Pet Peeves

[azurbanclucker]

Up here in ICE country, boys and girls, driving the limit is a matter of life and death. It gets to be a habit.

First winter I lived up in Flagstaff, I got run off the road and rolled my 4wd pickup down a ravine. The other driver was drunk and hit a patch of ice. We only know because he hit a pole about 1/4 mile up the road. Never stopped when I went off. I would have been OK too if I hadn't swerved so violently that the rear end came around and I couldn't recover it in the wet. I hit the rear view mirror and split my forehead open in the roll, but aside from some other bumps and bruises, I was OK. My poor truck was a taco salad though.

I do way better now in snow and ice, but I will never forget that crash and how it could have ended up with me dead instead of getting stitches.

Learn how to drive in all conditions, kids. The life you save may be in one of your passenger seats.

 

[nuthatched]

Most of AZ lives in phx and tucson (4.8 million of 7.8 total). The roads are flat, straight, very urbanized, and we only get "sunny" or "rainy", and decent all weather tires will help the few wet days. The mountain areas do get weather, but people up the hill don't drive as fast and are more cautious. When you see wrecks up there, it's stupid people from phx more often than not.

I'm thinking about all those cars you see on the news, underwater with only their roofs showing because they didn't take a low area seriously.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I'm thinking about all those cars you see on the news, underwater with only their roofs showing because they didn't take a low area seriously.

A few dozen cars per year, though, and those rain events are few and far between. We do drive fast, but most of us aren't idiots (luckily).

 

[McChooky]

I'm surprised az is the palest, i guess they mean winter weather and not rain.

I believe Rain is the #1 cause of weather related accidents and we get a lot of rain

 

[McChooky]

First winter I lived up in Flagstaff, I got run off the road and rolled my 4wd pickup down a ravine. The other driver was drunk and hit a patch of ice. We only know because he hit a pole about 1/4 mile up the road. Never stopped when I went off. I would have been OK too if I hadn't swerved so violently that the rear end came around and I couldn't recover it in the wet. I hit the rear view mirror and split my forehead open in the roll, but aside from some other bumps and bruises, I was OK. My poor truck was a taco salad though.

I do way better now in snow and ice, but I will never forget that crash and how it could have ended up with me dead instead of getting stitches.

Learn how to drive in all conditions, kids. The life you save may be in one of your passenger seats.

My son learned how to drive in the rain and parallel park at 16 yrs old.
We delivered newspapers 7 days a week and were on our way home one morning when the driver of a Mac truck missed a turn off for trucks and hit the underpass .His truck went up in the air and flipped over on its left side .It skidded along the stone wall by the underpass for about 40 ft before it came back down and hit us head on.We walked out of the ER a couple hrs later with a neck brace(me)and crutches(him)Just lucky to be alive

 

[nuthatched]

Most of AZ lives in phx and tucson (4.8 million of 7.8 total). The roads are flat, straight, very urbanized, and we only get "sunny" or "rainy", and decent all weather tires will help the few wet days. The mountain areas do get weather, but people up the hill don't drive as fast and are more cautious. When you see wrecks up there, it's stupid people from phx more often than not.

One year when I was little, we had a storm with about 3+feet of snow, the power was out for 4-5 days and pipes were bursting all over the area, it was 4x4 or front wheel drive plus chains only to drive and the sheriff had traffic stops to make sure, because these are not roads that you should be careless with on a summer day.

Well, our weekender neighbors (very likely the wife, that woman was a cow) dragged their little grandchildren up to "Play in the snow", they had to crawl their big 4x4 truck the last 20 miles, they had no electricity but propane heat.
The wife came down to ask mom for blankets because they didn't bring any and they had to keep the heat low since their propane was low (thought they could get it filled immediately they got here?)
And my mom just REAMED into her, both barrels, wide open them, for the risk not only driving up when the roads were barely passable, no electricity, running low on propane and putting their small grandkids lives in jeopardy to be so foolish as to even think that coming up was a remotely good idea.
They got their blankets but they left the next morning.

 

[nuthatched]

My son learned how to drive in the rain and parallel park at 16 yrs old.
We delivered newspapers 7 days a week and were on our way home one morning when the driver of a Mac truck missed a turn off for trucks and hit the underpass .His truck went up in the air and flipped over on its left side .It skidded along the stone wall by the underpass for about 40 ft before it came back down and hit us head on.We walked out of the ER a couple hrs later with a neck brace(me)and crutches(him)Just lucky to be alive

Amazing, to be sure.

 

[azurbanclucker]

One year when I was little, we had a storm with about 3+feet of snow, the power was out for 4-5 days and pipes were bursting all over the area, it was 4x4 or front wheel drive plus chains only to drive and the sheriff had traffic stops to make sure, because these are not roads that you should be careless with on a summer day.

Well, our weekender neighbors (very likely the wife, that woman was a cow) dragged their little grandchildren up to "Play in the snow", they had to crawl their big 4x4 truck the last 20 miles, they had no electricity but propane heat.
The wife came down to ask mom for blankets because they didn't bring any and they had to keep the heat low since their propane was low (thought they could get it filled immediately they got here?)
And my mom just REAMED into her, both barrels, wide open them, for the risk not only driving up when the roads were barely passable, no electricity, running low on propane and putting their small grandkids lives in jeopardy to be so foolish as to even think that coming up was a remotely good idea.
They got their blankets but they left the next morning.

I'd still trade it all for a cabin in the woods on the rim. Snow and all. I miss living up there.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I'd still trade it all for a cabin in the woods on the rim. Snow and all. I miss living up there.

The rim is one of the most beautiful parts of this state. I used to spend a week or so at Knoll Lake every year in late August/early September. Wish I could get up there more often. Bliss:

Just to bring this back around to pet peeves... people who burn scented logs in campfires.

 

[McChooky]

The rim is one of the most beautiful parts of this state. I used to spend a week or so at Knoll Lake every year in late August/early September. Wish I could get up there more often. Bliss:

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Just to bring this back around to pet peeves... people who burn scented logs in campfires.

I've never been to anyone's house who burned scented logs . Where I come from we cut real trees and burn real firewood