The White Stuff....

[juliebata]

I got lucky yesterday. We had a howling snowstorm that was in full swing during afternoon rush hour. My winter driving skills are adequate, but I always get a little nervous when the roads are slick. I'm blessed with a commute of less than two miles from home to office, but there is a VERY steep hill halfway between them. I almost didn't make it down yesterday on my way home. You could hardly see a thing, it was practically a white-out. I must have been going all of three miles an hour, and I could feel the back end of the car losing control and heading sideways. I had an impatient FUCK in an SUV right on my bumper, hounding me to go faster. God, he pissed me off! I'm sure his traction is just great, and he can drive down a steep, slippery hill as fast as he could on any other day, but I sure as hell can't!! My heart was pounding when I regained control and made it to the bottom of the hill in one piece. Damn arrogant SUV drivers....
-Juliebata

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SUVs in bad weather

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I remember the last time we had a big snowstorm and the traffic was really bad during rush hour. I didn't have to drive to work, so I listened to the news reports. Apparently a bunch of SUV drivers kept driving like they would on clean, dry roads, thinking that four-wheel drive cancels out the poor road conditions. Uh, nom it doesn't work that way. Apparently there was a spate of spinouts in the fast lanes all over town: SUVs going too fast and losing control (think bumper cars). Fortunately, everyone else was driving carefully enough that the spinouts didn't turn into big pileups; mainly the SUVs themselves were damaged, not the people inside.

I'm really, really glad that you were careful and didn't let that obnoxious driver goad you into driving less safely. What a twit.