Posted on 01/02/2015 9:12:32 AM PST by C19fan
I hear ya!
I go play in it.
Yeah. I’m guessing they were running 70 or 80 mph bumper to bumper when they should have slowed to 45 or 50 and spread themselves out.
Then we have the "Timid Tillies" in this hilly country, who will often brake going UP a hill, just when you need to keep a steady speed to get to the top. 20-25 mph in a low gear usually does it, but not when you are stuck behind one of these idiots. A mile of traffic can stack up in a hurry as most of them lack the courtesy and common sense to just pull out of the way and prefer to just keep spinning their wheels and blocking traffic instead.
great idea for a TV show
“Ice Road Morons”
Actually its worse in the south because of the frequency.
I was in RI last February and was impressed with the lack of cars on the road and the folks ability to clear them.
It seems every home in Kingston had a plow.
"What, me slow down?"
I used to think that, too.
But perhaps there's ANOTHER explanation:
Usually, the first few snows fall on pavement whose underlayment (the first foot or two of roadbed) has not yet frozen. The unfrozen roadbed busily thaws the fallen snow on top of the cold pavement, which is exposed to the freezing temperatures.
You're more likely to end up with a thin glaze of ice under those conditions, whereas later in the season, the falling snow stays cold, and doesn't melt, providing better traction. I have a buddy whose commercial dump truck becomes absolutely undriveable in such conditions - he explained the mechanics of it.
Once the roadbed freezes a month or two into winter, he's good to go.
WMUR out of Manchester says a whiteout snow squall was the cause of the chain reaction. Nobody could see.
Everybody must have been in a hurry to get to Loon or Cannon Mtn.
http://www.wmur.com/news/50100-car-pileup-in-ashalnd/30498106
Rusty’s Towing out of Tilton, NH is having a BIG day.
Per comment 28 it was a whiteout with high winds in the mountains. The roadways have been frozen through up there. Canadian truckers played a large part too. They pay no attention to laws as they routinely make a RT daily to the Boston area.
For those who have traveled that stretch of 93, it is smooth and conducive to run fast, except in bad weather.
In a week or two I will be up there weekly skiing and for the most part the state keeps it down to bare pavement.
Not much you can do about a squall...you're sailing along on a sunny day about 70 MPH; then bam! White out, and you can't see squat. Ice cold pavement greases up immediately, and you're guest of honor in a game of bumper cars. North or south, there's nothing you can do.
People got caught with their pants down...there is no snow on the ground in much of Red Hampshire, and roads were snow and ice-free. But like they say; if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.
I was involved in a 30-plus car affair along those lines. It was just before Christmas, maybe 20 years ago, on a long, sweeping curve in southern Indiana, on I-64. Good visibility. You came around the curve and immediately saw a massive pileup about a half miles ahead. Naturally you started to brake. Instantly you slid. Foot off the gas, I braked, skidded, recovered, and braked again ... three times, and was finally rolling to slow stop at maybe five miles an hour as I finally came up on the wreck. Braked again, skidded again, and decided to go off the road below the wreck. Would have made it too, except some fool sailed into the mess ahead and above me, hit, spun around, and was gunning his engine and spinning his wheels wildly in a panic. He slid right into me, and all I could do was decide where on the front bumper to take the hit.
Moral of the story: there is such a thing as ice on which you cannot stop, until you roll to a dead stop.
Exactly. That's why I ride a motorcycle.
Agree a lot of folks don’t understand that the absolute slipperiest conditions (driving or walking) are when it’s right at the freezing mark and you have a thin water layer interface on the ice.
I’ve driven in northern Canada on ice roads at -40F and they have good grip.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/22/texas-highway-pileup-crash_n_2175909.html
Lol. Texans appear to have their own issues with speed and adverse road conditions.
Lack of common sense knows no political boundaries.
It is still New Hampshire, one of the free states that still lead the nation in independence and taxation (low taxes related to our wealth), so I disregard the “red” comment.
The county I reside in, Rockingham, a seacoast county bordering on Massachusetts, is perhaps the most conservative in the nation, based on the vote. If Portsmouth was cast aside, it would be unanimous.
The counties that cause NH to vote for the likes of Shaheen are near VT and in the north country. The southwestern counties are inhabited by remnants of former art communes and publishing houses from NY city. The north country are just poor. They used to work in wood products, make paper, and sustain a life within the cost of living. Federal taxes and regulation have changed the calculus.
NH is not red, the voters just realize which political party helps them live based on the present conditions.
While the residents of Rockingham may be very conservative regarding fiscal issues it is the opposite for Coos and other northern counties. They are liberal (IE, enjoy food stamps and heating oil allowances) but are very conservative respecting the second amendment and other issues conservative.
The rich in my county wish to keep their wealth and their earnings but perhaps may be a bit more liberal respecting social issues.
That in a nutshell is the complexity of NH. We are a rich state with a volunteer government, across the board, and for that we continue to rate in the top few of places to live and to raise children. For that, and the fact that where else can one live an hour from the “hub of the universe” a half-hour from ocean beaches, and a short drive to wonderful forests and ski areas?
Your post strikes me as propaganda cut and pasted from the 'Free State Project' webpages. Red Hampshire is NOT a good place to raise children...not by a long shot.
If you like Red Hampshire, fine. Some people are happy with Massachusetts, Vermont, even Rhode Island. If you're a conservative in the mold of Mitt Romney, Jim Jeffords, Susan Collins or Lincoln Chaffee; you would probably like it here. But no Cruz/Blackburn/Palin conservative in their right mind should even THINK about moving to this area.
Ick.
“Lol. Texans appear to have their own issues with speed and adverse road conditions.”
Yea every now and then we get some kook from the
northeastern communist block roll through and really
screw things up.
Posted 11/22/2012 yep you had to go way out of your way
to find that one and the huffpo to boot.
Google is our friend. So is having a sense of humor.
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