Worst trip ever. I left the office at 3:30. It's now 6:30 and I've gone 9 miles. The Parkway is a parking lot - literally. I'm done. I'm going to grab a sandwich and wait 2 hours until people get off the road a little more.

It is amusing to see 4 ricers in ditches along the way. Those cars are not snow capable.

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That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

Thats because you Southern whimps don't know how to drive in winter weather, lol.

BobinBurke Wrote:
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> Thats because you Southern whimps don't know how
> to drive in winter weather, lol.

I'm stuck a mile from my house. At a bar. Wife will pick me up later. Fuck it.

BobinBurke Wrote:
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> Thats because you Southern whimps don't know how
> to drive in winter weather, lol.


My truck and I manage just fine. It's mostly the other idiots that block the box, try to pass on the shoulder and get stuck. Those types of actions, more than anything else causes most of the problems.

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That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

I ended up only moving 4 miles in one hour. I turned around and headed back to work. I'll leave leater when the road clear up a bit. As it stands, the plows are not clearing much snow at all at this point, due to all the traffic. I'm sure the plows will be out after the traffic subsides a bit.

The bar thing sounds like a great idea. I was still about 5 miles away from the nearest watering hole, so that really wasn't a good option for me at the time.

Relocated to this pitiful "burb", a couple months back, happy as hell won't be here an extended period of time. However, thats not the point I wished to make. What I really am writing to say is that what a bunch of pussy ass drivers you southern fairys are. This snow ain't "shit", to what you would have to put up North. It is just another case of you redlegs making up excuses to cover your inadequate skills in dealing with life's reality. Just check out this forum and what is considered fodder for thought down here. Get a book, sit down and read something worthy and for God's sake clear your mind of all the claptrap that this site is composed of. Good Luck!

whos the dumb-fuck that left his Infiniti on Rt 7?

Give them credit for having the imagination to give themselves labels like, Iron Man, 4X4, Full metal and the like. Well you know what they say, "When the going gets tough....

Irish guy from Boston. Wrote:
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> Relocated to this pitiful "burb", a couple months
> back, happy as hell won't be here an extended
> period of time. However, thats not the point I
> wished to make. What I really am writing to say
> is that what a bunch of pussy ass drivers you
> southern fairys are. This snow ain't "shit", to
> what you would have to put up North. It is just
> another case of you redlegs making up excuses to
> cover your inadequate skills in dealing with
> life's reality. Just check out this forum and
> what is considered fodder for thought down here.
> Get a book, sit down and read something worthy and
> for God's sake clear your mind of all the claptrap
> that this site is composed of. Good Luck!


It's good to hear you won't be in our area very long. We don't need any more obnoxious Boston types around here as we already have Gerry Connolly. Now, with that being said, I read a lot of books. However, I do take breaks from reading, so I hit up the Internet for a few minutes and do some posting.

Boston is cool. It's like a more gay version of Ireland.

tomahawk Wrote:
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> Boston is cool. It's like a more gay version of
> Ireland.

I guess that the Guiness beers they drink, make them that way? Does the nice head on a glass of Guiness turn them on or something?

tomahawk Wrote:
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> Boston is cool. It's like a more gay version of
> Ireland.

Boston? It's like Scranton with better clam chowder.

Back home now. That was well worth it. Stuck in traffic, mad as hell for an hour, relaxed with a few pints and the Caps. The crowd and bar keep at my local place were in good spirits tonight. Snow can be a wonderful thing.

BobinBurke Wrote:
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> Thats because you Southern whimps don't know how
> to drive in winter weather, lol.

All of Virginia is the south, whether you like it or not!!!

Wu-Tang Clan Wrote:
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> BobinBurke Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thats because you Southern whimps don't know
> how
> > to drive in winter weather, lol.
>
> All of Virginia is the south, whether you like it
> or not!!!


No kidding! And I say that because all of the people I meet who insist that this is "northern virginia" and they're somehow different and apart from "the south". Its the same. Its Just like North Carolina without the Bojangles.

Moved less than 2 miles in 2 hours. Walked the rest of the way. Luckily I parked near work instead of abandoning my car on 7...

