Be Careful in Slush

[catcul]

I had to go to eastern North Carolina. The road conditions are not very good. I saw a pickup truck overturned in a ditch in the median.

Be careful out there.

[Crossbow]

I have to agree with my pharmacist. Snow is easy to deal with. Salt slime and slush are the dangerous conditions. You never know what they're going to do, and all wheel drive doesn't help you stop, despite what too many people seem to think...

[wolfie]

You know the road conditions are bad when you see a dog sled rolled over in the ditch.

[Teefies2]

I'm in western North Carolina and today was NOT fun. The snow started around 8pm. Well of course, by that time, we had run out of eggs, bread and almost out of milk. People were not happy .... too bad, so sad, it was predicted that we would get anywhere from 3 - 10 inches overnight. Why didn't you come in earlier? And yes, some people had to work, but I'm talking 8pm - if you work so-called "regular hours", you have been off work for 3 hours at this point. Most of our sales today were people on their way home from work.

Anyway, going home tonight would have been okay. Yes, the roads were snowy and icy, but hey! if you drive at 20mph, you got nothing to worry about. I wish someone would have told the A** behind me .... he rode my bumper for 12 miles - in the dark, in the snow which was still falling, over snowy/icy roads. You suck mister!

Oh, and best call of the night?? 9pm (we close at 10) to my place of employment - a DRUGSTORE - "do you have sleds?" I was WTF?????

[Ophbalance]

We managed to get through the ice storm down on my end of the state and still have power. And then the small storm on Tuesday, still no loss of power. Yet last night, when it was JUST rain in my county in NC? Well of course that's when we lose power! Dear random driver that took out an electric pole... you suck very much.

[NoRedCards]

I was driving this morning after our 4 inches of snow in our area.....doing close to the speed limit, when a guy pulling a boat went blasting by doing about 65MPH......used to the poor driving, more interested in where he was going with the boat?

[dalesys]

... where he was going with the boat?

Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I want to take ya; Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama; Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go...

[catcul]

Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I want to take ya; Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama; Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go...

You do realize that Kokomo is in Indiana.

[wolfie]

used to the poor driving, more interested in where he was going with the boat?

Possibly making sure that when (not if) he crashed from his lousy driving, he'd have the supplies for a Viking funeral readily available?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Possibly making sure that when (not if) he crashed from his lousy driving, he'd have the supplies for a Viking funeral readily available?

RITFLMAO

I'm near the middle of the state (Piedmont Triad area) and Thursday morning wasn't too bad getting out - dry powder snow is not hard to shovel off a ramp or walkway.

Saw two instances of dumbass driving on the route to work:

1) Dumbass the First was a dude in a big white Suburban who thought it would be cool to ride our bumper all the way down the hills and curves that is Phillips Avenue. 6:45 in the morning, just getting light out and Mom was not about to go over 10 down the hills (actually it was 5 miles an hr downhill) and he kept riding our bumper the entire length of the road.

Finally got to the far end and crossed the bridge that US 29 runs underneath and turned onto Summit Avenue, this dude still on our tail. Stayed the entire time we crossed underneath the overpass (northbound lane crosses over southbound lane of Summit at this point and then they come together ) and then finally decided to go around us and fly through the intersection at 16th street.

2) Dumbass #2 we encountered on the long stretch of Church Street that leads up to the shopping center where I work at. Got passed near the BP station by a guy in a beat up 1980-something Ford truck who was flying past us on the left. Not sure where he was heading but he was in enough of a hurry to fly past us fast enough to kick up slushy water onto Mom's side of the car! Even though the road had been cleared, it still wasn't 100% okay and no cop around when you need one . . . otherwise he'd been pulled over for passing on the left of a solid double line.

Just totally unnecessary . . .

[Zheuse]

NC was bad a couple days ago. I had an accident on I-40 at mile marker 15. SUV in fast lane trying to pass me and clipped the center concrete barrier, flipped, and struck my trailer on my 18 wheeler. Both people in SUV were ok, but scared the hell out of them.



Damage done to my trailer

[notalwaysright]

Glad you're okay. Flipping is such a classic SUV accident. I always see them fly around me when weather is bad... I notice this much more with SUVs than cars or trucks. It's like they think they're immune to the road conditions, when they should be extra careful. They're more likely to flip than my low to the ground midsize sedan.

[Zheuse]

speed limit for cars there is 55, and he wasnt speeding. just happened to catch a patch of snow that hadnt been cleared by the snow plow yet. To his credit, he told the state patrol that showed up that it was his fault completely, and thanked me for not flattening him and his wife.

[wolfie]

Damage done to my trailer

Photos still not appearing in your post. I tried going to the URLs manually (showed up when I got to the "type in your post" screen with your message quoted), and ran into problems, but showed OK when I went with "http" instead of "https". I see that I'm not the only one to have an encounter with the infamous Moronic SUV Chrome Scratcher.

[notalwaysright]

I was driving this morning after our 4 inches of snow in our area.....doing close to the speed limit, when a guy pulling a boat went blasting by doing about 65MPH......used to the poor driving, more interested in where he was going with the boat?

If I saw this around here, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Rain or shine, people love their boats. Now tell me it was a sailboat and the picture will be complete...