PSA: Icy Roads are Slippery
Dec. 8th, 2005 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianIn this society of warning labels, idiots, and lawyers, I feel I must comment on this:
Driving on icy roads may be hazardous to your health, especially if you think you're invincible, driving an SUV, and/or are talking on the cell phone with your best friend and oh, isn't this the most important conversation ever and, like, who put that tree in the middle of the road, and why am I upside down?
I had intended to give prior warning that Forest Road was still covered in ice, despite side roads coming from it having been cleared, and even larger roads (with lower speed limits) leading to it also being cleared, but hey: there's bumpy, white, packed snow and ice patches all over. It should be obvious.
Of course, the reason I kept thinking I should post a warning was that every time I've been on the road since our little bit of snowfall, someone in an SUV seems to fly down the road in one direction or the other, sneering at me for driving slowly. It was just a matter of time.
Deb just reported a mini-van is in the trees, just downstream from us, with emergency vehicles of all shapes and sizes in attendance.
Driving on icy roads may be hazardous to your health, especially if you think you're invincible, driving an SUV, and/or are talking on the cell phone with your best friend and oh, isn't this the most important conversation ever and, like, who put that tree in the middle of the road, and why am I upside down?
I had intended to give prior warning that Forest Road was still covered in ice, despite side roads coming from it having been cleared, and even larger roads (with lower speed limits) leading to it also being cleared, but hey: there's bumpy, white, packed snow and ice patches all over. It should be obvious.
Of course, the reason I kept thinking I should post a warning was that every time I've been on the road since our little bit of snowfall, someone in an SUV seems to fly down the road in one direction or the other, sneering at me for driving slowly. It was just a matter of time.
Deb just reported a mini-van is in the trees, just downstream from us, with emergency vehicles of all shapes and sizes in attendance.
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Date: 2005-12-09 02:45 pm (UTC)I had to drive to Virginia in a blizzard a few years ago, and people were racing past me on the interstate going over Afton Mountain. I later saw at least half a dozen of them in the middle of the median barrier as I slowly crept along at a reasonable speed. I wanted to yell at them "see, this is what happens when you drive recklessly"
Why do SUV drivers think that possessing four wheel drive somehow makes their brakes work better?
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Date: 2005-12-09 03:10 pm (UTC)We took it slow on the ride home, on route 20, which is somewhat of a scenic route in places - in other spots my brother and I loved it as kids, calling it "The Truck Route." We stopped and visited the Grist Mill at the Wayside Inn (aka Longfellow Inn) in Sudbury, got stuck, and then continued on our way.
We were in Wayland, and driving about 10-20 miles an hour, and one of those (then) brand-spankin' new-fangled Suzuki Pre-SUV's kept riding up on us, backing off, flashing high beams, and so on. As soon as I got to a place I could pull over, I did, and he zoomed past, single fingers blazing from both driver and passenger.
Next bend in the road, he was sitting up in a tree and his girlfriend - who, moments before, probably thought he was the coolest guy in the world - was yelling and screaming at him.
We smiled and waved, and drove off into the sunset.
Well, not really, it was 11pm or later, and we were going east not west... =)