SCs in the Winter!

[BaristaGirl]

Home sweet home, New England. I live in Suburbia north of a major city and the plows always block my driveway with the snow, every time they plow, I have to re-shovel my driveway because they literally lock the cars in with walls of snow. Who feels my pain, here? Anybody?

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

my road isn't as well maintained as some,, they just bring a grater through 2-3 times a year, so I have chunks of ice at the end of the driveway that are too big even for me to pick up, and they get frozen together so I have to break them up, takes a couple hours, but I'm moving and the guy who's keeping an eye on the house for the owner plows the driveway, so I only had to do it for the one year

[Shabo]

I live near the ocean, so we get a lot of inch of snow followed by sleet followed by rain then freeze overnight. Fun stuff. Oh, and it rains more than anything in the winter here. And the wind! Oh the wind! That's the most brutal part! Sometimes I feel like I live in Chicago.

[IT Grunt]

Who feels my pain, here? Anybody?

Be thankful your road even gets plowed.

[RichS]

Be thankful your road even gets plowed.

Been there, going to do that again this year - around here, the side roads get plowed last, if at all...so it'll be lucky I get past my driveway if there's a good enough snowstorm.

[Tito]

I used to find people who would crowd into the store when a storm was predicted pretty amusing. Where I live, we get storms, but the roads are always perfectly clear the following day. These people would stampede the store, loading up on stuff like they were going to be snowed in for a month.

I live by the ocean, so we get alot of those wintery mix crap storms, which of course is worse.

I hate Winter. The thought of it coming again soon makes me want to cry.

[ParkingWitch]

My favorite car for snow driving had to be my little bitty Chevy Chevette, (yes Chevette not Corvette) 2 door 4 cyl. 4 speed rear wheel drive. I live on a hill. A serious hill, standing at the end of my alley I can look over the top of our 3 story (tall main/ground floor so about 50 feet total) city hall at the bottom of the hill about a quarter mile away. I used to love putting the three tone baby car into first gear and sneaking up my hill around the guys in a 4x4 spinning all 4 wheels.

Then there was the day going to college when I saw a police car spin a full 360 and just keep going. Me I had only managed a 180 so I decided on a different route.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

there was this one guy that decided to do a donut in my parking lot today and completely lost control and came a few feet from hitting the metal cart corral which we have sitting against one of the parking lot light poles, my co worker and I were really wanting to see him hit something, because that would have been SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny


his truck was 2 wheel drive too so no excuse other than sucking at driving. for those of you who don't know, the reason 2 wheel drive is harder than, say, an AWD Honda Pilot(I almost went in the neighbor's yard doing the EXACT same thing LOL) is because the system on the honda takes pressure away from a tire if it's spinning, so the front wheels also broke loose, and if your front wheels have traction you can control where you're going, at least to a point, but if all of your tires are spinning you might still go forward if your front wheels are turned, and you really have no control

[protege]

there was this one guy that decided to do a donut in my parking lot today and completely lost control and came a few feet from hitting the metal cart corral which we have sitting against one of the parking lot light poles, my co worker and I were really wanting to see him hit something, because that would have been SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny
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I know a guy who did that. Senior year of high school, he got a rather nice Dodge Dakota pickup. Brand new truck with a few mods--lowering, rims, etc. He couldn't resist messing about in the parking lot, and slid the truck right into one of the light poles. Took out the entire passenger side I actually felt sorry for the truck...since its owner was an asshole

[tangrid]

I think this comic covers SC drivers and snow about as well as anything:

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=77

lmfao, that's priceless.

[Emrld]

Where I live we typically get ice - not snow . . . if we do get snow . . .it will be snow in the lawns . . .but slightly melt on pavement and become ice.
With as little bad weather (out of 365 days) that we get, it isn't supprising that most people do not know how to drive in it. Let alone that they have the school closings . . . that has to do with being able to get the students safely to school and the cost to heat the school.

[wolfie]

It's amazing the number of people who think "step on the gas = go". Some years back, I saw a Camaro (loads of power + wide tires + snow on the road = trouble) spinning its wheels, fishtailing, and going forward (uphill) at barely a walking pace. The driver must have been embarrassed to see my little econobox (P155/80R13 tires can cut through snow like nobody's business) cruise past him (light foot + narrow tires + reasonable speed = making progress).

[thegiraffe]

One being that I'm still in school, and snowplows ruin my chances of having a snowday most of the time.

Ha. Hahahahaha. I can't even IMAGINE having a snow day. I live in Florida - we have hurricane days. Yes, seriously. Most of the schools are shelters, so school is closed while they're being used as shelters. Pretty insane...

[Andara Bledin]

Snow days. What are these mythical days of which you speak?

Here in sou Cali, we don't get anything. The best we get as far as school being affected by weather are the days where we don't play outside for phys ed because it's too hot/smoggy.

^-.-^

[ArenaBoy]

Snow days. What are these mythical days of which you speak?

The best thing on the planet for a kid living in a temperate climate. As much as I hate snow as an adult the kid in me loves snow. Nothing beats going skiing or snowboarding and coming in for some hot chocolate.