PSA everyone in Alaska wonders how the hell is anyone allowed to drive in the south (read: any state that's below Canada) when they can't even handle the lightest dusting of snow on their roads.
Texans think their trucks can drive on snow, but they fuck up by driving normally.
Fun story, Portland, ME has a record low temperature of -39F, which is colder than that of Anchorage, AK at -38F.
Checkmate, liberals.
(Wait, Maine extends north of Nova Scotia and PEI, so maybe it doesn't count as "South of Canada")
Maine extends north of Nova Scotia and PEI, so maybe it doesn’t count as “South of Canada
Checkmate lihbruls
Pelee Island in Ontario is at the same latitude as California's north border, so I guess Oregon and Washington are not south of Canada as well.
Seattle is north of the northernmost point in Maine. As is most of the Canada/US border west of the Great Lakes. So there's actually a lot of territory that fits this criteria.
Maine is should be part of Canada. It's just easier that way.
Canada definitely does not want Maine. Except maybe the lumber in western Aroostook County.
Flamethrowers sound more fun though. Think of all of the roadkill you can grill
Me: I'm going to drive a few mph below the limit to be safe.
Jacked up F-150 flying impeach Biden flags on it tailgating me: THINK AGAIN MOTHER FUCKER
Seems like the big trucks have no problems driving around here in the northeast but if you're in a sedan like an inch of snow can cripple you.
I don't man. Trucks kind of suck in the snow unless you load the back with weights.
4 wheel or all wheel drive + more mass probably helps out quite a bit.
Yeah for sure. I used to have a big station wagon and the thing could handle snow real well.
I'd love to be in the truck gang tbh, a nice little two door truck so I could get around in the snow but above all else, trains be better.
Sometimes I forget how little the south experiences snow lmao.
Me in Iowa: currently -20 w/o wind-chill. The snow in the ditch of my gravel road is now officially higher than my car after several blizzards. My car won't turn on and had to be towed. Just a 2 hour delay today for school lmao.
Yeah, we hate it down here. The infrastructure to manage big snows is non existent in a lot of places in the south. Obviously there is like zero public transport. You just end up with a bunch of people who never drive in the snow and ice being over confident. I always just try to stay home or go into work once things thaw out.
Also I used to never own any good shoes or clothes for really cold weather, so it just sucked all around lol
Hey give yourself some credit. This shit happens every year in Iowa and every year people forget how to drive in the snow lmao. Every time it dusts there's accidents.
Just a 2 hour delay today for school lmao.
In the northeast a lot of districts are just doing remote learning days. Which also means they are calling days for far less accumulation than normal.
Pffft, its just minty rain. I drive in gravel all the time, what's the worst that could happen?
Now if you'll excuse me i have to floor it on I-20.
Just don't break, or turn, or do anything other than go in a straight line.
You can, its just going to take a lot more distance than usual
I got stuck driving home ina blizzard once because boss man didn't want to close early. Ended up doing like 3 full pirouettes on the drive home. It's mountainous here so sometimes it's just impossible to avoid, especially if you drive a half ton commuter car with balded tires lol.
If you ever do start to spin, make sure you turn into it. You want your wheels to be facing the right direction when you catch again. Also you can kinda direct yourself a bit so you don't hit anything. Just pray to God there aren't any psychopaths in trucks flying down the opposite lane.
I've spun out in a truck once, very scary experience, where I was lucky that i spun through an overpass instead of into it. The mechanics of righting yourself in a sliding car are hard to explain, but turning into the spin works. You have to make sure some wheel maintains traction, straighten the wheel when it begins to correct itself. DONT VIOLENTLY JERK THE WHEEL EITHER! YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE THINGS WORSE!
In all the experiences I've had in this situation, the presence of mind you need to recover safely is going to feel counter-intuitive, but you can always pull off to the side of the road and panic in the safety of a stopped car.
Correcting a spot without making things worse is incredibly counter intuitive. You start going the wrong way, so you think "oh shit, I need to go the other way!" And turn against the spin, which actually takes away your control because now your wheels aren't lined up with the direction you're going and won't start to rotate and give you traction.
Turning into it lets them start spinning again which will give you some control back. Sometimes it's best to just do a full 360 lol
I thank the driving manual in Gran Turismo 2 for giving me the knowledge and confidence to control a car in a spin.
It was fun when I was a kid and my dad would stop in an empty parking lot to do doughnuts with us when I was a kid, but I've never gotten to the point of enjoying doing it myself. My settings for winter driving are 1) white-knuckle fear or 2) grim resignation.
i like to say that practicing that and feeling the point before your car starts to slide is pretty important. You'll likely notice you're coming to that point some time down the line.
dunno if the cops would believe that excuse, but fuck'em
If about 2 decades of winter driving hasn't done it yet, I doubt it ever will. I know how to get myself out of a fishtail or spin but it's never become fun for me. I keep thinking that one of these days I'll skip the white-knuckle stage and go straight to grim resignation, but nope! Not yet.
Well, it doesnt have to be fun.
Infact the last time i did it i went almost a full 5 mins before the panic set in
Sorry but I gotta do it, Southerners soft asf. Little snow claps ur cheeks. My homie in ATL? Hiding at home. Homie in NOLA? SHIVERING. Me? I just spent 2 hours digging my whip out the snow, y'all get on my lev
Haha, you soft southerners, being without power for 12 hours and having to drive to work on unsalted icy roads because the city has no cold weather infrastructure and your bosses don’t understand the concept of dangerous conditions
Come down here in August so I can watch you dry-drown in the 90% humidity while wiggling my land gills in pleasure.
Nah nah we get heat up here too don't get it twisted. I can handle a lil sweat. Y'all can't handle no snow and that's shameful. Lemme see them georgia peach plows 🍑
Heat ain’t really the problem though. It stays above 100 degrees during the day for the entirety of august here in Dallas, and as long as it’s dry and I’m not exerting myself too much, I’m probably not gonna get very sweaty. On the other hand, if it’s 90% humidity at 100 degrees, I’d imagine someone who’s not used to that’d be sweating their ass off even if they were sitting in the shade drinking ice water with no shirt on lol.
From personal experience, if anyone does any sort of manual labor in the summer in an environment without AC when it's that humid, their clothes will be more wet than dry within 15-30 minutes, and that's even if they've lived here their whole life and gotten used to it.
My state never gets any snow but at even a little bit if rain traffic accident rates tripple.
We are not ready. Shit, I am not ready. I don't have any cold weather gear.
Just stay home. I live in a state that gets a shitload of snow in the mountains but rarely in the lowlands and saw five horrific accidents in less than 30 minutes on the highway. People really think because they have winter tires they can still do 80mph. And they certainly can until they hit an ice chunk, go into a spin, and jump the guard rail in their $70k lifted truck. It's always other people you should worry about. I drive very carefully in the snow but other people have a death wish and they don't care if they take someone else with them.
to be fair nobody in illinois or most wisconsin cities know how to drive in the fucking snow either
Also if you have anti-lock breaks don't pump them if you start sliding, just slam on them.
People barely know how to steer their damn car on a good day, i think expecting them to learn threshold braking is a bit lofty.
I was discussing this with a friend and they quipped that "it must be nice to live somewhere warm enough that it can snow." It was -40 this morning, -55 with the windchill. And somehow people here still can't drive in snow.
