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SnakeEyeSS Senior Enthusiast

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A fatal mistake in Oklahoma is assuming the weather men are right. In OK, though they have the lowest "Correctness" rate anywahere despite being th e best in the country. So I'm delivering pizza, and see a few flurries, and I'm thinking "oh yeah, they said traces, amybe 1 inch, nothing much" and I see a few flurries on my way back to the store. A few minutes laster a driver is talking about how it's justnot right to be in the store for 2 minutes and have your windows al;ready covered with snow, so I look out the window.........Blizzard condidtions. I got to drive for two hours in it in the Bimmer. Visiblility was down to ZERO at one point, so I'm just hoping I'm not headed off the road. I made it through, and I saw more FWD cars and 4WD cars have more problems than my RWD. I guess I, 18 years old, can drive better than half those idioits. They would HIT THE BRAKES, when they started sliding!!!! I thought EVERYONE knew DON'T HIT ANY PEDALS when you start sliding!!! you ride it out, slightly correcting the wheel, and I didn't slide more more than 1.5 seconds at a time. IF you hit the brakes, wait untill you've hit a fresh patch of snow as that will provide the best traction! Anyway, I kinda had fun.........

silverado man Senior Enthusiast

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Yeah dumb idiots here in K.C. would stop on a hill and get stuck. I was out help a few people by pulling them up the hill and when I would get everyone cleared out everyone behind them would drive back up the hill until the stop light turned red and everyone had that was in the middle of the hill were stuck. They should have waited at the bottom until the top of the hill was clear before they went. But I did have fun working the truck this morning. :jester: Any glad to here that you made it home safe though.

k1500chevy97 Senior Enthusiast

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Oh yea we were supposed to have a big storm come in last night and dump at least 10 inches on the ground .

Well heres the only pic i have from that "big" storm . Does this look like a huge snow storm to you ? this is piddly s**t :rolleyes:

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I love to listen to the weather report :D

SnakeEyeSS Senior Enthusiast

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:rolleyes: Heard a great LEwis Black clip today " WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR NATION?!?!?! WHY SO WE NEED 24 HOUR WEATHER WHEN IT ONLY TAKES 2 MINUTES TO DO IT? AND YOU ALL KNOW EVERY ONE OF THEM IS FULL OF ____."

 

If you've ever heard him, you know what he sounded like saying that

The SPEEDY Senior Enthusiast

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I hope we don't have anything like that here. A few years ago we had a really bad ice storm, and every SUV and 4x4 was out driving in it, well trying to. There was a car or truck in the ditch for just about every mile of hwy 80 from Hallsville to Longview.

 

I will probably just stay home and order some pay-per-view if that happens. On some roads, just being wet make them a hand full to drive on in my car.

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