Local news to TN residents: If you leave your house, you will die.

[JTsyo]

My old stomping grounds has this hill to deal with every time there is snow/ice on the ground. The hill is a 6% grade that is 20 city blocks up/down with each intersection leveling off (stepped hill). I used to live two streets up from this video and drove that thing every day.

That's why I liked driving a "winter rat", you can smash it up and not give a shit...lol!

I was wondering why that blue car was moving after it got to the pileup, then I see the red truck come barreling down.

 

[Scarpozzi]

It's always the same. The jet stream will dip down and meet warm moist air from the gulf of Mexico. The cold air brings freezing rain and sleet that chill the roadways and make them slick faster than people realize. My wife was in Nashville a few years ago and witnessed how slick the interstate became in that kind of rain. That's what they got a few days ago...
The other big problem are people who buy 4 wheel drive and all wheel drive vehicles and have too much confidence in their traction control. I don't own a four wheel drive vehicle because I don't need one 99.9 percent of the time. Its for cheaper to pay for a tow if you need one then to buy a four wheel drive transmission in a new car or truck.

The other problem with this part of the country comes from road crews that salt and scrape the roads leaving behind only a layer of ice with nothing to get traction on . They almost do more harm than good in the short term. In the long term, low humidity will dry up any of the melt off. Up north, snow is much more common than freezing rain.....it's also far easier driving in those conditions.


My mother is from Maine and I live in the south. I have spent my whole life between the two.

 

[IronWing]

♫ Southern ice
Have you ever slid
On southern ice?
Free as a breeze
Running into the trees
Whistling tunes
That you know
And love so
Southern ice ♫

 

[Sonikku]

Pussys. Here in Northern NY we get snow that would make them cry bitter tears of woe. Black ice, -30f temps. Hell freezing over!

 

[olds]

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[1sikbITCH]

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rip op :\

 

[Fingolfin269]

rip op :\

OP likely died eating tacos outside of Jack in the Box.

 

[phucheneh]

rip op :\

No, drove every single day last week with zero incident, other than the obscenities yelled at various retards.

I even took pictures and video of the single worst time (roads coated with snow and then freezing rain on Friday evening, prior to any clearing) in case any more fellow TN residents wanted to say 'omg you dumb hermit, clearly you haven't been outside, it's the APOCALYPSE.'

And yes, Friday was worse than Monday, if only for a few hours. The roads had that perfect 'slightly wet ice cube' feel and you couldn't see any lane markings. But OMG, I still survived. Biggest problem I had was when I had to weave through fucking morons driving 5mph with their hazards on a seven lane road- had I gone as slow as them, I would've slid backwards down a goddamned hill [like they did].

None of these people should have driver's licenses. It's a shame that more didn't die. Fuck assholes that endanger other people with their inability to drive.

 

[Ruptga]

No, drove every single day last week with zero incident, other than the obscenities yelled at various retards.

I even took pictures and video of the single worst time (roads coated with snow and then freezing rain on Friday evening, prior to any clearing) in case any more fellow TN residents wanted to say 'omg you dumb hermit, clearly you haven't been outside, it's the APOCALYPSE.'

And yes, Friday was worse than Monday, if only for a few hours. The roads had that perfect 'slightly wet ice cube' feel and you couldn't see any lane markings. But OMG, I still survived. Biggest problem I had was when I had to weave through fucking morons driving 5mph with their hazards on a seven lane road- had I gone as slow as them, I would've slid backwards down a goddamned hill [like they did].

None of these people should have driver's licenses. It's a shame that more didn't die. Fuck assholes that endanger other people with their inability to drive.

It's hard being better than everyone around you.

 

[Fingolfin269]

No, drove every single day last week with zero incident, other than the obscenities yelled at various retards.

I even took pictures and video of the single worst time (roads coated with snow and then freezing rain on Friday evening, prior to any clearing) in case any more fellow TN residents wanted to say 'omg you dumb hermit, clearly you haven't been outside, it's the APOCALYPSE.'

And yes, Friday was worse than Monday, if only for a few hours. The roads had that perfect 'slightly wet ice cube' feel and you couldn't see any lane markings. But OMG, I still survived. Biggest problem I had was when I had to weave through fucking morons driving 5mph with their hazards on a seven lane road- had I gone as slow as them, I would've slid backwards down a goddamned hill [like they did].

None of these people should have driver's licenses. It's a shame that more didn't die. Fuck assholes that endanger other people with their inability to drive.

You must do some important stuff during your normal day.

 

[phucheneh]

It's hard being better than everyone around you.

You just have no fucking clue, sorry.

It has nothing to do with some superiority complex. Anyone on this board who has spent time living in a place where 0.25" of fluffy snow does NOT cause school cancellations would most certainly agree that there was no reason for the amount of retard-alarm that I was forced to put up with for seven fucking days.

 

[Ruptga]

You just have no fucking clue, sorry.

It has nothing to do with some superiority complex. Anyone on this board who has spent time living in a place where 0.25" of fluffy does NOT cause school cancellations would most certainly agree that there was no reason for the amount of retard-alarm that I was forced to put up with for seven fucking days.

Practically everyone around you was doing it wrong, either the driving or the thinking or both, ergo you are better than them. And maybe you are, the common man sets the bar pretty low.

 

[phucheneh]

You must do some important stuff during your normal day.

Like not locking myself in my house to stave off the fictional snowbeasts.

I bet you went out on Sunday or Monday to stock your house full of bread and milk, didn't you?

And yes, for anyone who doesn't know, that's actually what they do down here. They think the weather will be so impassible that they will be forced to eat each other. So, in all of their glorious southern brilliance, they raid the grocery stores of the most perishable items you can buy.

For fuck's sake...

 

[nurturedhate]

baahwahahhahaawhaa this thread is funny. I'll be crying when I'm outside with the snow-blower tomorrow morning before work clearing off the new 6 inches that came down on top of the 2 1/2 feet we already have on the ground. May the lord have mercy on my soul as my wife may find me frozen to death outside.