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1 posted on 01/03/2025 9:10:50 AM PST by Signalman
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Fatalities? Hope to God no.


2 posted on 01/03/2025 9:15:31 AM PST by montag813
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Ice storm obviously. Very dangerous conditions, and this wasn’t the first, nor will it be the last.


3 posted on 01/03/2025 9:17:03 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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4 posted on 01/03/2025 9:22:45 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Signalman
Wow, that is absolutely crazy.....

I live in Michigan and have seen many ice storms here.

Heck, around 1979 I was involved in one. I was coming home late one night on a freeway and realized that while it was raining, it was freezing on the pavement. I automatically slowed down to maybe 25 MPH when about a mile ahead I saw flashing lights. I immediately started to ease to my right in order to get on the shoulder where there was snow and I might have had some traction. Unfortunately, my car spun sideways and I ended up sliding up the guardrail with my front tires hanging over it.

Had to be lifted off the rail by the tow truck and my front suspension was destroyed. I was lucky, if you can call it that, since there was no collision with other traffic.

Winter conditions here, people driving their SUV's with 4WD and trucks think they are immune from the weather conditions. They're the ones you see down in the ditches.....

5 posted on 01/03/2025 9:25:02 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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Storm of the Century in Texas. Thank God for global warming!


6 posted on 01/03/2025 9:36:57 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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related video

https://youtu.be/T4CHPVQWNJA?t=81


8 posted on 01/03/2025 9:45:42 AM PST by plain talk
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I had never seen video like that.

I see it as more of a problem for areas that don’t generally get that kind of weather, or if it happens unexpectedly in areas that do.

When I was in the Navy down in Jacksonville, FL, they had an unexpected ice storm, and I saw four cars, one after the other, plow into the back of a car stopped at a stop sign. Bang...bang......bang..bang. Fender bender speeds.

This video was scary. At the very end, when that black SUV came to a stop sideways, all I could think was GET OUT OF THE CAR! GET OUT OF THE CAR!


9 posted on 01/03/2025 9:51:08 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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Looks like a scene from Blues Brothers.


11 posted on 01/03/2025 10:00:29 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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I guess the obvious question is why cars and trucks either didn’t see ahead or didn’t slow down. Oh well...Texas.


12 posted on 01/03/2025 10:27:44 AM PST by DPMD
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I grew up my whole life in the mountains with snow.

The worst snow and ice storm I ever experienced was North Texas. What makes them so bad is they are totally not prepared because they are so rare and the people have no idea how to drive on snow and ice. Just because one has a big 4x4 does not mean you can drive on snow and ice. Go slow and don’t go at all if you can avoid it.


15 posted on 01/03/2025 10:50:53 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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