Posted on 01/04/2022 7:09:15 AM PST by C19fan
Rummyfan,
I wholly endorse you comment and add that it also applies to
DC & Maryland folks in the DC metro area.
“Drivers in Northern Virginia just don’t handle these conditions very well.”
I remember a snow storm wherein folks going up a hill on the old Jeff Davis Highway just below the Wilson bridge, where the drivers came to a stop before trying to climb the snow covered hill. I had my snow tires on and kept up my speed (15-20mph) and had no problem climbing the hill.
“Drivers in Northern Virginia just don’t handle these conditions very well.” That was back in 1980. And when I left MD in 2017 for my native Indiana, the drivers hadn’t improved any.
Yeah, but it is thanks to the incompetent that the malicious achieve their goals.
If only they had salt, snow plows, and no Democrats.
Heard that here in West Virginia they are NOT going to salt roads this winter.
Something about black ice matters.
i lived in Fairfax County for almost fifteen years. Every winter it was the same thing: a prediction of even an inch of snow and the schools are closed and there is a run on essentials at all the supermarkets. If we got more than a couple inches, it was not unusual to see vehicles abandoned on the 267 toll road. Yesterday I had to drop off a couple of family members at Dulles. Normally I take the GW Parkway to pick them up. Yesterday it was closed about two miles south of 495. I also heard the Wilson Bridge was closed for a couple of hours, both ways. There were a number of small accidents on 495 but it was moving steadily if slowly. What was normally about a seventy-five minute drive was three hours. But all in all I feel fortunate compared to the people stuck on 95 for over 12 hours.
Well, that and salt is white and it works.
I’d take the 2-lane road before sitting in I-95 for 19 hours! I’ve done that before.
Yea, but I wouldn’t want to be on those 2-lane roads with an 18-wheeler. Already had some 18 wheelers try to take a dirt road and blocked it.
So where’s Buttboy, you know the Transportation Secretary?
My best snow story was in MA. Caught in a storm and tail gated by an impatient who expected me to drive faster while the snow piled up and was freezing my wipers. I tried to get over to the side to let him through but kept hitting the snow bank, until we reached an over pass and I squeezed over, as he passed he gave me the finger and sped away. about 10 -15 minutes or so I saw his vehicle on it’s side off the edge of the road and him waving outside of it. I slowed down, beeped the horn and waved back at him as I drove on. After putting in a long day 6:30am to 9pm, I was in no mood to stop with the possibility I would end up being stuck. (2WD open back PU.)I went through stop signs when I reached the exit in fear the car would go no further due to lack of traction. Its was an upstate winter storm mess from Springfield MA to Albany NY. Traffic was light and the plows were slow to arrive. Drifting wasn’t fun for me.
And, yup ... a dim-o-crat was governor.
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