DC Area: More snow than I expected

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Dec 5, 2002 | 10:50 PM

#16

leungwingkei

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Some SUV driver have no logic. They ought to realize when they can't take a corner at 60km/h on dry payment in the summer, most likely you won't be able to do it in the winter.

Dec 6, 2002 | 07:22 AM

#17

funkdaddysmack

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Re: Re: and just to let everyone know

Quote:

Originally posted by Maxx Mazda

You guys don't know snow until you live in Calgary. We get 2 feet in April! (It happened in '98 I think) and back in '99 on Christmas day it was 20*C!

We've got just a few inches on the ground, but the roads, etc. are icy as hell. Took me alot longer to park this morning. (Drifting contests in the school parking lot!) LOL!

We had a blizzard in '96 I think that we got 3 feet in march or april, it was crazy. My sister and I had to dig down in the drifts to find our mailbox. No plows came through for 3 days, my neighbors snow-blowed the road with their lawn-tractors

Yesterday we got about 6", and I had to go to Harrisburg in it, luckily I didn't have to drive, or I would have gone nuts. 5 hours of driving just isn't cool though when it usually takes about 2.5

Dec 6, 2002 | 10:15 AM

#18

itzkcatz

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We had a bad storm a couple years back i think 96-97 that gave us over a foot and a half ..Closed school for like a week ..Jon

Dec 6, 2002 | 10:33 AM

#19

ESsedan01

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From: ON, Canada

Quote:

Originally posted by leungwingkei
How come it doesn't snow in Toronto anymore?

People in the States will have to start vacationing here in the Winter now. lol
I guess we are not living up to our nick name. "The Great White North".
I don't mind no snow one bit!

Dec 6, 2002 | 01:16 PM

#20

UCSBgeek

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From: California, USA

Quote:

Originally posted by hihoslva
I'm more talking about the over-convident SUV driver, not the SUVs themselves.

People who drive like they're on dry pavement when there's 6" of snow on the road.

Granted, I'm not a big SUV fan, but I can appreciate their abilities - I felt good knowing my wife could throw her Jeep Cherokee in 4wd for the snowy ride home today - and SHE understands that STOPPING is just as hard (or harder) for SUVs as it is for cars.

It's the people in ALL kinds of SUVs - big, little, expensive, cheap - who think "I have 4wd and ABS brakes, so I'm invincible" who **** me off. BUt it's okay - they all get theirs eventually. I only hope that it's only guardrails, trees, and other inanimate objects that they hit.

~HH

They're usually the ones who are in the ditch at the side of the road. I'd rather get a Subaru and drive it carefully.