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monsterking (12/18/2015) [-] minnesota here. this is fairly accurate. but its more. Hold my beer, watch this.
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aerotheobserver (12/19/2015) [-] Nah, it's a 'Hold my alcohol, this is what we do where -I'm- from' thread.
And in my part of California, we don't drive on snowy roads because it only snows once every four years, and we know everyone who tries is gonna crash. We do, however, take our dirtbikes out for ***** and giggles.
And in my part of California, we don't drive on snowy roads because it only snows once every four years, and we know everyone who tries is gonna crash. We do, however, take our dirtbikes out for ***** and giggles.
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notanotheraccount (12/19/2015) [-] But instead of being successful we just end up hitting a moose.
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noahlikespie (12/19/2015) [-] Well with the amount of hicks who live here, I'm sure one of them has tried to **** one at some point
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hockeyfanguy (12/19/2015) [-]
Minnesotan here. Currently mad that it's too hot to skate outside
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monsterking (12/19/2015) [-] barely any. it stays on the ground for about 2-3 days then melts away
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obanesforever (12/19/2015) [-] Down here in Rochester, we finally got some flurries, but they probably wont stick around for long. Damn El Nino.
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lumpymandude (12/19/2015) [-] Well its 10 degrees where im at (The U) so that should be fine
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hockeyfanguy (12/20/2015) [-]
I go to the U as well, it's nice that it's starting to get cold! Finally have ice on my pond at home
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thunderchild ONLINE (12/18/2015) [-] Sothern people just don't get enough snow to really adapt. It's like if northern places had southern temps or weather.
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amalone ONLINE (12/19/2015) [-] It's not the sweat that will get you. It's the feeling of constantly breathing underwater from the 100% humidity. My sister in law is from Montana, and her first summer here in Mississippi, she lacked the ability to go outside because she felt like she was suffocating.
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thunderchild ONLINE (12/18/2015) [-] I seem to rember when new York or Detroit have heat waves a lot of people get ill.
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silasP (12/19/2015) [-]
I'm going to try to settle this debate, as one who had to survive the city of Atlanta being frozen in every sense of the word. Some people sat on I-285 for 36 hours, and I want to try to explain why Southerners freak out in snowy weather.
1. Nobody sells snow tires down here. If you're driving a FF Front wheel drive, front engine Japanese car with no snow tires, you are doubly out of luck.
2. People here aren't great drivers in general; the snow certainly doesn't help.
3. Most cities this far south have zero ability to clean up the roads on demand. Atlanta has a fleet of snow plows that sit in a warehouse unused, and that's as good as it gets here.
4. Even if we HAD snow tires and/or chains, and even if most of us didn't drive like retards on the best of days, the snow here doesn't continue being snow once it hits the ground. It gets cold enough to snow in the morning, and quickly warms up enough to melt the snow in the afternoon, and then by nightfall it's cold again. All that slushy goodness is now a solid sheet of ice stretching out in every direction. Nobody can drive on ice and expect to have a good time. I hope you'll excuse us if we're a little wary of the snow around here.
1. Nobody sells snow tires down here. If you're driving a FF Front wheel drive, front engine Japanese car with no snow tires, you are doubly out of luck.
2. People here aren't great drivers in general; the snow certainly doesn't help.
3. Most cities this far south have zero ability to clean up the roads on demand. Atlanta has a fleet of snow plows that sit in a warehouse unused, and that's as good as it gets here.
4. Even if we HAD snow tires and/or chains, and even if most of us didn't drive like retards on the best of days, the snow here doesn't continue being snow once it hits the ground. It gets cold enough to snow in the morning, and quickly warms up enough to melt the snow in the afternoon, and then by nightfall it's cold again. All that slushy goodness is now a solid sheet of ice stretching out in every direction. Nobody can drive on ice and expect to have a good time. I hope you'll excuse us if we're a little wary of the snow around here.
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dazartimm (12/19/2015) [-] I drive a front engine fwd car 2006 VW Jetta 5spd manual TDI, ja in Winnipeg. We recently got over a foot of snow and I drove in it for hours with my summers tires on no problem. The most important thing is the driver. If the snow doesn't go over your axles, it's drivable. I even have a set of studded tires I'm just too lazy to put them on. Then again, this is Canada.
