January 19th, 2012 at 10:25 AM ^
I'm guessinng that had to be on a pretty steep hill. But wow...that's funny.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:27 AM ^
A Mini Cooper on bald tires I'd understand, but when a DEFINITELY 4WD Subaru did what it did, I had to shake my head.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:52 AM ^
I assume there must be some refreeze going on and slush turning in to ice. AWD doesn't work on ice.
It always seems like every winter I see giant 4x4 in the ditch or median on US-23, complete with evidence of a skid to suggest the vehicle was doing at least 40 when it close control. Meanwhile I'm creeping along in the right lane at 20 mph with all the other cars, but hey at least I'm not in the ditch.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:42 AM ^
And I should clarify. I'm of the opinion that you need the right tools for the job, and tools don't matter if the operator is an idiot.
I shake my head at drivers like the ones you described. Thus why I think the Subaru driver deserves a head shake. Huge 4x4s in a ditch. It doesn't matter what you drive, if you drive like an idiot, you're going to end up in the ditch. As a Jeep owner, I've got more experience in situations with less traction and feel confident in my own abilities on the road. But if there's no traction or other cars around, I'm with you creeping at 20mph.
January 19th, 2012 at 6:53 PM ^
I agree, I've had a Subaru for about 5 years now and have never ever gotten stuck. 300+ whp car that i've driven through snow that saw other 4x4's stuck and i'm driving through it like there's virtually nothing there. Unless it's an insane amount of snow or sheer ice (or to your point, a dumb driver) a Subaru will not get stuck.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:27 PM ^
100% with you. I drive a Subaru Forester...live in Wisconsin, and don't shovel my driveway unless we get more than 6 inches of snow.
January 19th, 2012 at 1:29 PM ^
I laugh at all the outdoorsy Subaru owners (especially in the Pacific NW), particularly hard when they can't drive in snow. See, in Detroit, we get lots of snow and we know firsthand how bad it can be. Then we design and build cars.
January 19th, 2012 at 4:07 PM ^
then those cars suck dick compared to a Subaru. I got so tired of hearing all the homer bullshit about american cars while living in Michigan.
Have owned Chevys, Dodges, Fords, Hondas, Mazdas, and Subarus.
Subaru pwns all in terms of quality product
January 19th, 2012 at 4:18 PM ^
id rather by an old, exspensive, piece of shit American car before I baught a Japanese or Chinese car. And by the way American cars in the 90's were not good, however the newer American cars are just as good if not better.
January 19th, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
cool. enjoy your piece of shit car. makes my awesome imported car cheaper when demand is down. Appreciate it.
EDIT- I defy you to name 1 chinese car brand without googling it. Michiganders are way too jengoistic about cars
January 19th, 2012 at 4:35 PM ^
January 19th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
...cause thats more plausible than me having a good vocabulary.
January 19th, 2012 at 4:49 PM ^
Good vocabulary, maybe. Good at spelling, no.
January 19th, 2012 at 4:41 PM ^
Chery and BYD, troll.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:28 AM ^
I'm jealous. I want my winters back. That is all.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:11 PM ^
January 19th, 2012 at 12:14 PM ^
Personally I would much rather put up with northern winters than southern summers. Especially in hot, muggy, swampy Houston. Besides, 65 degrees in January is just wrong.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:57 PM ^
You talk about 65deg in January like it's a bad thing
January 19th, 2012 at 1:32 PM ^
That is correct.
January 19th, 2012 at 3:30 PM ^
Aren't you in Virginia? That's pretty mild and seems better than here climate-wise. I would say I miss Michigan winters if I weren't in the state, too.
January 19th, 2012 at 4:58 PM ^
I don't mean to, like, go off on you, but I get that a lot and I don't know why people assume I live in VA. (Well, OK, I kind of do, but there are U-M grads not living in Michigan, after all.) I did live in VA, but never while I was a member of this site, and have happily returned to my native state.
It's not better, climate-wise, by the way. I would much rather it be 25 and snowy than 40 and rainy, which is how eastern Virginia winters generally are. Rainy gets you wet, which just gets you colder, and rain isn't half as pleasant to look at. July and August are f'ing muggy and miserable. I don't miss Michigan winters, because I'm not missing them any more.
January 19th, 2012 at 3:36 PM ^
Mid 60s in Boulder today
January 19th, 2012 at 1:31 PM ^
January 19th, 2012 at 2:45 PM ^
January 19th, 2012 at 3:11 PM ^
Amen, brother. I grew up in North Carolina, moved to Michigan for school a whole lot of years ago and never looked back. I'd much rather freeze getting out of the shower than not be able to dry off.
January 19th, 2012 at 2:23 PM ^
Sincerely,
A life-long resident of the Midwest who has gutted out winters in Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin. The colder the better; it keeps the riff-raff in the Southern and Western states, where they belong. It also builds character:
January 19th, 2012 at 2:32 PM ^
Curious.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:30 AM ^
When I read the title, I thought it was going to have something to do with Boren State, which I assumed you meant Ohio and it involved snow plows. I was wrong.
