The Ongoing Super Mega Weather Thread v3

[TherapyforGlencross]

Massive pileup on the 401, near London. 100 cars affected. Unsure if fatalities occurred, but I assume so.

https://twitter.com/livingbyyyz/stat...u1FEQ9wi8NKzMg

https://twitter.com/401_da_sarpanch/...u1FEQ9wi8NKzMg

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Well then. That’s a video of a guy dying. Why the hell was that semi going so fast?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Semis were flying down the 2 from Edmonton last night. We did about 80-90kph the whole way, but there were cars going 130 and semis almost as fast. People are duuuuuumb.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Well then. That’s a video of a guy dying. Why the hell was that semi going so fast?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1606393415452823552

Fortunately I don't think anyone died this time, the driver of the semi is like far too many "professional" drivers these days. Untrained idiots who basically bought their licence rather than earned it, another problem is trucking company's paying drivers per mile driven rather than per hour which pushes drivers to drive hard and reckless.

I believe this is the end result of the crash, apparently the suv driver is ok.

Spoiler!

[8 Ball]

It doesn’t look like he was going recklessly fast to me. The rest of the people in the pile up were wrecked too.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

It doesn’t look like he was going recklessly fast to me. The rest of the people in the pile up were wrecked too.

If he wasn’t going recklessly fast for the conditions he would have stopped in time.

I hate how many people have your attitude.

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

If he wasn’t going recklessly fast for the conditions he would have stopped in time.

I hate how many people have your attitude.

Well then they would have stopped completely and people would have plowed into the back of them. I hate stupid people who think that watching a 30 second video have it all figured out.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I won’t even bother linking individual videos. Watch any of them on r/Seattle. It’s ####ing crazy out there. I’ll take cold for a week over that any day. Holy crap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/

That is insane. Seattle is not flat at all.

10 Street NE by my house is BS icy, need AWD to get up it.

Hopefully they get the salt trucks out overnight

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

Well then they would have stopped completely and people would have plowed into the back of them. I hate stupid people who think that watching a 30 second video have it all figured out.

It's also by London which is snow squall country. If you've never lived there you can't appreciate how sudden, intense and localized they can be.

Still, that driver appeared to be driving way faster than the visibility would allow.

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

It's also by London which is snow squall country. If you've never lived there you can't appreciate how sudden, intense and localized they can be.

Still, that driver appeared to be driving way faster than the visibility would allow.

If you watch the trees beside the road in the video I disagree. Coming to a full stop, would definitely put people in danger you’re decapitating people who don’t know that you have stopped.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

Well then they would have stopped completely and people would have plowed into the back of them. I hate stupid people who think that watching a 30 second video have it all figured out.

Not if… get this… people weren’t driving recklessly fast.

When you drive appropriately for conditions, you can avoid accidents in those conditions.

Hope you use your brain driving more than you do commenting on it.

[ripTDR]

Yeah, they are all crappy drivers except for everyone here

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Not if… get this… people weren’t driving recklessly fast.

When you drive appropriately for conditions, you can avoid accidents in those conditions.

Hope you use your brain driving more than you do commenting on it.

Ya, but these conditions cause pile ups all the time, it’s sudden , like out of the blue. Ice rain turn highways and streets into skating rinks.
I find some of your posts kind of interesting but sometimes you seem kind of daft.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

Ya, but these conditions cause pile ups all the time, it’s sudden , like out of the blue. Ice rain turn highways and streets into skating rinks.
I find some of your posts kind of interesting but sometimes you seem kind of daft.

And there’s always more people who avoid these collisions than people caught in them. It’s not because they’re lucky.

I don’t really care about what you think about my posts or about you watching the trees. It’s pretty simple: if you plow into another vehicle, you were going too fast for conditions.

If conditions suddenly turn that bad, you slow down completely or pull over. How is this more controversial than “whoops nothing you can do but get into an accident in weather like this!” Honestly, come on.

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

And there’s always more people who avoid these collisions than people caught in them. It’s not because they’re lucky.

I don’t really care about what you think about my posts or about you watching the trees. It’s pretty simple: if you plow into another vehicle, you were going too fast for conditions.

If conditions suddenly turn that bad, you slow down completely or pull over. How is this more controversial than “whoops nothing you can do but get into an accident in weather like this!” Honestly, come on.

Haha Pepsi glides through the ice storm pile up like a boss even though they never experienced one.

[Muta]

This is why we need flying cars.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

So that we can have multi story 100 car pile ups?

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

So that we can have multi story 100 car pile ups?

Cecil:

[chedder]

Just watched the dash cam video of the semi demolishing that suv. Yeah, that semi driver should lose his class 1 and never get it back. Going ridiculously fast for the conditions.

[Dion]

Remember: staying in your car is probably your best chance to live.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/com..._i_feel_today/