Comments on: Winter Driving Fail

By: called2serve249

called2serve249 — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:32:10 +0000

I was in those Denver storms. Got married in between two of them, then got snowed in at our honeymoon cabin. It was rough.

By: The Dalai Farmer

The Dalai Farmer — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:47:53 +0000

Well said, Joozbawks

By: fitmax body fit

fitmax body fit — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:27:42 +0000

Ha, this looks just like Raleigh, NC. Except we don’t need that much snow for everyone to freak out. Rofl

By: tv ürünleri

tv ürünleri — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:05:34 +0000

Wish this was a video. Would have been a lot more entertaining.

By: IamWeird

IamWeird — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:50:17 +0000

Looks like rushhour here in Sweden!!!^^

By: Max

Max — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:24:39 +0000

This situation was created through a series of weather events that although aren’ t unique to Alberta, most commenters here will never experience. During winters in Alberta temps can range from -30 C to +20 C, or vice versa within a 24 hour period. This phenomenon is called a Chinook during the warming trend. On Dec 3/09, the day before this picture, temps were around +10 C and rain fell through the night. Early in the morning, it became snow as temps dropped below freezing. This produced a very thick layer of ice, which the small amount of snow only served as a polishing agent. Had there been a larger snowfall, more traction would have been available. Along with the ice, and perhaps this hill looks rather tame, take note that there are tractor-trailers littering the scene. This should give viewers a better perspective of the hill’s grade. No vehicle or tire made could handle these conditions regardless of driver ability. The failure was by Police and highways depts. that did not recognize these conditions and close the road to apply sand and salt.

By: CHRIS - DENVER, CO

CHRIS - DENVER, CO — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:30:35 +0000

This is why people should drive Subarus w/ winter tires and we wouldn’t have crap like this.

By: Speciālists

Speciālists — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:35:03 +0000

OMG! So many car in crash! Its not look like a fake!

By: Exotic Car Rental Miami

Exotic Car Rental Miami — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:51:43 +0000

lol thats a cluster f**** of cars right there. Where was this shot taken again? or is this fake…

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:09:48 +0000

WIN in the sense that this happened near a town named CARSTAIRS

By: mledevine

mledevine — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:22:37 +0000

haha i’m from austin and when it even snows a little or ices over our whole world comes to a screaming halt. all school and work are canceled, and the people who do venture out wind up on the news for sliding into parked cars. when it rains we all freak out and slow down to twenty miles an hour

By: Jason a texan

Jason a texan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:31:21 +0000

jihad says:
January 2, “2010″ at 9:45 pm

Actually this happens a lot in Texas where people aren’t used to driving in the snow. It happened around Wichita Falls, TX on Dec 24th “this year.”

wow there is fail right there

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:02:32 +0000

Looks like Monument Hill, between Denver and Colorado Springs. Probably the storm of late 2006.

By: Grade A Alberta girl

Grade A Alberta girl — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:25:30 +0000

Yeah, Canada isn`t known for ANYTHING. Hope you get diabetes and need insulin… oh wait! Can`t be that great a medicine considering it was created by a CANADIAN! I suppose we Canadians should all aspire to being obese, unhealthy, apathetic couch jockeys such as our neighbours the Americans! Why don`t you go watch a basketball game (a game created by a Canadian!) and drink another bottle of piss… oh, sorry, Budwieser.

By: Grade A Alberta girl

Grade A Alberta girl — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:09:09 +0000

It’s call a chinook… Warm winds that blow over Southern Alberta which bring the temp of the air to above freezing, while the ground is still freezing cold. The night before the hill you are looking at was covered in a foot of snow. During the day a chinook wind blew in, then in the lovely tradition of Alberta weather, a cold front (-35 celcius +windchill) blew in… VOILA!!! Instant black ice! This was close to Calgary, where everyone will tell you “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes. It’ll change!”, and when I lived there, we got snow EVERY MONTH of the year! Imagine waking up in August to 3 inches of snow, but knowing that by noon, you’ll have wished you had worn shorts! Until you have lived in it, you could not possibly believe it! Who knew us Canucks had it so crazy!

