Rara Avis
Veteran Member
I love this time of year...$10 per tone out...
I get all my Xmas spending money from those Idiots...
I get all my Xmas spending money from those Idiots...
Idiots driving on the first snow
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riptides
Super Member
The horror.... the horror.....
Blizzard of 2003.
Took pictures of it.
Drove 10 hours in up to 4 FEET of snow.
This is I-95 in Delaware.
Don't see the road do ya!
One of 50 plus vehicles we saw. We stopped counting and were praying after that one....
We made it to our destination, but I will NEVER forget that trip.
-Mike Z.
Blizzard of 2003.
Took pictures of it.
Drove 10 hours in up to 4 FEET of snow.
This is I-95 in Delaware.
Don't see the road do ya!
One of 50 plus vehicles we saw. We stopped counting and were praying after that one....
We made it to our destination, but I will NEVER forget that trip.
-Mike Z.
Egon
Epic Contributor
Travelling in White out conditions?? No problem my first time. The horses knew just where to go!
And yea, I still got the foot warmer.
And yea, I still got the foot warmer.
It's looking like we're in for an ice storm from Saturday to monday. I just filled the back of my truck with some firewood I've been meaning to gather out of the pasture and it's going to stay in there till after it's clear again. An empty F-250 4X4 diesel sucks on ice. I hope I don't have to get out in it but just in case.
Someone posted about the nuts with their 4x4's on ice already and I totaly agree. They are about the dumbest bunch alive. I hate getting passed by them on nasty roads. They never learn till they wipe out. I've seen it way too many times.
Then there are the bone heads that engage their 4 wheel in November and try to turn it off in April. You wouldn't believe how many transfer cases and differentials I've rebuilt for people doing that. My mother in law is one of them. She even uses it in the rain. She has an F350 still under warranty. I'm going to laugh when they refuse to fix it. It's only a matter of time till one of her hubs blow up. Those seem to be the weak link in that truck. They hate being driven on pavement.
Someone posted about the nuts with their 4x4's on ice already and I totaly agree. They are about the dumbest bunch alive. I hate getting passed by them on nasty roads. They never learn till they wipe out. I've seen it way too many times.
Then there are the bone heads that engage their 4 wheel in November and try to turn it off in April. You wouldn't believe how many transfer cases and differentials I've rebuilt for people doing that. My mother in law is one of them. She even uses it in the rain. She has an F350 still under warranty. I'm going to laugh when they refuse to fix it. It's only a matter of time till one of her hubs blow up. Those seem to be the weak link in that truck. They hate being driven on pavement.
Sigarms
Super Member
Up early this morning, wouldn't you know, ice on the car.
Mile down the road, guy missed the stop sign and into a cornfield.
Two accidents on the overpasses within 10 miles of the house on the local highway.
The drive to work however did remind me of my biggest "pet peeve" when driving in icy conditions though after seeing it a couple times this morning.
Notice on the road signs just before a bridge that say "bridge ices before road" or to that effect?
Well, I could be wrong, but I always reduce my speed BEFORE I get to the bridge. I don't hit my brakes to slow down ON THE BRIDGE to reduce my speed.
Mile down the road, guy missed the stop sign and into a cornfield.
Two accidents on the overpasses within 10 miles of the house on the local highway.
The drive to work however did remind me of my biggest "pet peeve" when driving in icy conditions though after seeing it a couple times this morning.
Notice on the road signs just before a bridge that say "bridge ices before road" or to that effect?
Well, I could be wrong, but I always reduce my speed BEFORE I get to the bridge. I don't hit my brakes to slow down ON THE BRIDGE to reduce my speed.
dmccarty
Super Star Member
Sigarms said:
Me too. Very surprised when I let the dogs out this am and saw damp on the ground. Looked at the temp and it was 29ish... Hmmm... That means ice that was not mentioned in the forecast.
Sun starts to get up and I see the cars have ice on them. We get going a bit later and the roads are not bad but one has to be careful. It was 29 at the house, down the hill in a low spot at our gate it was 26. We get to the bridge over the Haw river and there are lots of lights a flashing up there.
The west side of the bridge is lower than the east side. Three PUs heading west got to that end of the bridge and spun all over the place. Kinda like a pin balls. Got to work and looked at the news pages and we had lots of accidents out there this morning with one death.
I drive into the rising sun in the am and the setting sun in the pm. Certain times of year this can be real bad. One evening I was about to cross the previously mentioned bridge and the sun was sitting just above the ridge we where about to drive up after crossing the river. Traffic was passing me since I was doing 55 as we went up the ridge but I could still see with sun glasses and the sun shade. Suddenly the sun just hit the magic angle and everything lit up in the truck. I could see nothing. Even looking left did not help. I could not see the road. I noticed the car that had been passing me slowed down so I started to slow down. And just as I did this a shadow blocked the sun.
The shadow was a school bus, which in NC can't go faster than 45, I hit the brakes before I hit the bus.
That was scary.