It's still gridlocked around Franklin Farm. Good Lord.

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Irish guy from Boston. Wrote:
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> Relocated to this pitiful "burb", a couple months
> back, happy as hell won't be here an extended
> period of time. However, thats not the point I
> wished to make. What I really am writing to say
> is that what a bunch of pussy ass drivers you
> southern fairys are. This snow ain't "shit", to
> what you would have to put up North. It is just
> another case of you redlegs making up excuses to
> cover your inadequate skills in dealing with
> life's reality. Just check out this forum and
> what is considered fodder for thought down here.
> Get a book, sit down and read something worthy and
> for God's sake clear your mind of all the claptrap
> that this site is composed of. Good Luck!

Oh fuck Boston, you guys aren't shit. You only average about one more foot of snow than we do, and you still have snow related vehicular accidents all the damn time.

Also, it doesn't matter how good of a driver you are, if you have no clearance, you will be stuck. I don't care if you have a Subaru WRX STI, and you grew up in Valdez, Alaska, you cannot drive through snow that runs above your bumper line. You can make it with an SUV up to a point, but people with cars WILL be stuck. My friends and I just spent an hour digging a car out for a guy, and even with three of us pushing him, and good tires, and clearing of a path, he still couldn't get past the snow that piled against his bumper. We had to clear a spot for him to park out front, and my friend had to park his car down the street too (He's from Pittsburgh btw).

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

So this is what the end of the world is going to look like?

I have never seen anything like this.

And we KNEW this was coming. What will happen if something unexpected happens locally - like a terror attack?

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That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

I left around 3:30 today and Metro was HORRIBLE. It was packed like sardines and they had trouble closing the doors at Ballston. Nightmare commute.

That being said, I still got home in about 50 minutes. Suckers!!

Warhawk Wrote:
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> And we KNEW this was coming. What will happen if
> something unexpected happens locally - like a
> terror attack?




People will be driving on the medians and shoulders, pedestrians will be run over, at least a few SUV drivers will push a slow moving small car out of the way. In the metro stations, people will be be trampled, old ladies pushed out of the way, people falling down the stairs, someone will get pushed onto the tracks.

Warhawk Wrote:
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> And we KNEW this was coming. What will happen if
> something unexpected happens locally - like a
> terror attack?


Careful John Wayne, your paranoia is showing, remember a man who got nothing ain't got nothing to loose, Pilgrim.

I have never seen so many stupid people.

Folks trying to change lanes to get a couple car lengths ahead - and then getting stuck in the snow pile between lanes.

4 or 5 cars which think they can simply just barge in by turning left off a cross street and insisting that they let you in - blocking oncoming traffic in the process.

Cars that think they can cut through gas stations.

Its the end of the world as I predicted. P.S. Be sure to buy your survival packs
at WWWJim Bakker.org. God loves you, He really, really does!!

Pinhead the Cenobite Wrote:
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> I have never seen so many stupid people.
>
> Folks trying to change lanes to get a couple car
> lengths ahead - and then getting stuck in the snow
> pile between lanes.
>

I saw some moron fly up to a left hand turn lane that was empty (because no on one their right mind would want to turn left there), then he tried to cut back into the line that went straight and the jackass got stuck. LOL. Karma. Everyone watched this dipshit try to shovel snow out from under his tires, then spin them, then shovel, etc, for about 40 minutes. No luck. And no one lifted a hand to help him (but I saw 3 other cases where strangers helped push people). Serves him right. I hope he's still sitting there. I'm not alone in that hope.

I was helping a neighbor shovel in Centreville and someone drove by at 9:30, said they left Reston about 3.

Irish guy from Boston. Wrote:
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> Relocated to this pitiful "burb", a couple months
> back, happy as hell won't be here an extended
> period of time. However, thats not the point I
> wished to make. What I really am writing to say
> is that what a bunch of pussy ass drivers you
> southern fairys are. This snow ain't "shit", to
> what you would have to put up North. It is just
> another case of you redlegs making up excuses to
> cover your inadequate skills in dealing with
> life's reality. Just check out this forum and
> what is considered fodder for thought down here.
> Get a book, sit down and read something worthy and
> for God's sake clear your mind of all the claptrap
> that this site is composed of. Good Luck!

