Originally posted by Parallax We had thunderstorms turning to freezing rain on Christmas day. It still hasn't melted off of most places.
I don't like shoveling snow, but at least it can be shoveled.
A month ago we had mist - literally mist - that froze on all the roads at 4:00pm. DoT was caught unawares. Slickest stuff I've ever driven on - 5mph was really scary. The arterial highways immediately came to a complete standstill, the secondary roads filled up as everybody bailed out of the highways, then all the neighborhood back routes. DoT couldn't get
to the roads to treat them.
It took me two and a half hours to go 11 miles. It took to my admin 5 hours to go thirty.
Craziest thing - 2,000,000 people had this weird, shared experience. Many of my co-workers' cars slid down the entry to our building into the ditch and the rest of us got together and figured out how to shuttle them home based on our routes. People would run out of gas and random other people would stop and pick them up and drive them home. Convenience stores stacked cases of bottled water at the curb and ran back and forth to lines of cars just handing them out. Hundreds and hundreds of those stories.
It was a 'mist-storm'.