Be carefull out there , stuff happens

[schmee]

Treacherous out there today until this evening, at least here in the PNW. Frozen rain starting.
I have done a 360 spin twice with just front wheel drive cars. But it's been years. No warning, no turning, just driving 30-35 and "whoa"! Go figger.
Been driving the 4WD F250 carefully, but I live on a hill with almost no traffic so no traffice to wear down the snow. Worried today after the ice storm. The F250 just has road tires on it.
My dog went out a bit ago and couldn't walk on the snow it's so slick. She's been fine on it for a few days before this am.

 

[24 track]

Treacherous out there today until this evening, at least here in the PNW. Frozen rain starting.
I have done a 360 spin twice with just front wheel drive cars. But it's been years. No warning, no turning, just driving 30-35 and "whoa"! Go figger.
Been driving the 4WD F250 carefully, but I live on a hill with almost no traffic so no traffice to wear down the snow. Worried today after the ice storm. The F250 just has road tires on it.
My dog went out a bit ago and couldn't walk on the snow it's so slick. She's been fine on it for a few days before this am.

maybe this is a que to stay home bundle up and and enjoy the impending madness Sunday!, the zambonie has not been up here in a few days to polish the road in front of the house either and the back streets in town are no better . be carefull!

 

[schmee]

maybe this is a que to stay home bundle up and and enjoy the impending madness Sunday!, the zambonie has not been up here in a few days to polish the road in front of the house either and the back streets in town are no better . be carefull!

Gig tonite!
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these musicians from the swift completion of their appointed setlist"

 

[24 track]

Gig tonite!
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these musicians from the swift completion of their appointed setlist"

Have fun!, play well!

 

[RoscoeElegante]

Comming home today , I live up on top of a butte , I went into a 4 wheel drive skid one side of the road is a culvert with a 50 foot drop the other side is a ditch with a hill , I started to slide uphill towards the deep culvert and as I crossed the mid line I crancked my wheels in the opposite direction ( feet off of the gas & brake of course ) spun around and went off the road just below the hill , facing down hill, I put the truck in reverse going back a few inches and hanging up , I placed the truck into 4 low and plowed forward back onto the road turned the truck around and went on my way no issues , had I gone off the road down the 50 foot culvert , no one would have found me ( not good) , but I was lucky no harm no foul

my point is even if you have 4 wheel drive watch out for 4 wheel drive skids , view it like a 2 wheel drive skid with all 4 wheels at the same time.
be carefull out there you guys and stay safe , get home to your families in the same condition you left ! Have good tires , a full tank for traction and keep your vehicle healthy.

Be carefull !

Glad you made it out/back okay. I once almost drove off the unmarked edge of a strip mine so I admire how you kept your cool.

 

[24 track]

Glad you made it out/back okay. I once almost drove off the unmarked edge of a strip mine so I admire how you kept your cool.

Thank you !

 

[ASATKat]

Comming home today , I live up on top of a butte , I went into a 4 wheel drive skid one side of the road is a culvert with a 50 foot drop the other side is a ditch with a hill , I started to slide uphill towards the deep culvert and as I crossed the mid line I crancked my wheels in the opposite direction ( feet off of the gas & brake of course ) spun around and went off the road just below the hill , facing down hill, I put the truck in reverse going back a few inches and hanging up , I placed the truck into 4 low and plowed forward back onto the road turned the truck around and went on my way no issues , had I gone off the road down the 50 foot culvert , no one would have found me ( not good) , but I was lucky no harm no foul

my point is even if you have 4 wheel drive watch out for 4 wheel drive skids , view it like a 2 wheel drive skid with all 4 wheels at the same time.
be carefull out there you guys and stay safe , get home to your families in the same condition you left ! Have good tires , a full tank for traction and keep your vehicle healthy.

Be carefull !

I feel you, glad you're ok, I drove down the famous Old Priest Road by Yosemite in February. That meant lots of ice. Stupid, at the last moment I found barely a place to turn hard left and skip to a stop. The other side of the road was the very steep drop. Since then I have become frightened of heights and had many a dream where my car flies off the road. It always wakes me up. That happened in the late '70s.

 

[1293]

Yep 4 wheel can get ya going but won't keep you on the road or help you stop.

AWD is pretty awesome though. Way back when, my not yet wife and I lived 90 miles apart. I often drove home on snowy Monday mornings. 6-10" of snow on twisty roads. 100 mph+ the whole way. Tap the breaks and **** the wheel to set the rear end up, point where I wanted to go, and punch through.

EDIT: Really? I can't write c(o)ck?

 

[Recce]

its even worse in Vancouver with all of the status SUVs down there and no snow , then when it does snow , Holy crap its nasty, alot of drivers who have them know that they go in the snow but forget you have to stop .

Four wheel drive can give you a false sense of security because you can go, normally, very well. But, it doesn’t work for stopping. When you break a four wheel drive loose it is so much fun because until it reconnects you are basically along for the ride. Remembering four wheel drive gives you that false sense of security is the hard part. Touch the brakes and you figure it out. I am older and not as quite as crazy anymore.

