Fun on I84

It is not just that marlarkey. States have learned to close roads because it's better to herd thousands of idiot drivers to keep them OFF the highway in any old storm rather than be a source of jokes, news laughingstock as a snowed over highway piles up wreckage and bodies all over for the cameras.

Atlanta suffered fools last winter in two freaking inches and it totally ruined the west side beltway they have there in the city. Totally gridlocked it closed everything with hundreds and thousands of poor people sitting still through the night.

Two inches. BOOM stuck. I guess the south does not get enough education on how to manage two inches. Never mind two feet. Or 20. Or that nice 50,000 dollar all wheel drive lexus being shoved by 15 people in times square in a few inches of snow spinning all wheels against a curb. Mah... they don't know how to build cars anymore I tell you.

Safety first in winter.

My solution to that is simply run wheels off balls to the wall from end of Feburary all the way to end of October. Pile up a mountain of savings. Then sit home for the whole winter. Let someone else deal with the problems with winter. Im happy at home. Bills are paid until spring time anyhow. No problems.

 

I'm on home time, we got about 4" of perfect snowball snow (wet & heavy: Pelt & welt snowballs)... Took the sX4 out this morning, peeled around some corners - car headed straight into the bend, wheels ####ed left or right - corner dependant, just enough to catch me without kicking up a fishtail or a full tailspin when I catch the curve nursing the throttle..... Lol... I like this. It hasn't always been fun, in fact, I used to have a mild phobia concerning winter driving, but about 8 or 10 years ago I said I was going to best it, so I did.

Considering how infrequently people escape the 30 mile from home radius, to me there is no surprise that Southerners can't deal with 2" of snow.

I've purposefully gone out in Blizzards... Reckless abandon? Youthful stupidity? An admixture of both?...

I used to think Autumn my favorite season, but I really think it's winter. Everything has hibernated or died, waiting for life anew... Autumn you're witnessing death, and that's tragic. Winter is the springwell of a lifes future. That place in-between death and rebirth... Pardon the philosophical rambling.

 

Looks like Ice Storm pending for entire 84 from Portland all the way down Cabbage Mountain pass to Odgen in a couple days.

 

id run hwy 95 from Boise to Spokane and not even mess with I 84. Oregon loves to put chain law on

 

It wasn't just 2" of snow, it was ice. I know we live about 60m south of Tuscaloosa, AL, and it struck here about 4:30am and left the roads icy. We do not have plow or salt trucks here. I'm not sure what Atlanta has in machinery. But now GA has chain laws in place because of what went on. People said it took over 6hrs to go a 20 min usual drive home. Kids were stranded at schools, or in buses in the roadway.

 

We have very little to nothing here in Arkansas Neighbor. A little bit is there because the Interstates are required to be opened in storms.

 

used to farm 20 miles out of ontario or
always was wicked invisible black ice between Ontario and baker

 

and I thought it was going to be about Hartford Conn