I was just around this area last night, no further than the rink...but out today it was easy to see that we didn't get nearly as much snow as even my sisters place in Iona. So yeah, the roads were likely worse in other spots.
The Horrible Esthete Wrote:Chris, what you describe is about the same thing that happens here when it rains. When it snows, it's a nightmare. There are actually fewer accidents in the snow then there are in the rain, but in the snow, the average person drives - I shit you not - about 10 miles per hour (16 kph?). Can't have too many wrecks when you're barely moving.
This must be an Ohio thing or something, because I was thinking the exact same thing about Columbus. If the weather is too...anything, people drive like they have lost their minds or something. I don't get it...
I was reading this thread yesterday thinking about how bad people are driving in the snow....and then what do I go ahead and do? I hit some black ice and drive my cadillac into the front patio of a bar/restaurant completely taking out the wood structure. What an idiot I am!
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tragicallymike Wrote:I was reading this thread yesterday thinking about how bad people are driving in the snow....and then what do I go ahead and do? I hit some black ice and drive my cadillac into the front patio of a bar/restaurant completely taking out the wood structure. What an idiot I am! hock:
Man, thats terrible! And a Cadillac no less!!
Before i bought my own car and was still driving my moms, I spun out and hit a tree, and I hit a large curb that did a lot of damage suprisingly. I must be own of those idiots, i dunno.
Lets hope now that I have my own car, nothing like that happens anymore.
way back in my teenage years, before I knew a damm thing about how to drive on snow and ice, I was driving to work in a mild snow storm and we had had snow on the ground that had melted and turned into black ice. I ended up spinning my car on a patch of black ice and launching the car in the air about 40 feet into a farmer's field. Twas quite embarrasing to have the farmer tow my car out with his John Deere.. :oops:
Well, we just got our first dusting of snow for the season - and I mean dusting -- a slight amount of accumulation, less than 1 cm.
How long did it take me to make the 11-mile commute to work (half the trip on an urban arterial, half on an urban interstate)?
1 hour, 20 minutes.
Normally takes me 17 minutes.
Now, I will admit that the residential streets, urban collectors & arterials were a glaze of ice created by a the coating of snow being compressed by tires, and many vehicles couldn't ascend / descend hills, and there's virtually nothing you can do in that situation if your vehicle is not equipped...but that only accounted for about 20 minutes of the delay.
The rest was the standstill on the interstate, which was merely wet pavement.
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