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Originally Posted by Gas Man
The bottom line is that your southern states aren't prepared for it. Nor do any of the drivers have the skill set.
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Yep...that's part of the problem.......but the BIGGER picture is: 16" of snow tells even the most retarded of drivers
But when facing 1" to 1.5" Home grown southerners first empty the milk and bread then go straight home for hibernation with their milk sammiches.....but then you have the "go getters" (mainly northerners, because when you grow up here you KNOW that no matter what depth...it's ALL gonna end up as compacted ICE on every road we have) ...that decide to run here and there at mach speed like they're use too on the roads up north, before settling back at home thinking 1" ain't shit. They're use to pre-treatments, trucks, salt, sand, plows....all the things no state south of Maryland wastes more than $100k budget on for the WHOLE STATE.
This storm was different though. The southeners who normally ride out such a "storm" by the fire, sucking down milk sammiches, were told to send their kids to school and go on to work....but then told at 11am to "come git ya damn kids"
Everyone (including the salt trucks) were released on the ALT hiways at 11:00 AFTER it'd already become a sheet of ice. And fuckery ensued.