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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ghi on December 06, 2013, 07:24:10 PM
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I've been driving through Dallas for many years, never seen such a dangerous roads, it took me 5 hours from Waxahaciie to Rockwall; ice wrecks and vehicles dancing without control in front of my heavy truck, and behind is worst; totally closed I-35E,20,635,30; ohh, man I hope to get back north in snow; look at the traffic map, all red :O
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http://ge.ssec.wisc.edu/modis-today/
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about 25 years ago DFW got an ice storm that would have made this one look like a spring rain. Just sayin
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Google: Leon Lett Ice
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about 25 years ago DFW got an ice storm that would have made this one look like a spring rain. Just sayin
This one was pretty good where I am. Probably on par with '87 but not like '79.
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Pretty bad here, power went out this morning, Friday, and its still out 18 hours later. Staying at my daughters house to keep warm. Worst part, no AH!! :cry :cry Best part, grandkids!!!!!!!! :x
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I learned to drive in '79. Lotta fun on my neighborhood's streets with that old Caddy.
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Dichtomy, I believe that was in Feb or March of 1994. My first trip to Texas from Alberta, I was there for a shooting competition outside of FT Worth. We flew into DFW, had a great first day, probably 2500 people in attendance. Day two, that big ice storm hit, and shut down the entire state. Us being Canadians, and being very used to driving in bad conditions, thought wth is going on, what's all the fuss over a little bit of ice? I started to wonder if maybe something was a little different than our average bad driving snow days, when I rolled down our rented van's window, and there was a second window of ice still there I had to literally punch out.
Out on the on freeway, it was beyond awful driving. Black ice everywhere, cars and trucks everywhere in the ditch or crashed into each other - a state trooper stopped us at a checkpoint and was absolutely stunned we were out driving nonchalantly, and told us to go back to our hotel, which was far further than the shooting range. We got to the range eventually, but were one of the few who made it. Took a couple of days for things to get back on track, but I will say that it was the worst driving conditions including the thousands of blizzards I've seen in Canada that I've ever drove in. Not many Texans have a lot of experience driving on that either I would bet, as I said I'd driven through many a frozen road, but nothing like that myself. Saw some chains on the rear of a fwd car, good for a laugh during a bad situation. While storm stayed in the area of our hotel once we were back, the people in the restaurants were amazingly friendly and hospitable, I've always loved Texas since that time. Nine people were killed due to the ice storm, and over 3 billion in 1994 dollars damage, it was a pretty big deal back then, and extended our stay a while, which again, I didn't mind as we had met some great local people.
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The ice accumulated on the bridges and overpasses caused most of the problems; I seen trucks lossing traction stuck on this high overpasses fr i-35E to I-20, I20/i45 i635/i30 and the bridge on I30 over Hubart reservoir; ;
Gman, driving on fozen snow is not as bad, i can see it, yhis ice is like NOE mission ,and in most of Canada they use salt,or i chain up 2 axles and move, here in Tx they'll shoot and repave road with me:)
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Gman,
you may be right. It's been a while but there was one that had me iced in for two days and I don't get iced in. I know how to drive on the stuff.
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Still waiting on a package I ordered and got shipped through Dallas. Been over a week now :cry
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Still waiting on a package I ordered and got shipped through Dallas. Been over a week now :cry
You arent the only one. Ordered a kids christmas toy from amazon last week
Fedex = :mad: