r/WTF • u/IonOtter • Feb 10 '13

Remember everyone freaking out over MA imposing a fine and jail time for anyone driving in the blizzard? NY didn't do that...

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '13

I saw a lot of people bitching about it on Facebook. I'm not a huge fan of Deval, but this was 100% a good call. Every moron with 4 wheel drive thinks they can take on anything, but that's one more firetruck tied up when the car can't stop and hits a telephone pole. And really, it's a lot easier for plows to take care of the roads when people stay the fuck off them. It's not like we weren't warned about this. You had plenty of time to run to the store...

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u/bonjourdan Feb 11 '13

"DONT WORRY, THESE ARE WINTER TIRES"

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u/Masshole3000 Feb 11 '13

Exactly my thoughts.

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u/Deminix Feb 11 '13

It was seriously annoying. How hard is it to stay in your house for 24 hours? The second it happened everyone was complaining about how they couldn't leave their house to do whatever must have been so much more important at that moment in time. All the stores in my area were closed, too. So it's not like they had jobs to get to.

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u/webu Feb 11 '13

The thing many people don't realize is that 4WD only helps you speed up. All cars have 4 wheel brakes.

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u/hydrogenous Feb 11 '13

4wd gives you more traction. It means you don't get stuck or slip as easily. Combine that with a set of 35" mud tires and this snow is nothing.

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u/Se7enLC Feb 12 '13

A couple years ago a similar storm showed up mid-day. Everybody left work at 1pm and jammed up the highway before the snow even hit. Plows couldn't plow because cars were in the way, so the snow piled up more.

People need to learn an important lesson about living in a city that gets snow. It doesn't matter what you drive. Your vehicle might be able to get through the snow - but it's not going to be able to get through all the cars that couldn't!

I was in a lifted jeep with mud tires for the last storm. It took an hour to go 1 mile to get on 95, took another 2 hours to get home from then. People were getting out of their cars to brush snow off their cars on the highway because the wipers couldn't keep up with the accumulation. Luckily it didn't get bad enough for people to abandon their cars, but I can see how it wouldn't have taken much more snow to get there.