I bet that truck in 4WD with those chains is a lot of fun.
"Spider man, spider man. Goes wherever my truck can"

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:All my driving on snow was back when I was 16-20, driving a RWD Olds Delta-88. It was more like driving a boat with marginal steering control, but we managed without chains somehow.

I can appreciate that! I learned to drive on a 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville. RWD with "all season" radials.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
That's what you call 6" in your house?

LOL made me laugh out-loud making my wife ask if I was OK!

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
December 1957, Ft. Gordon, Georgia. (Augusta, Ga area)

ONE inch of snow. Pennsylvania guys had barely enough snow for a snow ball fight.

In town, panic. Seemed like no one could drive safely. Roads closed. Emergency status.

In defense of the drivers then, cars were rear wheel drive and all season tires were unknown.

And, who in the hell owned tire chains.

Snow like that would panic Houston, too. But we get ice when we get snow because it tends to melt and then re-freeze. And no one knows how to drive in it.

But ya'll Yankees be proud of your ability to drive in three feet of snow. I'll be playing golf tomorrow, and could probably wear shorts if I wanted. It snowed this morning, but it will be 65 tomorrow.

Cut the guy some slack all you Yankees. We rarely get snow down here. We have no methods for clearing our roads. You tough guys destroy your roads with salt and chemicals and studded tires. The guy took the measures he required to succeed.

RMD

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Originally posted by jhe888:

But ya'll Yankees be proud of your ability to drive in three feet of snow. I'll be playing golf tomorrow, and could probably wear shorts if I wanted. It snowed this morning, but it will be 65 tomorrow.

Fine!
I'll be warm inside with a nice hot bowl of chili, WITH BEANS!

Yankees are big talkers until the thermometer hits 85, then they all die of heat stroke.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
Yankees are big talkers until the thermometer hits 85, then they all die of heat stroke.

Absolutely true. I lived in Norfolk, the Philippines, Pensacola and Charleston when I was in the Navy and that, my friend, is all the heat and humidity I ever want to deal with. I'd way rather bundle up and deal with snotsickles than sweat my balls off 30 seconds after I walk out the door.

It gets too damn hot for comfort up here in the tundra most years between say mid-July and the end of August.

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Originally posted by rduckwor:
Cut the guy some slack all you Yankees. We rarely get snow down here. We have no methods for clearing our roads. You tough guys destroy your roads with salt and chemicals and studded tires. The guy took the measures he required to succeed.

RMD

so true being from MN, we moved down to MO and it was a hoot going to the local Walmart and watching people smoke their tires trying to move out of their parking spot in 5” of snow.

Several years ago it snowed in central Alabama, several inches of accumulation, it was deer season so I got up before daylight, put on plenty of clothes, got in my 1978 Ford Bronco and headed to the woods. When I started out there were a bunch of tire tracks, then I started seeing vehicles in the ditches and the number of tracks began to diminish, lots of them belonged to four wheel drive vehicles. There was now only one set of tire tracks in front of me, finally caught up with it, VW bug. I was in four wheel drive, taking my time, got squirrelly a few times (mostly on bridges), got to the woods, sat for 3 hours on a power line til the sun started melting the ice off the lines and dropping multiple feet long chunks of ice all around me, tried to get up to leave, butt frozen to the chair I was sitting in, had to peel the chair off my hunting suit. Didn’t see another living thing.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
I don't see any mountains in your video. Can you point them out maybe?

I have been to visit them (SC & Mars). Mountains? Well, maybe not, but some pretty impressive hills.

Descending out of the cloud layer for the approach into their local airport, I was pretty well aware that there was absolutely no place to go if I were to experience a power failure.

I would imagine that a even a moderate amount of snow there could be a problem.

That's called a 'Skiff' in Montana. Anything under a foot doesn't require chains.

I’ve been driving for more than 50 years.
I have never had snow tires.

Bob

Nice part about being retired. it snows, I clear the driveway and go back into. Living on a main road, they go back and forth with the plows. not long after it stops, the snow usually starts melting when the sun hits it.

Just rode the bike back from the shop today. Overcast or I'd have driven a bit further.

I grew up in PA up near Buffalo N.Y. driving a front wheel drive car through plenty of snow


Snow in the south is not the same, the freeze thaw and with the temps that are around 32 degrees it is wet and very slippery.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
Yankees are big talkers until the thermometer hits 85, then they all die of heat stroke.

Does the "Yankee" BS offend anybody else or am I just too sensitive?

I took wife to UVA Medical in Charlottesville,Va today. Just snow flurries this am, but on the way home going south (2-1/2 hr drive) probably saw 15 cars that had slid off the roadway.

Most likely driving too fast. Was glad to get home however, for even me, an old retired Hwy Dept worker.

I don't own any chains,and most of the chains sold these days are the radial cable type that do not last long and do not bite into the ice.

The toothed chain type chains are the best in ice, but no matter what, nothing really goes in the ice, Snow tires and 4x4 do well in snow, wihout icepack.

Anyways, drive carefully.

Only ones here that like this snow are my Siberians. I don't.

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Originally posted by wolfe 21: Does the "Yankee" BS offend anybody else or am I just too sensitive?

Too sensitive. We "Yankees" are taking pleasure in the misery of Southerners driving in snow and mocking their driving. I certainly expect some good natured pushback.

Better to be prepared and not really need it than to need it and not be prepared. If I lived in an area that got frozen roads on a semi-regular basis, I would have chains for my 4x4 truck. If I bought chains, then I too would test them out the first chance I got.

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I have been to visit them (SC & Mars). Mountains? Well, maybe not, but some pretty impressive hills.

I grew up around hills, even semi big hills. But not mountains.

Then I went out west and saw legit mountains. So I have a hard time seeing much of anything in the east as 'mountains'.

I'm sure they exist, I just missed them in the video where they were proclaimed to be. Maybe the blizzard like conditions were hiding them, IDK.

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Originally posted by wolfe 21:
Does the "Yankee" BS offend anybody else or am I just too sensitive?

Just my opinion.