Southern drivers

• friendfromlowry

  A snowstorm of 1-2 inches is currently crippling the southeast (INb4 "only in the SEC") leaving behind stranded motorists, closed schools, and shut down roads and highways. You'd think they got hit by tornadoes instead of an inch of snow. In their defense, southern motorists aren't used to driving in the snow (which to me means they don't know to just slow down and give extra space) and don't necessarily have the salt & plows we do up north.
  
  What say you? Cut them some slack, or is the story just a little too dramatic and they need to figure it out?
• WebFire

  Dramatic. Like everything in warmer climates. Proud to be a midwesterner.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  To be fair, in some places like Central Virginia there is about 5 inches of snow. But generally yeah, they shut down schools if the temperature gets below freezing level.
• bases_loaded

  

  I read people were abandoning cars in Atlanta on the highway...WTF..."oh noes, 2" of snow...fuck it, I'll just get a different car when its warm again"
• sportchampps

  A guy I used to work with moved to Atlanta. He sent me a text this morning that it took him 6 hours and 45 minutes to get home last night. He said his normal drive is only about 15 minutes and less then five miles. I told him he should have just walked home in his old Cleveland gear.
• bases_loaded

  

  My aunt lives in Pensacola just sent me this...haha
  
  http://www.weartv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/west-virginia-man-dressed-summer-helps-fellow-drivers-40902.shtml
• TedSheckler

  

  This was on US 280 in Birmingham. People just abandoning their vehicles.
  
  
• vdubb96

  

  Those people are obviously poor.
• WebFire

  TedSheckler;1573751 wrote:This was on Interstate 280 in Birmingham. People just abandoning their vehicles.
  
  

  I don't understand why it's so hard. It's common sense. These people look like retards.
• LJ

  

  Tom Herman was stuck in his car for 19 hours and then started walking to the airport at sunrise. He tweeted the whole time
• Belly35

  

  it's Black Ice ... not Black Guys ... mofo
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  I find it similar to people on the west coast laughing at our earthquake a couple years ago. But, if you can't drive in this shit, stay home. Forecast calls for ice and snow? Don't leave the house. I live in the DC area and snow turns people into retards.
• friendfromlowry

  The headline on cnn.com is "IT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN"
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Belly35;1573756 wrote:it's Black Ice ... not Black Guys ... mofo

  No i'd say it's black guys. In my experience black people are horrible drivers.
• LJ

  

  http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2014/01/29/0129-hermans-tale-of-travel.html
• Sonofanump

  bases_loaded;1573749 wrote:My aunt lives in Pensacola just sent me this...haha
  
  http://www.weartv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/west-virginia-man-dressed-summer-helps-fellow-drivers-40902.shtml

  
  They don't sell ice at Publix or Piggly Wiggly to put down on them roads?
• queencitybuckeye

  friendfromlowry;1573727 wrote:
  What say you? Cut them some slack, or is the story just a little too dramatic and they need to figure it out?

  The same question applies with my friends from the twin cities calling us Buckeyes pussies for closing schools when it gets a little chilly.
• friendfromlowry

  queencitybuckeye;1573771 wrote:The same question applies with my friends from the twin cities calling us Buckeyes pussies for closing schools when it gets a little chilly.

  Good point. The bad weather in the southeast seems trivial to us, just like our snowstorms and cold temperatures seem trivial to areas up in Minnesota or the Dakotas.
• Heretic

  

  LJ;1573755 wrote:Tom Herman was stuck in his car for 19 hours and then started walking to the airport at sunrise. He tweeted the whole time

  I just read his feed. That had to have been pretty nuts to be through. At least from my perspective, since I tend to feel a bit jittery/serial-killery after being in gridlock for, say, 10 minutes.
• OSH

  

  I have a couple of friends in the Carolinas, they posted pictures on facebook.
  
  One in North Carolina has 8 inches of snow, no doubt that'll close things. The other in South Carolina had a dusting, with none sticking on the road, and they shut down the local schools and colleges.
• Fab4Runner

  

  I get that they are totally unprepared for snow and ice (no plows, no salt, etc.), but the bedlam on the highways is unnecessary. Drive slowly and carefully, and there won't be 1000 accidents in one day.
• bases_loaded

  

  We rarely have to drive on untouched roads here in Ohio...these are untouched roads with 10s of thousands of drivers who think bad road conditions are when it rains when it hasn't for awhile...
• mucalum49

  

  Working from home today in Charlotte. It's always funny to think 1-2" of snow shuts down cities. But I opt to not venture out, not because it's overly unsafe but the people on the roads. However I will say without salt the roads do get really icy until the temperature gets above freezing.
• Zoltan

  I think it is about 10% bad driving and 90% the city being unprepared.
  
  The problem is not the couple inches of snow in Atlanta. The problem is they don't have the resources to salt or plow, and they released all the schools and business' at the same time. The streets turned to straight ice, which nobody can drive on, and ton's of semi's jackkniffed blocking already gridlocked roads.
  
  I have friend who lives in Atlanta and grew up in Cleveland, and he couldn't make it home because his car literally couldn't make it up any sort of hill because the streets were pure ice.
• TedSheckler

  

  Fulton County had 99 school buses still on the road with kids in them at 12:30 this morning.