Snow In Arkansas--World Coming to an End--Moron Festival

[Flench]

That's why I parked my 4 wheel drive up on a hill . No one can get up there to hit it . I need to get out of here and go pull some car's out of the ditches and make me some money . I have a new set of co-op's on it , well every thing is new on it.

[CAP1]

Unbelievable.

We've got like 3 1/2" of snow so far and the world is shutting down/coming to an end.

People are driving at 2 and 3 mph.  Semi's stuck on by-pass on ramps.  Complete morons with no clue how to drive in good weather are careening into each other because they didn't have the common sense just to stay home.  So far 26 accidents on just 9 miles of 4 lane highway in just 2 hours.  My wife is so busy at the OR at the big hospital in town she's staying all night.

What ever happened to common sense?

Ok--I'll be the first to say it..."Hold my beer and watch this".

dude...you should've seen here in nj just before christmas. less than an inch, and it took ma an hour and 10 minutes to go 9 miles. accidents all over the place.
 just after christmas, we had a blizzard......and the state went apenuts.

[Killer91]

That aint nothin. You're lucky it was just powder!

And powder it was. That was the crappy snow.. could barely make a snowball out of it..

I Feburary we got about 6'' of some of the stickiest snow i'd ever seen.. had a 1/4'' rope hanging across my yard and the snow piled up on top of it even.

[ROX]

In my area there were thankfully only 2 traffic deaths from the storm--and that's 2 too many.

There are two major factors:

A)  There is no mandatory Driver's Ed in this state

B)  Most people feel just because they have a big 4WD or large pick-up that they can drive the same way in icy/snow as they do in warm weather

Luckily, it was simply a snow event.  Normally we get ice storms 1"++ and the last one knocked out power at my house for 10 days and some people in Arkansas did not have power restored for almost 2 months. 

[1Boner]

Was in one once driving my old 75 Caddy.

"Crusing" along at about 40 mph, the car slowly came to a stop without my letting off the gas and then slowly slid directly sideways off the crown of the road.

Fun times------in the middle of nowhere--no phone, no lights, no motor cars, not a single luxury, like Robinson Caruso, it was primitive as could be.

[CAP1]

i would like to see a sort of bad weather driving course. around here, it seems that it there is even a hint of rain, the driving schools all cancel their lessons.

 i was lucky....my grandpop taught me a LOT in some nasty bad snows back in 1979. he taught me in his 67 mustang, and made me take the 71 ford station wagon out in it too. you want a hard time in snow? drive an old mustang or an old ford station wagon in it. then of course, 'cause i was a cocky invincible kid, i took both of those cars to empty parking lots for some "car skating". thanks to all of that, i can, and have driven easily in the worst that mother nature has thrown at nj.
 in 1994 i was driving a tow truck in that blizzard, till the boss called and told me to stop taking calls and park it. i drove my 89 gt in the storms in 96 and 97. it's not hard. you just need to think ahead is all. something that kids today don't seem to be being taught when they learn to drive.

[Dichotomy]

I think ahead

*dials*
'Hello'
'Hey boss I'm iced in here I'll work from the house today'
'Ya me too'
'Okay see ya when it melts'

[MiloMorai]

i took both of those cars to empty parking lots for some "car skating".

Same here but try that today and the cops will be all over you in a flash.

Actually the cops did show up a few times when we did it, but let us continue.