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Antnee83 t1_j43wnln wrote

Reply to comment by LockAggressive5516 in PSA:In snowy conditions, expect people to drive slower. by BadLuckShoesie

This was back in I think 2011? 2012? Really bad snowstorm and I was living in Poland at the time. Dark, snowing like a motherfucker, roads weren't plowed yet at all.

Three ways I could get to where I lived. One was a gradual slow incline with a curve: Got halfway up and just could not get enough speed to keep climbing without ALSO making my tires spin. Back down I went, backwards.

The other was a very steep hill but a straightshot at the bottom. Tried to pick up speed, same goddamn thing happened.

So I had to go alllll the fuck away around, and ended up at the top of a hill, but at the bottom was a 90 degree turn. You guessed it, could not control my descent, and right into the ditch I went at the bottom.

AAA pulled me out, guy told me he just pulled someone off a tree at exactly the hill I was at before, where I slid backwards.

I didn't have bad tires or anything, it was just absurdly slick. Fuckin hated that whole goddamn night

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sjm294 t1_j44h9o6 wrote

That might have been the year I tried 3 different ways to go home after work. I finally gave up and went to my mother’s house where there were no hills. My commute was usually an hour, but that night it was way over that.

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curtludwig t1_j48k6xf wrote

I remember one time the snow started about noon. Seemed like every business let out around 2pm, the roads were crazy. I went back to work, put on my headphones and watched movies until about 7. At that point the traffic had died down, the plow crews had gotten a handle on it and the roads were fine, no stress...

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sjm294 t1_j48m5g8 wrote

Smart! Another bad weather day-I had a really stressful drive to work and as soon as I got there I had a call from the hospital. My daughter was in an accident on her way to school. They said she was ok but they wanted me to come pick her up. I asked them if they had called her dad who was at home. Of course not! I told them that I had just driven for 2 hours to get to work and I wasn’t going to get back in my car just to do it all over again. So, call her dad…

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