The worst is when it's a 2 lane highway and the snow on the shoulder starts slowly encroaching into your lane. You're never quite sure if you're being pushed into oncoming traffic or not.
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Only white raillanes matter.
Viva la railvolucion!
(and those don't need plowing to quite some extend)
Just make sure your switches are heated. In the arctic, they build little houses around their switches to keep it from getting completely snowed up
https://static-cdn.sr.se/images/98/5f80436c-9220-4c8a-9983-b3b65e5e4707.jpeg
Here's some pictures of their snow sweepers too
We play this game in South Africa too. Not because it snows, but because the lines don't get repainted soon enough even if they're completely faded. And instead of snow ploughs, we have taxis (the minibus versions) that just drive wherever and however they want.
I stay the fuck home when this shit goes down. Its just not worth it!
I get excited about getting to use my 4 wheel drive and make up excuses to drive to the store. "Oops, I think we need more gas for the generator. Be back in 3 hours!"
Driving a 4-wheeler in a snowstorm sounds exhilarating, but unfortunately, my car struggles significantly in snowy conditions!
It is! I'm always happy when I see a big Ford F-150 stuck on the side of the road too, since it's the only time I get to use 4 low gear. I was even able to pull a Ford F-150 with a fully loaded flatbed trailer attached out of the snow. Not bad for a V6!
That's impressive! Great job assisting someone like me, who would likely have been stuck in the snow.
I'm always happy to help!
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That's not a highway .... that's a wheat field in Saskatchewan.
why not both?
It's not a joke .... I drove on winter ice roads on James Bay for a few years about 15 - 20 years ago before they became well built ice roads they have now.
I remember driving on these roads in blinding snowstorms and losing the road entirely. The road up there mostly goes over frozen treeless swamps ... it's like driving through endless frozen lakes. There were also times where the road became so overfilled with drifting snow that it was better to go off the road and just drive the frozen wind packed open swamplands.
And that corridor on Highway 11 in Ontario between Huntsville, Orillia, Barrie is reminiscent of those winter ice roads if you ever up there during a blinding windy snow storm.
At what point do you just stay home and have a beer lol
Between Dec 1 and April 1
As much as I love snow, for reasons like this I will never live in a place that gets it.
That and the rust, so much rust from road salt. My car has been rust-free for 20 years and I'd like to keep it that way.
Yeah I wouldn't drive unless you really need to. The wind can start blowing which will make the visibility drop to about 3 inches.
I kinda like it because it makes it feel like we are flying at warp eight to the next star system .... then I have not snap out of that fantasy and remember that this could also kill me
It's just one big white line
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