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[inaki]

Portland needs to learn how to drive in the snow.

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[nevermint.livejournal.com]

Holly COW!!! Damn they don't know how to drive.

[tekfox.livejournal.com]

Niether do people from colorado juding from how I25 looks now =p

[higginsdragon.livejournal.com]

The trick to driving in a heavy snowfall is to not drive in a heavy snowfall. It also looked like they were on some sort of grade, however minor, given many of the cars were sliding sideways for a long while. Heh, so many times I was watching that and going, "Um, yeah, those breaks? They mean nothing."

I guess it doesn't snow much up there? :) That's part of the reason I left the midwest.

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

This is our annual Big Winter Storm. And it's a few days too early! It was supposed to happen while I was down in nice, dry California. :-}

[thraxarious.livejournal.com]

I'm originally from the midwest. Most of us know better. Yeah, steep grade + snow + ice = BAAAAD.

[mharpold8.livejournal.com]

It's actually pretty deserted today, everyone has the day off, all city workers are at home, all schools are closed... I had to drive today because, well, the disabled don't watch themselves, and I'm a good driver with a car with ESP. ;-)

[higginsdragon.livejournal.com]

A much better reason to drive, and it sounds like you are aware of the physics of driving in snow. :) I was watching that video, seeing people accelerate and going, "Don't they know... oh, apparently not." :) I was reading in other comments that this kind of thing is somewhat rare, so it's fair that people might get caught off guard. Those conditions were at least a yearly occurance when I lived in Chicago. Now, Bay Area drivers dealing with rain, that I still don't understand. It happens every year, but it's like magic from the sky or something. :P

The pictures I've seen other people post though, very pretty when it snows there.

[ksilebo.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. That was like fucking pinball.

[centauress.livejournal.com]

That is no snow!

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

Hey...that link didn't work for me for some reason.

Then again... *looks out window* ...it doesn't have to. I was /there/. :-P

Well, as far as driving in the snow goes.

[synchra.livejournal.com]

O.o is that ice??? wtf.

CHAINS ON TIRESSS?!?!?!

[karn.livejournal.com]

Note to self... never move to Portland D:

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

It's like this one day out of the year. Okay, maybe two if you count that tomorrow it's still going to be frozen and icy.

[mharpold8.livejournal.com]

It's like once every three years that we get this sort of snow. This is still the best city in the country. ;-)

[twigmouse.livejournal.com]

Word!

[tixen.livejournal.com]

In their defense, That's some of the slickest ice I've ever seen cars drive on.

[captainsaicin.livejournal.com]

hmm, won't load for me...

[captainsaicin.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk found it lol.

Man, that first guy doesn't belong behind the wheel of a car... idiot.

The rest probably shouldn't have even tried if they didn't know how to stop or control the car without better traction =P

I could do it, given 4WD... doesn't mean I'd want to try, though. Just too much risk in conditions like that. Ice + Snow + hill = recipe for disaster.