Bobzilla wrote:yamaha wrote: In reply to 93EXCivic: You're smarter than the average Georgian? IDK how much that says really.....Not much at all.
And Bob proves that buttholiness isn't limited to bad Southern drivers.
<-- Hoosier by birth, New Englander, a few years in Joisey and Georgian (by choice).
Drove home in a snowfall across MD from west to east on Sunday. Saw two cars on their roofs. Worst I had to slow down the entire trip was maybe 20mph under the limit(45 in a 65). Did it on allseasons (in a subaru) There are always those people who are clueless.
nah, your east coast exposure destroyed your sense of humor to be able to laugh at everyone else!
I will continue to post this until it is no longer relevant.
What it looked when I got home from work because they canceled it...
Oh the horror!
What I would give right now to have that much snow on the ground
Parked the Mighty Integra at the top of the driveway last night. We're up in the mountains. Roads are totally fine, but I blew off work today knowing it's not worth turning the lights on. PERFECT snowball/snowman snow. Pics later.
Waiting till the roads get bad to go for a ride, hoping one of my idiot neighbors will rear-end me. Wish me luck!
93EXCivic wrote:
That's Michigan on a cold August day haha.
Not flaming, but I really don't understand how 1" of snow paralyzes anyone. Ice yes, snow, no. If you have to be told to slow down while driving on a slippery road, well, maybe you shouldn't drive.
An abundance of caution for a thundering herd of asshats.
Meh, today was nothing. Just snow on the drive into work(no problem). It was nice because everyone stayed home. Easy money today.
Tomorrow on the other hand, I am not excited about. The forecast for where I live is about 4-5"(again, no big deal) but then the freezing rain is coming. Luckily for me, the freezing rain is going to be worse in Metro Atlanta and south of the city. I just don't want to lose power, that will suck.
I'm not going to work with freezing rain coming, no sir. As stated in the other thread, snow I can drive in, ice... I have no idea.
Can't wait to hear how dumb southerns are because tree limbs start failing into houses and power lines start snapping because of the weight of ice.
DrBoost wrote: That's Michigan on a cold August day haha. Not flaming, but I really don't understand how 1" of snow paralyzes anyone. Ice yes, snow, no. If you have to be told to slow down while driving on a slippery road, well, maybe you shouldn't drive.
Agreed. 1-2" of snow shouldn't cripple ANYTHING. Hell, I drove an entire winter on 17" Nitto NT450's with the old Elantra and never once got stuck.
Anti-stance wrote: Can't wait to hear how dumb southerns are because tree limbs start failing into houses and power lines start snapping because of the weight of ice.
Well, up North they know how to build trees. Not like our redneck trees that are too stupid to stay off the roads when it's icy.
No E36 M3, some of us carry saws or chainsaws to cut the limbs to get to work.
No, I am not joking.
Rob R.
In reply to Datsun1500:
You guys can have the ice, no argument there. I can't drive on ice at all especially in my neighborhood. Also, if power goes out at our work, we can't do E36 M3 without our compressor. We don't have a backup generator at work. So yeah, when the power is out I'm not going in. When there is going to be ice on the roads, I'm sure as hell not going in. I sure don't have a chainsaw in my Camry either, hell I've never even used a chainsaw.
This all goes back to the argument of southerners and snow. It wasn't the snow that berkeleyed us two weeks ago, well not directly, it was the panic of everyone leaving at once(idiots) and later ice. Today, everyone panicked and stayed home(thank god). Really, snow isn't hard to drive on. Shoveling your car out of feet of snow is nothing I ever want to do though. That's something else you northerners can keep.
The funniest thing to me was the overreaction from our governor yesterday. He called a state of emergency yesterday about 24 hours before any sort of precipitation.
We had an ice storm before Christmas. I can't find the pics, but EVERYTHING was coated in thick ice. We lost power for a week. I went to work the next day, everyone did. The big difference is we have the salt trucks to get things under control, but even so, it didn't slow us down.
MadScientistMatt wrote:93EXCivic wrote: So I take all the defending of southerns and snow back. We got maybe an inch of snow and you would think it was the end of the world. Three of us came into work and two of us are in lowered cars with performance tires. I saw vehicles stalled on these tiny ass hills. Seriously I have driven on snow twice now and I had no trouble.I passed an SUV stuck in a ditch on the way in to work today... and the snow hadn't even started.
Must be a boy scout, "Be prepared"
Here is what our little village of 1600 has to do with the left over snow after the plows are done. We haven't had snow for 3 days, but more is coming.
DrBoost wrote:93EXCivic wrote:That's Michigan on a cold August day haha. Not flaming, but I really don't understand how 1" of snow paralyzes anyone. Ice yes, snow, no. If you have to be told to slow down while driving on a slippery road, well, maybe you shouldn't drive.