What is crazy is that peddle bikes will be out in this mess on east west road driving into the sun. With the blinding sun and the speed differential its real dangerous. A Mack dump truck almost had a bicycle hood ornament to go along with the dog one morning. If it had not been for a tree over hanging the road that blocked the sun for a split second he would have hit the bike. No way for him to see the guy. But he locked up the brakes, smoked some tires and moved into the other lane to keep from hitting bike. Thank goodness a car was not going in the other direction. Insane.
Later,
Dan
Bird
Rest in Peace
Yep, hitting the brakes while you're on the ice is usually about the worst thing you can do. Like you, I slow down BEFORE getting on the bridge and try not to change my speed or accelerator setting while on the bridge; i.e., I hope to neither try to slow down nor to speed up until I'm across. It's always worked so far
Now of course, in the right circumstances, I'll still gun the engine and spin the wheels just a little bit just for orneriness to hear my wife holler.
Just as I sometimes drift off the edge of the pavement where we have the sound strips just for the fun of it.
dbdartman
Platinum Member
Bird said:
I agree, trying to do anything except maintain speed & heading on ice is the fastest way to end up in trouble. Always worked for me too, no matter the speed.
Now of course, in the right circumstances, I'll still gun the engine and spin the wheels just a little bit just for orneriness to hear my wife holler.
Thanx Mr Bird, I've been wondering lately about how to spell "ornery" & this seems as better than any I've thought of so far...
and as above, "Always worked for me too, no matter the speed."
Bird
Rest in Peace
[Thanx Mr Bird, I've been wondering lately about how to spell "ornery" & this seems as better than any I've thought of so far... /QUOTE]
I couldn't remember either, so I looked it up in the Merrian-Webster dictionary.
wroughtn_harv
Super Member
Since it'a party I think I'll join in.
I used to live in Riverside California. One fall I had a job going on in Big Bear lake. The elevation level difference is six to seven thousand feet. I had a 82 Toyota long wheel base four wheel drive. Dad and myself left Riverside and it was in the fifties degree wise.
Just outside of Big Bear we were in a cut in the mountain that was in the shade. We never saw it. But we felt it at the same time. Dad and me combined our backside suction to the highway via the seats to hold us straight and on the road when we hit the ice. It was a downhill and I followed my own advice about driving on slick conditions, I put my right foot behind my left ear and held on. Actually I just kept the throttle the same and made very very small steering adjustments.
At the bottom of the hill was a big turn with a wide turn out. The only way we got around the curve was because our combined talents at backside suction. It was at the last second that we got a bite and hooked out into sun washed pavement.
A couple of hours later on our way home we got to wait for highway patrol escorts up and down the slick spot. There were a couple of vehicles who even went off of the turn out and some more on it. But the highway patrol was idling cars up and down the bad spot.
On Bird's speed differential thing, it's defined along the California coastal areas. There's nothing as pucker string tightening as being in zero visibility fog, I'm talking end of hood variety, on the interstate and knowing there are two kinds of idiots that are your enemy. One believes they're on the interstate and the speed limit is the only law of the land. The other believes their judgement on speed or the lack thereof is divinely inspired. You know somewhere behind you there's a good chance there's someone going the posted speed limit. And chances are most likely there's someone in front of you doing three miles an hour.
I taught my daughter to drive on ice with the emergency brake one eighties. I'll never forget after me showing how slick he Beretta GT would swap ends I let her take over. We weren't on a parking lot but on the street. When she got up to twenty I grabbed the emergency brake with my left hand.
She caught it and corrected perfectly. I was so proud.
I used to live in Riverside California. One fall I had a job going on in Big Bear lake. The elevation level difference is six to seven thousand feet. I had a 82 Toyota long wheel base four wheel drive. Dad and myself left Riverside and it was in the fifties degree wise.
Just outside of Big Bear we were in a cut in the mountain that was in the shade. We never saw it. But we felt it at the same time. Dad and me combined our backside suction to the highway via the seats to hold us straight and on the road when we hit the ice. It was a downhill and I followed my own advice about driving on slick conditions, I put my right foot behind my left ear and held on. Actually I just kept the throttle the same and made very very small steering adjustments.
At the bottom of the hill was a big turn with a wide turn out. The only way we got around the curve was because our combined talents at backside suction. It was at the last second that we got a bite and hooked out into sun washed pavement.
A couple of hours later on our way home we got to wait for highway patrol escorts up and down the slick spot. There were a couple of vehicles who even went off of the turn out and some more on it. But the highway patrol was idling cars up and down the bad spot.
On Bird's speed differential thing, it's defined along the California coastal areas. There's nothing as pucker string tightening as being in zero visibility fog, I'm talking end of hood variety, on the interstate and knowing there are two kinds of idiots that are your enemy. One believes they're on the interstate and the speed limit is the only law of the land. The other believes their judgement on speed or the lack thereof is divinely inspired. You know somewhere behind you there's a good chance there's someone going the posted speed limit. And chances are most likely there's someone in front of you doing three miles an hour.
I taught my daughter to drive on ice with the emergency brake one eighties. I'll never forget after me showing how slick he Beretta GT would swap ends I let her take over. We weren't on a parking lot but on the street. When she got up to twenty I grabbed the emergency brake with my left hand.
She caught it and corrected perfectly. I was so proud.
