re: What snow does to Birmingham, AL (surrounding areas)

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Ice isnt hard to drive on, but keep using that as an excuse.

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Obviously you are incorrect.

Frankly, I'm disappointed in Southerners. Everyone knows all white ones have chains, matches, and a gas can stashed next to the hood in the closet. Snow/ice should not have been a problem.

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Unfortunately when you live in a highly populated area, it only takes a few panicky people to tie up the major road arteries for hours.

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This is the main problem for areas down here. Its a huge chain reaction. Pretty much like dominos falling. All it takes is one idiot to fall and its all downhill from there. Get caught on the interstate during a thunderstorm and you would think you're in the middle of a cat 5 hurricane. People slam on brakes, put their flashers on, and make everything 10x's more dangerous with their so called "safe and cautious" driving.

We used to go skiing every year out west and would fly into salt lake or reno, rent a car and drive to condo in mountains, and back and forth to ski resorts everyday with no problems. Its the people that cause the majority of the problems not the conditions.

The inclines we have at major choke points in Birmingham make for very dangerous icy conditions

Icy today and probably won't be able to get to work until late tomorrow if even then..snow still on the ground here in Diamondhead

Funny thing is that it should be up to near 70 degrees this weekend here

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Also, what made it really bad was that the roads were all pretty warm - temps had been in the 60s on Sunday, so the snow that fell at first melted, but the temps dropped as the day went on, so all that melt then froze, and then had snow stick on top of it.

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I think a lot of the internet mockery is from people who didn't realize this (I didn't, until today). Pictures look like, and most early news only mentioned snow, and not much of it, by Northern standards.

Ice is terrifying to anybody, and even if you're too stupid to be scared shitless by driving on it, physics will prevent you from doing anything worthwhile, anyway.

If you see me laughing at anybody in Georgia or Alabama for the next couple of days, please mentally add "except for the ice, of course, that stuff sucks" to anything I say.

And of course, there's always Russia:

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But of course no one down here knows how to drive in that shite. Why would we?

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i have a 4wd vehicle so snow has never bothered me here in nashville but all it takes is a **MODEST** incline on the interstate and a few shitty cars that cant handle it (i'm looking at you, bmw) and you start to get a bottleneck because once they've slid backwards and start constipating things, cars that would have normally made it over are coming from a dead stop and they cant make it either..rinse later repeat. 8 hours later you're sitting in the middle of the interstate outside birmingham.