Help!! Brother in law stuck on i75 in atlanta for 20 hours!!!

[phucheneh]

I think people are just dumbfounded that it even is an issue, not so much that we can't believe it.

On the big divided highways with bumper to bumper traffic it only takes a couple dumb asses to cause an accident and gridlock traffic, it's those idiots we are pointing fingers at because driving in such little snow and ice should not even be problematic anyway, even with bald tires. I went many years without snow tires and went through worse. People need to use common sense when driving instead of just blindly going the limit or higher all the time.

Er...I thought I explained this. Traffic is already crawling along. No one is going even 25% of the speed limit. If the traffic flowed somewhat 'normally' in the first place, they wouldn't have these issues. It would be just like it is ~250 miles to the north in Nashville, which is, to my knowledge, the next biggest city. And it's, like...1/10th the population with an interstate system that, while shitty, at least allows said shit to literally roll downhill. Inclement weather fucks the city up, but no one is stuck in gridlock for a whole day.

Perhaps it was lost when I was just agreeing that, in general, southerners cannot drive and are retards in snow and/or ice. But in this case, they were doomed before they even got in their cars.

 

[Howard]

Engine braking is a bad idea on ice. especially on a fwd car. Only the front wheels are braking and the back will swing around more easily.

Why?

 

[-slash-]

You can keep repeating the same bullshit all you want. I watched cars on slight inclines sliding off into a ditch from a standstill. Every moderate hill was impassible to most vehicles. You think we are just making this shit up?

No I think it's stupid to think you guys are the only ones to ever experience this kind of weather and that it is impossible for anyone to drive in it. You need to realize there are parts of the world that deal with this all the time and that it isn't some freak special phenomenon that only afflicts the south.🙄

 

[mizzou]

lol, what the hell

What is that, 1" slush?

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[brainhulk]

LA actually survived the carmageddon uneventfully. Didn't the forecast predict this would happen?

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Lol at the northerners having no friggin clue as to what they're talking about.

 

[halik]

Lol at the northerners having no friggin clue as to what they're talking about.

Lawdy Lawdy we never seen no "snow" or "ice" up there.

 

[rudeguy]

This is what ice storm does.

Day 1

Day 2

It was dicey driving on ice, but I managed to not hit anything.



I got this in the mail today and laughed my ass off.

You forgot Canada. I heard they had a 1/2 hour delay while they cleared the roads yesterday:

 

[brainhulk]

Meanwhile in California

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[highland145]

All of you drive worse than old Asian women or my Mom.

Can we lock this up now?

 

[rudeguy]

All of you drive worse than old Asian women.

Can we lock this up now?

Probably not.

But we can turn it into a "Meanwhile in Canada" thread

 

[highland145]

Probably not.

But we can turn it into a "Meanwhile in Canada" thread

:biggrin:

 

[CZroe]

Why is everyone acting like this event only shut down things in the south?

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/...hut-down-tuesday-because-of-cold-temperatures

 

[phucheneh]

I got angry at the news the other day for interviewing people in Minnesota and being like 'OMG, HOW DO YOU ENDURE THIS 5* WEATHER?!'

'Oh well, we're froom Minnesota, donchaknew. We make dooo, even if I have to talk like an unintelligible retard.'

Hey fuckfaced Minnesotan, you're wearing ninety pounds of clothes. It's 5* here and I don't even own a coat. Suck my ass, you pussy northerner.

 

[halik]

Why is everyone acting like this event only shut down things in the south?

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/...hut-down-tuesday-because-of-cold-temperatures

1 in of snow versus winter high temperatures in the arctic? Switch the two and by the look of things, half of the south would be dead.

Seriously, just concede y'all are a bunch of pansies that can't drive, so we can get this country back on the road.

 

[rudeguy]

I got angry at the news the other day for interviewing people in Minnesota and being like 'OMG, HOW DO YOU ENDURE THIS 5* WEATHER?!'

'Oh well, we're froom Minnesota, donchaknew. We make dooo, even if I have to talk like an unintelligible retard.'

Hey fuckfaced Minnesotan, you're wearing ninety pounds of clothes. It's 5* here and I don't even own a coat. Suck my ass, you pussy northerner.

Ummm...most people from the north don't bundle up. We do wear coats in the winter, because we aren't inbred morons.

 

[Exterous]

Why is everyone acting like this event only shut down things in the south?

