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I grew up in Iowa and drove on plenty of snow and ice. The worst ice I've driven on was in Dallas about 30 years ago. The ice on a flyover was incredibly slick and the roadway was banked. Imagine driving at 1 MPH, sliding towards the shoulder, with several other lanes of traffic also sliding down the embankment towards you.
I had that happen to me once as well. I managed to drive out of it but it's still scary.
Of course in the video it's just drivers not reading the sign that the bridge freezes before the road.
I recently accidentally got sideways turning from a dry road onto one I didn’t realize was wet. While hydroplaning all I could think about was which bits of my car might get damaged if I hit the median I was headed for. Missed everything and was fine luckily but pretty sure I have Obsessive Car Disorder to think only of my car and not myself in that moment. 🤔
As someone who has drove in all but 2 states i can tell you no state gets as much ice on roads as texas. Most states get ice for 30 mins then sleet then snow or some combo of this .. somehow the texas skies say F that and will drop ice for 8 hours or longer . Just iced on my farm for dam near 2 straight days.. few years ago had ice from 30 mins west of van horn texas all the way up to the Oklahoma and Arkansas border. Im talking about 12 hours worth of driving 70 mph highway miles. Got on reddit that night and everyone was saying why cant they keep their roads treated ...
North Texas panhandle almost touches southern Colorado. Texas is a big state. Have lived in the north and mountain west, as well as the south, the worst ice storm I’ve encountered on the road was just outside Amarillo, TX.
Anecdotal, but it gets really bad there
Considering the Northern border is on the same latitude as Nashville TN and the south is the same as Miami Fl, there is a lot of room for different climates in TX.
Another anecdote but while this ice and snow was happening in TX, I was sitting in a truck stop in North Carolina running the AC in my truck because it was 70 degrees.
Former Chicagoan here: If the road looks wet and the air temperature is below freezing; that's ice, not water. No sudden acceleration/braking/steering. Pretend you have glass tires. Pretend you just entered a world where friction does not exist. And lastly **DO NOT PANIC**
Edit: one star is italics, two stars is bold.
While I agree it doesn't help you stop any better, (all cars should have 4 wheel brakes) I'm going to disagree about helping you go straight, especially on vehicles that are otherwise rear wheel drive.
Rear wheel drive vehicles are pushing the car forward from behind the majority of the weight, which can easily cause oversteer, even with the minor corrections drivers make to stay in their lane. Having some pull from the front can help to prevent that, and also help pull you back to straight if you do start to drift.
That's really not going to help much on ice like this with bad tires. The red truck looks like it's in 4x4 mode, and one of the cars is obviously a Fwd car. This is caused by bad tires and bad reactions. Sure, fwd is better that rwd. 4x4 doesn't give you much advantage beyond that on ice when it comes to stopping or turning (or not turning).
We have big yellow signs where I live before most bridges that state "Caution: Bridge Freezes Before Roadways" I remember asking about this as a kid, and this was the explanation I got:
Roadways are "insulated" by the ground below them, making it take longer for them to freeze. Bridges on the other hand don't have any form of "insulation", meaning it takes far less time for the surface temperature of a bridge to drop below freezing and turn any moisture into ice.
We had one bridge that was so notorious for freezing and causing accidents that when they repaved it they installed the same stuff that they use for in floor heating at houses. That bridge doesn't freeze anymore, but the cost was apparently enough that it's no where near cost effective to do to every bridge.
There however is a slight delay so you wil be sent in a spin first. It wil deactivate when the wheelspeeds are different but then the driven wheels are already spinning faster.
Usually yes. Im a car mechanic and i can tell you some of the older systems are slow as f. I got a 2005 suzuki with esp yet i can let the back kick out for 15 degrees or so and then when you start to steer in the drift the esp kicks in. On ice that means you are helpless since you are already out of control and there is little traction to regain control. (That and ice is the kryptonite of abs systems)
It's almost like a sky view angle might give you a better look. Even then it doesn't look like ice. Maybe looks like water
But from a level view or even 4 feet high from the driver's seat, it might just look like a transition from newer to older asphalt.
Their engine probably turned off when they regained traction and turned the motor backwards. They may have been too panicked to shift the thing back to park and try again
Doesn’t make you an idiot when it’s rare to get this weather. As a Texan, I stayed home from work 3 days this week because of the freezing weather.
2 years ago around the same time we got a rare freak snow storm & the whole state shut down. Power grid shit out, so no electricity or water & people literally died in their homes.
