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| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 166 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.57.89  Rating: N/A |
38 seconds into this video will make your cheeks grab the upholstery! http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/vehicles-slide-down-icy-hill-18884 (Message edited by Dallas on November 29, 2010) | ||
| Tony LEE (T_lee)
Registered Member Username: T_lee Post Number: 78 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 59.154.42.140 Rating: N/A |
For an enhanced adrenalin rush, just stand hard on the brake pedal and close your eyes. Then you have the clowns running to be the first to --- get wiped out by the next car to slide down the hill | ||
| les marston (Les_marston)
Registered Member Username: Les_marston Post Number: 180 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.151.225.213  Rating: N/A |
We live in Edmonton Alberta So what is the big deal, we see ice like that often. It comes with what we call freezing rain or black ice. Note to folks who haven't seen this and get caught sliding uncontrollably. TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKES!! then at least you can steer. The brakes are not going to slow you down anyway | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 1087 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.1.12  Rating: N/A |
That reminds me of driving in Pa once and getting off the ramp at about 5 mph and a stop light at the bottom. Slid right on thru,I quit using brakes when I realized it wasn't gonna stop and like Les said ya can't steer it noway let er go and hope[pray] for the best lol Gomer | ||
| Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
Registered Member Username: Dreamscape Post Number: 704 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 64.40.213.45  Rating: N/A |
My daughter was telling me how hard it was to drive up there, I said stay home! | ||
| Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
Registered Member Username: Zimtok Post Number: 455 Registered: 9-2006 Posted From: 173.166.209.1  Rating: N/A |
Memphis is always on the edge between snow and rain so we seem to get a lot of freezing rain here... I stock up on deicer and sand. Sand is great to put in the back of your car for weight and if you run across a situation like in the video you can spread the sand for traction. If I lived there I would have put up a barricade at the top to prevent other cars from going down. It seems like the person taking the video just sat back to watch the carnage... . | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 335 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 75.211.86.6 Rating: N/A |
Paul that is the best advice! Seattle doesn't get much snow so the people don't have much experience in it. Plus so many of them moved up from Ca. and have no idea of how to drive in it. In the late 80's i told my wife that we would just stay home the first day it snowed and let them all go out and crash into each other. The loss of wages for one day was less than the deductible on the cars and it could be weeks or longer before you could get it into a repair shop. The next day there is hardly anybody on the roads. :>) Met a gal who had just moved there from Minn. who parked her car and was gonna walk back home. There was only 4 inches of snow on the ground and she said she had never driven in snow as slick as that. Some times the snow is dry and it is like driving on pavement but usually it is a wet snow. The first thing we used to do is go about 20 ft. and hit the brakes to see if, and how much you slid. If it was a lot we would just park it for a day or two, snow is usually not around for long there. | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 167 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.57.89 Rating: N/A |
I lived in the snow and ice belt most of my life. Unlike some, I like it. I do however, know that my body doesn't anymore. LOL. Cold here in East Central Texas is in the neighborhood of 40°F, Last winter it got down to -9°F and the locals were freaking out, that was the coldest it's been since 1890. Water lines are less than 12" down, many houses aren't insulated with more than R-11. I laughed because even though we weren't living in the bus, there was still water in the fresh tank, I had only a single 1500 watt space heater and some fans to move the heat. none of our water lines in the bays or at the tank under the bed had a problem. A Few years ago we lived in the North Carolina Sandhills. every year it would get down to freezing and we would get a bit of snow for a day or two. There are unwritten snow rules in NC and SC. 1.) At the first snowflake, everyone stares out the window for an hour at work. 2.) Everyone then has to take the rest of the day off work, in case the roads get bad. 3.) Everyone hit's the grocery store, buys up all the bread, eggs and milk. 4.) Everyone goes home and waits until the snow is thick, sloppy and wet. 5.) Everyone get's out in their cars to see if the roads are too bad to drive on! 6.) Every body shop raises prices as soon as the first flake hits! There use to be a snow plow in the Sandhills area, but it broke down about 1976 and they thought it wouldn't be needed so never fixed it. However.... A year or so ago, Myrtle Beach, SC Airport got a grant to buy a snow plow, for about $365,000. Such a deal! they had no place to store it so they applied for a 1.5 Million dollar grant to house the snow plow. They got the money, and now have a big 95% empty heated metal building. Gotta love snow! | ||
| john degemis (Degemis)
Registered Member Username: Degemis Post Number: 102 Registered: 3-2008 Posted From: 68.118.42.248  Rating: N/A |
Years ago my first bus went into a spin on ice. I will never forget it. I was lucky did not hit anything. But came very close. | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 168 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.57.89 Rating: N/A |
In the early 1970's I was in the Army and stationed at Ft.Lewis, Wa. We were out on Bivouac one fine week, the temps were in the 50's and the sky was a mix of clouds and clear. We spent one day tromping through the backwoods looking for the enema, oops, enemy, and about sunset were told to set up a small camp for the night. Shelter halves were joined, OP's were set up, etc. About 02:30 we were awakened by hollering, yelling and much commotion. It had started snowing those big, wet, heavy flakes, the kind that weigh about 6 oz. each. Pup tents started collapsing, the ground was warm and the snow was melting, run off water was filling the freshly dug foxholes. Troops were getting soaked from leaks in Korean era shelter halves, water was running everywhere. And then..... And then..... The temperature dropped like a chunk of whale poo! It went down to about 16° in less than an hour and we were supplied with light winter equipment. Our Battalion CO was just luckily spending the night with his companies, and was one of those afflicted with a dousing. Shortly we had about 50 Deuce and a half's pulling up and we all went back to the barracks. Seattle/Tacoma didn't fare that well then, power lines, water lines, trees, etc. all ceased to function! I seem to remember that there were millions of dollars worth of damage just from broken fire hydrants. | ||
| Len Silva (Lsilva)
Registered Member Username: Lsilva Post Number: 426 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 72.187.35.208  Rating: N/A |
My limited experience, having worked all over the country, is that it is much easier to drive in the ice and snow when it is very cold (0 or below), than when the temperatures are a little warmer. | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 337 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.97.102.126 Rating: N/A |
Dallas, was that early 1974? We had a good amount of snow in Jan. of 72 just after i got out of the army but that was a dry snow. I think 74 was a wet one, as i recall i drove a block on flat ground in my VW Bug and barely got it back home because the snow was so wet. Tree branches were snapping from the weight of the snow and sounded like gunshots. | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 338 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.97.102.126 Rating: N/A |
That was one of the snows that when you went to make a snowball water just poured out of your hands. |