Holy Snow & Ice! Road Transgressions thread.

[koop]

Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

so I get stuck in the snow. I can't reverse only go forward (but my foot is welded to the floor), and I finally get loose, and immediately jump on the brakes. No use, the car doesn't stop an inch and I run right into the garage door. It is all effed now, bent, wood is broken..

When you're stuck you shouldn't be flooring it.

[TRIX]

when you're 3 Justin 3 life just isn't fair...driving, video games, the list goes on and on!

[Doctordestiny]

Okay, a tire question: Today I installed my winter tires (on rims) onto a car. Do I have to get these tires balanced or aligned now?

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Doctordestiny

Okay, a tire question: Today I installed my winter tires (on rims) onto a car. Do I have to get these tires balanced or aligned now?

Only when putting tires onto rims, not when you put the tire/rim combo onto a car. Alignment only if you feel there is a pull.

[Cowperson]

Stark, windy and drifting on a lonely gravel road southwest of the city today . . .



Cowperson

[TRIX]

yay washboard!

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by TRIX

when you're 3 Justin 3 life just isn't fair...driving, video games, the list goes on and on!

I know, and the girl I asked out has a boyfriend. FML

[bluck]

Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

I know, and the girl I asked out has a boyfriend. FML

I only ever hear teenage girls saying FML now a days..

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by bluck

I only ever hear teenage girls saying FML now a days..

I wouldn't know, I don't hang around Jr.High Schools.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by koop

When you're stuck you shouldn't be flooring it.

Exactly, feather the gas, go reverse and forward. Rock the car gently. Let some air out of the tires, dig yourself out with your snow brush/scraper.

I can't believe how many people I see absolutely flooring it with the pedal to the metal in winter. It's one of the worst things you can do and its literally digging your own grave as you either just melt the snow directly under the car turning it into ice while sinking further in, or what happened to Justin happens and the sudden traction with the car in gear with tires at full speed launches you into something solid.

That should be part of driver's ed or you get put on Canada's Worst Driver or something. Tons of accidents caused by that too with people trying to go up hills with their pedals welded to the floor.

After so many years in Calgary, I finally wisened up and just shoveled everything, even shoveled out about 6-7 feet into the actual roadway where everything was compacted by traffic. Even a little bit of snow will get you stuck if you lose momentum, control, and don't drive smartly. Tool 2 hours though. I hate bloody winter.

Doesn't mean I'm smart though - last year I thought I was being smart by putting the cars in the driveway so that when it snowed, I'd have less surface area to shovel. Wow. That was a brain freeze moment. I only expected light snow but it dumped big time like this year but worse. Not only did I have to excavate two cars out of what became giant mountain of snow like I was on some sort of polar expedition, but I also froze the engines on both and had to plug them in for a few days to get them to start again.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by TRIX

Well part of that is right...pricey yes, for what you get, WAY overpriced

Also, it's not a truck if it has spark plugs

The prices are ridiculous in Canada.

They are in the 4s here when they are in the 3s in the states.

[fredr123]

I remember thinking to myself, "when would you ever get a chance to use that?" A new family moved in across the street about a month ago and as they packed in their belongings through their front-attached garage, you could see a brand new self-propelled snow thrower, with the plastic wrap and tags still on the machine.

Well, flash forward to yesterday and it turns out the damn thing was pretty useful after all. Guy was up and at it by 9:00 am digging his own driveway out with his shiny new snow thrower. Slowly but surely he began working on areas in the street that had drifted too high to be passable by anything but a large 4x4. He also took the time to help push people out when they got stuck in that big pile of snow and cleared out a few driveways near him. He even helped me clear a path to the street from our garage. He as probably out there for 5 or 6 hours in total. What a guy.

Another of our neighbors took his Denali and started ripping it up in the cul de sac pushing snow all over the place and blazing trails to everyone's driveway. He was having a blast and had no problem whatsoever getting around. Made shoveling easier.

I ventured out in our Mazda 3 to run some errands yesterday afternoon. The roads in our subdivision were horrible. Even the one that the City plowed still had ruts deep enough that I was pushing a lot of snow with the car. Of course, once I turned off the main road and into our little 'hood the snow was deep enough I couldn't get through. Luckily, a bunch of dudes in big pick up trucks (who I assume were just cruising around having a blast busting snow banks in their 4x4s) came by and pushed me out. It was a team effort requiring no less than 6 of us to get our stupid little car out.

Not sure, now that everything is compacted and frozen, that driving is going to be any better in our neighborhood today. Is it better to drive in the ruts and have the ice bash against the front of your car or try and stay on top of the high spots despite how rough the ride may be?

[Hack&Lube]

Wow, some neighborhood heroes right there. They should get a Mr. Plow (maybe Mr. Blow) award.

[Shazam]

To the dingus driving 60km/h on Deerfoot southbound in the left lane:

Screw you.

[habernac]

I encountered so many instances of people who have no business driving in any winter conditions this weekend. I had to pick up my parents from the airport at 3:30am (no cabs to be found, over 100 people waiting. That's a rant for another day). Two different times I had to backtrack and go the wrong way on the road to get around idiots who managed to get themselves stuck.

Get 4 wheel drive, get winter tires or stay home, people.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Shazam

To the dingus driving 60km/h on Deerfoot southbound in the left lane:

Screw you.

Probably related to the twit doing 40 on Glenmore this morning because he was too scared to pass a semi.

[Art Vandelay]

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Deluge+...491/story.html

By comparison,Winnipeg's snow clearing budget is $25 million this year, including what it pays to retain outside contractors to call in during a storm. With that money it clears all its streets, including residential, a total of almost 3,300 lane kilometres. That is a distance shorter than Calgary's priority one roads.
Calgary spends $23 per capita on winter maintenance costs,compared to $62 in Edmonton, $44 in Winnipeg and $25 in Saskatoon.

Just wait for the chinooks to take care of the snow................

Glad I live in Airdrie. Our residential street was cleared on Saturday.

[GreenLantern]

-32 here today in Saskatoon without the windchill, -40+ with.

If the snow hit us right now we'd be fataed.

[I_H8_Crawford]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

-32 here today in Saskatoon without the windchill, -40+ with.

If the snow hit us right now we'd be fataed.

Don't worry, I hear it will warm up to -13 or so in Sask shortly.

[CGYTransplant]

Originally Posted by fotze

I can't believe my mom was driving on deerfoot and glenmore today.

You know where Glenmore leads onto crowchild just before the Pfantastic pancake house, she absolutely has to get in the far left lane as soon as possible if her next turn is to be into Silver Springs. Scaredest driver ever. Poor everyone else.

K, maybe I"m being a super ###### here, but this doesn't make sense to me. Silver Springs is in the far NW...if she was getting off Glenmore to get onto Crow to get to Silver Springs, she has about 20 minutes (with the roads on Friday, probably closer to 2 hours) to get into the correct lane.