I guess Atlanta drivers aren’t used to dealing with snow. Important safety tip – if you get stuck, don’t do this.
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Funny thing about the South is, the most ridiculous displays of winter driving are by Yankee transplants who “know how to drive in this sh*t”
We kept the cars garaged and stayed off the roads for 5 days. Even if you are foolish enough to believe you can drive on ice, the drivers around you certainly can not.
Sure it’s an expensive car, but when you bought it with the proceeds of selling crack…..who cares mofo!
Peter Korman>
“We kept the cars garaged and stayed off the roads for 5 days”.
That works also, we just put ours in 4×4 and get on with the day. Nope we don’t stop to pull out hybreds or eco cars. We help those that help themselves first………..
That was almost beautiful, in a way. Makes me want to visit France.
I’ve seen people do that in Toronto. Just floor it and wonder why they aren’t moving. Keep on spinning until there’s smoke from the burning rubber, still not moving.
I’m not talking hot country transplants now, I’m talking people born and raised in Ontario. Stupid knows no borders, my friends.
In the immortal words of Marvin:
“Where’s the ka-boom?! There’s supposed to be a ka-boom!!”
It is indeed a curiosity that someone can be perfectly aware that a tire has broken traction at such-and-such amount of torque, yet nevertheless think to themselves that the solution lies, somehow, in giving it ever more torque.
Maybe he was going for the drag strip technique of heating the tires ’til they’re good and tacky? 🙂
Jeez, that Global warming is sure a bitch!
Haven’t seen that happen before. Am just glad that I don’t have to go into the clinic next week unless I want to as we’re having some freezing rain now and don’t really feel like trying some of the large hills around here even though I’ve got snow tires.
One of the most amusing things I used to see in Vancouver was the huge number of vehicles off the road on Marine Drive when I drove to UBC on the rare days that we had snow. Amazing how people can think that dry weather driving techniques are applicable to winter. Also saw the same thing in LA one time when it rained after a long drought and couldn’t believe how slippery the freeway was. I guess the moral of the story is adapt your driving to the weather conditions and there are some days you just can’t drive very fast.
Amazing how people can think that dry weather driving techniques are applicable to winter.
Posted by: loki at January 16, 2011 1:51 AM
Amen to this. A number of years ago, I was driving home to the Fraser Valley from Kelowna just after Christmas. I was driving a Honda Civic at the time. I left Kelowna, and the weather was fine, but as is wont to happen on the Coquihalla Highway, the weather changed rapidly, and I was in blizzard conditions as soon as I’d reached the highway summit.
Long story short, when I pulled into Merrit, I stopped to chain up, and glad I did. The freeway really ought to have been closed, it was that bad. I was doing 70 km per hour, with chains, and I was getting passed by EVERYBODY. Needless to say, there were several major accidents that turned my usual three hour trip into a twelve hour nightmare, thanks to those idiots who think a 110 km speed limit is still appropriate in a major blizzard.
I’m always amused by the people who seem to think “Snow Chains Required” signs apply to everyone but themselves.
That car is as hot as the Falcons were cold.
I live in Edmonton. No matter how long folks have lived here. Every snow fall, is a free for all derby, bash em up.
Shows you just how short our memories are.
JMO
I think I’d like it just fine if my car catches fire next time it hits the ditch! Way too cold to walk home.
I hate to say this, but my first thought was “It’s got to be a woman driver.” (I’m a woman, so I can say that — right, Commissar Lynch?)
Nope. At least I know you don’t spin your wheels and you either try to back up or change direction just a little, so you’re not digging yourself in deeper. (I usually, however, have to get my hubby to come to my rescue.)
Toronto drivers know squat about driving in the snow. Slow down? Why?
!!@#$$@%#&!! CRASH/KABOOM !!@#$$@%#&!!
“I don’t know what happened, officer.”
