SirPablo posted:Use a loving tarp Go a couple hundred yards up the road, try to wave people down with a tarp, the wind pulls the tarp from your hands and wraps it around a car's windshield, congratulations now you have a second massive pile up right behind the first massive pileup.
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Zerg Mans posted:why do people drive so fast when they can't see at all in my experience this is how people drive anywhere that snow is common enough to be a regular occurrence but not severe enough that you actually need to keep snow tires on your car and drive carefully over the winter just lots of idiots barrelling through unsafe conditions because they don't understand anything, and when they inevitably drive right into a ditch they'll blame their car and think they need something bigger and beefier
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The last time I drove I-81 was coming back from my Canada trip in August 2019 - I needed to make it to Wilkes-Barre to bed down for the night and I'd driven from Buffalo after having crossed there. I saw this nasty loving thunderhead in the distance and was hoping to whatever deity was listening that I'd make it there before the sky opened up because that loving road is dangerous enough at night without it being wet. It also probably doesn't help that people have slacked off even more over the pandemic with regards to maintaining their cars - like making sure they don't drive on bald loving tires or dangerously worn brakes. BIG HEADLINE has issued a correction as of 04:23 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mar 29, 2022 05:06
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this is why it's important to speed up in low visibility, you want to get out of there before a pileup happens and you're stuck on the road for 8 hours like a loser
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Mar 29, 2022 10:45
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from a game theory point of view slamming the breaks immediately makes most sense, you'll be rear-ended sure but maybe just pushed forward a bit and the whole pile-up will happen behind you, just trust your airbag
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Vesi posted:from a game theory point of view slamming the breaks immediately makes most sense, you'll be rear-ended sure but maybe just pushed forward a bit and the whole pile-up will happen behind you, just trust your airbag this is a good way to turn your spine into jello
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Mar 29, 2022 12:40
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this is the thought process going through every single driver:"drat this snow is making me late. why don't I speed up to make up for lost time??"
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Mar 29, 2022 12:43
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Did this happen yesterday or Monday? Cause yesterday was Taco Tuesday so it makes sense if people were speeding
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Mar 29, 2022 13:00
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They should widen that highway to add another emergency lane to avoid this
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alarumklok posted:this is a good way to turn your spine into jello i like your gorgon
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Mar 29, 2022 15:28
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Gripweed posted:Go a couple hundred yards up the road, try to wave people down with a tarp, the wind pulls the tarp from your hands and wraps it around a car's windshield, congratulations now you have a second massive pile up right behind the first massive pileup. Oh hey, that's like using a counterburn to help control a forest fire. Always carry a tarp.
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Mar 29, 2022 15:47
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turn on your freakin blinkers
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Mar 29, 2022 15:57
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What's the play if you successfully stop before slamming into the pile up? Drive off to the side and get out and run into the woods? Anybody thinking you could flag down drivers further up the road has not spent much time with American drivers. Almost to a person they'd be like "Oh, weird someone waving at me frantically. Oh well, better keep going." Some of them would assume you're part of a Satanic kidnapping gang and speed up.
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Mar 29, 2022 16:02
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PostNouveau posted:What's the play if you successfully stop before slamming into the pile up? Drive off to the side and get out and run into the woods? If you know it's coming? Get as far off the road as you can and then abandon your car and wait in the woods. You'd ideally want your car all the way down into the ditch. You'd probably need a tow to get back out, but odds are good your car will be fine and you'll give the people behind you a little more room to avoid hitting anything. But honestly just get the gently caress away. Even the dude taking that video was way too close.
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Mar 29, 2022 16:17
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Paradoxish posted:If you know it's coming? Get as far off the road as you can and then abandon your car and wait in the woods. You'd ideally want your car all the way down into the ditch. You'd probably need a tow to get back out, but odds are good your car will be fine and you'll give the people behind you a little more room to avoid hitting anything. When my old car broke down on the freeway, 5 or so years ago now, the tow truck driver told me all kinds of horror stories about how easy it is for someone not paying attention to just flat out kill people just waiting around on the side of the road. One of them included a tow truck getting obliterated by a semi.