By: Dano

Dano — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:29:17 +0000

your name is fake and gay, but who cares?

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:10:19 +0000

In Northern British Columbia. You rarely see this. Unless it’s some stupid American who doesn’t know how to drive in the snow. The only way we stop is in blizzards where it snows like 3 feet.

By: mak

mak — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:16:53 +0000

oh, shit.

By: Silkysmoothe

Silkysmoothe — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:10:48 +0000

This is outside of Airdrie in alberta Canada… Its was such an awful snow day… All roads around the province were closed due to this crazy snow storm… and most of the roads are hills… It was not fun.

By: Bjornstar

Bjornstar — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:18:13 +0000

Sometimes there’s this stuff that forms called ice. It makes it hard to stop.
For the record, I’m not American and I have drive in faaaar worse than that crap.

By: Yessssssir

Yessssssir — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:41:33 +0000

It took one driver from New Jersey

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:58:18 +0000

Ha, this looks just like Raleigh, NC. Except we don’t need that much snow for everyone to freak out. Rofl

By: bebri

bebri — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:42:19 +0000

+1 !!!

By: some guy

some guy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:09:12 +0000

This is Highway 2 in between Edmonton and Calgary Alberta

By: Norwayftw

Norwayftw — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:06:20 +0000

Lol, all this chaos for a couple of inches with snow?
Only you americans can do that! xD

I mean like, wtf?! How can you NOT be able to stop before you drive into the car infront of you? xD

I really hope that americans stay faar faar away from norway in the winter, come here in the summer with your mustangs, chevys and all those hot slim cars with a motor that barely fits into the motorroom ^^

By: eco

eco — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:57:35 +0000

lol bet ur not saying that now

By: rivnro

rivnro — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:07:17 +0000

LOL just south of Red Deer on the QE11 I still have the original email that went around it was taken Dec 4th 2009. The problem wasn’t the snow.. it’s the more than an inch of ice under the snow – the black tracks arn’t hardtop kids.. it’s pure ice. Now add over 50Kh winds that blow straight across with nothing but open field and those Tractor Trailers acting like sails and you have yourself a problem. There is also no salt or sand down yet.

By: Jeffjeff

Jeffjeff — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:04:25 +0000

come to Chicago.

watch professional drivers.

fools.

By: Joker

Joker — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:31:18 +0000

To be fair, I think just about everyone would fail that hill.

By: Estel

Estel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:01:58 +0000

Studded tires are illegal in some states. They really, really chew up the roads and infrastructure is expensive to fix. I think in NY, they’re legal, but you have to take them off your car by a certain date.

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:31:24 +0000

RWJ much?

By: Amused

Amused — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:38:08 +0000

lol…you think it is bad in St. Louis, Tennessee doesn’t even own a single snow plow…it starts to lightly snow and they flat out cancel school….shit like that pic happens, not because of the slick road, but because of shear panic!!!

By: Aeros

Aeros — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:32:38 +0000

…. Wow. Yeah. I can totally see this happening in Cincinnati as well.

By: AK_foz

AK_foz — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:27:30 +0000

All you guys from the Lower 48 don’t drive sanely in the snow…in a true white-out ( 3 yds or less visibility) you would max out at like 25…Also you guys need to drive more AWD cars, most people down there use SUVs on the road anyways, so it won’t hurt gas mileage…

By: FreeWoW

FreeWoW — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:24:21 +0000

Haha wow. Thats crazy. Note to self, dont move to where there is snow

By: derr12

derr12 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:58:26 +0000

looks like the outskirts of calgary… rolling hills like that towards the mountains. albertians are pretty much all retarded the first couple snowfalls and drive like idiots…. on summer tires probably.