Me either. I drove to work today and lost traction once but I passed a number of cars stuck on hills or in ditches. When I got to work at 8 (which is an hour later then normal) and only three people even bothered driving in. Then they canceled work at 10:15ish by which time there was almost no snow on the road. Only on the one bridge I crossed. 
93EXCivic wrote:DrBoost wrote:Me either. I drove to work today and lost traction once but I passed a number of cars stuck on hills or in ditches. When I got to work at 8 (which is an hour later then normal) and only three people even bothered driving in. Then they canceled work at 10:15ish by which time there was almost no snow on the road. Only on the one bridge I crossed.93EXCivic wrote:That's Michigan on a cold August day haha. Not flaming, but I really don't understand how 1" of snow paralyzes anyone. Ice yes, snow, no. If you have to be told to slow down while driving on a slippery road, well, maybe you shouldn't drive.
That reminds me of when I was teaching High School. The principal was the one to make the call for a snow day. The forecast was calling for ice and snow, supposed to be pretty bad. It was about 24 hours out, he called it. The next day we all sat at home with a snow day....not a flake fell. No snow, no ice, nothing. After that he wasn't so quick to call a snow day.
wvumtnbkr wrote: No E36 M3, some of us carry saws or chainsaws to cut the limbs to get to work. No, I am not joking. Rob R.
So that's a normal Northern states thing? The whole time I lived in NY I never met anyone who carried a chainsaw in their car.
look at the good news.. all this ice and snow in the south might make all the Atlanta Miatas cheaper. They are all going to want SUVs now incase it snows again
I got to sit in for a webinar put on by the National Weather Service for EMA types yesterday. Their confidence level was "moderate" but essentially they were recommending that the schools etc be closed because of the potential of the storm system. In East Tenn, three to five inches in the valley and eight to ten inches in the mountains was the prediction. No community is prepared for such a storm and the best option is to shut everything down and just hunker down to survive. If it doesnt happen, the people get a free day off and the leaders blame the NWS for making a conservative decision. If it does happen, the leaders can take the credit for making a good decision. YMMV
I was coming back north from Florida through phase one of this yesterday. I pushed hard to make it to north of Atlanta on Monday night/early Tuesday morning, slept at the rest area and went to hit the road around 8am Tuesday. I-75 was basically a sheet of ice. They had something down that made it rough ice instead of smooth ice, but it was still really slick. I turned off the trailer brakes to keep it from locking up and jack-knifing me, and then just did a slow and steady up the highway while getting my doors blown off by tractor-trailers doing about 50. After crawling about 20 miles up the highway, I found an exit that I didn't need a reservation to drive down so I gassed up, and found a motel, preparing to just hunker down for a day or two, get a hot shower and some wifi and just work from the hotel until it was clear. Google told me that I75 was shut down due to an upside-down tractor trailer, and I listened to the radio a bit and heard Atlanta stations talking about how there was a lot more coming and Chattanooga stations talking about how they had just a little rain at the time, but sleet and freezing rain coming in the afternoon through the weekend. I figured that if I didn't push the 25 miles to north of Ringgold I was stuck for the duration. So another slow and steady back on the highway and -- sure enough -- when I got north of Ringgold where the semi was flipped over, the roads turned to just wet and then by the time I was north of Chattanooga, it was dry roads and sunny skies.
After that experience, I absolutely understand how the place gets shut down. I don't know if they don't have the ability to treat the roads or what, but when there's that much ice on the road -- and there was every bit of 3/4" or more of ice covering the pavement -- if the slightest thing goes wrong, things are going to get out of hand quick. The hills made it even worse, because when traffic would grind to a halt, it definitely took some doing to get going again on the ice up the hill.
Oh, and as I continued up I-75, I saw no fewer than a hundred power line bucket trucks and utility trucks booking south.
I could probably ice skate in the cul-de-sac in front of my house today - the roads are very well iced over. I suppose I might be able to make it over these roads if I had snow chains - but I don't. And nobody's plowing or salting the roads here. The main thing that shuts Atlanta down in this weather is a lack of equipment, both on the part of the government and drivers.
2 inches of snow and almost a half inch of ice (not compacted snow) so far in Atlanta and will get thicker to over an inch of ice by tomorrow morning.
My favorite part about winter is this always cues up the comments about Southerners being retarded hillbillies and how Northerners chime in about how hearty they are. No point arguing about it and I never hear Southerners insulting Northerners but whatever. If the NOAA is calling for catastrophic ice amounts, it's usually pretty legit and not Southerners just overreacting. Over 100k without power now and predictions of 750k losing power by tomorrow.
A simple "Good luck" would be sufficient instead of the belittling that goes on.
You lucky bastards......if we get even an inch or two of snow and some wind right now we'll be snowed in for another day.
I've challenged a few friends to try making it to my house in a car before the roads are plowed with a reward of beer......nobody has been able to claim the beer yet. 
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