Every winter!
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Yeah, happens here in Illinois as well. On a related note: Yesterday I bought 300 lbs of sand bags for the back of the pick-up.
Wow, how much sand are you going to have to buy to fill them?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Wow, how much sand are you going to have to buy to fill them?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Dalek Dave wrote:
how much sand are you going to have to buy to fill them?
None, the bags will do just fine. :rolleyes:
:laugh:
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
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I live in Quebec, and let me tell you there are lots of snow here. But, still, people have to relearn winter driving every year. Furthermore, during a snow fall, we lots of accident. At least, snow tires are now mandatory.
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Or heavy leaf fall!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Well that's still better then the trains. One heavy leaf is all it takes.
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
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Wow, how much sand are you going to have to buy to fill them?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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It's pretty common here in Canada. When the road conditions get poor, the range of driving abilities seems extreme. There will be people doing 1/3 the speed limit and others still exceeding it! Me, I just get behind a big 18 wheeler and follow it. I know I'll be stopping faster than it can. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
Chris Meech wrote:
a big 18 wheeler and follow it
He, he ... It is so much better than to be before it! :)
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
how about motor racing in snow ;P http://www.rallynorway.com/en/[^]
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Biggest problem I have in my area with winter driving conditions are the idiots who come up the mountain without chains for their tires. Caltrans pull out those "Chains required" sign for a reason when it snows :rolleyes: The weekenders/skiers always end up getting stuck and make travel a real hassle. During the weekends of winter months, I just stay at home if possible.
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
It happens everywhere, I'm sure. I moved here from a place that was high in the mountains, rife with narrow, winding roads that ran up and down hundreds of feet every mile. It snowed every year, and every year most people seemed to forget how to drive in the stuff. By Christmas most* of them settled down, but the early winter was always exciting. :-D *Flatlanders excepted - they never learned, no matter what the season.:mad:
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Same here in Maryland. Almost every winter they announce snow storm advisory and tell people to "get ready". In a few hours every store in my area has run out of shovels, salt, sand and every single canned food imaginable. You would think they called for nuclear winter... Not to mention that people here actually pull in the emergency lane and wait out even a heavy rain. Those who do drive, go maybe 30 miles per hour. I can't say I'm much better now. My rear wheel drive sucks on snow. Which reminds me, I'll have to check my tires.
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
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Today is the first heavy snowfall for our area (I don't live where they had four feet of snow last week in my state). It seems like every year the first snowfall people who have lived in this area for years get amnesia, freak out about driving and max out on the interstate at about 50 miles per hour. I drive a small Saturn and had no issues. I exited with traffic at a whopping 32 mph. Does this happen in other snow-ridden states or is it just my area/
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Yup. Happens every year where I live. From family who've lived in lots of places Colorado's apparently especially bad due to the large number of warm lander immigrants. "You can always identify the people who just moved here after the first major snowfall. They'll pass you on the highway doing 65 in the left lane in a brand new 4x4. Then a mile later you'll pass them sitting upside down in a ditch at " Edit: what's going to be fun around here this year is that lockmart's imported 100ish people from North Carolina to work a few hundred yards from where I do.
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