I recall, 10 years back, west of Calgary (Devils Flats) one New Years day…..I topped the hill and before me was chaos. We had 2 trucks (rigs) rolling at 60/70k…..getting passed…….. and we both counted 36 vehicles…all SUVs except for a small car and a van.
Idiots wandering around like geese in their fancy ski-clothes. Some in the commedian, some on the road some in the verge(right ditch).
The van was on it’s side, the car was on it’s wheels,in the ditch…the rest were upside down.
The road was snow covered–snow packed…..plowed.
The road was straight and level…
Must be something they teach in drivers ed in Calgary………..
sasquatch: “Must be something they teach in drivers ed in Calgary………..”
I think it’s more the SUV drivers, especially the ones who drive black ones. I find them the rudest, the most impatient, the most entitled, outta-my-way drivers on the road.
I remember one winter in the early 80’s in Bethesda, MD. A friend of mine parked across the street from my house in about 6″ of snow in a ’68 Impala (our street was on a hill, and he parked facing uphill, with his right rear wheel in front of a storm drain). When he went to leave, he got stuck and was spinning his rear wheels till the right one started smoking. I thought, “How the hell do you get smoke spinning in snow?” until we realized his right rear sidewall had slid up against the steel face of the storm drain, and maybe he should stop before the tire ignited from the friction.
SUV drivers think they’re ten feet tall and bulletproof, until they aren’t.
“Must be something they teach in drivers ed in Calgary………..”
Nope. We have a lot of imports here: Vancouver, Toronto, or somewhere else like foreign countries too. They learned to drive where they came from.
Most everyone living here is from someplace else and I can spot them a mile away by their driving habits. Eventually they learn. There are days that even I stay home (F-150 4×4), because the other idiots out there are “out there”. If you get what I mean.
My truck is 5 years old and never been in an accident. My insurance rates go up, up, up every year.
Sasq, a lot of those black SUV drivers are transplants from big cities like TO and Vancouver, working in the head offices.
The straight roads are tricky when the cross-winds start out there on the Trans Canada as well. The SUV’s are so top heavy, especially when they are lifted or have the oversized tires put on to make them look more intimidating (because they are, aren’t they?) and the center of gravity is upped. Once the tipping of the vehicle starts, the brakes get slammed on and then the circus acts start. Great fun!
‘Glad I’m not the only drivers-of-SUVs hater … 😉
They’re obnoxious.
that is a beemer yo!
that thing should have all the traction control ,stability control ,let me do the driving for you controls , how much do those cars retail for ? 55k ? What a waste.
Teutonic junk. I think the transmission caught fire, not the tires.
Spinning through ice used to be a trick we used with bias ply tires. You just keep the wheels spinning til the ice melts, and when you hit dry pavement the car will jump forward. It won’t work if you’re trying to move uphill.
I’ve been driving on the worst roads imaginable for 35 years, and I know my limitations. When you hit ice, especially wet ice, driving skills don’t help very much. Sometimes you just have to stay home. As for SUVs, I don’t see anything wrong with having the best tool for the job, as long as you don’t overestimate its capabilities. Most of the rude owners just haven’t experienced exceeding their limits.
coach: “Most of the rude owners just haven’t experienced exceeding their limits.”
Well, ya wonder, dontcha? A bunch of maroons, if you ask me …
SUV’s and 4×4’s only help in starting. Everyone has 4×4 brakes, but the SUV’s and 4×4’s have a false sense of confidence based on having 4 wheel drive.
Hey, that just once again proves the theory about the difference between BMWs and porcupines. With porcupines, the pricks are on the OUTSIDE.
Was the parking brake released? Just thought I’d ask??
Well seein’ as a large portion of the population is medicated either legally or otherwise: should it come as any surprise that poor judgment (noticably in this case with driving), prevails?
Just askin’.
All Sarah Palin’s fault of course….
When semi’s start pulling off the road or run at less than the posted limit?
That’s a clue people.
As to the Beamer driver? Convienience store, bag of cat litter, sprinkle and go.
