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Its snowing!!!!!!

deepsouthmafia

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LOL. Awesome pic. We picked up almost five inches.....






almost totally melted this morning. Lol. Sure was pretty though.
 

Not Sure

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Pa was a complete Shit Show ...worst I've ever seen . No pre treatment of roads or salt during the storm . Clue less people all over the place ,I've never seen such a joint display of Government and general public incompetence . It should be mandatory that anyone who seeks to drive has to take a winter driving course !!!!!

#1 Roads have a crown !! If you slam on the brakes while on ice you will slide into the shoulder .
#2 Maintain your FFFFF ing momentum while going up a hill . DO NOT STOP and expect to be able to continue.

I left work after lunch and not seeing any pre-treat or salt ANYWHERE! .....Defroster motor quit ....thankfully had enough fluid to make it almost home . Passed a lot of people who were dumb enough to stop on hills . Some one in an BMW Suv slowed almost to a stop while passing someone in a ditch ,killing my momentum enough to get me stuck , I manged to regain momentum after fishtailing for 50yds . Ironically I ordered chains a few weeks ago and the order was delayed LOL. I was not able to make it home , parked and walked a mile ...I feel lucky . People were stuck on Interstate 78 all night.......

Ended up with close to 10" with sleet and freezing rain mixed in .
 

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The local news was out this AM in the weather mobile looking for bad roads. They had a reporter out somewhere showing how heavy the snow was. I know it's an early snow; but certainly not the first November snowstorm I've seen.

Seems we used to take these events in stride. Now everyone panics, wipes out the grocery store and still manages in a ditch or spun out because they're rocking summer performance tires on their AWD vehicle.
 

asnowmobiler

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SHIT SHOW INDEED!!!
I left the valley just after 4:00 and it was gridlock everywhere. A few people at work had 4 hours+ rides home and they only live ten miles away.
 

BenedictGomez

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I saw this coming a mile away and left work at 1:30.

1) Winter Storm. Check.
2) Storm way over-performs meteorologists warning. Check.
3) Road crews not really prepared yet because it's the first storm. Check.
4) Nobody has their snow tires on yet. Check.
5) People habitually freak-the-hell out during winter's first snow. Check.

Recipe for disaster, and I got the hell out of there.

I've heard many nightmare stories of 5 to 7 hour drives home on trips that are normally 40 minutes to an hour.
 

ghughes20

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...and yet, they'll own every electronic gadget known to man! :lol:

As an NJ resident, and owner of many electronic gadgets, I've have also owned snow tires. It's amazing how much better they are in winter weather. I had a set on my RWD BMW. It basically put my car on par with AWD cars with all season tires. A set of snows on AWD is basically bulletproof. If I lived year round in the mountains, I would go AWD + snows.

That said, I never put them on before Thanksgiving. Usually I would put them on that weekend. The early season snowfall would rarely last for more than a day.

I was working in NYC yesterday. I usually take the bus, so when I heard the Port Authority was closed, I diverted to the train in Hoboken. All the trains were delayed, I finally got one that dropped me off in a neighboring town, took an Uber for the final few miles. 4 hours to get home - and I was barely on the roads. The commute should take 70 minutes.

The biggest problem with the roads is that they weren't pre-treated.
 

cdskier

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That said, I never put them on before Thanksgiving. Usually I would put them on that weekend. The early season snowfall would rarely last for more than a day.

Yea, last week or two of November is when I put mine on so I'm ready for going up to VT starting in December.
 

BenedictGomez

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Yea, last week or two of November is when I put mine on so I'm ready for going up to VT starting in December.

Similar.

I put mine on "this" weekend each year, because we head to northern Vermont every Thanksgiving.

I do have one of the heaviest vehicles on the road, which is AWD to boot, so with snow tires on that sucker I feel pretty solid in the snow. My wife has a small vehicle, but it's an AWD Subaru with snow tires, and we drove that thing to Whiteface last year in a POUNDING snowstorm (stupid maybe?) and it felt safe/solid.
 

ss20

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It took me 6 hours to get to Killington Thursday night from CT, usually a 3.5 hour drive. An average speed of 30mph is pretty good I'd assume. Maybe 10 cars passed me from CT to VT. I didn't hit anything really sketchy but I've never seen so many people pulled off to the side or in a ditch. Vermont local roads were deserted. On Rt 103 by Chester I pulled over, peed, and cleaned off my windshield wipers (so maybe 5 minutes total elapsed time) not a single vehicle in either direction passed me.

The inevitable AWD vs FWD debate again? A FWD vehicle with snow tires will be acceptable in the majority of snowstorms in the Northeast (as long as you don't have to stop before a hill). Unless you're going up a crazy steep local road, dealing with snowfall rates of 2-3" per hour, or are in a shitty ski resort parking lot... FWD with GOOD SNOW TIRES will be enough.
 

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It took me 6 hours to get to Killington Thursday night from CT, usually a 3.5 hour drive. An average speed of 30mph is pretty good I'd assume. Maybe 10 cars passed me from CT to VT. I didn't hit anything really sketchy but I've never seen so many people pulled off to the side or in a ditch. Vermont local roads were deserted. On Rt 103 by Chester I pulled over, peed, and cleaned off my windshield wipers (so maybe 5 minutes total elapsed time) not a single vehicle in either direction passed me.

Sounds really similar to the Thanksgiving storm we had a few years back. It was wet roads until about Bernardston Mass. From there to the VT line was an epic shiteshow. I stopped counting after we saw 12 cars off the road. A tractor trailer was stuck on the hill just after the Welcome Center. We usually get off exit two or three. We jumped off exit 1 and went through downtown to pick up 30. One of the rare times it was quicker to drive through downtown Bratt.
 
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