The Freeze Invades the South

[Gil_J]

Be careful out there. Texas sees single digit temperatures!

https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/video/weather/accuweather/massive-crash-snarls-traffic-on-texas-interstate-amid-icy-conditions/607-a6ba8f2f-9f85-49ee-aeb5-125fd22c564a

[Pete]

I-10 is closed west of Baton Rouge La. We are on our way to Texas from the Prevost Expo. Spent 2 days in Panama City, going to spend 2 0r 3 days in Alabama. Trying to find a window in this weather to get back to the Houston area. There is another storm following this one.
Guess we could always turn back and spend a month or so at the Gil Johnson estate.....Heard Durlene is an awesome cook!

[Joe Camper]

Why not??? If you look at the video going the other way it starts with a semi nosed into the median with the plow blade in front of it and then the plow without it's blade. Slow moving plows kicking up volumes of powder r very very dangerous as u come up on them from behind. Seen that a few times before. Looks to me that might have been the cause of stuff in the ditch going the other way.

[freds]

Just thought everyone would like to see a conversation that I had with my roommate in Seattle while I am down in Arizona.

https://www.crystalpoint.com/cpdownloads/public/outgoing/Freds/artic1.jpg

https://www.crystalpoint.com/cpdownloads/public/outgoing/Freds/TeslaCovered.jpg

Poor Tesla lives outside as the Garage is too full of hobby stuff...

https://www.crystalpoint.com/cpdownloads/public/outgoing/Freds/Artic2.jpg


https://www.crystalpoint.com/cpdownloads/public/outgoing/Freds/Artic3.jpg
Toppers is her dog....

[freds]

And the final picture...


https://www.crystalpoint.com/cpdownloads/public/outgoing/Freds/TeslaUncovered.jpg

[Joe Camper]

Another winter driving tidbit at the county line those plows slow down to a crawl in the hammer lane to do a flip the other way. Very very dangerous situation in low and limited visibility. As I approach a group of slowed traffic with flashers on I'll not roll up to it but drive my mirror and watch someone isn't piling in before I shorten the gap. With room ahead u can safely allow more traffice to gather up from behind untill u aren't the vulnerable one at the back end of the slowdown. The tail end of any slowdown is not a good place to be. Keep room to roll forward if u need to and drive the mirror till year out of danger.

Also in sleet and freezing rain same thing the salt trucks also do a flip at the county line. So u r running along in subfreezing temps but have a good spray still kicking up and then BAM u cross the county line and that neighboring county ain't been out with the salt yet and you end up with bad wrecks at the county line where the road turns to a sheet of ice in real short order.

On those bad days as everything goes to hell and gets really bad before you get a chance to get off. As people and traffic begings to back down early on get a few lengths back to a semi in the other lane going at a rate u r comfortable with and park there and don't look back. Let the road open up in front of u and the hell with who's behind u.

I love driving in really bad conditions and at very slow speeds it's the same effect when conditions r severe, terrifying. It's an adrenaline rush that's pretty hard to top. It will scare the hell out of u. That's where a good wing man in that other lane to control the flow around u pays big dividends.

[freds]

Nothing like driving through a blizzard in no hurry to get there!!!

[Joe Camper]

Another good winter driving tip when it's night and it's snowing dry powder and moving traffic is kicking up huge rooster tails creating zero visibility as u come up on someone from behind. That or u r taking your time in the right lane and someone goes by faster in the hammer lane and his rooster tail completely blinds u. This too is quite terrifying.

What is happening is all the flakes in the air reflect the light off your headlights directly back at you and your blinded.

Right at the time they r next to you right as they get their nose out front and begin to pass and get out front u turn your headlights off and vision comes completely back instantly and almost completely and u follow him and his lights with good vision till they get far enough out front for u to turn yours back on again safely. Works in a car just the same.

It will scare the hell out of the guy going by thinking he dusted u into the ditch but u will have done yourself a huge favor. The first time u try this is astonishing.

Another

If u have ever been stuck on snow or not to mention flat hard wet grass spinning the tires with the bus and this is not hard to do, try this. Go to the fire pit and take wood ash and sprinkle it on the drive tires and the ground and with an easy throttle u can idle out. I learned never to truck around in winter in Michigan without a 5 gal bucket of the stuff. This has saved me more times than I can remember.

I saw some guy yesterday on the weather channel from Ohio DOT asking people to slow down they had 3 plow trucks run into from behind yesterday.

[Dthomas9572]

Joe, how is that winter driving in the Keys?

[Joe Camper]

U know.

17304

Road trip

17305

One of my neighbors in Chicago sent me this today. Poor bastard