Home video of an ICY hill...

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:38 pm

While we had our last snowstorm up here, this video was on one of our news sites from Portland.

http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/Vide ... 4&catId=80

Oh yeah...don't mind the commercial.

P.S.
There is audio, make sure you turn your volume up.

yellowpatrol · Post by **yellowpatrol** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:22 pm

Make it load faster!

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:33 pm

Wow... that's so sucky yet cool to watch... kind of like a movie.

Didn't look like anybody was hurt, so that's good.

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:51 pm

i wonder if studded tires would have worked in that situation?

Post by **Diablo0** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:30 pm

ragek23 wrote:i wonder if studded tires would have worked in that situation?

They should have helped a little bit! but that doesn't help when other people are slamming into you. I'd probably just want to cry just watching people slam into me when neither of us can do anything about it

sullygully · Post by **sullygully** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:29 am

Wow, that was amazing to watch. Especially that first driver? He was trying to accelerate out of his slide, and made things much worse then if he were just to let off the gas.

Seems surreal especially for a state thatnormally gets snow? Seems to me like the sanding crew droped that ball on that one.

Out here when temperatures are above freezing, and it is forcasted to snow, the sanders/salters are already out on the road hours before the storm hits.

ragek23 wrote:i wonder if studded tires would have worked in that situation?

Of course studded tires would have helped, but studded tires are usually purchased by people that live out in the boon docks up in the mountains or up north, where the roads are covered in snow all season long. They are not ment for city/highway driving where roads are normally cleared through out the winter. I don't even used studded tires up here, and i live in the rockies, i just use a good set of winters, and i do just fine

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:03 am

Real life bumper cars ....

Watchout Here I come!!!!

yellowpatrol · Post by **yellowpatrol** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:12 am

Oh wow that sucks.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:27 am

yellowpatrol wrote:Make it load faster!

Your ISP/Computer must suck.

@ the video. Idiots.

yellowpatrol · Post by **yellowpatrol** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:39 am

^^Yep. I have satellite internet because I moved out to the country. It sucks teh c0cks.. 1 meg down baby. I got it to load now though.

JRM · Post by **JRM** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:43 am

I hate winter

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:26 am

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:30 am

yellowpatrol wrote:^^Yep. I have satellite internet because I moved out to the country. It sucks teh c0cks.. 1 meg down baby. I got it to load now though.

Gonna eat alot of peaches?

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:05 pm

sullygully wrote:Wow, that was amazing to watch. Especially that first driver? He was trying to accelerate out of his slide, and made things much worse then if he were just to let off the gas.

He was accelerating, I've watched that video numerous times and I still can't for the life of me figure out what was going through that person's mind when they tried that.

sullygully wrote:Seems surreal especially for a state thatnormally gets snow? Seems to me like the sanding crew droped that ball on that one.

Actually, we don't normally get that much snow here on the western side of the state. This was a freak winter that we got hit with two bad snowstorms that froze immediately. I think Portland is the same as us weather wise. Sanding crew and electricity companies got caught with their pants down up here when the first storm hit (which included a really bad wind storm), they even had warning of it, no one believed the weather forecaster.

sullygully wrote:Out here when temperatures are above freezing, and it is forcasted to snow, the sanders/salters are already out on the road hours before the storm hits.

The second storm that hit us, they were all prepared. The main roads weren't as bad, still slippery, but the side roads were never touched (like that hill in the video).

If you listen carefully to the video after or when the first person is doing his thing, you can hear a woman saying her children were in one of those cars he hit, and she was asking for people to help her get them out.

azianmopar05 · Post by **azianmopar05** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:45 pm

DUDE THAT SECOND CAR TOTALY WAS DRIFTING..SNOW/ICY CONDITIONS = NEON DRIFT FTW!!WOW

sullygully · Post by **sullygully** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:51 pm

^^^ I think your caps lock key is broke

Wenuden · Post by **Wenuden** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:20 pm

yeah i know this is old... but wow. If those people's insurance companies paid for their shit, it'd be amazing. there's no way you can attribute that to incliment weather/act of god/whatever. that's just plain sheer stupidity.

NeonOn19s · Post by **NeonOn19s** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:34 pm

all i have to say is damn.... i'm glad that I don't live in Michigan any more.... unfortunally here in Houston its even worse... rain, ice even dry weather..... these people down here suck at driving....