****en Drivers in the Norhtern IL

[etznova 10+ year member]

I never said i wanted to drive fast, but puttering along at 10-25 mph in a 65 when you can easily handle 50 to 60 is just ridiculous

 

[mbaoo]

While were on the subject of traffic.

Does it piss all of you guys off when you have traffic just because people slow down to look at accidents or people broken down on the side of the road?

Seriously. There was this one time where a guy was changing his tire on the side of the road and there was mother****ing traffic for only like 200ft on the freeway. It was ****ing rediculous. I wanted to shoot everyone who caused that to happen that day.

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

While were on the subject of traffic.
Does it piss all of you guys off when you have traffic just because people slow down to look at accidents or people broken down on the side of the road?

Seriously. There was this one time where a guy was changing his tire on the side of the road and there was mother****ing traffic for only like 200ft on the freeway. It was ****ing rediculous. I wanted to shoot everyone who caused that to happen that day.

just pass them?

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

While were on the subject of traffic.
Does it piss all of you guys off when you have traffic just because people slow down to look at accidents or people broken down on the side of the road?

Seriously. There was this one time where a guy was changing his tire on the side of the road and there was mother****ing traffic for only like 200ft on the freeway. It was ****ing rediculous. I wanted to shoot everyone who caused that to happen that day.

That's commonplace around here. I was stuck in traffic for 2 hours because there was an accident in the oncoming traffic lanes.

 

[mbaoo]

just pass them?

Every single lane was slow.

200ft later it was back to full speed. Redicuous.

 

[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

I never said i wanted to drive fast, but puttering along at 10-25 mph in a 65 when you can easily handle 50 to 60 is just ridiculous

Tonight was bad, I live in South Beloit and I saw a few people in the ditch and the roads were crap. This was on 251 @ 11:30pm or so

 

[JamesKarr 10+ year member]

hahaha truth! people see one flake in the air and panic. Its the same with rain.

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

we got about 5 more inches last night. today should be fun

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

that shouldn't matter it was only an 1", 2" max by the time 1000 cars have drivin through the snow is pretty much non existent on the road way
if it was 5-6" of snow i could see that as an excuse

We have a good 5" of snow right now and it took me 3 more minutes to get to work, lol!

I do drive that "fWD wonder" though.

Feel bad for the wife, although it took her 20 more minutes to get to work and she has a 50 minute drive one way. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Still no 3 hours! People must just not know how to drive in Chicago...........

 

[pitbull12887 10+ year member]

Thats how charlotte is when it rains //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[eharri3 10+ year member]

Even worse here in PA. If there is sunglare people don't know how to squint or put on sunglasses, they slow down to 45 mph and still rear end eachother. Some woman managed to hit my big bright blue loud truck in her Escort a few years ago because the sun was in her eyes and she evidently didn't see me there sitting still in traffic on a 4 lane major highway.

We could just have a minor morning drizzle and I hear of accidents and traffic delays on every major road on the radio while on my way to work. An inch of snow, and 4 inches of salt go down on every major road. Useless local news stations that normally have nothing exciting to report start throwing out terms like 'storm watch' and 'winter weather alert' for half a day of light snow showers. Evidently nobody here knows how to drive without having an accident except for picture perfect, dry conditions with no sun glare and not even any rainfall.

More than 3 inches of snow, people loose their ####in minds. Snow shovels fly off the shelves in every major hardware store. Rock salt disappears from Home Depot and Lowes. ( I have always wondered what happens to everybody's snow shovels after a major storm that they have to buy brand new ones every single year. Do they get up and walk away?)

Eggs and milk fly off the shelves of every local convenience store and supermarket, even though most of the people buyin the shit never drink milk or feel any particularly urgent desire for eggs unless there is snow in the forecast. Even then jackasses still take their front drive minivans out into major blizzards with over a foot on the ground even after everyone is specifically told to stay off the road and give the plows room to work, and when they get interviewed on the news with their crumpled vehicles sitting in dithes in the background after emergency personel with better things to do have been diverted to help them, they say they HAD to go out because something stupid like they realized there was no apple juice in the house. (first time they worried about it EVER.)

And so at the end of the day after all the panic the roads are plowed and salted and drivable within a day and everybody has a fridge full of spoiled milk and rotten eggs and a month's worth of other crap they'll never use to contend with because they ran out and bought stuff like they were expecting to be trapped in their homes for 6 months straight. Then after it's completely over everybody runs out and buys 1000 dollar heavy duty snow throwers so they're ready for next time and it doesn't snow heavily again for another 3 years.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Anyway............

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

Even worse here in PA. If there is sunglare people don't know how to squint or put on sunglasses, they slow down to 45 mph and still rear end eachother. Some woman managed to hit my big bright blue loud truck in her Escort a few years ago because the sun was in her eyes and she evidently didn't see me there sitting still in traffic on a 4 lane major highway.
We could just have a minor morning drizzle and I hear of accidents and traffic delays on every major road on the radio while on my way to work. An inch of snow, and 4 inches of salt go down on every major road. Useless local news stations that normally have nothing exciting to report start throwing out terms like 'storm watch' and 'winter weather alert' for half a day of light snow showers. Evidently nobody here knows how to drive without having an accident except for picture perfect, dry conditions with no sun glare and not even any rainfall.

More than 3 inches of snow, people loose their ####in minds. Snow shovels fly off the shelves in every major hardware store. Rock salt disappears from Home Depot and Lowes. Eggs and milk fly off the shelves of every local convenience store and supermarket, even though most of the people buyin the shit never drink milk or feel any particularly urgent desire for eggs unless there is snow in the forecast. Even then jackasses still take their front drive minivans out into major blizzards with over a foot on the ground even after everyone is specifically told to stay off the road and give the plows room to work, and when they get interviewed on the news with their crumpled vehicles sitting in dithes in the background they say they HAD to go out because something stupid like they realized there was no apple juice in thet house. (first time they worried about it EVER.)

And so at the end of the day after all the panic the roads are plowed and salted and drivable within a day and everybody has a fridge full of spoiled milk and rotten eggs and a week's worth of other crap they'll never use to contend with because they ran out and bought stuff like thew were expecting to be trapped in their homes for 6 months straight. Then after it's over everybody runs out and buys 1000 dollar heavy duty snow throwers so they're ready for next time and it doesn't snow heavily again for another 3 years.

cliffs:

wow wtf happened overnight!! nobody predicted this did they!!?

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

Saw this on my way home from work today.

Ricer fial.

 

[donky23 10+ year member]

I can attest to the shitty driving in the Belvidere/Rockford area. I feel the op's pain on this one.