Posted on 01/03/2025 9:10:50 AM PST by Signalman
Absolute crazy footage from the Fort Worth, TX pileup. (Feb. 11, 2021)
Fatalities? Hope to God no.
Ice storm obviously. Very dangerous conditions, and this wasn’t the first, nor will it be the last.
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Fort Worth Texas pileup Feb. 11, 2021
https://rumble.com/v65k6bd-fort-worth-texas-pileup-feb.-11-2021.html
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.....
Storm of the Century in Texas. Thank God for global warming!
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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!
We had one in the early 80’s in Detroit. My wife was in the hospital with pregnancy complications. I drove home that night, maybe 20 miles. There were three separate 100 some car pileups on I-94. When they got cars running they just sent people home. It looked like the end of a NASCAR shirt track race with all these crunched up cars coming up the ramp.
Generally ice storms don’t have many injuries because the crashes are at slower speeds.
Looks like a scene from Blues Brothers.
I guess the obvious question is why cars and trucks either didn’t see ahead or didn’t slow down. Oh well...Texas.
The narrative by the cops is a hoot.
Grew up dealing with snow in NE Ohio, then even more so for four years in Upstate New York. Living in Dallas for a couple years after that, with inch thick ice on winter freeways and Texas drivers seemingly unaware they were skating on a rink, was far worse.
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.
People driving the toll road paid to drive the higher speed limits and by golly, icing conditions was not going to detour them.
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Excessive speeds and to close for conditions. Plus lots of newbies to the area who don’t understand black-ice. Every year the first ice storm thins them out.
According to the mainstream news every storm is the storm of the century and they’re all caused by GoreBull warming and/or climate(seasonal) change.
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