Driving in snow

Hutch wrote:

cthia wrote:
Mosquitoes don't bite politicians because they don't wish to infect their bloodlines with indifference.

Blood doesn't run in a politician's veins because it didn't get elected. Only indifference. Mosquitoes can't live off indifference.

Mosquitoes also do not bite Lawyers. Professional courtesy of one blood-sucking species to another....

Mosquitoes (and snow) aren't major problems in North Alabama....but try stepping on a Fire Ant nest....I guarantee, you'll only do it once (if you survive the first time.....)

My oldest sister once lived in Texas. Texas has some of the largest ant hills I've ever seen. Step on them? These, you can drive up on! In fact, my niece calls them ant silos.
http://bugmugs.org/2011/07/the-biggest- ... ound-ever/

I'm always amazed at the stupidity of some drivers in adverse conditions. I recall once going along a motorway near Birmingham (UK) in really heavy rain - the kind where you can't see much through the windscreen even with the wipers going as fast as they can. There's me, in the inside lane going at 20 mph with extreme care - and beside me are idiots doing 70. Sigh. It's not just driving that shows stupidity; how about the clown who decided to park on a narrow country road facing the traffic with his headlamps on full in very thick fog? He didn't even think to park in the layby 10 feet behind him, and it's a miracle that no-one drove into the house at the side of the road while trying to avoid the 'oncoming car'.
Cheers
John

cthia wrote: quote="Hutch" quote="cthia"
Mosquitoes don't bite politicians because they don't wish to infect their bloodlines with indifference.

Blood doesn't run in a politician's veins because it didn't get elected. Only indifference. Mosquitoes can't live off indifference. /quote

Mosquitoes also do not bite Lawyers. Professional courtesy of one blood-sucking species to another....

Mosquitoes (and snow) aren't major problems in North Alabama....but try stepping on a Fire Ant nest....I guarantee, you'll only do it once (if you survive the first time.....)/quote
My oldest sister once lived in Texas. Texas has some of the largest ant hills I've ever seen. Step on them? These, you can drive up on! In fact, my niece calls them ant silos.
http://bugmugs.org/2011/07/the-biggest- ... ound-ever/

I know this is the free range forum, but hasn't this drifted (not a snow drift) a little far from the original topic of Driving in Snow

fallsfromtrees wrote:I know this is the free range forum, but hasn't this drifted (not a snow drift) a little far from the original topic of Driving in Snow

So what you are saying, 'trees, is that we managed to slip and slide off the road? Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I live in North Carolina, and I don't have to learn to drive in the snow!

1. People in North Carolina can't drive in any weather.
2. What's snow?
3. If by snow you mean that white stuff that rarely falls here on the coast? Well, we just panic at first flakes, rush to the nearest grocer, and fill our carts, cars, trunks, under seats, and glove compartments with food. And will even tie food to the tops of our cars. (I've seen it, although it was beer.) Then, we'll crash into each other trying to get the stuff home. There we'll stay and peek at the stuff from our windows.

It's okay, because 3 flakes falling is a smile.
9 flakes falling gets a prayer from kids cause on the 10th flake, schools are cancelled.
Can't call in to work. The boss and his secretary are snowed in too.

Normally if we do manage to see a white Christmas, the bottom falls out, dumps an impossible amount (5 inches) and causes flat roofed structures (really) to collapse.

In fact, we got snow last year and people are still complaining because they haven't recovered. I joined this forum because my fiancée and I were stranded at the beach. The only salt that people in Carolina stock, is in their cupboards.

Santa even got stuck in the snow here. He wasn't expecting it either.

We're not expecting to get any this year. Statistically speaking, we've had our one snow for this ten year period and it rarely happens back to back. (Here near the beach)

North Carolinians are more preoccupied with trying to learn to walk in it. I attended undergrad study near the mountains of North Carolina where there be snow. It was hillarious seeing people trying to walk across campus. One minute there's hustling and bustling. The next minute there's busting and cussing. One person would fall and it'd start a human avalanche, traveling toward you at the speed of sound. The sound was "Shit!" Even shit rolls in the snow. Girls still try to wear heels on campus? The men will refuse to walk near a girl. Sooner or later she's going to take a tumble and self preservation will cause her to reach out and touch someone for support. Result -> domino effect. Mountainous regions of North Carolina result in school campuses that are hilly. Snow on steep streets teach you all about physics.

