So here's alls I got to say...

I left work (15 miles from my house & usually a 25 minute drive) at 2:00 pm... it is now 8:20 pm, and I arrived home 20 minutes ago. If you are capable of basic math you've figured out that it took me 6 hours to travel 15 miles.

Ridiculous.

Global warming......

Ice here in Chaz with snow on the way............70 degrees on the beaches this weekend................JIBE right around the corner:duh::duh:

Maybe I could go snow kiting if I had skis or something....

Seriously, the streets are like a skating rink,... And every single person that went to work in the metro Atlanta area decided to leave between noon an 2:00, so the bad situation got worse from the jump.

Big props to my kite mobile though,... The AWD Honda Element took on icy hills that some of the big pick-ups were fighting... With ease....

... Btw 3shot,... That's why they call it Global a Climate Change now

What, no skis? How can you be so unprepared and miss this rare snowkiting opportunity!

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What, no skis? How can you be so unprepared and miss this rare snowkiting opportunity!

Here in Ga we are always prepared.... So much so that my 2 yr old wore socks on her hands for mittens.

We're much more likely to have water skis than snow skis

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If you are capable of basic math you've figured out that it took me 6 hours to travel 15 miles. Ridiculous.

My first car was like that too

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Quote: Originally posted by soliver   If you are capable of basic math you've figured out that it took me 6 hours to travel 15 miles. Ridiculous. My first car was like that too

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Big props to my kite mobile though,... The AWD Honda Element took on icy hills that some of the big pick-ups were fighting... With ease....

My car was the best thing on the road if you ask me... It was all the doofus's with the front wheel drive Lexus sedans trying to gun it up hills that blocked the other 500 cars behind them and accidents at every turn.... News reports over 2000 cars abandoned on the roads from people who bailed and decided to walk or ran out of gas. The icy roads were only 1/2 of the equation... The other 1/2 was every single person who owned a car in the metro area deciding to drive at the same time. One guy delivered his own baby in the back seat of their car on the interstate!

Icy roads + too many (bad) drivers = 15 miles traveled in 6 hours

I had to go pick up my mother in law at her house then pick up my father in law at the hospital who was being discharged from a shoulder replacement done yesterday, then drop them back off at home,... It looked like an icy apocalypse with cars abandoned every 1/4 mile... Bonkers

that was a punch line from an old joke about a Texan bragging about how big his property is "It takes me a full day to drive around my property" - yup I had a car like that once...


Even up in areas that are used to snow the first snowfall no matter how small will always be crazy slow traffic toward Toronto. It's not fun sitting for hours and hours creeping along ....

did you take photos, it's probably on the news on the web, i'll go have a look

edit - yup that was a good glaze of ice on the roads. when you get that layer of snow and it doesn't get scraped off or sanded or salted then it just packs down to a nice glaze with all the cars polishing it up. That's a lot of cars stranded.

Glad you'r home safe and cozy warm

Blizzard of 1977
I've been in TN (*94) when they had a WICKED ice storm shut town down 7 days. Way different than what we get here!
Spring is right around the corner

Crazy thing is we never had much of a winter at all this year the Pacific N.W.. Spring is springing out all around me. Cherry trees are starting to blossom and things are punching out of the ground everywhere.

It has made for an awful snowkite / ski season but :dunno:

What makes it worse here is how the temperature fluctuates.... Yesterday it snowed like crazy and the ground was just cold enough for most of it to stick, but with all the cars driving over it on the roads it turned to slush and some melted. As the sun went down the temp dropped even lower, everything liquid froze and the streets became solid ice.

I think I heard that something like 6 southern states have declared a "state of emergency"

Here's a pic from about hour 2 of my 15 mile drive

Welcome soliver. We call it winter, but the northern states are better prepared with more trucks and salt.

Glad your OK and not a victim of circumstance. Make no mistake, even though we get lots of snow and long winters in WI, there is still lots of stupid drivers that let there gaurd down just because they drive a SUV or truck. First snows of the season always gaurantee the body shops lots of business until we all relearn how to drive in the snow again. Every year is a repeat of the previous.

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15 miles traveled in 6 hours

That's bad even by L.A. standards ; )'

Glad to hear you made it back home safely!