memedumpster
Brake, I mean. Break is what's happening here to cars and stuff.

dichotic1
This is like the oldest fucking car-crash-on-a-snowy-day video.

I'm calling dupe on this.

...

DUPE.

There, done.

glasseye
Also I think this is a dupe of this dead video:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=11474

glasseye
Although hosted by king5, the video is actually of Portland.

kingarthur
As someone from the South who has only ever driven in icy conditions on a few occasions, our general reaction to this shit is either

1. PANIC!

or

2. What? I can drive on this shit just fine and...PANIC!

baleen
what are you talking about.

glasseye
The exact same thing happens in Vancouver BC when it snows, Billie.

Billie_Joe_Buttfuck
my mistake

obviously people are weak boys all along the east coast, then

Billie_Joe_Buttfuck
west, rather

Urist
West coast ice is different stuff...

Rain, then a bit of snow, then it freezes overnight, next morning you end up with crap like this.. When it starts melting you get a layer of water running over black ice.

A Subaru Impreza with spiked tires would have trouble on it.

Living in northern BC or Calgary I never saw anything like what happens to the roads in Vancouver.

Most people use all season/rain tires for a good reason here, snow tires are pretty horrible in the rain and studs are illegal on a lot of the bridges.

Rape Van Winkle
I've lived in the Seattle area my entire life. We don't do well on snow and ice here, because we hardly ever get it. Also Urist is right about the bizarre quality of temperate west coast ice.

But what gets me about the people here, is that they drive like this when it rains too.

Four stars of loathing for my incompetent citymates, one star of self-hate for living with them.

Ruteger
We get ice like that on the east coast from time to time too, but the big difference is that we have more than 2 salt trucks on standby. When Vancouver gets the odd snow storm they have to send trucks in from Alberta. When we get a snow storm, major roads are salted within an hour or two, minor roads by the end of the day.

glasseye
Billy, the west coast has a phenomenon known as "hills". Also see "mountains".

glasseye
Ruteger: yeah, but the drainage systems out east suck balls. Any time there's a tiny bit of rain streets flood all over the place.

Cities invest their infrastructure money to target local weather conditions! Shock and awe!