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A MESSAGE FROM MOONIE
17 years ago
This is for those of you who live where it snows. I'm talking about more than a dusting. I MEAN SNOW. ICE. Winter!
Learn how to drive in it, please. Go to an empty parking lot and practice getting out of a spin. Practice stopping (don't EVER slam on your brakes) and practice accelerating. Get used to fishtailing and know how to control it. Get familiar with snow on the road.
It's not scary at all; once you know how to handle it, snow driving can be a lot of fun. I know I have fun. :D
Posted cuz when I was driving to work yesterday, there was a freak blizzard (albeit small) and like... I guess it caught everyone by surprise. I saw three accidents, and then, while I was going around this corner, I thought of my friend, Ashley (who I met at work and still work with)...
And I noticed her car parked into a lightpole. D:
Of course, I pulled over immediately, went to the cop and asked him where she was/if she was okay, and he let me know she was waiting in a car behind us (I didn't see it... just her smooshed car). I gave her a big hug and she just broke down and criiieeeeed. I felt so bad, but I was relieved she was okay. She was freaking out that she'd have to quit her job, but I told her we can start carpooling (I pass the road she lives on when I go to work) and that it'll work out.
She's okay, but her airbag didn't go off and she put her arm up to brace herself and bruised it up pretty good. I told her a couple weeks ago that I'd give her snow driving lessons, but I was only... not serious. Now I think I should. DX
Learn how to drive in it, please. Go to an empty parking lot and practice getting out of a spin. Practice stopping (don't EVER slam on your brakes) and practice accelerating. Get used to fishtailing and know how to control it. Get familiar with snow on the road.
It's not scary at all; once you know how to handle it, snow driving can be a lot of fun. I know I have fun. :D
Posted cuz when I was driving to work yesterday, there was a freak blizzard (albeit small) and like... I guess it caught everyone by surprise. I saw three accidents, and then, while I was going around this corner, I thought of my friend, Ashley (who I met at work and still work with)...
And I noticed her car parked into a lightpole. D:
Of course, I pulled over immediately, went to the cop and asked him where she was/if she was okay, and he let me know she was waiting in a car behind us (I didn't see it... just her smooshed car). I gave her a big hug and she just broke down and criiieeeeed. I felt so bad, but I was relieved she was okay. She was freaking out that she'd have to quit her job, but I told her we can start carpooling (I pass the road she lives on when I go to work) and that it'll work out.
She's okay, but her airbag didn't go off and she put her arm up to brace herself and bruised it up pretty good. I told her a couple weeks ago that I'd give her snow driving lessons, but I was only... not serious. Now I think I should. DX
I drive an old rear-wheel-driven car without it, and it makes me appreciate the technological advances.
I'm so careful x.x
Yeah braking IS so much harder to control that fishtailing from acceleration.
Brake, THEN turn.
I concur!
Hahaha, sledgehammer. :D
Even in Canada winter drivers are frankly retarded!
Oh! and get snow tires :P unless you're completely out because Quebec is hogging them >.>
It's super scary when it's a semi, though. D:
DENVER EXPECTS MORE SNOW!! OHMYGAWD.
CAN YOU DRIVE IN SUNSHINE?!?!?? HMMMM? No, I kid. :3
HEY! YOU! GET OUTTA MY DREAMS! AND INTO MY CAR!
I IS PROUD OF YA! :D
I love winter.
I hate traffic.
:c