As Carolinians, we have to learn to walk in snow first. Or we'll never make it to our cars.

cthia wrote:

fallsfromtrees wrote:I know this is the free range forum, but hasn't this drifted (not a snow drift) a little far from the original topic of Driving in Snow

So what you are saying, 'trees, is that we managed to slip and slide off the road? Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I live in North Carolina, and I don't have to learn to drive in the snow!

1. People in North Carolina can't drive in any weather.
2. What's snow?
3. If by snow you mean that white stuff that rarely falls here on the coast? Well, we just panic at first flakes, rush to the nearest grocer, and fill our carts, cars, trunks, under seats, and glove compartments with food. And will even tie food to the tops of our cars. (I've seen it, although it was beer.) Then, we'll crash into each other trying to get the stuff home. There we'll stay and peek at the stuff from our windows.

It's okay, because 3 flakes falling is a smile.
9 flakes falling gets a prayer from kids cause on the 10th flake, schools are cancelled.
Can't call in to work. The boss and his secretary are snowed in too.

Normally if we do manage to see a white Christmas, the bottom falls out, dumps an impossible amount (5 inches) and causes flat roofed structures (really) to collapse.

In fact, we got snow last year and people are still complaining because they haven't recovered. I joined this forum because my fiancée and I were stranded at the beach. The only salt that people in Carolina stock, is in their cupboards.

Santa even got stuck in the snow here. He wasn't expecting it either.

We're not expecting to get any this year. Statistically speaking, we've had our one snow for this ten year period and it rarely happens back to back. (Here near the beach)

North Carolinians are more preoccupied with trying to learn to walk in it. I attended undergrad study near the mountains of North Carolina where there be snow. It was hillarious seeing people trying to walk across campus. One minute there's hustling and bustling. The next minute there's busting and cussing. One person would fall and it'd start a human avalanche, traveling toward you at the speed of sound. The sound was "Shit!" Even shit rolls in the snow. Girls still try to wear heels on campus? The men will refuse to walk near a girl. Sooner or later she's going to take a tumble and self preservation will cause her to reach out and touch someone for support. Result -> domino effect. Mountainous regions of North Carolina result in school campuses that are hilly. Snow on steep streets teach you all about physics.

As Carolinians, we have to learn to walk in snow first. Or we'll never make it to our cars.

I with you. I live in Central Arizona (near Phoenix), and we have to deal with snow about once a decade as well - although a lot of the drivers here in the winter are familiar with driving in snow - their license tags read Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota - you get the idea. If I want to play in the snow, I can always drive two hours north to Flagstaff, and when I am cold and wet and miserable, I drive south two hours and I'm warm and dry again - a most desirable state of affairs. And living here, I never have to shovel sunshine.
When I lived in Northern Virginia, I always regarded glare ice as being God's way of teaching everyone Newtonian physics .

fallsfromtrees wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:I realise many of you are snowed in and here are some points on how to drive in snow.

I find the easiest way to deal with the snow is to live in Arizona. I never have to shovel sunshine.

So, have you ever been to Flagstaff or Show Low in the winter?

TN4994 wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:I realise many of you are snowed in and here are some points on how to drive in snow.

fallsfromtrees wrote:I find the easiest way to deal with the snow is to live in Arizona. I never have to shovel sunshine.

So, have you ever been to Flagstaff or Show Low in the winter?

Not being totally insane, I stay out of those parts of the state in the winter time, unless the interstates have already been plowed and there is no snow storms predicted.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

TN4994 wrote:
I find the easiest way to deal with the snow is to live in Arizona. I never have to shovel sunshine.

So, have you ever been to Flagstaff or Show Low in the winter?

Not being totally insane, I stay out of those parts of the state in the winter time, unless the interstates have already been plowed and there is no snow storms predicted.[/quote]
As I avoid the valley in the summer.

I mentioned already that I own a Hummer. The original. No Enterprise A, B, C, or bloody D.

₣rom behind the wheel of my baby, I welcome snow, mud, dirt, gravel, rivers, hills, valleys, floods (snorkel) ...

It's regular roads during nice weather I abhor. About 300 miles shy of 32,000. There are several in my family. They pull horse and trailer quite well.

So, if it snows, I'll be a hummin in the snow pulling out damsels in distress, and sometimes their boyfriends too.

fallsfromtrees wrote:I find the easiest way to deal with the snow is to live in Arizona. I never have to shovel sunshine.

TN4994 wrote: So, have you ever been to Flagstaff or Show Low in the winter?

fallsfromtrees wrote:Not being totally insane, I stay out of those parts of the state in the winter time, unless the interstates have already been plowed and there is no snow storms predicted.

TN4994 wrote:As I avoid the valley in the summer.

I say again, I don't have to shovel sunshine.