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xdeathoreox (12/19/2015) [-] No, the problem is people think as soon as it snows it immediately means 0 traction. Which isn't true. As long as you don't drive like an idiot, you can drive in snow fairly easy. With any vehicle.
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followtheworms (12/19/2015) [-]
Well the snow ain't really a big deal, its the ice that'll get you.
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silasP (12/19/2015) [-]
To clarify what I said above:
The snow isn't a problem when it first falls here. We don't have snow tires, but we can manage as long as the snow is just snow. It's difficult, but not impossible. The reason we tend to panic is because we know the snow will be a sheet of ice very soon, and ice is pretty close to 0 traction.
The snow isn't a problem when it first falls here. We don't have snow tires, but we can manage as long as the snow is just snow. It's difficult, but not impossible. The reason we tend to panic is because we know the snow will be a sheet of ice very soon, and ice is pretty close to 0 traction.
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candypoops (12/19/2015) [-] Yup, it is as you say.
<---Cars on ice as re-enacted by cat
<---Cars on ice as re-enacted by cat
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atomicjojo (12/19/2015) [-]
FF's are ideal for snow/ice. it's one of the main reasons they are so popular up north, and were originally marketed for such that very reason. (watch the movie Fargo) the only thing that MAYBE be better than an FF is a AWD or 4WD car, but those are expensive, get poor mileage, and less reliable (more moving parts) not to mention they can badly understeer on tarmac or oversteer on ice (see your gif)
Also, FF's will actually have the limp rear wheels actually help steer you straight and keep you from turning so much on softer snow, so that helps. (don't forget, most rally cars and Audi's, etc. have a 80% front wheel, 20% rear wheel power distribution.
I drove my FF with race tires in the infamous Raleigh "snopacolypese" (same storm as Atlanta thing, look up pictures on google "Raleigh snowpocolypese" for laughs) and was driving by 4wd jeeps stuck on ice at 40 mph. still took me 6 hours to get home because of the traffic, but once i got to hills where nobody could go up them, i drove right up past them. FF cars are more ideal because all the weight is right on the drive wheels, they get great grip.
Also, we had a GREAT system for cleaning up the snow. what happened was the snow fell SO FAST, (around 12:30 exactly) and EVERYBODY ran home at the same time, so the plows couldn't do anything, we had to rely on the salt that was poured, but wasn't enough.
More people in the south drive RWD cars than the north, which has a ton more FF cars for such a reason. what screws us is the panic.
Source: I'm a Russian who lived in upstate NY for years and now i live in the south who races and used to rally.
Also, FF's will actually have the limp rear wheels actually help steer you straight and keep you from turning so much on softer snow, so that helps. (don't forget, most rally cars and Audi's, etc. have a 80% front wheel, 20% rear wheel power distribution.
I drove my FF with race tires in the infamous Raleigh "snopacolypese" (same storm as Atlanta thing, look up pictures on google "Raleigh snowpocolypese" for laughs) and was driving by 4wd jeeps stuck on ice at 40 mph. still took me 6 hours to get home because of the traffic, but once i got to hills where nobody could go up them, i drove right up past them. FF cars are more ideal because all the weight is right on the drive wheels, they get great grip.
Also, we had a GREAT system for cleaning up the snow. what happened was the snow fell SO FAST, (around 12:30 exactly) and EVERYBODY ran home at the same time, so the plows couldn't do anything, we had to rely on the salt that was poured, but wasn't enough.
More people in the south drive RWD cars than the north, which has a ton more FF cars for such a reason. what screws us is the panic.
Source: I'm a Russian who lived in upstate NY for years and now i live in the south who races and used to rally.
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trisketthebiskit ONLINE (12/19/2015) [-] my sister moved to California from MA and she likes to laugh at people bundling up for 58 degree weather
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mechanicexplain (12/19/2015) [-] Meanwhile in Colorado, we have to Initial D our **** around all the out-of-state people doing 1/2 MPH on the freeway to make it to work on time.
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verycoolcat (12/19/2015) [-] In alaska.... we get so much snow and ice... we make roads out of em... then people make shows out of people driving on those roads, then liberals come here thinking 'ooooh alaska... wait what everyone carries guns? Like literally a drivers license is your carry conceal permit?'
