If you hear there's going to be ANY kind of snow, freezing rain etc when you're down south...say Georgia - Get your ass out of there ASAP or find a place to hunker down...preferably behind safety bollards...If you're from the Northeast and have witnessed how people drive in winter weather around those parts...you'd be mortified.
Somehow...many think mashing the gas pedal is the best way to get out of any kind of skid...Nothing like summer tires rated for 45F+ mounted on spinning rims to tackle snow on the road. It's like watching the world's biggest crash up derby in living color...Black ice is particularly entertaining...
I have seen the videos of what it looks like, city buses going sideways, cars doing 360's. The last thing you want to do in a slide is hit the brakes, although it is a natural reflex for people not used to it. You should drive into the direction of the slide and GENTLY steer out of it, and touch the break like a kitten would. The drivers from Connecticutt and MA are the worst, weekend skiers with 4wd speed passing on the interstate, sure enough, they are on the median like turtles on their backs a mile up from you. Our lifestyles revolve around the snow, which is why most rural places in winter are closed by 7pm, no one wants their employees having to drive in bad winter weather.
Grew up surrounded by mountains and snow that piled up and covered windows . Chains worked. The first thing my dad taught me when I drove on public roads was how to put them on. (I know. They claimed chains tore up the roads). And remember when everyone had two sets of tires? Winter and summer. And remember hanging a light bulb over the carburetor (I think I am remembering the part right) so the engine would turn over next morning?
Old timers up here would shovel out hot coals from the stove, put it in a large cast iron frying pan, and shove the thing under the engine block. I did do that once, when it had gone down to 30 below during the night, and in morning when the sun came up, it was 15 below.
If you hear there's going to be ANY kind of snow, freezing rain etc when you're down south...say Georgia - Get your ass out of there ASAP or find a place to hunker down...preferably behind safety bollards...If you're from the Northeast and have witnessed how people drive in winter weather around those parts...you'd be mortified.
Somehow...many think mashing the gas pedal is the best way to get out of any kind of skid...Nothing like summer tires rated for 45F+ mounted on spinning rims to tackle snow on the road. It's like watching the world's biggest crash up derby in living color...Black ice is particularly entertaining...
I have seen the videos of what it looks like, city buses going sideways, cars doing 360's. The last thing you want to do in a slide is hit the brakes, although it is a natural reflex for people not used to it. You should drive into the direction of the slide and GENTLY steer out of it, and touch the break like a kitten would. The drivers from Connecticutt and MA are the worst, weekend skiers with 4wd speed passing on the interstate, sure enough, they are on the median like turtles on their backs a mile up from you. Our lifestyles revolve around the snow, which is why most rural places in winter are closed by 7pm, no one wants their employees having to drive in bad winter weather.
Except if theyre a big corporate company, then your ass better be there till 10 or 11
Grew up surrounded by mountains and snow that piled up and covered windows . Chains worked. The first thing my dad taught me when I drove on public roads was how to put them on. (I know. They claimed chains tore up the roads). And remember when everyone had two sets of tires? Winter and summer. And remember hanging a light bulb over the carburetor (I think I am remembering the part right) so the engine would turn over next morning?
Old timers up here would shovel out hot coals from the stove, put it in a large cast iron frying pan, and shove the thing under the engine block. I did do that once, when it had gone down to 30 below during the night, and in morning when the sun came up, it was 15 below.