Nothing like successfully geoguessing a meme about winter driving instead of working. OP is actually correct about it being in Canada
Highway 401 eastbound, just west of Kennedy Road
I still don't understand how you people do it, but just in case you weren't aware yet:
https://feddit.org/c/geoguesser_ielThey have to make weekly blood sacrifices to Rainbolt
Surely this is no issue at all, because everyone will reduce their speed, increase safety distances, drive more carefully and when in doubt, yield to others, right?
Definitelt happens for first snow here in Estonia if it comes down unexpected.
2 days later we're back to being assholes.
Gestures at a car that did barrel rolls at a 4-way stop with a speed limit of 50km/h with 1 inch of snow on the ground.
Yeah. Sure thing.
This makes me think, what happens in countries like the Netherlands that use "shark teeth" markings on the street mostly in addition but partially instead of yield signs... either chaos or everybody is driving more carefully (unlikely)
When there's snow in the Netherlands, everyone just stops and waits for it to melt.
There's nothing like counting 7 lanes in a road you know is 4.
or wondering if the light up ahead is a vehicle ... or the gates of heaven because you already died in that fiery 12 car pile up on the highway a minute ago.
VERY EFFICIENT!
The "lanes" are the sets of tire tracks from the car in front of you that you try to stay in so your car doesn't suddenly fishtail.
Remarkably accurate. Lanes become suggestions but tire tracks are mandatory.
Lanes are a social construct
It's the biggest religion on the planet. Everyone believes the lines protect them. As long as everyone believes that, it works. But when you need help the most, it does nothing to protect you. It's just lines on some pavement, the people are the ones with all the power.
Be safe out there. Not here, I've yet to see snow in Ontario, but I think Alberta's getting it hard.
It's been pretty awesome here in Calgary. Was getting worried there that ski season was going to be delayed. But I love a good snow dump to start winter. It sucks when it's cold and icy but no snow to cover things up.
Probably sucks for anyone that has to commute right now though.
Just use the guard rails as bumpers. You'll be fine as long as you're not going too fast.
Then arrive to work on time
Oh, you mean drifting powder?
(I unironically love driving on snow or even ice - hate it that lives are in danger because of it, we can have better infrastructure)
My first date with my spouse was like that. I got to show off my impressive drifting skillz.
"Baby it's cold outside... And I laugh at snow so let me know when you want a ride back."
Here in Alberta the Hiways have ribs in the centre and ether side. You can drive in your lane by "feel" even when covered in snow.
Ribbed for your tire's pleasure?
That's not a highway .... that's a wheat field in Saskatchewan.
why not both?
It's not a joke .... I drove on winter ice roads on James Bay for a few years about 15 - 20 years ago before they became well built ice roads they have now.
I remember driving on these roads in blinding snowstorms and losing the road entirely. The road up there mostly goes over frozen treeless swamps ... it's like driving through endless frozen lakes. There were also times where the road became so overfilled with drifting snow that it was better to go off the road and just drive the frozen wind packed open swamplands.
And that corridor on Highway 11 in Ontario between Huntsville, Orillia, Barrie is reminiscent of those winter ice roads if you ever up there during a blinding windy snow storm.
as someone from Florida (USA) who has only ever seen snow once on a winter trip, literally every few months I learn something horrific about snow that makes it seem a little bit worse
Last months was that the salt that melts snow can essentially melt cars metal over enough time
Then it was that there's invisible 'black ice'
Now paint lines literally don't exist?! How do you exist over there? I'm literally dieing in like 50°F weather (10°C)
Now paint lines literally don't exist?! How do you exist over there?
Like this
and this
Even during the summer the lines are usually faded away so even on good nights you can barely see them. And because of plows no reflectors like down south.
We gots sunken reflectors in BC. Some escape the scrape.
Oh 10°C sounds so nice right now. Short answer is drive more cautiously, you can get undercoated for the salt issue and black ice is just hope and pray.
Only white raillanes matter.
Viva la railvolucion!
(and those don't need plowing to quite some extend)Just make sure your switches are heated. In the arctic, they build little houses around their switches to keep it from getting completely snowed up
https://static-cdn.sr.se/images/98/5f80436c-9220-4c8a-9983-b3b65e5e4707.jpeg
Here's some pictures of their snow sweepers too
In India, the lines are just Grafitti and don't really mean anything.
It usually denotes the minimum number of lanes you should be driving in.
Yeah I wouldn't drive unless you really need to. The wind can start blowing which will make the visibility drop to about 3 inches.
I kinda like it because it makes it feel like we are flying at warp eight to the next star system .... then I have not snap out of that fantasy and remember that this could also kill me
As much as I love snow, for reasons like this I will never live in a place that gets it.
That and the rust, so much rust from road salt. My car has been rust-free for 20 years and I'd like to keep it that way.
and the plows
don't bothercan't catch upI don't mind the roads so much. We plow the roads to have a snowbank on the ditch edges to act as bumpers to keep idiots and fools from careening off the road into a tree. As a retired medic, it made it easier to get people out of their cars and with less serious injuries.
What really pisses me off is the inability of people to park correctly in a parking lot. When the lines get covered in snow pack, everyone loses their minds and just start to randomly park anywhere and in any direction. I've seen clown park across two parking spots. And it stays that way for a least 6 months out of the year.
We play this game in South Africa too. Not because it snows, but because the lines don't get repainted soon enough even if they're completely faded. And instead of snow ploughs, we have taxis (the minibus versions) that just drive wherever and however they want.
All I know is, eatliver.com
It's just one big white line