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heyword ONLINE (12/18/2015) [-]
The Massachusettes clip is not even prom the US, it say km/h in the bottom left, i have seen it in russian dashcam comps before, and that would be my best guess for its origin
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concetrationcamp (12/19/2015) [-] **concetrationcamp used "*roll picture*"**
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mossblomma (12/19/2015) [-]
I will never understand how anyone can be comfortable driving a car. I can only think of the forces and kinetic energy involved, and how the car would turn from a steel box into a steel pancake with even the tiniest of accident or error...maybe it's all the physics test questions. I'm almost 24 now, and I should have gotten my drivers licence ages ago, but I just don't have the slightest interest in driving a car unless absolutely necessary.
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stalkerexplain (12/19/2015) [-] That's because you're constantly thinking about those forces, not simply feeling them.
That requires not only experience, but also training.
I know when my car is just about to lose grip, and how to deal with losing the grip.
At first i was kinda afraid of the rain (20 years old car with no ABS and skinny as **** tires), and now it's simply way more fun to slide around on empty roads.
It feels like my car is an extension of my arms and legs, not like a 900kg steel cage of death.
Maybe you simply aren't born as a driver. And that's okay, not everybody can be predestined to slide around every corner in 3rd gear.
But i realy think that a visit on a track in a complete beater car can help you. Understanding what's happening at the car's limit is always a big change in the way of how someone sees cars.
That requires not only experience, but also training.
I know when my car is just about to lose grip, and how to deal with losing the grip.
At first i was kinda afraid of the rain (20 years old car with no ABS and skinny as **** tires), and now it's simply way more fun to slide around on empty roads.
It feels like my car is an extension of my arms and legs, not like a 900kg steel cage of death.
Maybe you simply aren't born as a driver. And that's okay, not everybody can be predestined to slide around every corner in 3rd gear.
But i realy think that a visit on a track in a complete beater car can help you. Understanding what's happening at the car's limit is always a big change in the way of how someone sees cars.
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mossblomma (12/19/2015) [-]
And what if you're on the freeway, and someone loses control in your blind spot, there's no way you can control that.
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dazartimm (12/19/2015) [-] There is no reason anyone would ever be sitting in your blind spot, people aren't that stupid. If someone is overtaking you/you are overtaking someone, it should only be done when it's safe. If there is no reason for them to lose control, they won't. Remember safety inspections exist for a reason. There are bad drivers out there but I think the vast majority are smarter than that.
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stalkerexplain (12/19/2015) [-] If they're behind you, there isn't really much to worry about. If they're in front of you, you've got to rely on your reacion time. That's it.
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Abortedwafflez (12/19/2015) [-] It's like riding a bike that just goes faster. On a bike I can fall, scrape my knee, maybe sprain an ankle. But, it's not hard to do and the liklihood of screwing up is low unless there's some sort of obstruction that pops in your way suddenly. Same concept with a car. That and once you get a feel for it, it gets easier to do and you never forget how to do it.
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mossblomma (12/19/2015) [-]
As I said, one mistake might be all it takes, and it's not like I need to be the one making the mistake to be affected.
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mossblomma (12/19/2015) [-]
I don't trust myself to be perfect and never make a single mistake, and what's more, I don't trust everyone else to never make a mistake either.
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dazartimm (12/19/2015) [-] People make mistakes and that's OK. modern cars have to many safety features and airbags in them that you'd be unlikely to get seriously injured unless someone rammed your driver's side going like 100 mph. City driving, there is really nothing to worry about. It's scary at first, but it's alot safer than it seems. I was in a pretty bad accident once, going about 40 mph in the city, a car poked it's head around a corner and into my lane. My 20yr old truck was totalled, the front end was absolutely destroyed. I was fine, the old lady driving the car was ok too. If you don't want to drive, don't. But you're more likely to die riding a bike than you are driving a car.
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beastybaconman (12/19/2015) [-] You just gotta think about driving and feel the car and dont think about crashing
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manofparody (12/19/2015) [-] I live in Indiana, and even when our roads are iced completely over, you see people doing 80+.
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anon (12/19/2015) [-] And here i am, in cold cold finland, where we are supposed to have -10c right now, instead we are having rain, and it's +8 c
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nITE (12/19/2015) [-] "Hold my coffee, watch this" Apparently people in Massachusetts need coffee to match their skinny jeans, plaid scarfs, and polo t-shirts.
