WX WARNING

[leVieux]

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NWS tells us to expect freezing rain, sleet, & surface icing.

Let me remind all who are South of IH10, & not used to this; that 4WD helps w/ traction but not BRAKING on ice.

Also, motorcycles & iced-over roadways don’t mix well.

Start early, go slowly, be home before dark. . . . . .

Stay SAFE, Y’all hear !

leVieux

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[jmohme]

There is no good reason to drive on ice period!
On ice 4WD does not help nearly enough to make it a good idea to be out on icy roads. Snow yes, but not ice. 4 wheels spinning and slideing on ice helps nothing.

When I was in highschool and got my first pickup my friends asked why I didnt get a 4wd. I had actually given that a lot of thought having watched the 4WD guys when the weather would turn bad, I came to the conlusion that what 4WD does best is make people do stupid things!
Later when I started driving wreckers, this theory was confirmed many times.

If you do have to be out in this weather, please be careful and watch out of the out of control 4 wheelers that think they are invincible.

 

[Vaquero]

Especially subarus.

 

[Lead Belly]

There is no good reason to drive on ice period!

 

[gasgas]

Doesn’t everyone have a snow machine ready to go

 

[PhulesAu]

If you can't walk on it,you can't drive on it.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

LOL! Guess you all think folks up north stop driving after Thanksgiving and don’t get back on the road until Memorial Day

 

[OneGunTX]

In Houston, we're experiencing freezing rain. Had to scrape the windshields. Haven't had to do that since I moved from Ill-Annoy to Texas 30 years ago.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

LOL! Guess you all think folks up north stop driving after Thanksgiving and don’t get back on the road until Memorial Day

I will acknowledge that these Texas drivers are exponentially more dangerous on icy roads than they are on dry pavement, as hard to believe as that is…

 

[striker55]

In Houston, we're experiencing freezing rain. Had to scrape the windshields. Haven't had to do that since I moved from Ill-Annoy to Texas 30 years ago.

When I moved to Houston in 2000 there was some ice on car's. I was the only guy with a scraper scraping the windshield. Everyone else just started their cars and after the defrost worked they drove.

 

[striker55]

LOL! Guess you all think folks up north stop driving after Thanksgiving and don’t get back on the road until Memorial Day

Upstate NY we did get snow on Thanksgiving and it was on the ground until Memorial Day one year.

 

[Brains]

Note to idiots. Stop hitting the brakes before, on, or after a frozen bridge. Just keep going in the same direction, at the same speed.

 

[Tnhawk]

In Houston, we're experiencing freezing rain. Had to scrape the windshields. Haven't had to do that since I moved from Ill-Annoy to Texas 30 years ago.

I had to do stop and scrape ice a few times yesterday in I-30 as the windshield washer fluid froze.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

I had to do stop and scrape ice a few times yesterday in I-30 as the windshield washer fluid froze.

Did the blinker fluid freeze also?

 

[Tnhawk]

Especially subarus.

After the 4 wheel drives and other vehicles flew past my subaru on I-30 yesterday I later passed a few of them, although at a speed safe for the conditions.

 

[Tnhawk]

Did the blinker fluid freeze also?

'All season windshield washer fluid' - isn't all season.

I used synthetic blinker fluid.

 

[Tnhawk]

There is no good reason to drive on ice period!

I had to decide which was the lesser danger, spend night in memphis or deal with the road conditions.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

After the 4 wheel drives and other vehicles flew past my subaru on I-30 yesterday I later passed a few of them, although at a speed safe for the conditions.

LOL! Everyone hates on Subaru's. I get it...lots of leftie tree huggers drive them. But shit, they are dang good vehicles. Not quite Toyota good, but close. I love ours.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

When I moved to Houston in 2000 there was some ice on car's. I was the only guy with a scraper scraping the windshield. Everyone else just started their cars and after the defrost worked they drove.

Guilty...I don't have an ice scraper either. Grew up in NH, lived much of my adult life in AK and MT, but after moving to TX, I burned my snow shovel and broke my ice scraper.

 

[leVieux]

After the 4 wheel drives and other vehicles flew past my subaru on I-30 yesterday I later passed a few of them, although at a speed safe for the conditions.

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Several years back, my older Son had a couple of young recent-grad Engineers working for him. one had the $90K BMW ‘’hot rod’’, the other had a Subaru.

Naturally, they had to find out.

Their admitted verdict: dead heat on a dry road, but on a wet road, the Subaru left the BMW, which cost over twice the price.

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