Posted on 02/06/2015 12:17:53 PM PST by Kartographer
There are a lot of diary farms in upstate NY. Chobani and Fage yogurt are both made not too far from there.
Maybe the drivers were too upset from the self imposed sanction the Syracuse Orangeman imposed upon themselves for violating NCAA rules. Too bad, they weren’t going to make the playoff anyway.
Dairy NOT Diary.
DUH!
Diary Farms, where they grow new authors.
Driving too fast for conditions
Very few drivers know how to down shift these days, thereby letting your engine act as a brake. This is because most drivers NEVER learned to drive a standard. They think that antilock brakes will stop them on snow and ice. The last few weeks here in snowy NH, I have Relearned the benefit of 2nd gear and low gear. I grew up to the south of Buffalo where snow like this was just a normal winter.
My driveway has about a 20 degree incline. I have gone through probably 20 bags of rock salt and calcium chloride so far this winter. Most of it in the last couple weeks. Another 8-12” coming between Saturday and Monday.
I have 4-6 FOOT snow banks at my house in southern NH. My office parking lot here in Nashua has piles that are 20’ high. It reminds me of 1977/1978 in Western NY.
Wasn’t that called winter before globull warming? I grew up in Watertown, NY and we used to call this winter. That was before government disaster aid and the weather channel making every weather event year round into the end of all life on the planet.
I have.
Watched a genius on Route 84 try to do 65 or faster in weather that 45 was the sane speed to do.
I saw plenty when I lived in Georgia. I was on I 20W out past Douglasville heading home and was coming up on a little bridge that crossed over a piece of Buckhorn Lake. I knew that the first of the snow had melted and by now had refroze and was covered with snow so I slowed down a bit and sure enough here cam a ‘good ol’ Boy’ in his sky high jacked up 4 wheel drive and when he hit that bridge that he shot right off the highway into the drainage ditch and over on his side. I pull over with the bridge abutment right behind me and held the truck door open so he could climb out. He was ok and he already had some one on his cell phone so I scooted before another could come along and make my day bad.
A standard transmission in experienced hands can make all of the difference. Here in the plains, that type of snow and ice is the norm and high drifts are a common sight.
I also have a steep driveway; have you considered trying cheap clay cat litter? I have been using that for years and spread it using a broadcast fertilizer spreader. If you get any sun at all, the litter turns dark, absorbs the heat and makes for a good melt. It may freeze overnight but the next day the process begins again. Not as corrosive as salt melt. It also can provide pretty decent traction for cars and when walking on the driveway.
Prayers up for anyone harmed by this pile-up.
Consider the following quotes, spoken while driving 75 mph in a driving snowstorm:
"I grew up here, I know how to drive in snow!"
and
"I've got 4-wheel drive!"
Both indicate a total lack of understanding of Newton's First Law of Motion.
Both are, in fact, translations into Yankee Speak from the original phrases uttered in Bubba Speak:
"Hold My Beer and Watch This"
(pardon the profanity, anyone know how to block a portion of a photo?)
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