353 crashes, couple injured, and 1 dead
 

Due to the road conditions today. I had to head into DeVry for some more paperwork and it took me about 2 hours to get in. Traffic sucked! It wouldn't have been so bad for me if some jackass hadn't left their car in 1 of the 2 lanes available on 494 just south of 394 blocking it down to 1 lane.

My day was uneventfull otherwise. Anyone have some fun in this shit today in the cities?

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It took me over an hour and a half to get from Lexington Ave. in St. Paul to work near Hwy. 55 and 100 in Golden Valley. A guy that Jim and I work with drove for over 3 hours to get from Oakdale to work. Pretty crazy.

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I had no idea how bad the roads were untill this guy in front of me put on his turn signal, so I started to break and the rear tires just broke lose and the car pretty much went side ways. I recoverd but I'm lucky the was no one next to me, I would of hit 'em for sure. It took me forever to get downtown, then walking for blocks on glare ice wasn't fun either. But since everyone was late/no show I just sat around and watched gladiator on the new 40" plasma, oh yeah.

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My friend's sister did a 360 while taking her daughter to the hospital. Two people also spun out in front of me.

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I left my house at 7:45am to goto an appointment. I arrived at 9:30am (45 min. late). In that time, I got stuck at a stoplight spinning my rear tires on pure Ice that the roads were (good job overnight salt crews). By the way, the drive was only 20 miles of a drive. Then I almost spun out getting off an on ramp twice just when I thought there was enough salt on the roads. Man, I need another awd car OR I need to move soon.

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It took me 20 minutes instead of the usual 15 to get to work yesterday. Plus I had to spend 5 minutes cleaning ice off my windshield. So I was 10 minutes late.

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353 crashes!?!?!

Why does it take a storm and crashes every year to remind people to slow the fuck down?

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It took me 2 1/2 hours to get into work yesterday, which normally is about 45-1 hour.

I'm not sure how you can complain about the overnight road crew, the ice didn't start until after 6:30 a.m. and they were out doing the best they could. I probably saw 10 trucks on the way into work. But when it's coming down as freezing rain, it's hard for them to stay ahead of the game.

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Well they knew it was coming in my area. They had trucks out on Friday salting up the roads; but obviously that wasn't enough. They shoulda been out on Sunday night also, but meh.

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You suck.

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It took me 3 minutes to get to work instead of 1 due to the slippery conditions ;).
I had to drive across town mid day and the trip is usually 1/2 hour. It ended up taking an hour, saw 2 cars in the ditch, 1 slid right in front of me, saw people fall down, gotta love people that don't know how to drive on ice.

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I didn't have any trouble at all surprisingly. I picked up tpunx up at 10 PM Monday night and after Swanny and I took his money playing holdem, I dropped him off at 4 in the morning then went to Millaca in the afternoon. Normally a 2 hour drive and it took exactly that. Didn't see any accidents at all surprisingly enough.

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Anyone looking forward to fun times like this coming up again in the next few months? ;) LOL

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Man why did you have to bring up the thought of snow!!!! It just started getting cold at night and Im asking where summer went because I miss the heat already!

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I don't think I have ever wanted it to snow so bad in my life!

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I'm already planning trips to head west... :o

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And I'm planning a trip a little north and a little east.

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west is best!

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I plan on having a good time over the winter this year.

I'm fine with riding my snowmobile every other weekend between December and April up in Outing. :D The last weekend I rode was March 19th last winter. I had 4 solid months of decent riding last year.

I can wait as long as we have nice weather, but once its starts getting real cold I want the snow right away.

I plan on playing more Hockey at the local outdoor rinks too!

Jim

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Y'all are demented!! Fuck snow!! :D

Yeah, I will probably break down and get a sled this year. We need a green one to offset the yellow one already at the house!