a few thermonuclear bombs we could use to melt the ice. Why don't we use those, too, while we're at it?
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:14 pm to DaleDenton
Birmingham is not agricultural though, it's industrial. Not too many brothas in the city or yuppies in the suburbs own tractors...
and we pave our roads here too, so....
and we pave our roads here too, so....
Posted on 1/29/14 at 11:18 pm to BowlJackson
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Birmingham
No one cares about Birmingham.
Structural engineers are not being rushed to Legion Field to examine and make sure it can support the weight of the ice without collapsing.
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