re: Whoa, video of 50 car pile up in Indiana this morning.

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Still, I would shite my pants driving into that

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I drove into it Friday night last as I crossed from Indiana into Illinois, headed west to California. Was stuck in the most insane shite for 3 days on I-80. Worst was about 3 am Saturday, just as I was exiting Des Moines. It was snowing so hard sideways that the road was invisible. And whereas before, you could follow the vehicle on front of you, there was no one else on the road.The only way to make sure I was on the actual road was to judge my distance from the reflectors on the post that the steel cable runs through that divides I-80. Needless to say I pulled into the next truck stop I came across and slept in my car until daylight.

Over those three days I saw literally dozens of jack knifed 18 wheelers. It's strange to be driving along and come across a tractor cab facing the wrong way, looking at you lol

At one point Sunday, in the span of an hour I counted 5 18 wheelers laid over on their sides, two being completely demolished.

Sunday afternoon I was stuck on Lyman, Wyoming, on I-80 in what was only supposed to be a two hour delay for multiple crashes ahead of me. When I got out to see how far the traffic went, the road was like a skating rink there was such a thick layer of ice on it.


Then that turned into 2 more hours. I said frick it, hit the median with enough speed to make sure I got across and I headed back east and found a way to make a loop and come back to 80 west of the crashes. I was shocked when I finally got back on 80 that there was no traffic coming from the east, which meant all those people were still just sitting there, waiting on it to open up.

What should have been a 2 day trip turned into 4 exhausting, insane days.

Never again. Anybody that lives above the Mason Dixon willingly and is willing to deal with that shite is fricking stupid.


I never, ever ever ever ever, want to go though something like that again.

I will say that I bought new tires for my vehicle back in June with the expectation of dealing with ice and snow like you find in the South Bend area where I was living and working. Having a good set of tires that were geared towards those conditions paid for themselves many times over. Only a couple times, in Nebraska when the wind was at it's worse, did I ever feel the back end of my car start to step out. And it was easy to control and bring the rear back into line. And it helped that I was going relatively slow, taking the conditions into account. Not that my a-hole didn't pucker.