Roads last night

blackawdtsi · 11-21-2010

Anyone else get caught on the ice rink last night? It took me an hour to drive my son home from St. Louis Park to Mounds View. Had to do 20mph or less.

Leaving my parent's underground garage, there's an incline. I couldn't make it up and the car started sliding backwards, I turned the wheel and managed not to hit the wall, garage or girl who was standing outside as I 180'd and went back in haha.

viridionplague · 11-21-2010

yea it was pretty bad, my gf was out for work and got home 3 hours late. she has new tires and AWD and still said it was super bad.

i myself walked outside and just wiped out hardcore because it dosent look like the ground is anything other than wet.

Febo · 11-21-2010

Yeah they were brutal, but the sexus dominated these roads. love this car.

turbotalon1g · 11-21-2010

^BS, nothing was dominating.

Took us 3 times to get thru that light crossing south over 694 from silver lake road (went to champps to watch the fight)

Any hint of accel truck would go sideways, sudden decel would do the same. I think I cruised 35w at 30mph in 3rd most of the way.

The ramp from 35w N to 10W was blocked by people stuck on the ramp.

Kevin 1G Drummer · 11-21-2010

It took me 50 minutes to get from Cambridge to Saint Francis which is normally a 20-25 min drive. I could only manage about 25-30 mph and every time there was a slight incline my car would start going sideways.

Febo · 11-21-2010

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Originally Posted by turbotalon1g

^BS, nothing was dominating.

Traction control, an automatic, and a low center of gravity = domination

Matt D. · 11-21-2010

I was downtown, wandered to some bars with friends, ended up at one of their apartments. We tried getting a cab back to our cars at the 7 Corners ramp but it was a 4 hour wait, apparently they pulled all the cabs off the streets. Ended up sleeping there and coming home this morning, probably a good idea as my driveway is still an ice rink.

awd-drifter · 11-21-2010

We just got back from hunting, went to an uncle's house to play cards and drove home at around 11:30pm. Took us 3-4 hours from Maplewood to home. We decided to take the small roads and it seemed taking ANY road with a hill was a bad idea. Me and some other guy were being a good 'samaritan' and putting salt all over on Concord near the Mexican restaurants because EVERYONE got stuck going up that slight up hill...even us. Last night every car got pwnd.

s1ngletracker · 11-21-2010

I drove from new brighton to bloomington. It was awful. I saw probably 30+ cars on the side of the road, or crashed into barriers or each other, including a lot of cabs. People coudn't get up the slightest hill. It was fuggin bumper cars out there. I saw cops stuck. Unfortunately on an ice rink of a road, AWD + good winter tires + LSD + manual trans still really does very little.

rose0529 · 11-21-2010

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Originally Posted by Matt D.

I was downtown, wandered to some bars with friends, ended up at one of their apartments. We tried getting a cab back to our cars at the 7 Corners ramp but it was a 4 hour wait, apparently they pulled all the cabs off the streets. Ended up sleeping there and coming home this morning, probably a good idea as my driveway is still an ice rink.

Glad you got something figured out!

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Originally Posted by Febo

Traction control, an automatic, and a low center of gravity = domination

I personally would rather have a manual in bad weather, so much more control when braking and acceleration. And I'm not a fan of traction control cutting the power when trying to accelerate!!!

I started out not thinking it would be to bad... and was going to give Matt a ride home, but then canceled that, but while i was out Rachael ended up needing a ride home. She was Baby sitting in Minnetonka, and the couple didnt get home till after 3 because of the traffic.

I had to change my route 3 times because roads were blocked by people stuck on hills. I also passed a bunch of people who were pulled over on the side of small hills who were stuck. AWD and snow tires is amazing. Although not invinclible, downhill's were a little tricky when a stop was at the bottom.

Alpha D · 11-21-2010

I love my 1G, but i wouldn't mind having some one smash into the back of it . . . pick up a new shell build the motor with some of the insurance money ect all going of no one getting hurt of course. . .

i avoided a rear end collision taking the shoulder probably out of instinct, but man dude was an idiot he almost took 2 other people out with him.

93gtpeater · 11-21-2010

Last night I was giving a friend a ride home and this lady rolled her ford exploer right in front of us. I stopped of course and ran across the road to make sure she was ok. I got to her windsheild to talk to her and she was calling her husband. I kept yelling at her to get off the phone. Cause it was on its side and it was smoking. So I broke her rear window and dragged her out. Got her out and she finally realized she had rolled her suv. The roads were really bad last. Nobody should of been driving last night.

Alpha D · 11-21-2010

^ wow some people are just wow. That was really courageous of you. all the ambulances were crawling them self's ect it was bad.

DoughtCom · 11-21-2010

I had to drive from South Minneapolis to North of Roseville last night and saw some crazy shit. I saw a firetruck trying to get to a scene slide into an intersection and do a 180.

It was totally insane last night, glad no one got hurt or fucked up their car. I personally didn't have any problems but I just kept it to a reasonable speed and was very aware of everyone around me.

Watching the traffic cams last night was pretty crazy too, lots of mayhem all over the city, was almost like a post apocalypse scene in a movie.

**cmspaz** · 11-21-2010

I was driving slow, but was worried more about other drivers than myself. Downhills weren't "tricky" but required good brake modulation to keep from accelerating too much or sliding.

The part I hated the most was waiting at lights and watching the headlights coming up behind me, wondering if they'd stop or not. That and getting stuck behind people with inadequate rubber.

awd-drifter · 11-21-2010

here's the van that nearly hit us

those blue and red lights are cops...they are also stuck

our truck looking towards the middle of the road

I've heard more rev bouncing on this street than i have at RF lol.

A//// Guy · 11-22-2010

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Originally Posted by rose0529

I personally would rather have a manual in bad weather, so much more control when braking and acceleration. And I'm not a fan of traction control cutting the power when trying to accelerate!!!

Yup, traction control, auto and rwd have to be about the 3 worst things you can have. Snow tires are what helped you Febo. haha

I turn off traction and stability control in any snow storm, becuase I hate it and its unpredictable. Also love down shifting and keeping revs up in a manual.

I got up super early on Saturday to go hunting, only got 2 hours of sleep, so by the time I got home around 7 saturday night I just went to bed. No ice rink skating for me! haha

19TsiAwd90 · 11-22-2010

I just watched movies and black ops lol and made one run 2 blocks to the gas station for mountain dew and that took almost 25 mins its self it was bad but I got pretty good tires

**asshanson** · 11-22-2010

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Originally Posted by A//// Guy

Also love down shifting and keeping revs up in a manual.

Hahaha this reminds me about the time 4 years ago when you, Hughes, and Laura were all in my 2g in a snowstorm, driving from uptown Drink to Eden Prarie. There were several inches of snow on the roads and I was plowing through it, and you were yelling "keep it above 3000 rpms!" haha good times.