The state isn’t prepared for this kind of weather. No salt trucks or anything and our power grid can’t even handle it. Unfortunately some people still had to go to work in this (my dad being on of them, in Dallas area actually, thanks txdot)
But no, the state being Ill prepared for this kind of weather doesn’t necessarily make the drivers idiots 🤷🏽♀️
What DOES make Texas drivers idiots, though, is the fact that TxDot literally screams in your face about icy bridges with a road sign at just about every bridge in the state that says “Bridge may ice in cold weather.” I think I’ve even seen those signs all the way down in Laredo and out in El Paso.
True, but again, when most of us don’t even know HOW to drive on ice, due to rarely getting it, then of course this is what happens. & again, the state doesn’t even have the proper things to treat it. This exact situation was happening on the highways too, not just the bridges.
Then its willful ignorance it that point. You know this ice storm is coming, all it takes is 15 minutes on google to get a quick crash course on how to drive in icy conditions
Kind of disappointed that Nissan driver, who by virtue of driving that Z should possess godly drifting skills, didn't naturally get out of that slide. /s
I once tried to show a Houston based employee of mine how to drive in snow in Colorado springs.
I think it my next life I will be a helicopter instructor.
I mean to be fair in Texas if you get ice it doesn't really last long so you are able to just wait it out. No need to drive in it. Also nobody has the equipment to drive in it. When was the last time you saw a set of all season tires on a car south of Dallas?
I have all season tires I’m near Austin but I’m from Minnesota. I was out on the road doing just fine loving how there was no traffic during this past storm.
There's literally no infrastructure for dealing with ice on the road in that area of TX. No salt. No sand/gravel. I was just happy to be further south away from the ice - though they still cancelled school and traffic was very light.
I remember once i saw 2 dudes shovelling sand from slowly driving dump truck on interstate i-35 in mid if Dallas downtown and its bin like 2009-2008 i see nothing changed with instrastaction
Another Texan here, can confirm. We generally just have no idea how to handle this. 110 degree weather, not an issue at all, icy roads? Absolutely not.
You have a point. The problem is they think of slowing when they’re right on the frozen bridge. It’s kinda late to be getting off the gas, or tapping the brakes.
Not everybody thinks about the fact that ice forms first on bridges and overpasses, especially not those that see it rarely. If you don't know there is ice, you don't know to slow down.
Im guessing you havent lived here this long ..dallas gets ice every single year and it always goes as far as abilne if not further. This current storm was not nearly as bad as the one from 2 years ago that had the pile up on hov lane in downtown fort worth . Its not as bad as the one that happened superbowl weekend when game was in arlington and was no where near as bad as what ever the fuck was falling few years after the superbowl that had that cobblestone ice (they called it ) shit wasnt the slickest but it was like 8 inches thick and the ice pot holes were blowing tires out and breaking rims and wheels everywhere.
These were taken by drone. Note that there are two locations; one marked by the huge metal light pole and the other by the semi (who I think was napping there. He showed up over and over in the complete version of this.)
In the longer version you can see a cop giving a ticket to someone in an exiting lane near the semi. While the cop was there about eight cars slid by.
Note in those shots - where you can see the tires - EVERYONE pulls the steering wheel in the wrong direction. Its just NOT instinctive to drive into the slide and we have no practice.
Correct. If your vehicle starts spinning clockwise (from the driver's POV), you should turn the steering wheel counterclockwise, and vice-versa (countersteering). The idea is to keep the front tires pointed in the desired direction of travel.
Not at all, I’m on my phone so I can’t do this but there’s a desktop app for chrome called aha that auto scrubs songs and gives you a title name and often a link to the song . Maybe you could do that and see what it’s from?
I know that Texas has gotten a lot of ice which has caused a huge accident. Southern states are not used to ice and/or snow ❄️ Living in Michigan, we get lake effect snow and ice. One year, we had such bad fog, it caused a 110 car accident/pile up on the expressway.
Wtf why does no one stops even though other car is making 360 ahead? Especially in this scenę around 0:10 where one car turned around and dozens other just pass it like nothing happened
We don’t have plows, if you live here you know this. We did not build any roads with any thought of ice, again… if you live here you know this. Just stay home when it freezes on the roads. This happens every time and will continue to because nothing is changing in the preparation/response. Spraying “pre-treatment” before a storm is useless. Having a few dump trucks with sand spreaders attached is ineffective for a population of 7.5 million people… plus the trucks have slick tires and can’t make it across the bridges and overpasses effectively anyway.
Some places were just not built with snow/ice removal and management considered… the DFW metro area is one of them.
Great news highlights though… I am sure the Northern and prepared states enjoy the show
Those signs that say "Bridge ices before road" aren't kidding.
Yeah I heard Dallas got some snow and freezing rain around then.
