Yeah.... all butts are not created equal, that's for sure.

 

Mannn, you guys see this, -


Terrible!

More vids at you tube, - that one above ^^^ shows how icy it was...they couldn't stop.

 

Brew that is some scary stuff. When we get ice here people lose their damn minds so I'm glad it doesn't happen often.

 

I’m afraid I’m one of those
recently moved to north Georgia and we get spurts of snow and ice. Unfortunately the town I live in is primarily college students. And we all know they don’t know how to drive on ice and snow. They prove this every year with a few car crashes around this time of winter.
So my solution is put around 600 lbs of firewood in the bed. Remember it’s a 2WD so it’s better than nothing.

 

That's pretty brutal. Earlier today I heard 5 dead.... haven't heard since then.

I've been driving in ice and snow for so long, it's not a huge deal anymore. In fact, it's kind of fun at times. The Eight Nine is a real donut machine but it won't be doing that anymore.

 

yea, down here in Georgia, no one really knows how to drive in ice and snow. It’s pretty common for the absolute morons who do donuts in empty parking lots to hit a pole and total their vehicle.

 

I've lived in northeast Ohio, Minot, ND, and Colorado. Yep, I've driven in my fair share of white stuff and ice. One time an Air Force buddy (he was from near Buffalo, NY) and I took a trip from OH to ND to visit some friends for New Year's. They closed I-80 behind us somewhere in Iowa so/but we kept on going. Young and brave (stupid?), or we would likely have stayed the night somewhere instead, but the 198x Bronco II got us through without incident.

 

Good morning thinkers!- its the weekend eve! As a young man
i worked construction in the central plains of NC (mid eightys)it snowed hard that year- man the highways looked like a parking lot!!! then the next year i was working below Savanna Ga.- it didnt snow, but man it got K-O-L-D, cold that year!!
Dang, the bad weather must follow me!!
Humph... its hot coffee time!
Later fellers!!

 

What do you mean college student dont know that 4wd doesnt mean 4 wheel stop? LOL My cousin went to school in Boone NC and drove an old long bed square body chevy. When none of the other guys could get up and out he would fill the bed with sand, or snow in a pinch, and drive everywhere.

I actually enjoy it down here on back roads when we get the chance. Its the main roads where everyone is still trying to drive 65 that tend to get sketchy. LOL

You had an old B2 as well as the Ranger? I think I would have been way too worried about that short wheel base in the slick stuff.

 

I was on the E-way in the middle lane heading to work one day, crossing a over-pass during a snow storm, - got passed by an Expy in the fast lane going around in circles, and a car doing the same thing in the slow lane. They both lost it, overpass was iced up. Luckily I didn't get clipped, the Expy slid into the barrier wall, the car slide toward the ditch. Close call for the 98.
Only a couple showed up for work that day. I got stuck shuttling between 16G six wheel drive road grader and 966 cat loader clearing the job site so we could work the next day. We got some snow from that storm, it was cold and windy, some of the equipment was froze to the ground. Dozers on steel tracks mainly. Yea, I should of took the layoff that winter lol.

We don't get that much snow around here anymore. Ice , yes, we get a lot of that, MI drivers are pretty use to it, but there's always those few who take too many chances. Road Commission is pretty good about being on top of things, but there are times when they just can't cover everything before starting it all over again. Doesn't happen often tho anymore...global warming right...lol