Posted on 01/29/2014 1:46:20 PM PST by Dick Bachert
The biggest problem is that Atlanta is one little fender-bender away from a major traffic snarl on a good day. As one trucker stated on the CB a few years ago, “too many cars, not enough asphalt”.
It’s a problem when the population density becomes too great. Too many high-rise offices that the road system just can’t feed.
Atlanta’s too big.
Did I mention that I HATE driving through Atlanta?
Naw, I run new snow tires in the winter and then use the older ones in the summer as they make good rain tires.
Just not Blizzaks.
I even have qa set of studded snow tires for the sates where they are allowed. I just pull the studs from the worn tires to use them in the summer 'till they are done.
Naw, I run new snow tires in the winter and then use the older ones in the summer as they make good rain tires.
Just not Blizzaks.
I even have a set of studded snow tires for the States where they are allowed. I just pull the studs from the worn tires to use them in the summer 'till they are done.
Having two identical vehicles helps to make full use of a multiplicity of tire/wheel sets.
OMG, you talk as if that was a good thing. Probably think it's great that "we" got the lead out of paint, too. Next, you'll be suggesting that we should get the lead out of the pencil.
You must be young -- product of the modern public schools, no doubt. See tagline.
Lead is really not all that good except for ammo and fishing weights.
and again you obviously live in an area where severe weather is the norm. Snow tires are in fact more expensive than a regular tire. All weather tires (as advertised) really aren’t.
Even those need to be managed to use up their lower tread depths in the better conditions. So multiple wheel/ties sets need to be on hand.
This obviously mandates owning vehicles for a decade or so. No leasing here.
Yeah, well, I was referring to another meaning [evidently now lost] of lead in the pencil.
and most people here do not have four wheel drive vehicles... AND they have no clue as to how to drive in this weather. Those all weather tires do not give you jack when you are on roads that are nothing but glazed ice.... that’s true even in snow country....even chains may not give you enough traction
And again I say you obviously live in an area that is subject to sever weather.
Great for GDOT. ALDOT done good too. Atlanta wasn’t the only one struggling. Birmingham was also as big a mess, with people stranded overnight on the interstates, and in Montgomery, there was more ice and less snow, and it was a mess there, too. In other Georgia areas, Macon was a mess, as was Columbus.
I also lived in Ala. a couple of times.
Now I live pretty much North of 40 deg. at various longitudes all year.
Living in a place like Fairbanks, Alaska or International Falls, Minn. is a whole different and serious thing.
northern Georgia is snowed and iced in.... we are pretty much always an after thought but that’s okay
Lead hasn't been used as a writing instrument since the 16th century. That's when it was replaced with graphite.
Oh indeed Fairbanks or International Falls is a challenge of an entirely different magnitude.
Almost all tires are mud and snow rated these days.
They have no effect on the roads.
Lesson?
BUG.
OUT.
BAG.
That’s what it’s for: wherever you are, whatever the situation, you’re on your own and you MUST get home, or otherwise survive for up to 3 days, under adverse conditions.
and none of them do you any good on glazed ice
When Glenn Burns comes on the night before and tells you the sky is falling stay the eff home. He’s only been doing this for over 30 years. He’s always right.
The fact that any schools were allowed to open yesterday is insane. We don’t have the equipment or obviously the brains to deal with snow. Its the South.
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