You fool. When i was in the military, we used to conduct convoys carrying nuclear warheads (Minuteman III, to be exact) and we'd move 'em through weather just like we've experienced here today. Needless to say, we had a U.S. Marshal leading the convoy so civilian law could be enforced and we NEVER had to stop at any stop signs or traffic lights because of the payload. Even with all of that driving experience, I still have to show some compassion for the mixing bowl of drivers we have in our area. Sure, I could complain night and day about how horrible the drivers are, but in the end, it's not going to have any impact on how quick I get to my destination because I have hundreds of cars in front of me.

Something for you to think about.

68 with full sun here today. sorry. kinda. not really.
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My asshole neighbor from last year was at it again, moving all of his cars in and out of his driveway right at the height of the snowstorm, having his wife running in the middle of the roadway with their dogs, and then blocking off the entire street for half-an-hour while he jerked off in another neighbor's driveway. One neighbor who was held up finally got pissed off, and gunned his SUV around the jackwad as soon as he had enough room. Go figure, the asshole never even came out to help us when we were actually helping folks out, but he had to make a spectacle afterwards (Maybe as a result of what we were doing?).

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).



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Warhawk Wrote:
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> And we KNEW this was coming. What will happen if
> something unexpected happens locally - like a
> terror attack?


Or Facebook goes down for an entire HOUR??????

These fucking carpetbaggers who "know how to drive in the snow" are usually the fucktards you see in a ditch.

ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> My asshole neighbor from last year was at it
> again, moving all of his cars in and out of his
> driveway right at the height of the snowstorm,
> having his wife running in the middle of the
> roadway with their dogs, and then blocking off the
> entire street for half-an-hour while he jerked off
> in another neighbor's driveway. One neighbor who
> was held up finally got pissed off, and gunned his
> SUV around the jackwad as soon as he had enough
> room. Go figure, the asshole never even came out
> to help us when we were actually helping folks
> out, but he had to make a spectacle afterwards
> (Maybe as a result of what we were doing?).

I hate people like that.

Last year we had an asshole neighbor who decided to park his SUV in the middle of the street to clean the snow off of it (I guess he didn't want to get snow in his driveway). This was during evening drive-time when people were getting home from work. They had to navigate around this inconsiderate asshole.

I also have another neighbor who tries parking his cars in a different locations every snowstorm in some vain attempt to find the optimal parking situation to avoid getting stuck. So the dipshit leaves his cars out in a fucking blizzard instead of in his garage. His cars invariably get plowed in and he spends three times as long as anyone else getting his cars unstuck. Moron.

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There was an ice storm in the mid-80s that generated my worst commute (I've since learned to simply stay home or leave work early). I was stuck on the southern-Maryland-side Beltway for something like 6 hours from about Route 4 to 295 (heading to NRL); that's not a very long distance.

No fun...but pretty exciting when I came upon stopped traffic - saw way ahead the stoppage, wondered why, released gas, started pressing brakes, said "Oh...my", and slid the quarter mile beginning to sweat as I got closer and closer with no noticeable slowdown happening. Parking lot thereafter.

Nice ice.

Ancient Ice Wrote:
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> There was an ice storm in the mid-80s that
> generated my worst commute (I've since learned to
> simply stay home or leave work early). I was stuck
> on the southern-Maryland-side Beltway for
> > No fun...but pretty exciting when I came upon
> stopped traffic - saw way ahead the stoppage,
> wondered why, released gas, started pressing
> brakes, said "Oh...my", and slid the quarter mile
> beginning to sweat as I got closer and closer with
> no noticeable slowdown happening. Parking lot
> thereafter.
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I see your point, but what about the responsible workers who have a "can do" attitude, like alot of Northerners who are working down here to solve the tough, complicated task that require some brains.

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> I see your point, but what about the responsible
> workers who have a "can do" attitude, like alot of
> Northerners who are working down here to solve the
> tough, complicated task that require some brains.

That's what we pay them to do. If snow plowing is your job you just can't stay home when it snows.