Ice in the skies, terror on the streets...

Jim, care to revise your statement?

I drove in to the office this morning in my 4x4...roads are absolutely horrible. I'd suggest everybody stay off the roads if at all possible. Fortunately I didn't have far to go so wasn't that bad for me and besides, I'm invincible in my Tahoe!

 

Yeah, invincible, until you run into a skidding 18-wheeler!
Be safe out there everyone.
T

 

I just got back from running some errands in the Jeep. Cowtown is not too bad , seems Dallas is worse.

 

Buncha darn flatlanders! I drove to work too. Same 23 miles I cover every day. Took 38 minutes, about 5 less than it takes in rush hour traffic. I didn't have a single problem in my 4 door sedan with rear wheel drive and 275 rear rubber. got home in 32 minutes.

 

Everything I saw on the news and FB confirms that most people should not be out. They have no conception of how to drive when it's perfect conditions.

 

Worse than some of the the local driving is their overall intelligence and behavior in this poor condition. I picked up some friends in my jeep this evening for dinner. We're driving down a dark residential street and two passengers start yelling at me because there is an entire group of people just playing in the street and slowly walking out of it. With their backs to me I didn't see them at all because I was so busy watching the surface of the road for ice. If my passengers hadn't have said something or been with me I very well may have hit several of these complete imbeciles.

 

West side Ft. Worth, Westover Hills, & Ridgmar are at a standstill. Not many people are getting out & really don't blame them. I can drive in the crud if I had too but my truck only has 2WD & desperately needs new tires, not worth the risk.

 

Agreed. If I had to, could take wife's 4WD pickup, but no reason to chance it, if you can work from home, don't need to be out, etc. Side roads are still icy in our neck of the woods...T

 

We moved to Austin area less than 2 years ago from Chicago.

My kids have had more "snow days" since being here in TX than we did in the last 8 in Chicago!

 

To be fair we have it easier than Dallas and is a big reason we are here instead of there. However I will say even here the locals are treating this like a weather emergency. Hell we got this much ice in California and never thought of it. The roads to work yesterday were empty. Just never seen such a thing. I suspect that where you are from, weather like we are having never makes it to the news. My neighbors from Chicago are pretty amused by it all. We were supposed to have 2 deliveries this week and both were cancelled due to road conditions? What road conditions? I just call it winter.

 

Sure, but there is not as much infrastructure for dealing with the infrequent frozen winter precip down here in Texas as compared to the north. In general, the game plan seems to be, sand on overpasses, and cross your fingers and hope it's gonna warm up in a day or so. My biggest disincentive for getting on roads in snow is the other drivers! As for ice, forget it, makes no sense unless you have to be out there...T

 

Up there I get it. Lots different here. Your weather and ours were not the same yet it was being treated as though it was. It was only a little below freezing and almost no ice yet the reaction was like we woke up in the Arctic. I don't like cold and snow, that why I'm here but this was nothing.

 

I've had enough of this cold crap.

Just sayin'.

 

It is totally sketchy here in West Texas. The roads are so bad here i am only playing trivia crack while driving, no fchat posting for me unless I'm at a stop light!

 

I agree. It was a nice mild winter until this last week or so. Don't know how folks up north stand it....T

 

you don't see this every day
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your just sayin to be sayin jimpo


just sayin

 

You say that like it's a BAD thing...

 

1.5 hour commute home yesterday, usually about 40 minutes. Finally got up to a reasonable speed on the GWB near the Tollway. I noticed a guy in the left lane coming up behind me fast. As we crossed the Tollway, he slid and lost it at about 70mph. Went across 3 lanes of traffic sideways, over corrected then back the other way. Missed the concrete center barrier by inches. He got it back under control, slowed to catch his breath, the blew past me at a higher speed than he'd been going before.

Can't figure out why there were so may crashes......

 

Intermittently ugly in SATX but nobody mentions it. 34-37 degrees most of yesterday and today. raining. People driving like usual, they didn't throw down the gravel they call sand. Baffling, but the media evidently whips everyone into frenzy.
It was slick enough I got very sideways a couple times in wagon when it came on boost, and thats 4WD. Called wife, she said everything was fine with M3. Couldn't be me
Brian, it's hysterical what people do here even with rain. Wish I could have seen the 6 lane near miss Jim, thouse are awesome as long as they sail right by. Darwin works in mysterious ways, but it's TX, so nobody believes evolution. Ergo, it don't work. There may be something to that. Hmmmm.

 

The people in the Sierras say chain restrictions at least keep the flat landers down to a speed where they won't do too much damage.

They have something there.