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(CTV News)   Annual Canadian Adult Bumper Cars contest has over 100 participants this year. You'd think we'd know how to drive in snow, but we majored in Beer and Hockey, eh?   (kitchener.ctvnews.ca) divider line
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    More: Facepalm, Ontario, Southern Ontario, Highway 401, storm system, Ontario Provincial Police, CAA South Central Ontario, Environment Canada, lot of slipping  
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knbwhite
2022-12-24 4:16:22 AM  
North American places named after English places trifecta in play.
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2022-12-24 4:21:16 AM  
Just waiting to hear about the annual 100+ car pile-up on 99 near Fresno because Valley drivers consider driving 75+ MPH in 10' visibility fog to be acceptable...

That's how you know winter has arrived in the Valley.
 
Numberlady2
2022-12-24 4:27:53 AM  
It's on the 401, I would expect nothing less.
L I
 
Johnny the Tackling Alzheimers Patient
2022-12-24 4:33:49 AM  
I was under the impression that only people east of the Rockies didn't know how to drive in snow.
 
randomfrequency
2022-12-24 4:36:59 AM  
As far as every asshole has tried to tell me, only assholes east of them know how to drive in snow.
 
Nana's Vibrator
2022-12-24 4:39:07 AM  
That would suck being out in the cold and having a car too damaged to get home.  Is the ground too frozen, or could they all dig up some nearby murdered indigenous kids and use them as sleds?
 
starsrift
2022-12-24 5:03:05 AM  
There's a lot of difference between feet and inches of fresh snowfall and packed ice. Nobody, and I mean nobody, drives "well" in feet of fresh snow. Do it gradually, a few inches over time, and it gets packed down and stuff, and people can learn to drive it. Half-frozen water up to your wheel-wells is a nightmare for everyone. It only happens in temperate climes. People north of that don't get that kind of precipitation, folks south don't get that sustainable temperature.
 
Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2022-12-24 5:38:02 AM  
A number of years ago, I was driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike with my wife in the passenger seat. just entering Somerset County, my wife and I simultaneously yelled, "Holy shiat!" as we saw a half dozen cars spinning out on a relatively gentle turn due to the road being covered in a thin sheet of ice. I slightly steered to avoid the mayhem, but found myself spinning as well. It was like a ballet of deadly fiberglass and metal. Thankfully, no one hit anyone else, but I wouldn't be surprised if pants were shat.

If there were a regional hellmouth in the US, I'd pick Somerset County as a likely candidate.
 
NathanAllen
2022-12-24 6:36:28 AM  
Just a reminder that 4WD mode makes you immune to ice, snow, and common sense.
 
Mr.Tangent [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-24 7:33:33 AM  
Glad we left Thursday night, got the go ahead to work from home Friday and took the calculated risk that I wouldn't be called on to respond to any outages in the middle of a storm unless a whole lot of bad things lined up at once.
 
Mr.Tangent [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-24 7:35:14 AM  

Johnny the Tackling Alzheimers Patient: I was under the impression that only people east of the Rockies didn't know how to drive in snow.


We're good for about one 30-60 car pile up on highway 400 between Toronto and Barrie once a year.
 
Nick Nostril
2022-12-24 8:04:19 AM  
Aboot 20 years ago, I had to make an urgent visit to one of my employer's suppliers in Brantford, ON... in January. Went up and crossed into Canada at Sarnia and over to B'ford via 402/401/403. Thankfully, my company sprung for a 4WD rental for me because there were a few stretches where you couldn't see anything off either side of the highway because of the massive piles of snow that had been removed from the highway.

Ended up getting lost (pre GPS days) in the middle of BFE Canada when I had to get off the highway due to an massive accident. There's a whole lotta nothing up in Canuckistan, even in the relatively populated southern part of Ontario.
 
tuxq
2022-12-24 8:40:53 AM  
I don't want to hear it next time we get 1/16th of an inch of snow and a 50 car pileup down here in the south.
 
some_beer_drinker
2022-12-24 8:53:46 AM  

randomfrequency: As far as every asshole has tried to tell me, only assholes east of them know how to drive in snow.


i think you mean west of the rockies
 
Short Victoria's War
2022-12-24 10:17:47 AM  

Nick Nostril: Aboot 20 years ago, I had to make an urgent visit to one of my employer's suppliers in Brantford, ON... in January. Went up and crossed into Canada at Sarnia and over to B'ford via 402/401/403. Thankfully, my company sprung for a 4WD rental for me because there were a few stretches where you couldn't see anything off either side of the highway because of the massive piles of snow that had been removed from the highway.

Ended up getting lost (pre GPS days) in the middle of BFE Canada when I had to get off the highway due to an massive accident. There's a whole lotta nothing up in Canuckistan, even in the relatively populated southern part of Ontario.


If you hear banjos, snowshoe faster.
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2022-12-24 10:48:27 AM  
As a Canuckian expert in winter driving I'm offering this tried & true advice - STAY DAFUQ HOME!
It ain't worth the physical & psychological damage. Think of Xmas as a two week event instead of one magical (& harrowing) day.

/will Humbug off now
 
MLWS
2022-12-24 11:51:15 AM  
I was born in London and was actually supposed to drive back there last night. I now live in GTA and decided to hunker down here until Christmas day.

That stretch of the 401 is straight boring, and prone to whiteouts from the nearby fields. I hope nobody was seriously injured.
 
morg
2022-12-24 1:55:14 PM  
This is where we confuse Lady J again.
 
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