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kentauros

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

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 08:58 PM

Jan 2012

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...

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Seattle drivers in two inches of snow (video) [View all] pokerfan Jan 2012 OP

I shouldn't laugh but graywarrior Jan 2012 #1

Two inches is a significant amount when you're not used to driving in it at all. kentauros Jan 2012 #2

Yeah, if you don't have the tires pokerfan Jan 2012 #6

OK - that was funny KT2000 Jan 2012 #3

Los Angeleans think the sky has betrayed them if it even drizzles. Fire Walk With Me Jan 2012 #4

If anybody has ever been to downtown Seattle, kaitcat Jan 2012 #5

To be fair, that looks pretty slick. deucemagnet Jan 2012 #7

I feel suitably guilty for laughing! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #8

I could accept the minicooper... bluedigger Jan 2012 #9

and the Forester even had a ski rack pokerfan Jan 2012 #11

You see that around here with half an inch. hobbit709 Jan 2012 #10

was that someone putting chains on a car with front wheel drive? Bombero1956 Jan 2012 #12

Yes, it was pokerfan Jan 2012 #15

We get them here in Portland, too. They're called Californians. stevedeshazer Jan 2012 #13

Bull shite quakerboy Jan 2012 #17

Yah, and it's a good thing they don't stay very long. kaitcat Jan 2012 #19

Pacific Northwest snow is often super slick! luv_mykatz Jan 2012 #14

2 inches and a vertical obstacle course in a moving vehicle Generic Other Jan 2012 #16

There's a YouTube video of someone starting out UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2012 #18

SNOW DAY!!!! Generic Other Jan 2012 #20