Still Seattle gets very little snow annually, so they are unprepared for it.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:31 AM ^
This part of town is around Washington's campus and is no was the worst part of town for hills. The entire PacNW drive like this with a few inches. I lived in Seattle for 2 years and now live in Portland for the last ten. Two inches is in fact "snowmageddon".
Yesterday my son's school was called off at 3:30 am with about 3 inches of snow. It was 45 degrees and slush by 8:30am when he would have gotton on his bus. Snow was completely gone by 10am.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:03 PM ^
Don't confuse unprepared drivers in Seattle and Portland with the whole of the Pacific Northwest. Folks throughout Oregon and Washington that don't live in those two cities do just fine on the roads. It really is just those cities that typically don't get a lot of snow.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:31 AM ^
January 19th, 2012 at 10:32 AM ^
You could bounce to close to a snow plow or run into a snowblower...that would end your day real quick
January 19th, 2012 at 10:41 AM ^
Don't be such a scruffy nerf herder.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^
*punches Lois*
January 19th, 2012 at 11:43 AM ^
You're my nerf-herder
you're my nerf-herder
January 19th, 2012 at 10:42 AM ^
there are hundreds of youtubes from all over the country, including a bunch from Seattle.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:56 AM ^
This one is the gold standard of Seattle car wrecks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ft097tgr0
This one is a little tame, but the bus at (starts at 2:59) is worth it. I kind of feel bad for the bus driver, he really does try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZCyQ3emQg
January 19th, 2012 at 11:42 AM ^
So good,
January 19th, 2012 at 12:14 PM ^
I like the first guy in the first video, it's like he's trying to hit stuff. "I'll give it some gas, see if that helps. Nope, maybe a second try? Shit. Oh well, I've got insurance."
I'm always worried I'll be the guy at about 6:00 in this video. Also, if you turn captions on with transcribe audio you can get a couple extra laughs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE16-Rt2iVw&feature=results_video&playne…
Also I like this one, at about 1:00 a Ford Focus drives through like a champ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp2sqrfGSPI
January 19th, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
January 19th, 2012 at 10:45 AM ^
I like how the UHaul truck just moseys on past with no problems.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:47 AM ^
I'm pretty sure the driver of that blue SUV just perfected the zero-turn parallel park. Well done, sir.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:56 AM ^
You can just feel the hesitancy coming out of the vehicle after that accidental park, like they were thinking, "Ok, I'm probably lucky to get out of this with only my alignment jacked up, should I cut my losses and hoof it or try again?"
January 19th, 2012 at 10:49 AM ^
Although not originally written for the Dating Game, hearing that song cracks me up everytime thinking about that amazingly cheesy show! Great choice in music selection with the slipping and sliding.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:51 AM ^
I felt like some of those guys on my way to work this morning. Black ice all over the freeway.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:54 AM ^
I thought this was about how Boren is running a snow plow commercial....
Still a hilarious video though
January 19th, 2012 at 10:57 AM ^
i used to live in atlanta. one day i showed up for class and i was one of 5 students. the professor informed me that atlanta had recieved a quarter inch of snow overnight (it had melted by morning) and everyone else was too afraid to drive. i asked those who stayed at home what they were thinking and they said "i don't know how to drive in the snow" to which i replied "it isn't like you do anything different, just be more careful. there's no magic snow button on your car." snow in the forecast literally shuts down the entire city of atlanta.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:10 AM ^
The whole East Coast shut down when that snow storm hit over the holiday season. My CSB is that my wife was flying in and so I went to pick her up.
At one point as I'm heading for the airport I find a police cruiser blocking half the street and some flares out. The cop pulls me over and tells me the road is closed because the snow is too deep. There is currently about 8 inches on the ground. It's a slow go because the city doesn't own enough plow trucks and a lot of roads have 4-6 inches piled up on them. So I borrowed a giant pickup from my father (the joys of having family who work in the construction industry). The conversation is this:
"Sir you can't go down the road, the snow is too deep".
"Office, I'm from Michigan. 8 inches is not too deep."
"Sir, my cruiser cannot make it down that road. It's not safe."
"So you won't be cahasing me then I assume. Have a nice night officer." *vrooom*
(Actually this was the third roadblock I'd reached. At the first two I obeyed the cops and tried to find another route. By the third one though I was like "Really? This stuff isn't that deep.")
January 19th, 2012 at 11:55 AM ^
You're not a real Michigander unless you have a Cool Story Bro about idiots from non-snowy places who can't handle the snow. Mine: I used to live in Norfolk, VA. One fine weekend I had overnight duty on the ship, and it snowed in the early AM; the city got about two or three inches. Norfolk, being a city on the coast and at the mouth of a bunch of rivers and built more or less in the swamp, has a lot of bridges over creeks and rivers and such. And on literally every single one of those bridges on my 15-minute drive from the ship to my place was a crashed, abandoned car. One freeway bridge had a fork at one end of it where the left two lanes went straight and the right two lanes bore off to the right, and there was a set of perfectly straight, unwavering tire tracks in the snow leading to the crashed car up against the divider.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:48 PM ^
As a Michigander, I can attest to that area and their lack of driving ability in any weather. I just left Newport News and now live in Fairfax. They couldn't drive in snow, sleet or rain. I have lived all over the world and other than Korea, they may be the worst drivers I have seen.