You guys must drive like doddering geriatrics. You're worried about mixed rain/snow when the ground temperature is well above 50? I'd be less worried about the snow, and more worried about spontaneously wetting your pants because the AM radio is turned up to loud and it startled you.
I'm going to get tracks for the car this winter. Way better then your ****ty snow tires. OMG I'm gonna do mad donuts. I'm the next ken block. Someone give me a monster drink.
So I put my rally armor and snow tires on around Thanksgiving. Already got to experience a bit of my first winter in a Subaru: I'm ready for more sideways fun!
Your last prediction was balls to the wall awful. I'm not going to hold my breath. My prediction: 4 hours of light snowfall during business hours, coinciding with 4 hours of bleating jackasses complaining that they can't wait to get out of work to go play in it. Followed by 2-3 hour long evening commute. Culminating in a light 1/4" dusting of snow on all surfaces. With all traces of snow on the roads being completely gone upon arrival at home.
Am I the only one or has everyone else forgotten how to drive in the white fluffy stuff we call snow.......
I'm in northern Hennepin close to southern Anoka County, so hoping to get more. Latest update: Still snowing.
my car pisses gas under the intake, my summers are still on, and my snows aren't even mounted on rims...I'm doing well, and I still want some freakin snow!!!
HOW long have you lived in Minnesota? Seriously. I've learned LOTS of things about Minnesota drivers in my short time living here. 1) Lots of these people were BORN here. I can understand sliding off the road when there has been a total of 1/8th of an inch of snowfall if this was your first time driving in the north. But I counted 8 at least (possibly more) cars in the ditch by the exit near the 3M plant in Cottage Grove. Seriously. It was a light dusting yesterday. It wasn't even all that slippery when it WAS coming down. 2) I honestly think that native Minnesotans think exactly the way outsiders think of Minnesota snow drivers. They believe that since they have lived in Minnesota their entire lives that they are some how exempted to the laws of physics that rule over vehicles traveling on low traction surfaces. "I'm FROM Minnesota, I don't have to drive carefully or cautiously on this stuff, that's for city slickers and Californians." 3) Minnesota drivers are the ONLY drivers I know of that when the snow season ends, they have to re-learn how to drive on DRY pavement. Seriously. It's like April rolls around, the first major melt happens, the sun is out, and the snow is all but gone, and suddenly you idiots are plowing into guard-rails again like the road was black ice. 4)All throughout the summer, you buttholes jam on your brakes like someone is keeping score on how many times your tail lights illuminate and the high score winner gets free dinner and 1000 dollars. Slight curve in the road? BRAKE! Someone merging into traffic 2 lanes over from you? BRAKE! See the tail lights of a car a mile ahead of you? BRAKE HARD!!! Get a tingle on your neck or some sort of sixth sense that someone, somewhere just sneezed while driving? BRAKE HARD, SWERVE INTO GUARDRAIL, GET OFF THE ROAD AS FAST AND RECKLESSLY AS POSSIBLE!!!!111 But then it SNOWS!!!! And you all suddenly forget how to drive cautiously. Totally backwards. 5) Also, another thing that irks the absolute crap out of me, and I KNOW it happens, because I've seen it FAR too many times for it to be coincidence....when the weather report SAYS there is going to be snow in your area, even though it hasn't started yet, and the sun is even still shining, you start driving like the next pothole is going to make you piss your pants. 10 miles under the speed limit. And no kidding, we saw it today on the way to Toys for Tots. Leaving Cottage Grove. 10 miles per hour under the posted speed limit. All the way to the freeway from our house. It was bone dry. Not a single flake had fallen yet. God that has been pent up for a while. Seriously. I know it isn't most of you guys. But I see this crap DAILY during the winter months and it is infuriating. And it never fails.
You expect more because you listen to the weather man.. I'll stick with the wait and seen, not just go off what they say we will get for snow accumulation
You managed to complain about people who: drive recklessly in the snow drive cautiously in the snow drive recklessly in the dry drive cautiously in the dry It appears you hate every type of person depending on the situation! But I'd actually have to agree with most of this. Using a driving style that does not match the conditions is one of the most irritating things to come across. A little common sense would go a long ways out there on the roads.
So uhhh... there is a wee bit of snow packed in your rims. Thought you might like to know. *whistles dixie*
There's a difference between driving "carefully/cautiously" and driving like you're absolutely terrified of every aspect of automotive travel. I call it "brake fetish." People addicted to tapping their brakes...to the point of getting off on it or something. I drive cautiously. But I keep my feet off my brakes unless there is an emergency or I need to stop.
