Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on January 26, 2009, 06:13:36 AM
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: GmanJoe on January 26, 2009, 06:13:36 AM
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: videoholic on January 26, 2009, 06:33:47 AM
nice that we don\'t have to deal with that crap here in FL. Although it\'s pretty obvious if you push the gas even remotely hard your tires will brake loose.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: GmanJoe on January 26, 2009, 08:03:40 AM
Manual transmission FTW.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Luke on January 26, 2009, 09:58:46 AM
Looks like my driving to work, every... godamn.... day.
HA! Just checked the link and it WAS Chicago!
Fucking figures. Driving around here this winter has been awful.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: clips on January 26, 2009, 09:58:58 AM
As crazy as it sounds, it\'d rather deal with those roads than to deal with the tornadoes we have down here....last summer we had five tornadoes spinning together going in the same direction only within a few miles of each other...scary s**t.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Eiksirf on January 26, 2009, 10:31:10 AM
Chicago citizens really ought to vote to throw a few more dollars toward salting the roads.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Viper_Fujax on January 26, 2009, 11:08:17 AM
iv never had to try to drive on icy roads before. id be getting into fender benders all the time in that shit.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: GmanJoe on January 26, 2009, 12:31:27 PM
Quote from: Viper_Fujax
iv never had to try to drive on icy roads before. id be getting into fender benders all the time in that shit.
You SoCal people get into fender benders when it\'s CLOUDY.
And then when it rains, good God! You guys are practically about to die on the road!
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: GmanJoe on January 26, 2009, 12:35:41 PM
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Viper_Fujax on January 26, 2009, 12:38:05 PM
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You SoCal people get into fender benders when it\'s CLOUDY.
And then when it rains, good God! You guys are practically about to die on the road!
true..were getting better though. the problem is we have people that are driving 40 fearing for their lives, and the dumbasses still going 70 weaving between everyone.
usually there\'d be sirens going all day whenever it rains here but now its just one or two
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: clips on January 26, 2009, 01:17:08 PM
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Everybody\'s car insurance in that clip went up 120%...:D
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Bozco on January 26, 2009, 03:21:32 PM
Quote from: clips
As crazy as it sounds, it\'d rather deal with those roads than to deal with the tornadoes we have down here....last summer we had five tornadoes spinning together going in the same direction only within a few miles of each other...scary s**t.
You\'re nuts. Those tornadoes don\'t have that great of a chance hitting you while the ice storms trash everywhere. Twice in the past 3 years I\'ve been hit with ice storms that had over an inch thick of ice on everything. Everywhere closed down for days and most all of the city was out of power from a couple days to a couple weeks.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Phil on January 26, 2009, 10:20:01 PM
4-10 inches plus another 2 inches of sleet expected over the next two days. Driving is going to be a BLAST.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Viper_Fujax on January 26, 2009, 10:24:35 PM
sunny, 67 degrees here
mmm
edit: you moved to california phil?
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Phil on January 26, 2009, 10:29:00 PM
Fuck, need to change that back.
I was in LA for 3 months on an internship. I\'ll be back out in Cali in April.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: clips on January 27, 2009, 05:36:50 AM
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You\'re nuts. Those tornadoes don\'t have that great of a chance hitting you while the ice storms trash everywhere. Twice in the past 3 years I\'ve been hit with ice storms that had over an inch thick of ice on everything. Everywhere closed down for days and most all of the city was out of power from a couple days to a couple weeks.
Haha...i don\'t know Boz, you might reconsider if you stayed down here last summer....i\'ve dealt with the brutal winters when i used to live in jersey, but when i moved to georgia,..i found out that the storms down here are 2-3 times more intense than the storms you guys get up north.
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Fuck, need to change that back.
I was in LA for 3 months on an internship. I\'ll be back out in Cali in April.
Damn... you\'re workin\' all over the place. :thumb:
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Jar O Pickles on January 27, 2009, 07:29:42 AM
Quote from: Eiksirf
Chicago citizens really ought to vote to throw a few more dollars toward salting the roads.
thats a joke right?
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: videoholic on January 27, 2009, 07:37:24 AM
I\'m wearing shorts.
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Post by: Luke on January 27, 2009, 10:16:05 AM
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thats a joke right?
Yeah dude. My nice black car is almost completely white with all the salt.
Gross.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Jar O Pickles on January 27, 2009, 10:21:59 AM
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Yeah dude. My nice black car is almost completely white with all the salt.
Gross.
well that and suggesting the people of the most over taxed city in the country should dig a little deeper in their pockets
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Eiksirf on January 27, 2009, 11:37:50 AM
I don\'t care what you pay for, really. Put ice skates under your car and call it even, if you want to.
That salty car paint job is atrocious though. I drove up to northern NJ last week and saw all the whited-out cars, it was disgusting. I had to hit a car wash by the time I got back home and I was only there for a weekend.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: Bozco on January 27, 2009, 11:50:32 AM
Salt doesn\'t help past a certain temperature anyway.
Title: Ready for Icy Roads? Check out this video.
Post by: GmanJoe on January 28, 2009, 05:06:20 AM
My car looked like it got glazed on this morning by Jack Frost. Took me 15 minutes to get the 1/4 inch ice off the winders. Then I had to drive through 2 miles of icy roads before I saw pavement on the main road. AWD is great for MOVING....but stopping is the same as any car.