I don’t mean this to be rude but why does it seem that Texans can’t drive in the snow? Every few years I hear a news story about a major pile up/accident in Texas because of a few inches of snow. We get a lot of snow up here in Boston and there really isn’t a secret to driving in it...just drive slow and tap your breaks if you spin out.
In the northern states, it always take a week, week and a half to "remember" to take it easy till you have your snow legs back.
Texas usually does not have the third snow. And no salt.
That skill comes from experience. Texans have no experience driving in snow.
Why do Northerners melt when temps get above 80 degrees and resort to opening fire hydrants for relief?
In Texas 80 degrees is a walk in the park bc we typically have 100+ temps with 100% humidity for weeks on end and we don’t open fire hydrants to cool off.
Weather extremes work both ways and reactions depend on what you are used to.
“I don’t mean this to be rude but why does it seem that Texans can’t drive in the snow? “
Well because they don’t grow up with it and have to do it every year.
It’s not a normal part of their experience .
Here in Iowa and everywhere else that gets snow; it takes the first snow every year to relearn winter driving technique .
People in Texas have in some cases never driven in snow.
Give them a break
It’s not snow. It’s ice. Sheets of it. If only it was snow, it would be easier.
Remember that hundred car pile up in Fort Worth two weeks ago? Seven people killed? It was ice. All ice.
“get a lot of snow up here in Boston”
I got a good laugh at the TV a day or so ago. The weather channel had a guy reporting from Boston and the caption on the screen read, “Boston braces for 2” of snow”.
Yeah, it’s the riff-raft from the North trying to turn Texas blue, doing the spin-outs! They think they can drive anyway they want.. lol PS..I was born in the North. I can say anything I want!
That’s the difference. You have snow on many occasions up north.
Texas may get some snow once every couple of years except for
maybe the panhandle area.
“I don’t mean this to be rude but why does it seem that Texans can’t drive in the snow?”
When the Alaska Pipeline was going strong, a lot of Texans moved up ... oil. We learned to not get on the roads the morning of the first big snow because the Texans made the roads impassable. They were all over the place — stuck in the road, stuck off the road, skidding on the road.
I actually admired their confidence charging forward no matter how bad the weather.
Snow isn’t the big problem, it’s the ICE; especially black ice.
No snow. No snow tires. No sand, plows, road salt.