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/...hut-down-tuesday-because-of-cold-temperatures

I think its more about the road conditions. You link is simply about 'cold' not the icy roads - which is apparently a phenomenon unique to the south

 

[nageov3t]

The Day We Lost Atlanta: How 2 lousy inches of snow paralyzed a metro area of 6 million

 

[CZroe]

1 in of snow versus winter high temperatures in the arctic? Switch the two and by the look of things, half of the south would be dead.

Seriously, just concede y'all are a bunch of pansies that can't drive, so we can get this country back on the road.

Newnan's streets were clear of accidents and traffic. I made it to and from work both days and I'm on my way again. I can drive just fine.

Also, this "infrastructure" argument isn't all plows and salt: it's everything from how ramps are built open-air and on a steeper incline to where you place stop signs (a four-way stop with one road on a steep incline would be far more likely to be a two-way stop up north). It all adds up.

 

[waggy]

Why is everyone acting like this event only shut down things in the south?

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/...hut-down-tuesday-because-of-cold-temperatures

you are comparing -15 (-40 with windchill) to 2 inches of snow? lol. that ice storm you guys could survive 20 hours and a walk home. -40 you don't walk outside long.

though when it was that cold people still drove. took my kids to practice and went out for dinner.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Again.. The type of ice you get when it doesn't get above 10f is totally different from southern ice where it partially thaws during the day, then refreezes into practically crystal clear ice.

I've driven up north quite a bit, and the ice surfaces tend to be rough. Maybe it's from people using chains which roughens the surface, I don't know, but it is COMPLETELY different from southern ice where it's a perfectly glass slick ice surface with 0 traction.


Yes, winter driving skills help.. To understand that you can't steer when the brakes are locked, to go slow and leave room, these things help reduce the risks of something bad happening, but if the road surface is a glass sheet layer of ice then no amount of "northerner driving skills" will give you traction.

 

[halik]

Again.. The type of ice you get when it doesn't get above 10f is totally different from southern ice where it partially thaws during the day, then refreezes into practically crystal clear ice.

I've driven up north quite a bit, and the ice surfaces tend to be rough. Maybe it's from people using chains which roughens the surface, I don't know, but it is COMPLETELY different from southern ice where it's a perfectly glass slick ice surface with 0 traction.


Yes, winter driving skills help.. To understand that you can't steer when the brakes are locked, to go slow and leave room, these things help reduce the risks of something bad happening, but if the road surface is a glass sheet layer of ice then no amount of "northerner driving skills" will give you traction.

You literally must've never gone above the mason dixie line to talk about this "different ice" nonsense. People in this very thread posted pictures of that stuff, not to mention we had freaking high 40s and then freezing next day. What do you think happens in the north when it thaws one day and freezes next?

Hell, what do you think happens here every fall and every spring, when it goes between freezing and thawing every 12 hrs?

 

[rudeguy]

Again.. The type of ice you get when it doesn't get above 10f is totally different from southern ice where it partially thaws during the day, then refreezes into practically crystal clear ice.

I've driven up north quite a bit, and the ice surfaces tend to be rough. Maybe it's from people using chains which roughens the surface, I don't know, but it is COMPLETELY different from southern ice where it's a perfectly glass slick ice surface with 0 traction.


Yes, winter driving skills help.. To understand that you can't steer when the brakes are locked, to go slow and leave room, these things help reduce the risks of something bad happening, but if the road surface is a glass sheet layer of ice then no amount of "northerner driving skills" will give you traction.

LOL

Ice is ice man. Just give it up.

 

[sdifox]

Again.. The type of ice you get when it doesn't get above 10f is totally different from southern ice where it partially thaws during the day, then refreezes into practically crystal clear ice.

I've driven up north quite a bit, and the ice surfaces tend to be rough. Maybe it's from people using chains which roughens the surface, I don't know, but it is COMPLETELY different from southern ice where it's a perfectly glass slick ice surface with 0 traction.


Yes, winter driving skills help.. To understand that you can't steer when the brakes are locked, to go slow and leave room, these things help reduce the risks of something bad happening, but if the road surface is a glass sheet layer of ice then no amount of "northerner driving skills" will give you traction.

Wait, water in the south freezes differently then the north????

I fully understand the people not being used to this crap, but calling it different is a big stretch. The government is at fault for not telling people to stay off the roads in the morning when they noticed the shit already hit the fan.