Doing assorted things around the office today, have the radio on listening to nothing in particular. About 11:30 they said it was starting to snow around Charlotte, looked out the windows, big fat flakes just starting to lay. By 11:40 the accident reports started, I-77, I-85, I-485, I-40, Tryon Street, Tyvola, and Highway 29. By noon there were over 30 accidents, in less than 1/4" of snow, ugh! I am proud to be from the South, I like being Southern, but we do on occasion live up to stereotypes....we do say Y'all(but we know how to use it)....and we can't drive in snow.

 

Just drive slower than normal & be careful accelerating & braking.

 

Well you know that, and I know that, but do they know that?

 

Yeah, the biggest thing is slowing down in advance. Let the car slow itself more than the brakes.

I saw a car at McDonald's earlier today that was from Oklahoma, front end smashed in...I'm sure that happened this past week....

 

Okies on ice.. It's a godawful thing...

John

 

About twenty years ago I was in Atlanta during an ice storm. It was like watching the old Joie Chitwood Thrill Show on acid. Spins, crashes, slides, reverse 180's, and the only thing missing was a Chevette being shot out of the giant Mr. Pibb cannon.

 

Don't feel bad. There are a lot of Northerners who can't drive in snow either.

 

I think that maybe up North people forget over the summer and then regain their skills. I lived up in Buffalo and in Erie and to a Southern boy it seemed to stop snowing in June and start again in September. Usually in the first storm or two people were driving like complete idiots and then they remembered how to do it. The accidents would fall off and a drive to the supermarket was no longer a life threatening enterprise. I learned to navigate in snow with an ancient rear drive van, usually it seemed before the plows came out. Down this way people are stunned with tales of two inch an hour snow that was so thick you'd have to clean the windshield twice before you could even start the engine. Its been years since I had to drive in the white stuff, and I guarantee I'm rusty, but I'm not so rusty that 1/8" would put me in the guardrails.

 

You mean like 99%?

 

I like driving 55 on snow packed roads. Get to do that almost 9 months of the year....