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Post subject: How's this for a traffic chain-reaction
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:43 pm
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A few minutes ago I was reading a news flash from Edmonton,Alberta,Canada. The report said that a multiple vehicle pile-up on a heavily snow-covered Highway 2 just South of the city resulted in over 300 people having to be taken to hospital.Hospitals in more than 20 nearby communities were flooded with incoming casualities.To make matters worse,Air Ambulances and helicopters couldn't be dispatched to take the most severely injured because of zero visability at times as well as dangerously high winds.They reported that there were snowdrifts of over 300 feet long.The report said that out of all of those injuries only 10 at that time were considered serious,which is amazing considering the weather conditions and the number injured.

Here in Eastern Newfoundland we are currently having a freezing rain squall with pretty high winds but it looks like it may be short lived-I hope so anyway.

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Post subject: Re: How's this for a traffic chain-reaction
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:21 pm
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A few years ago we had a freeze of 30 degrees here and a light frost in the early morning. It caused nearly 500 car accidents in the Houston area, and we had perfect visibility! :lol:

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Post subject: Re: How's this for a traffic chain-reaction
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:04 am
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That's quite a headache for insurance adjusters no doubt TGS.I imagine that Texas doesn't get a large amount of snow,sleet etc. and very few if any use snow tires so I imagine all of that combined with probably most people not used to winter driving is a recipe for disasterous results on the highways.

The freezing rain etc. that started last night fizzled out after only an hour but it started up again this morning at around 5:00 and my wife actually had to put the truck in 4WD to get to work this morning despite having the best of winter tires on the truck.We often get blizzards as late as into the 2nd week of June.

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Post subject: Re: How's this for a traffic chain-reaction
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:28 am
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There's not enough made of the importance public safety to declare travel states of emergency which forbid travel for other than emergency purposes. Nor are employers motivated to advise their staffs to stay put. My life's experience living in the NYC area support this contention because Manhattan, up until currently, was considered sacrosanct, and controlled what was done in the surrounding areas. Safe to say, that has likely changed in the face of the recent weather disasters it has endured. The one exception was the 16 years of living in Northern NJ wherein said weather conditions closed the schools when the buses did not run and a highway state of emergency meant that you were off the road 'or else'.

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Post subject: Re: How's this for a traffic chain-reaction
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:00 pm
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Derek, that accident yesterday morning happened about 8 clicks from the sleepy little town I live in. Actually I heard it happened either on or very near the off-ramp from the freeway to my town. All of the northbound traffic was rerouted through town and the town was clogged with cars and tractor-trailer units for hours after they closed the freeway completely. Some people I know tried to drive out to the freeway to take a look but the whole area was blocked off and they would have had to walk for several clicks across snowy fields to get there so they came back. The snow was falling very heavy but it was a very light powder. Much lighter than our already normally light powder snow but it was coming down hard. I shoveled my sidewalk 4 times yesterday but even though there was a lot of it, it was still pretty easy shovelling.

I have still heard no official word on the speculated cause of the pile-up but it would not surprise me in the least if it turned out to be some redneck in a Dodge Cummins 4x4 with a six inch lift kit and 38" mudders thinking he's invincible and refusing to slow down for conditions. I see exactly that happening all the time. It's quite a common cause for freeway accidents around these parts. They foolishly think they have more traction than everybody else but snow and ice do not give them any more respect than anyone else.

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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:59 pm
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texasguitarslinger wrote:
A few years ago we had a freeze of 30 degrees here and a light frost in the early morning. It caused nearly 500 car accidents in the Houston area, and we had perfect visibility! :lol:


How cold does it get down in Texas, anyways?

I'm another Canadian, and I can't imagine it snowing haha, ignorant I know :P

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Post subject: Re: How's this for a traffic chain-reaction
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:52 pm
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I guess there must have been no fatalities if people are already starting to joke about it. I saw this on FB this morning.

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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:36 pm
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I have driven 4X4 vehicles for almost 40 years now due to necessity and I always have driven them responsibly because I know that as good as a 4X4 is it can turn around and bite your arse in the blink of an eye.A 4X4 can be a lifesaver in a snowstorm but most people fail to see that they are riding on the same size of contact patch of rubber that the soccer mom driving her Dodge Caravan is riding on at 20 MPH in a blizzard,yet these dumb prats figure that they can drive at NASCAR speeds because they have a big over-powered truck with tires that belong on a backhoe.

I really find it amusing here when they broadcast the traffic mishaps after the first snowfall of the year,fully 90% of the vehicles that you see titz-up in the ditches are brand-new 4X4 mega-trucks and SUVs.People buy these vehicles and don't bother to even read the owner's manuals,let alone educate themselves about what's involved in driving them.

A good few years ago I was driving home from work and came across a big new Chevy Blazer bogged down in a drift that covered the other side of the road.The driver was just spinning his wheels and digging himself in deeper.I went over and asked him what gear he had it in and he answered that he had it in drive.I asked him if he had tried it in Low-Loc and he looked at me like I was speaking ancient Greek-he didn't know what it was nor that the truck had such a thing.I told him to getout of the truck where I engaged Low-Loc on th transfer case and put it in low gear and drove it out like it was a mild summer's day.He thanked me and asked me how I did it-I told him to read his owner's manual-I felt that I'd already helped him enough.It's scary to think how many people have been killed or put in serious situations because they didn't take the time to know about something so important as how to operate their vehicles when the lives of themselves and others depend so much on it.

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