Seattle drivers in two inches of snow (video)

[pokerfan]

It's two inches, people!

[graywarrior]

1. I shouldn't laugh but

[kentauros]

2. Two inches is a significant amount when you're not used to driving in it at all.

Plus it appears that many of them don't have the right tires to deal with it. So that "two inches!!!" is a nightmare.

I'm always amazed at how badly people 'drive' locally in the rain. We average 60 inches per year and people drive as if they're all from some desert-planet where liquid water doesn't exist, much less in a form that falls from the sky...

[pokerfan]

6. Yeah, if you don't have the tires

probably best to take the bus...

[KT2000]

3. OK - that was funny

but that is because I won't drive in it at all!

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Los Angeleans think the sky has betrayed them if it even drizzles.

I learned to drive in snow and ice. Well, I failed on the ice over and over but I was there! You kids today! When I was your age, I


SNORE









SNORE

[kaitcat]

5. If anybody has ever been to downtown Seattle,

it's hillier than San Francisco. Some of the streets seem almost vertical. So I laughed, but I understand.

[deucemagnet]

7. To be fair, that looks pretty slick.

I've spent many winters in Buffalo and the hinterlands of northeastern Pennsylvania, and it looks to me like there's more going on than just two inches of snow there. If it were in the low to mid-20s and you got two inches of dry snow, you couldn't make a car slide like that if you tried. That snow looks like the dreaded wet "wintry mix" with some sort of frozen precipitation below, and that can be tricky in any city and in any vehicle.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I feel suitably guilty for laughing!

[bluedigger]

9. I could accept the minicooper...

bad tires probably, but what was up with the Forester?

[pokerfan]

11. and the Forester even had a ski rack

or maybe that just for looks?

[hobbit709]

10. You see that around here with half an inch.

Whole town panics.

[Bombero1956]

12. was that someone putting chains on a car with front wheel drive?

on the rear tires?

[pokerfan]

15. Yes, it was

I was hoping someone would mention that.

[stevedeshazer]

13. We get them here in Portland, too. They're called Californians.

[quakerboy]

17. Bull shite

They are called Portlanders. And they are possibly the worst drivers ever when it comes to weather.

When we get a dry spell for three days, then it rains, they have forgotten how to drive in rain.

When it rains for several days, then the sun comes out, they've forgotten how to drive in good conditions.

In a city that swaps back and forth between raining and not as often as this one, that's kinda a problem.

So its no wonder that when it don't rain for approximately a year, they cannot manage to remember how to do that safely either.

[kaitcat]

19. Yah, and it's a good thing they don't stay very long.

Three months of rain in a row makes people who are used to perpetual sunshine a little wacky.

[luv_mykatz]

14. Pacific Northwest snow is often super slick!

Our temperatures usually hover right around freezing or just above freezing during the day. Then, they drop at night to below freezing. What began as wet slushy snow gets packed down during the day...and transforms to icy boilerplate at night. Result: something that no traction device will bite on. A real nightmare to drive on. And, as many residents would point out, we don't get it often enough to become well practiced at driving on it. Last, but not least, it is NOT flat out here!

You can see in the video that the 4-wheel drive vehicle had chains on, yet they still slid into the curb. Pretty bad conditions, probably. Portland faces the same thing in the morning.

[Generic Other]

16. 2 inches and a vertical obstacle course in a moving vehicle

with locking brakes and sliding tires, a few 380 degree spins, barely missing cars, not missing cars, stop signs, pedestrians foolish enough to be in the vicinity...NOT FUNNY! Unless you survive.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

18. There's a YouTube video of someone starting out

at the top of a hill and hitting something like eight cars by the time they got to the bottom. It looked like a pinball game. I would hate to pay that deductible.

[Generic Other]

20. SNOW DAY!!!!

Woohooooo! No school for me!!! And yes, two inches outside. But much more coming!!!