Wierd Picture Today of My Ride in the Dallas Area

This is one of those rare days it snows to the point work is called off in Dallas. Just an inch of snow and 25F, but road crews are not that experienced in it. Much more critical, there are plenty of idiots that attempt to do 60-70mph - until the black ice finds them.

I'm on I35E just of the Bush Tollway in Lewisville, Texas, but if you look at the Toyota Camery, it seems like I'm on I94 near Tony's neighborhood.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Delta Flyer @ Jan 17 2007, 10:59 AM) [snapback]376934[/snapback]</div>

Also plenty of idiots talking on their cell phones while driving on black ice - or worse - taking pictures with them while they are driving. :lol: Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

Raid a supermarket and go home. We had an inch of snow here, once. It was like the end of world.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2005Jan20.html

North Carolina Capital Disabled by Inch of Snow

 

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Reminds me of Snow Jam '82 here in Atlanta. Everybody was at work, forecasters sound the alarm of a big snow storm coming. Businesses across the city release their workers all at the same time, so everybody is in their cars on the streets at 3 in the afternoon. Big traffic jam. Then the snow hits on top of that, and there were cars scattered, stalled, smashed all over the place. Lots of folks wind up leaving their cars, walking back to work, and sleeping in their office buildings...

Man, I just realized that was 25 years ago... time flies...

 

It gets better when you go further south in Texas...Dallas had the snow and ice...Down here in East Texas/Houston area we had the ice. If people in the Metroplex don't know how to deal with icy situations, try down here. I grew up in the TX panhandle and have dealt with the snow/ice situation, but down here....people are crazy. I will not get on the highway down here unless I absolutely have to.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Beryl Octet @ Jan 17 2007, 03:18 PM) [snapback]376983[/snapback]</div>

i remember that too :lol: what a lasting impression of my first north carolina winter!

it took me a half hour to get off the duke campus because one person would go through the intersection every time the light was green... then a UPS truck got stuck in the intersection.

and people followed me because, like in the OP's picture, i had northern state license plates so i must have known how to drive in it. this disturbed me because it's about your experience with snow, not following the right person to get there :huh:

we got hit with a decent size storm while we were up in wi last week... i think it was about 7 inches, and we were still prepared to drive in it to go see my dad way up north. go figure.

 

Delta Flyer,

If that car in front of you got stuck you'd be trapped. If you can't see the entire tire, you're too close. Leaving that amount of space allows you to be able to swing around. Learned this from AAA driving class.

 

Geeeez, we never got out of school with less than 18" of snow when I was growing up in Bozeman, Mt. Then all that meant was we had to walk. . . -30F, gale force winds, uphill, both ways, barefoot, yada, yada.

Wildkow

 

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Playa del Carmen, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It never snows. Or, for that matter, anywhere on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Alice Springs, Australia. I've never been there. But if it ever snowd there you'd be really really happy.

Or coastal Oaxaca. When I was in the University at Queretaro, there was a girl from coastal Oaxaca. One day, early in the semester, I had walked to school in shorts and a t-shirt. It was around 72 F. and I was sweating. This girl came to class in a full sweat suit and was cold. I asked her, and she said, "Where I come from, it never gets this cold."

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JimN @ Jan 20 2007, 11:07 PM) [snapback]378542[/snapback]</div>

I was trapped along with many others.

If the picture was more wide-angle, it would be obvious that we were just off the tollway and inching along in queue over the next quarter mile to board I35E. Strange - wait in line for a quarter mile under 5mph to board the freeway, most drive 70mph for the next 12 miles, then crawl the next quarter mile like in the picture to get up to freeway speed again. Guess it beats crawling the entire length.

The close up was to make sure everyone could see the Illnois plate and be amused it was the Dallas area looking like Chicagoland.

No, I was not drafting behind the Camery.