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Mar 29, 2022 16:24
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PostNouveau posted:What's the play if you successfully stop before slamming into the pile up? Drive off to the side and get out and run into the woods? you get into the ditch and hightail it into the woods and get behind a tree or something. if you end up in the pile up, you need to make a choice between trying to get out, or just staying in your car and hoping you don't get clobbered by a semi. you are insanely at risk while trying move to the roadside, so if it's going to involve clambering over another car or something, you kinda just have to sit tight
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Mar 29, 2022 16:35
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it's 34 degrees out. it was 70-75 a week or two ago. it will be almost 70 on thursday
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Mar 29, 2022 16:38
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haha, yeah
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triple sulk posted:it's 34 degrees out. it was 70-75 a week or two ago. it will be almost 70 on thursday well, that's normal for continental weather!
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Mar 29, 2022 18:21
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triple sulk posted:it's 34 degrees out. it was 70-75 a week or two ago. it will be almost 70 on thursday sounds like nice weather
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Mar 29, 2022 18:27
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WoodrowSkillson posted:you get into the ditch and hightail it into the woods and get behind a tree or something. if you end up in the pile up, you need to make a choice between trying to get out, or just staying in your car and hoping you don't get clobbered by a semi. you are insanely at risk while trying move to the roadside, so if it's going to involve clambering over another car or something, you kinda just have to sit tight yup, you never want to be on the side of an active highway a human body is very fragile compared to several tons of metal
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Mar 29, 2022 18:32
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maybe yours is, soyboy
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Mar 29, 2022 18:55
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yeah if I'm in that situation I'm just gonna go 200 yards from the freeway and build a fire to prepare for my new life alone in the woods (and die)
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Mar 29, 2022 18:58
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Zerg Mans posted:yeah if I'm in that situation I'm just gonna go 200 yards from the freeway and build a fire to prepare for my new life alone in the woods (and die) I'm always very curious about what happened to the drivers of vehicles that I see unoccupied in the center median. Did they somehow manage to get to the other side? Did someone pick them up? Is this the rapture? 
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TACD posted:this is why it's important to speed up in low visibility, you want to get out of there before a pileup happens and you're stuck on the road for 8 hours like a loser The tow truck at 60s made it through because they were going fast enough! The safest places for you to be in that situation are: #1. Away from the pile up . . #2. In your vehicle The least safe place is the transition from #2 to the #1.
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Mar 29, 2022 19:25
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Going to be awesome when we just every week have huge pulses of arctic air cover the us
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Mar 29, 2022 19:40
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https://twitter.com/Ch5RatchetNews/status/1508539775334162438 the guy slipping and falling trying to dive out of the way of the incoming truck lol
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Cup Runneth Over posted:https://twitter.com/Ch5RatchetNews/status/1508539775334162438 lmao driving into a truck full of propane tanks (probably empty but still)
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Cup Runneth Over posted:https://twitter.com/Ch5RatchetNews/status/1508539775334162438 
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in his defense, that trucker was making great time, especially considering the weather
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Mar 29, 2022 19:56
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Lol those tags, that twitter handle.
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You gotta drive fast or else you don't get that cool effect of flying through the snowflakes. Like going through hyperspace and into a wormhole to the pileup dimension
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I love the “Gah!” as he is crashes into the truck while speeding in whiteout conditions
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really sucks if you were somewhat prudent and stopped in time but lol toot toot here comes Mr. Trucker delivering 20 tons of dumbfuckery at 70mph
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my cat is norris posted:i like your gorgon ty fortress best town
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Shifty Pony posted:really sucks if you were somewhat prudent and stopped in time but lol toot toot here comes Mr. Trucker delivering 20 tons of dumbfuckery at 70mph Trucks have speed regulators controlled by gps so you have to go 70 mph at all times
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Looking spicy today in the South. https://twitter.com/nwsspc/status/1509150462716497921?s=21 quote:Shear will be strong across the entire region, as 90-110 kt of Luneshot has issued a correction as of 18:47 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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SorePotato posted:You gotta drive fast or else you don't get that cool effect of flying through the snowflakes. Like going through hyperspace and into a wormhole to the pileup dimension "We can't stop here, this is tarp country!"
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