Posted on 01/29/2014 5:09:35 AM PST by Pan_Yan
You got it. I am from the South but have been around and driven in snow. It is not that hard once you get it. The issue this week was smooth ice everywhere.
Oh, and would y’all please get busy on leveling Missionary Ridge? It seems to be the proximate cause of the back ups.
My two wheel drive Sorento sucked. It pushed the front and backend wanted to fly out behind me constantly.
I agree. Missionary Ridge is a death trap. The speed limit goes from 65 down to about 40 when you approach the big curve. Tractor-trailers can’t make the sharp curve on the downgrade if they are moving too fast. Almost all of the major backups down there occur at the split where I-75 and I-24 split. I was through there last week and there was a wreck at the split toward Atlanta. With as much traffic that goes that way, North or South, it doesn’t take long to back up. I take my mom to the doctor at Memorial Hospital regularly and it’s faster to go straight down to the 4th Avenue exit than it is to go Hwy 11, or Brainerd Road, but you’d better be ready to jump off to Hwy 11 if there is a wreck. I live a little North of that part of Chattanooga. They can happen in a hurry. Nobody ever seems to be in the lane they need to be in when they get there and there is always a major lane swap and resulting entanglement.
You’re right. People from the south know how to deal with it and know enough to stay off the ice. It’s the Yankees who come south who figure they’ve driven in snow all their lives and it’s no big deal. They soon learn.
Damn, I feel privileged, but ain’t no roadkill in the swamps. The gators don’t leave much and the 6inch flying roaches finish that off. Hurricanes were the only break we got- damned schoolhouse was either under water or out in the Gulf of Mexico. Once we untied ourselves from the tree we had to bury the dead AND build another schoolhouse. Skeeters were gone tho-giant roaches ate’em. Couldn’t eat cardboard, like you Northerners,it was all wet-had to wait till the mold grew on it enough to scrape off. Can’t see no fancy magazine pictures, nor no dumps either, all of that rots in the swamp. We had to IMAGINE pictures of food, which is why Yankees think everyone in the south is crazy. Pffftth...
No sense talking to no darned Yankee recording. Global warming musta froze you all to death. Damn shame, you spent a lotta money on them swamp tours. Maybe we’ll dig you outta the ice sometime, like them mastodon fossils. Hope someone turns off your recording machine, them things are annoying as hell. Been nice talking atcha, bless your frozen,starving,whiny little Yankee heart!
Isn’t it nice to have your very own Ray-Ray Nagin in Atlanta? At least Nagin didn’t forget the people stuck on the Interstate during Katrina were his people! Minor technicality, I know. Sounds like Atlanta will head the way of Detroit.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.