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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tupac on January 23, 2012, 05:44:35 PM
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LOL!
http://wimp.com/drivecarefully/
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What I learned from that video is everyone from Utah is stupid.
If you're from Utah and you're reading this, I'm sorry you have such a hard time realizing that snow and ice are more slippery than dry tarmac.
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I was going to say it looked like a bunch of Texas drivers moved to Utah.
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They obviously can't Gymkhana.
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:lol
nice rally skills from the 4wd wagon driver at 1:04 though :aok
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:lol
nice rally skills from the 4wd wagon driver at 1:04 though :aok
He was probably listening to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0F2aYivCmU
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Does it not snow very often there or just not as much as this year? That's some slick street you got there.
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Looking at the video, I think it's a bit deceiving -- there appears to be a bit of a hill that they are slip/sliding down. Still I'm betting there was some freezing rain before it switched to snow.
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and yall wonder why i live in florida :aok
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Heck, winter driving used to be much more fun with rear wheel drive vehicles. Can't beat foofing!!.
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wow! WOW! man the video got dangerous by the last cars
btw, this place looks amazing, snow is SO cool
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Heck, winter driving used to be much more fun with rear wheel drive vehicles. Can't beat foofing!!.
I can remember my Dad cursing up a storm as he put chains on the Packard. Every fall the snow tires went on, spring they came off. We seemed to get by just fine without 4wd and front drive though.
Rear wheel snow driving can be a blast!
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What amazes me is that the local police didn't close that road until it was salted and sanded....
After 43 winters of driving in snow, there's one thing you never forget.... Go very slow down icy hills. Moreover, there's nothing more slippery than ice covered with a thin layer of fresh snow. Then again, what's a couple of feet of snow, more or less?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5085/5350024622_ea69f1e17e_b.jpg)
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5002/5349414153_59df821a5c_b.jpg)
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5054/5414415151_a56a532e7a_b.jpg)
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:rofl If I didn't know what that feeling is like first hand I would have laughed harder :uhoh
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:lol
nice rally skills from the 4wd wagon driver at 1:04 though :aok
lol. that shouldn't have happened in the first place and...anyone should be able to correct that without leaving the lane, no matter what wheels are driving the car.
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I would not want to drive down that road.
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This is why I hate driving in snow, having to deal with all the idiots out there that shouldn't be driving in this. I love driving down a bad road that has 4 inches of snow on it, crawling at about 10mph, and having some jackleg come up behind me and bury his headlights under my tailgate.
People down here can't drive at all when it's sunny, let alone snowing. I'm glad it rarely snows down here anymore.
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I love driving down a bad road that has 4 inches of snow on it, crawling at about 10mph, and having some jackleg come up behind me and bury his headlights under my tailgate.
Why not let them pass?
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That is why I run studded tires all the way around in the winter. Also I noticed that just about every one of those cars locked their brakes up, I would have just let off the gas and dropped down to a lower gear.
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Why not let them pass?
Well they can pass if they like but one car did that to me about 2 years ago and it didn't end well. I was driving down a rural road that had a 3 foot ditch on one side and a 6 foot drop off into a creek on the other. It was snowing heavily and the roads were very slick, I was taking my time going slow down this road and a SUV came up behind me and decided I was going to slow. So they passed me at speed and as they tried to get back into the traffic lane they fishtailed and slid right into the ditch. I was somewhat upset at the stupid risk this person took, but I stopped and rendered assistance as best I could and stayed there until a tow truck arrived to get them out.
When it snows you shouldn't be thinking of passing other people and how fast I can get there. You should be watching your distance to other cars and taking your time in case you get caught off guard.
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Well they can pass if they like but one car did that to me about 2 years ago and it didn't end well. I was driving down a rural road that had a 3 foot ditch on one side and a 6 foot drop off into a creek on the other. It was snowing heavily and the roads were very slick, I was taking my time going slow down this road and a SUV came up behind me and decided I was going to slow. So they passed me at speed and as they tried to get back into the traffic lane they fishtailed and slid right into the ditch. I was somewhat upset at the stupid risk this person took, but I stopped and rendered assistance as best I could and stayed there until a tow truck arrived to get them out.
That sucks.
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My Jeep does great in the snow, but even us guys with 4WD vehicles aren't invincible. Sometimes people forget that.
And holy crap. Those people need to stop pinning the brake peddle to the floor.
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Holy crap, what were some of those people thinking, going two and three cars wide...and going that fast. I guess folks who aren't used to driving in winter conditions underestimate it.
I just jinxed myself, I'll now slide off the road on my way home. :confused:
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:lol :lol thats friggin hilarious! I love drivin in snow but the "green grass drivers" suck. they all lock the brakes, that just makes them slide even more. Used to drive a 89 2wd chevy s10, never added weight or studs and never had a problem. Kepp it safe on the roads yall( if we ever get any snow that is)
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This is why I hate driving in snow, having to deal with all the idiots out there that shouldn't be driving in this. I love driving down a bad road that has 4 inches of snow on it, crawling at about 10mph, and having some jackleg come up behind me and bury his headlights under my tailgate.
