Basketball American IndigenousX Ice???More Gooder, but keep trying. We're pretty diverse and that's just not pleasing the masses just yet.
Any of you folks in central Texas, pay attention. I grew up driving in this shit and you go low and slow. Lots of people around here think that the speed limit is only a suggestion and don't even know how to drive in the rain let alone freezing rain and" black" ice. Is that racist?
OKC and Tulsa too, wooooeeeee watch out for them Okies and Texans.
Bingo! It has always been that way here. Spill a cup of ice on the sidewalk and we have crashes...
And brine solution are completely stupid, as bad as sand and rock salt. You put down calcium or magnesium chloride and things would be much better.
A girl I grew up with in northern IL went to grad school at North Carolina. One winter they had a dusting of snow and she was the only person who showed up to her lab. The only person who answered was a janitor and he was amazed that she braved the elements and certain death to be on the roads. We both chuckled about that for a while
Its expensive, but since they don't use it often, it seems like the should use Mag-chloride if they don't. I am guessing since there was ice they don't. It is pretty effective.
Kansas and Oklahoma are right in the sweet spot for the continental air masses to mix at just the right temperature profiles to make massive freezing rain storms.
Yeah. I spent half of yesterday heat tracing the well head and other exposed piping, just insulation isn't going to cut it at that temperature. It's going to be interesting. In 2007 that winter storm took a bunch of power plants off line due to frozen instrument lines and other issues. That was not anywhere near as bad as what's going to hit us starting tomorrow night.
They love their sand and salt in DFW. Remember my first year there and it iced. I said no way in HELL am I getting on roads. Sure enough, massive amount of wrecks. Any big city (or even small city) you cannot drive in ice - period. Unless you have studded tires and the ice is relatively thick, not "black ice" or now I shall call it "transparent ice" so as not to offend anybody it's hopeless to drive in that.
I don't know if ya'll know, but for those who run the risk of 'frozen water lines'.... one thing you CAN do is simply leave the 'furthest faucet' on, on a very slow trickle.
Or one could hire a chauffer with names like: Vic Elford, Alain Prost, Walter Rohrl, Kimi Raikkonen to name a few. People forget after Prost retired from F-1 he went on to become a champion ice racer years after F-1 and Vic Elford...well...that says it all. Granted, they'd probably like to at least have Blizzaks mounted.I don't know if ya'll know, but for those who run the risk of 'frozen water lines'.... one thing you CAN do is simply leave the 'furthest faucet' on, on a very slow trickle.
That's the very first thing that is done here, after lines get thawed. DON'T turn it off until the the cold has passed. Our lines here are underground, and there are areas in this city where they weren't buried deep enough (older developments) and this is what they have to do. Each year.
And as for 'winter driving' and the drivers themselves.... the very first problem is the fallacy of "all-season tires"... what a joke. First off, people think that the label 'all season' means that they're "perfect for everything" where-in-fact what it going on is you have a tire that is (at best) 50% effective in dry conditions, and 50% effective in ice conditions.
And that's only when the tire is brand-new. As soon as you start driving on it, those numbers are going DOWN. A full 'Winter tire' is what is needed in 'Winter conditions'. Simple as that.
I've been saying this for decades. They made it law here, about 3 years ago.
A person can have a 4-wheel-drive Ferrari. It don't matter how many bazillions one spends on their vehicle. The ONLY thing connecting that vehicle to the ground, is the tires. With shit tires, you get shit performance.
Next, is driver's ability. That's a whole nother topic, right there.
On a different note, back in '94 I got pulled over by our Northern Federale's. He was in 'oncoming lane' and after flashing his lights pulled right across the street and parked in front of me, "nose-to-nose" so to speak. I got out and met him at the front bumper, just the same as he did. He asked "Do you have any idea as to why I pulled you over?" My reply was:
"Well,,, going side-ways through that last intersection probably has something to do with it....."
And then he stated "why don't you tell me a bit more about that."
After a bit more explanation, I left there with a seat-belt ticket, and that was all.
I remember the 2000 ice storm in Arkansas...(I think that's the year). BAD BAD BAD!!!!! My parent's town lost power and the water couldn't flow because idiots never bought generators...said they didn't need them. So, no water. Had a fire happened, that would have been the end of the downtown area. Even hospital didn't have water after the storage tanks stopped getting filled. I think it was 1 or 2 days of that. Every person on that water commission and city management should have been fired the next day.
