[Shaun]

I have been busting my gut laughing all day at the Tennessean's that have grown up here who haven't driven in snow. We got about a foot here at my house and about 7" in Nashville. You wouldn't believe the stupidity on guy left a brand new Jag sideways on the highway just abandoned. Must be nice to leave 50 grand sitting out in what would be the traffic

[NRAJOE]

It always amazes someone born and raised in the snow belt at how there are multiple crashes in a southern state when they get a inch of snow, and everything shuts down if they get 3 or 4 inches! Man I sneeze out more that!

[PAPA G]

we got some of it too Shaun, and being from the PDRofNJ, its amazing the reaction to a little snow.

my favorite is the yahoos with the 4X4 who don't understand why they got stuck. it worked in mud!!!

[NRAJOE]

Or the ones who think they can stop faster because they can get through the snow better! Grip ain't got nothing to do with the braking...slide just as bad if not worse than the others around them!

[7mmag6]

Dam nice avatar joe

[Big Dog]

Three or four inches? Down here in the Sunshine State we get the heebie-jeebies if someone just mentions the "S" word. An inch will shut us down cold - uh . . . pardon the pun.
Give me sugar sand or swamp mud any time!

You'd think all these yankee retirees and college kids would be experienced "snow drivers" - nope. Well, it keeps the tow trucks and body shops busy.

[alan c.]

Heck I don't know anything about driving in snow. If it ever does snow here I'll have to call in sick--along with a million other people.

[dhermesc]

Got about four inches (of snow) on Wednesday night and the drive home from Topeka was pretty scarey. I was puttering along about 50 in my big RWD Mercury when a little Honda 4X4 (Rav?) passed me like I was standing still, when he cut back into the right line the tin can just kept going right, right off the road and right into the ditch. I stopped and offered him a ride but the idiot wanted me too pull him out and refused to leave his vehicle. Where the He11 do you hook a rope up on a Gran Marque? He couldn't believe it when I drove off and left him.

[Calvin]

We got about 4 inches here, too. People who have lived here all of their lives here still can't handle it. I-70 was shut down for 3 hours last night because a lady was applying make-up while cruising at 60 mph when she did a 180 into the path of pickup truck. And, someone else slammed on their brakes on 75 South when they saw a little snow blowing across the road and caused a 10-car pile-up.
The salt trucks have been out all night, and the result is a mess. They salted so much it turned the snow to slush, which turned to ice, because we dropped to 2 degrees last night, and the high today is 0. My wife normally has a 1 hour drive to work. Today, she left a 5 and got there at 7:30.....

[Stewart]

Here in GA they have closed school the day before in anticpation of reported snow for the next day! My daughter does not have school today based on the light powdering we got yesterday, and right now it is cold but sunny.

[Oxford]

Dhermesc: That poor bloke was a lazy bum. Deserved to be left there in the snow to think about his situation for a while.

Here in the northern suburbs of Kansas City, MO we had about 3-4 inches of white stuff at about 20Deg F. That's the first moisture we've had in about eight weeks so we needed it. I live on a designated "snow street" so street crews clear it first. It's amazing how many dumb axxes still park along the curbs even though the idea is to keep this type of street totally clear during snow storms. They could have towed their cars off.

Most streets in my community of Gladstone got cleared by morning and thanks to the sun's intensity, snow was melted by noon. In K.C, MO they're on a budget crunch so they don't plow many residential streets resulting in one big mess for anyone stuck there. Nearly all schools in this metropolitan area were called off due to those side streets not being cleared off.

Today I woke up to a 5 degrees F dip temperature, which is our coldest this year but not unusual here at this time of the year.

Ox :nod:

[dhermesc]

OX:

I think he had plenty of time to think about it as this happened on I70 west of Topeka. Believe me, nobody else was going to stop, it was dark, cold, and snowing hard then. The road crews didn't seem to have any salt or sand on the road at that time.

[Calvin]

Ox, the road crews here bury your car if you're parked on the street during a snow emergency. It just flabbergasts me, too, how people can be so stupid about that.