Posted on 01/12/2022 10:59:48 AM PST by RaceBannon
Columbus, Georgia, but similar.
Is there a snow storm heading south?
Yep. Stay home.
“ drive at a moderate to slow speed, DO NOT change lanes, and if you must steer or brake, do so gently. If you start spinning on the ice steer in the direction of the spin. ”
Drivers in the South do not do this. They think the car is immune to ice and weather conditions. So I stay home
My cousin from NJ last week slid into a wall on the NYS Thruway. Said at the tow place, they had so many cars from that day she’d be waiting a long time. She’s lucky to have survived it
Said her nephews told her to not travel that day. What they knew instinctively, without knowing how to tell her, was that precipitation plus cold roads was bad mix. The roads have been cold for a month now. That’s January no way around it. It had been raining cold rain all night. When she went out early afternoon the air was warm roads still icy.
Black ice is ice. There is no traction on a regular car that is going to negotiate that. It belongs in the garage or in the driveway. In park.
“...buy up all the bread and milk...”
That’s for other places besides Tennessee...Here is East Tennessee, we buy up beer and chips...
We Southerners callem “Damn Yankees!”
They came South and stayed!
Yes - supposed the reach the deeper South Saturday night and Sunday morning.
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2022-01-12-winter-storm-east-south-midwest-forecast
Yeah, cause thermal shock is so good for glass.
I live in the country on 13 acres with an 800 foot long driveway with part that looks like a ski slope. One drop off goes into a 10 foot deep pond. 4Wheel drive is a necessity. I usually wait until the snow is stopping and go in and out of the drive a few times. This will speed up the melting. One of my trips is to the hardware store where I buy a a60 pound bag of playground sand. I stop at the steepest areas on the drive and sprinkle a line of sand in the ruts I made going out. Works every time. Also I am stocked up on propane, food, water, and entertainment. I could go a week without every going outside...... Nothing is important enough to go out short of an absolute emergency,
Make sure you have food and an alternate source of heat and hunker down for the duration.
If there’s ice, do NOT try to challenge it. You WILL lose.
Having grown up in Upstate NY, snow does not intimidate me at all, but I will not mess with ice. Ever.
Driving in snow requires a lot more anticipation. Drive slower, do NOT make sudden moves, either sudden braking, sudden starting, crawl through your turns or your momentum will slide you right into the other lane, and do not accelerate during the turn. Wait until your wheels are straightened out and you are pointed in the direction you want to go.
If you’re adventurous, find a deserted parking lot and practice doughnuts and learn how to drive in the stuff without endangering anyone else.
And if the car slides and begins to spin, turn the wheel INTO the spin and do not accelerate. Accelerating during a slide or spin will only add to it. Locking the brakes doesn’t do any good either. The wheels need to roll freely.
Then when you’ve had your close call and your adrenaline rush is over, go home and have a good drink.
I heard the same when I was in Midland Texas!Ha!
Thanks. Won’t affect me in Texas, but some of my relatives in northern Alabama may see something.
I remember 21 inches of snow here in Raleigh NC. Me and my northerner neighbor were the only ones out on the road. Driving around giving attempting to walkers lifts here and there for the fun of it. I stacked up on good deeds that day.
Here in Georgia we already have procedures in place for ice and snow. We drive like pithed frogs as fast as we can so that we can stack cars several high in the median. Don’t presume to tell us how to drive.
Yesss! A yankee might come down and visit, but a damnyankee comes down and STAYS!
You often hear them in meetings saying, “Back in [names someplace up north] we did it THIS way...”
I live in the mountains of eastern KY and snow and ice can be a problem at times. I learned to drive on it in a cargo delivery van in the early 80’s. I would take a huge box and fill it with sand and set over the rear axles and the company put studded snow tires on. In snow I was in pretty good shape, in ice that is another story.
I can and will drive in snow if I have too but I don’t do ice even in my 4X4 pickup, I stay home unless it is a life or death emergency.
My brother moved to Columbia SC after graduating college in the late 80’s and one January day all his co-workers were in a tizzy, seems snow and some ice were forecast and they wanted to get home. He said there was skiffs of snow and it was snowing when he went home but the main roads were clear still but backed up with wrecks. Just about every bridge where ice actually had covered the road way had a wreck. He watched one happening as he was driving a buddy home from work. Signs everywhere, bridges ice up before the road way and the drivers would hit the bridges and slam on their brakes and boom it was all over.
The co-worker was a native of Columbia was tense when they crossed a bridge or two and nothing happened and he finally asked my brother, how did we cross so easy? You keep your foot off and brake and off the accelerator when you are on the bridge and just steer straight. If you have to slow down brake before the bridge or after. Duh...
Thanks for the link,
I’m in Prescott and “Cold Snaps” here are New to Me.
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Steer INTO the Spin!
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