So I come back to work today and a co-worker asks me what I did over the weekend. Still being in L2 mode I replied, "Oh, I spent the day grinding on my dwarf."
So I come back to work today and a co-worker asks me what I did over the weekend. Still being in L2 mode I replied, "Oh, I spent the day grinding on my dwarf."
no winter in Greece so far. 17 january and it rained for just 3-4 days all winter, temp didnt get lower than10-15 degrees Celsious. a really hot summer is coming probably.
ppl, think of visiting greek islands this summer :)
That wasn't snow, it was ice, a freak storm that hit the Portland, OR area.
Normally people "chain up" their tires but when you get no warning there's not much you can do. You probably get just as much snow or ice in Finland, just maybe a really small fraction of the traffic.
Normally people "chain up" their tires but when you get no warning there's not much you can do.
Of course you can do something.
That's why you always have four lengthy parts of good, strong rope in your car - to create your own improvised "tire chain" whenever you need it, for example.
And that's also why you don't move your car when you don't know how to drive on ice safely.
That wasn't snow, it was ice, a freak storm that hit the Portland, OR area.
Normally people "chain up" their tires but when you get no warning there's not much you can do. You probably get just as much snow or ice in Finland, just maybe a really small fraction of the traffic.
On normal winters we get much more snow/ice than that. But this year no snow on the ground. :(
Although the weather man says there's gonna be some snow in the weekend.
And you bet accidents happen here when there is snow after a long dry period. And we got snow tyres mandatory in winter. People just forget that snow/ice is slippery when there hasn't been any for long time.
And that's also why you don't move your car when you don't know how to drive on ice safely.
This is the first thing they said to me when I was in driving school. If the weather is nasty, don't get out.
[censored] >< I think this merits a rotflmao.... and I havnt done that in a long long time.
Whoever is in the first car is a total idiot... um ... I mean "innexperienced [insert person from any country you want ]driving in slipery conditionds"
Anyways , if you listen you can hear to morron florring the gas pedal......
I normally like making generalizations...
But this time I wont make any concerning our nice neighbours to the south who may not all have winter tires for xtra slippery conditions.
But common people common sense!!!
Those people should not have been dryving faster than 5k/hr on residential street where obviously no salt/sand was applied.
Someone mentioned that people chain their tires when you know this kinda weather is comming.... thats not really an excuse. They should have been driving 10X slower than they where.... Cleary someone in their had enough brains to slow down (guy near the end) and he made the turn quite nicely.
But speaking of SNOW ^_^
Ill let you guys know when we get some ><
<looks out window> oh would you look at that, we did get snow after all.. :)
We had a green x-mas, first time in a long long while.
Whatever happend to having 2-4 feet of snow during the holidays!!!!
Oh cruel cruel mother nature.
And that's also why you don't move your car when you don't know how to drive on ice safely.
I dont think it is possible to drive on ice safely. Snow yes, sleet yes, Ice....no, cat be done, even with chains you will still lose traction.
The two times I tried it, I had no problems.
Of course, the one time it was on an empty flat road way slower than I would be walking in the same conditions, and the second time it was in a Leopard II main battle tank. :)
Yes, well we live in a very temperate part of the states, moderated temps by the Pacific Ocean tend to keep them from freezing too much, until you get into the mountains that is ;)
The city mainly sits in a bowl shaped valley in between a mountain range on the eastern side and hills on the west. Then you have the interesting thing with the Columbia River Gorge, it acts like a funnel, queuing up all that cold arctic air from eastern Washington/Oregon and from Canada...