By: Garth

Garth — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:20:54 +0000

This picture was taken on a Mon. morning from the westbound lane of I 74 about mile marker 40 in Indiana. I think it was Dec. 14. We made it up the hill in the left lane. The semi that is the farthest up the hill in the right lane was just getting stuck. All of this must have happened shortly after we passed. Then they closed the road. Indiana don’t know crap about road salting.

By: Profeana

Profeana — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:40:12 +0000

I find this picture humorous because there is almost no snow on the ground. In the last three weeks we have had 3 feet of snow where I live, but we are used to it and drive safely.

By: that one

that one — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:29:27 +0000

its all because of one person

By: jessica

jessica — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:07:07 +0000

AGREED! i’m from nebraska and i’d assume we probably drive about the same. my sister lives in texas and she even said they drive in the snow like we drive in the rain.

By: KWte

KWte — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:31:20 +0000

Yup, that day stunk. Wasn’t that the day that Edmonton was the coldest city in the world? -47 or something *without* the windchill? Closer to -55 Celsius with the chill?

We live in Airdrie, AB, and some of our friends were stuck in their houses for two days because of the four or five foot drifts that storm blew in.

By: G

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:58:51 +0000

I might point out here that all cars have 4 wheel stop. All cars have 2 wheel turn (with a very few rare exceptions). 4 wheel drive doesn’t help you steer at all unless you are executing maneuver that includes acceleration to trasfer weight to the rear of the car. Race car drivers do this sort of thing (especially in autoX), but generally if conditions are slippery you can’t achieve enough weight transfer to matter (because you don’t have grip in the first place).

4 wheel drive helps you go. It won’t help you stop, and it won’t help you turn except in exotic situations that aren’t really relevant in street driving, and especially not on snow/ice.

4 wheel drive IS useful *after* you’ve gone off the road however (assuming you didn’t wreck one or more of the aforementioned wheels in the process)

By: Deodand

Deodand — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:38:02 +0000

Airdrie, Alberta, Canada.

By: Misel

Misel — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:13:40 +0000

well yeah, about an hour

By: Moo

Moo — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:48:09 +0000

Im a Texan and this is true. haha We were driving to Wichita Kansas New Years Eve and got stuck in Norman Ok in the blizzard this year.

We weren’t driving badly ourselves but some Texas (and other states) plates zoomed by us and were wrecked shortly after. You gotta be careful!

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Xbox Live Codes For Free — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:45:14 +0000

Wow, and I thought being in a ditch for 2 1/2 hours waiting for a tow truck with no heat sucked. Well I mean it did, but I guess after seeing this it could have been much worse

By: rumblestrip

rumblestrip — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:48:24 +0000

Wow. It is AMAZING the amount of Oklahomans and Texans convinced “THIS HAS GOT TO BE……..”. They get ONE snow storm, they don’t know how to drive in it, and cause wrecks for the people who HAVE to be out there (Truck drivers who DRIVE in this stuff for a LIVING and are PROFESSIONAL). THEN they act as if the whole world is coming to an end and there couldn’t POSSIBLY be a pile up like this anywhere else, and SWEAR that this happened there WITHOUT reading the MULTITUDE of people confirming it to be in Canada. THEN the dumbasses that want to criticize that there “isn’t even that much snow” OBVIOUSLY are the same dumbasses that CAUSE wrecks like this. Being a truck driver myself I see too many people in their cars thinking they’re invincible in their 4x4s, and “there isn’t even that much snow” to know that this country (America) seriously needs to re-vamp the way we learn how to drive.

By: joshua brock

joshua brock — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:27:03 +0000

over 1,000,000 cans of artificial snow-$200
borrowing a giant snowblower from the store-120$
choosing a perfect location at a hectit overpass and sitting back to watch the chaos-priceless, if you’re caught-$1000 fine and one year in jail.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:55:58 +0000

I’d think Canadians could handle it better. I’ve seen this kind of thing in Florida, where they can’t get over the smallest hill in the snow. But Canada? They should be used to it.

By: hwy2driver

hwy2driver — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:45:16 +0000

I was there, it was awful.