 

[24 track]

Four wheel drive can give you a false sense of security because you can go, normally, very well. But, it doesn’t work for stopping. When you break a four wheel drive loose it is so much fun because until it reconnects you are basically along for the ride. Remembering four wheel drive gives you that false sense of security is the hard part. Touch the brakes and you figure it out. I am older and not as quite as crazy anymore.

I hear you, my invincable days ended now I have to report all the Titanium in my body as I go through a metal detector , I feel like ROBOGRAMPS , LOL .

 

[Tonetele]

Good and quick thinking on your part 24 track.

 

[1293]

Four wheel drive can give you a false sense of security because you can go, normally, very well. But, it doesn’t work for stopping. When you break a four wheel drive loose it is so much fun because until it reconnects you are basically along for the ride. Remembering four wheel drive gives you that false sense of security is the hard part. Touch the brakes and you figure it out. I am older and not as quite as crazy anymore.

I was on my way to work in my beater Civic on a snowy morning. A jacked pickup was riding my bumper. I signaled to take a right and he promptly swerved around me, did a 720 and ended up on his side in a ditch. That event still gives me warm fuzzies nearly 20 years later.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

I was on my way to work in my beater Civic on a snowy morning. A jacked pickup was riding my bumper. I signaled to take a right and he promptly swerved around me, did a 720 and ended up on his side in a ditch. That event still gives me warm fuzzies nearly 20 years later.

I'm enjoying even reading about it! People who ride your bumper in bad weather are the worst.

 

[SuprHtr]

I was on my way to work in my beater Civic on a snowy morning. A jacked pickup was riding my bumper. I signaled to take a right and he promptly swerved around me, did a 720 and ended up on his side in a ditch. That event still gives me warm fuzzies nearly 20 years later.

My favorite time to watch over-confident 4 wheel drivers is when there’s glare ice on the road. About 25 years ago I was driving south from Nashville on I-65 and realized the road had iced over. There is not one thing that you can do other than slow WAY down or get off the road. I must have seen over 20 SUV’s that slid off the road. When they barreled past me, I knew they had no clue. Incidentally, the absolute best vehicle I ever owned for driving in snow or dirt roads was an 86 SAAB 900T. I miss that car. I should buy a Subaru…

 

[Skydog1010]

1983
Renault 18i station wagon
Late night trip home from gig in Blacksburg/Christiansburg late December
Traveling Route 8 South, going downhill sweeping right turn, off camber
Black ice sheet - very large sheet
Fortunately I was able to get a 270 to the left which had the front (fwd) pointing uphill and only the right rear wheel poking through snow bank hanging over a steep 80 foot drop that did not have a guard rail.

Was able to have it pulled out and drive home, 100+ miles. What a night.

No damage to people, gear, or car! YAY!

Should have spent the night in Christiansburg.

 

[24 track]

I'm enjoying even reading about it! People who ride your bumper in bad weather are the worst.

I used to have a 1990 toyota 4X4 great little truck , I rebuilt it, beautiful little beastie , painted it Midnight sparkle blue with flat black trim , no chrome , I kept the wheels white , Warn winch on the front tube bumper, and tube bumpers on the back as well , I also installed a set of reverse set of fog lamps just between the tubes on the rear bumper , that were like head lamps under the back bumper,
Because this only had a 20R engine , she was ballsy but not a killer for speed ( I even used it to pull a semi on flat ground ) in four low )
I digress , guys would climb up my tailpipe going op hill , I would use the back up lamps to tell them to back off , it worked perfectly.

 

[Informal]

I lived in the Reno/Tahoe area for 15 years... Lived in Reno, commuted to Truckee in just horrible conditions.
Don't miss winter driving at all!

I had Jeeps, and several other 4 wheel drive vehicles with AT tires.
But honestly, the safest...most sure footed I ever felt driving in that muck, was in the girlfriends (now my wife) Honda CRX, with studded snow tires on the front...

That car was just a beast for snow and Ice... Never once had a "change your underwear moment" in it.. But had several in the 4X4's.

 

[Preacher]

Most watched video in DFW this week...



Most of the cars in the clip were rear wheeled drive vehicles.

 

[Recce]

I was on my way to work in my beater Civic on a snowy morning. A jacked pickup was riding my bumper. I signaled to take a right and he promptly swerved around me, did a 720 and ended up on his side in a ditch. That event still gives me warm fuzzies nearly 20 years later.

I was never that pereson. I have always tried to leave plenty of space on slick roads because I never wanted to collect bumpers or ditches.

 

[24 track]

I dont know if any of you ever watched " Highway Thru Hell" about the highway from Vancouver to Kamloops, it was a series about the driving conditions going from sea level to 3300 ft to the interior plateau of B.C.

Road conditions are slicker than guano all winter long