Environmentally friendly too
Funny thing about the South is, the most ridiculous displays of winter driving are by Yankee transplants who “know how to drive in this sh*t”
We kept the cars garaged and stayed off the roads for 5 days. Even if you are foolish enough to believe you can drive on ice, the drivers around you certainly can not.
Sure it’s an expensive car, but when you bought it with the proceeds of selling crack…..who cares mofo!
Peter Korman>
“We kept the cars garaged and stayed off the roads for 5 days”.
That works also, we just put ours in 4×4 and get on with the day. Nope we don’t stop to pull out hybreds or eco cars. We help those that help themselves first………..
That was almost beautiful, in a way. Makes me want to visit France.
I’ve seen people do that in Toronto. Just floor it and wonder why they aren’t moving. Keep on spinning until there’s smoke from the burning rubber, still not moving.
I’m not talking hot country transplants now, I’m talking people born and raised in Ontario. Stupid knows no borders, my friends.
In the immortal words of Marvin:
“Where’s the ka-boom?! There’s supposed to be a ka-boom!!”
It is indeed a curiosity that someone can be perfectly aware that a tire has broken traction at such-and-such amount of torque, yet nevertheless think to themselves that the solution lies, somehow, in giving it ever more torque.
Maybe he was going for the drag strip technique of heating the tires ’til they’re good and tacky? 🙂
Jeez, that Global warming is sure a bitch!
Haven’t seen that happen before. Am just glad that I don’t have to go into the clinic next week unless I want to as we’re having some freezing rain now and don’t really feel like trying some of the large hills around here even though I’ve got snow tires.
One of the most amusing things I used to see in Vancouver was the huge number of vehicles off the road on Marine Drive when I drove to UBC on the rare days that we had snow. Amazing how people can think that dry weather driving techniques are applicable to winter. Also saw the same thing in LA one time when it rained after a long drought and couldn’t believe how slippery the freeway was. I guess the moral of the story is adapt your driving to the weather conditions and there are some days you just can’t drive very fast.
Amazing how people can think that dry weather driving techniques are applicable to winter.
Posted by: loki at January 16, 2011 1:51 AM
Amen to this. A number of years ago, I was driving home to the Fraser Valley from Kelowna just after Christmas. I was driving a Honda Civic at the time. I left Kelowna, and the weather was fine, but as is wont to happen on the Coquihalla Highway, the weather changed rapidly, and I was in blizzard conditions as soon as I’d reached the highway summit.
Long story short, when I pulled into Merrit, I stopped to chain up, and glad I did. The freeway really ought to have been closed, it was that bad. I was doing 70 km per hour, with chains, and I was getting passed by EVERYBODY. Needless to say, there were several major accidents that turned my usual three hour trip into a twelve hour nightmare, thanks to those idiots who think a 110 km speed limit is still appropriate in a major blizzard.
I’m always amused by the people who seem to think “Snow Chains Required” signs apply to everyone but themselves.
That car is as hot as the Falcons were cold.
I live in Edmonton. No matter how long folks have lived here. Every snow fall, is a free for all derby, bash em up.
Shows you just how short our memories are.
JMO
I think I’d like it just fine if my car catches fire next time it hits the ditch! Way too cold to walk home.
I hate to say this, but my first thought was “It’s got to be a woman driver.” (I’m a woman, so I can say that — right, Commissar Lynch?)
Nope. At least I know you don’t spin your wheels and you either try to back up or change direction just a little, so you’re not digging yourself in deeper. (I usually, however, have to get my hubby to come to my rescue.)
Toronto drivers know squat about driving in the snow. Slow down? Why?
!!@#$$@%#&!! CRASH/KABOOM !!@#$$@%#&!!
“I don’t know what happened, officer.”
I recall, 10 years back, west of Calgary (Devils Flats) one New Years day…..I topped the hill and before me was chaos. We had 2 trucks (rigs) rolling at 60/70k…..getting passed…….. and we both counted 36 vehicles…all SUVs except for a small car and a van.