People down here can't drive at all when it's sunny, let alone snowing. I'm glad it rarely snows down here anymore.
I hate drivers like you.
All to often I get stuck behind one of you. I almost slid off the road into a guardrail becuase there was a moron driving about 10mph on a banked curve. I wasnt able to maintain my momentum, broke traction and proceeded to slide down said banked curve.
There is too fast, and there is too slow.
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I was :rofl at the covered bed pickup truck that came flying through at 40mph, at the absurdity of it.
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:lol :lol thats friggin hilarious! I love drivin in snow but the "green grass drivers" suck. they all lock the brakes, that just makes them slide even more. Used to drive a 89 2wd chevy s10, never added weight or studs and never had a problem. Kepp it safe on the roads yall( if we ever get any snow that is)
Hey, I was driving an 88 2WD S10 until a few weeks ago. Then I made the mistake of stopping at an intersection while the green grass drivers were out and about totaling everything in sight.
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Did a road-trip to the '98 Alamo Bowl with college friends, four of us in two cars. On the way back we had to navigate through a major winter storm, that was just rain in Texas, and got more and more sloppy and frozen the further north we went.
Somewhere in Oklahoma as I recall, on a straight and level stretch of interstate, traffic was going 15 MPH in freezing rain. There were tons of cars that had slipped off the road, not the least of which were a few SUVs and a sports car that had blown past us previously. But we were from The North, driving in ice and snow is not a problem, so we keep going.
Not long later, with all the cars in the interstate behaving, no passing, no idiots, no turns or banking in the road, everyone going the same speed. No reason to turn, speed up, slow down, whatever. The minivan two cars ahead of us just does a 360 and goes upside down into the ditch on the right, for no reason whatsoever. Nothing made it maneuver, it was as if the hand of god reached down and tossed it to one side. That was a reality check, after that we got out at the next exit and got some Waffle House, we weren't going to get ahead of that storm anyways.
Later on on the same trip, we somehow made it to Indiana without incident, going north on a two lane paved State Road that was probably closed, but we didn't get the word. There were 7 foot high drifts on the road, but we were too close to getting back to Purdue to stop now. There was no one else on the road, so we just ran down the center instead of staying in our lane and plowed through the drifts, going from about 45 MPH when the lead car hit the drift, slowing to about 15 MPH when the lead car made it through to the other side, and the trailing car would just follow in its wake before the wind could close up the hole in the drift.
That worked until the lead car started overheating due to too much snow in the radiator, and we had to dig the snow out of it. I found that very ironic, that ice in the radiator was causing it to overheat, but of course it makes sense. So after that, the car I was in, that my friend was driving, a Volkswagen Jetta if I recall correctly, had to take the lead. It was surreal, that we had to go fast to make it through each drift. The way we were completely blind as snow was flying over the windshield, and miraculously we'd make it to the other side of the drift before we were completely stopped, then we had to really step on it to get enough speed before the next drift. Fortunately the front grill of the VW happened to not allow snow into the radiator, so we continued like this for quite a while.
Then we saw headlights on the side of the road in the distance. That caused us to slow down to make sure we wouldn't hit them, and as a result we couldn't plow through the entire drift, and got stuck. We got stuck in the same drift they were stuck in. If they weren't there, I'm sure we would have made it through that snow drift as well. And then we saw it was a state trooper.
And this part you might not believe, but its absolutely true. He got stuck in the drift, went out to his trunk to get a shovel to free himself, got the trunk open and proceeded to drop his keys in the snow. He then found out he was locked out of his vehicle in a full-on blizzard at 10 in the evening. If he didn't have the trunk open, he might have been totally screwed, but he at least had access to some of his gear, including a flashlight. So we all searched around until we found his keys (And one of us found them, not him, haha). Then we dug each other out. He didn't admonish us for being on the road, he just said thanks and we went on our way. The whole time there wasn't one other vehicle on that road.
As it turned out, that was the last big snow drift, or the first one from the cop's perspective I suppose. My friend and I got back home safe, and I found out later my other two friends in the other car finally got stuck 10 feet from where they wanted to park on road in front of their apartment. They were too damn tired to do anything about it. That drive back is legendary among the four of us to this day, we upset Kansas State, the #4 team in the nation at the Alamo, and on the drive back rescued a cop who might have frozen to death in a blizzard. Successful road trip indeed!
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HAHA Nice story.
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Hehe, good story indeed. I used to go on road trip like that, but then I took an arrow to the knee... :D
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Driving on ice with or without snow on top is as different from driving through snow as driving through snow and driving on dry tarmac.
Interestingly though when it does get icy here and there isn't much fresh snow on the ground I'll just stick to gravel roads instead of using highways. They are much easier to drive on and have next to zero traffic.