Idiots wandering around like geese in their fancy ski-clothes. Some in the commedian, some on the road some in the verge(right ditch).
The van was on it’s side, the car was on it’s wheels,in the ditch…the rest were upside down.
The road was snow covered–snow packed…..plowed.
The road was straight and level…
Must be something they teach in drivers ed in Calgary………..
sasquatch: “Must be something they teach in drivers ed in Calgary………..”
I think it’s more the SUV drivers, especially the ones who drive black ones. I find them the rudest, the most impatient, the most entitled, outta-my-way drivers on the road.
I remember one winter in the early 80’s in Bethesda, MD. A friend of mine parked across the street from my house in about 6″ of snow in a ’68 Impala (our street was on a hill, and he parked facing uphill, with his right rear wheel in front of a storm drain). When he went to leave, he got stuck and was spinning his rear wheels till the right one started smoking. I thought, “How the hell do you get smoke spinning in snow?” until we realized his right rear sidewall had slid up against the steel face of the storm drain, and maybe he should stop before the tire ignited from the friction.
SUV drivers think they’re ten feet tall and bulletproof, until they aren’t.
“Must be something they teach in drivers ed in Calgary………..”
Nope. We have a lot of imports here: Vancouver, Toronto, or somewhere else like foreign countries too. They learned to drive where they came from.
Most everyone living here is from someplace else and I can spot them a mile away by their driving habits. Eventually they learn. There are days that even I stay home (F-150 4×4), because the other idiots out there are “out there”. If you get what I mean.
My truck is 5 years old and never been in an accident. My insurance rates go up, up, up every year.
Sasq, a lot of those black SUV drivers are transplants from big cities like TO and Vancouver, working in the head offices.
The straight roads are tricky when the cross-winds start out there on the Trans Canada as well. The SUV’s are so top heavy, especially when they are lifted or have the oversized tires put on to make them look more intimidating (because they are, aren’t they?) and the center of gravity is upped. Once the tipping of the vehicle starts, the brakes get slammed on and then the circus acts start. Great fun!
‘Glad I’m not the only drivers-of-SUVs hater … 😉
They’re obnoxious.
that is a beemer yo!
that thing should have all the traction control ,stability control ,let me do the driving for you controls , how much do those cars retail for ? 55k ? What a waste.
Teutonic junk. I think the transmission caught fire, not the tires.
Spinning through ice used to be a trick we used with bias ply tires. You just keep the wheels spinning til the ice melts, and when you hit dry pavement the car will jump forward. It won’t work if you’re trying to move uphill.
I’ve been driving on the worst roads imaginable for 35 years, and I know my limitations. When you hit ice, especially wet ice, driving skills don’t help very much. Sometimes you just have to stay home. As for SUVs, I don’t see anything wrong with having the best tool for the job, as long as you don’t overestimate its capabilities. Most of the rude owners just haven’t experienced exceeding their limits.
coach: “Most of the rude owners just haven’t experienced exceeding their limits.”
Well, ya wonder, dontcha? A bunch of maroons, if you ask me …
SUV’s and 4×4’s only help in starting. Everyone has 4×4 brakes, but the SUV’s and 4×4’s have a false sense of confidence based on having 4 wheel drive.
Hey, that just once again proves the theory about the difference between BMWs and porcupines. With porcupines, the pricks are on the OUTSIDE.
Was the parking brake released? Just thought I’d ask??
Well seein’ as a large portion of the population is medicated either legally or otherwise: should it come as any surprise that poor judgment (noticably in this case with driving), prevails?
Just askin’.
All Sarah Palin’s fault of course….
When semi’s start pulling off the road or run at less than the posted limit?
That’s a clue people.
As to the Beamer driver? Convienience store, bag of cat litter, sprinkle and go.
Environmentally friendly too