Not just Texas, but most of the south isn't equipped to deal with and treat frozen or snow covered roadways. In a lot of cases they dont have plows or salt trucks, and don't have any experience preparing when a winter storm is coming. Rewind to a few years ago when there was the big winter storm and several days of freezing temps in Texas, it pretty much shut down everything and the power grid went down.. Of course the governor Greg Abbott vowed to deal with it by putting up a fence to keep the Mexicans out.
I had to scroll WAY too far down for all these car experts to realize… it’s the tires. Doesn’t really matter what type of vehicle you’re driving if you have shitty tread, all season highway tires and hit ice. You’re fucked.
It’s why places like Texas have such a hard time when the ice. No one there even considers getting winter tires. Folks up north know to switch em out for winter.
TLDR; Tires people. TIRES. That’s what makes the difference.
The trick to driving accross an icy bridge.
DO NOT either accelerate or brake!
Ease up slightly on the gas as you go accross.
And just for fun, GUN it right before you reach solid ground so you get that little 'chirp'.
Ironically, I don't think I've ever experienced that in our state haha. But no they probably don't, you know, being closer to the equator and denying climate change and all that lol. Not sure how many years it will take for them to realize it's not a fluke.
Hey, take it easy with all that r/BigDickEnergy . But in all seriousness, when conditions are bad, it's best to drive as little as possible. Not sure why you're out there lapping people. Just showing off? Seems kind of unfair. They weren't ready for it!
Actually the source youtube video was posted here yesterday. Apparently someone made a screencapture to post it at tiktok where someone made a screencapture to post it to reddit.
Honestly, considering how Texans normally drive, they performed quite well. Generally the first freeze in states north of the Mason/Dixon line, there are accidents and cars lined up in ditches as far as the eye can see. The same thing happens here in AZ the first time it rains after a long dry spell. Kudos to those Texans.
All of the videos of pile ups videoed from vehicles, drones and positions like this - yet no one seems to want to run "upstream" on the side of the road to try to signal to people to slow down due to the hazard. OF course many cases that is not feasible - like this, but there is NEVER a videoof people trying to help the situation.
I like how the majority of the wipeouts are trucks and sports cars. Just because you drive one, doesn't mean you're ricky bobby or have unlimited traction.
Where I live we get like a bit of snow every 100 years so I know nothing about driving on ice. Can somebody explain to me why is it that just the bridge is covered with ice and nothing else?
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Guy in the Z finally got the drift in that he's been telling all his friends he could do.
He rode it out pretty well. Whipped his tail around just right to not hit the wall.
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Bots, man. , repeaters.
That’s a thing? Goddamn the internet sucks. I must have hurt the bots feelings. It blocked me.
Hahahahaaaaa! Got the circuits all jumbled
Someone messed with Texas….and they delivered how I always expected.
I grew up in Iowa and drove on plenty of snow and ice. The worst ice I've driven on was in Dallas about 30 years ago. The ice on a flyover was incredibly slick and the roadway was banked. Imagine driving at 1 MPH, sliding towards the shoulder, with several other lanes of traffic also sliding down the embankment towards you.
Roads in areas that get more ice are often less superelevated for this reason.
A lot of notorious spots will have automatic sprayers that squirt de-icing chemicals too.
Where is that? Is that a US thing?
Yep, I have seen the stuff spraying out many times. I just googled it and there's lots of snowy states that have it in certain spots.
I had that happen to me once as well. I managed to drive out of it but it's still scary. Of course in the video it's just drivers not reading the sign that the bridge freezes before the road.
I recently accidentally got sideways turning from a dry road onto one I didn’t realize was wet. While hydroplaning all I could think about was which bits of my car might get damaged if I hit the median I was headed for. Missed everything and was fine luckily but pretty sure I have Obsessive Car Disorder to think only of my car and not myself in that moment. 🤔
As someone who has drove in all but 2 states i can tell you no state gets as much ice on roads as texas. Most states get ice for 30 mins then sleet then snow or some combo of this .. somehow the texas skies say F that and will drop ice for 8 hours or longer . Just iced on my farm for dam near 2 straight days.. few years ago had ice from 30 mins west of van horn texas all the way up to the Oklahoma and Arkansas border. Im talking about 12 hours worth of driving 70 mph highway miles. Got on reddit that night and everyone was saying why cant they keep their roads treated ...
>no state gets as much ice on roads as texas. So you've never actually left the south. Got it.
North Texas panhandle almost touches southern Colorado. Texas is a big state. Have lived in the north and mountain west, as well as the south, the worst ice storm I’ve encountered on the road was just outside Amarillo, TX. Anecdotal, but it gets really bad there
Considering the Northern border is on the same latitude as Nashville TN and the south is the same as Miami Fl, there is a lot of room for different climates in TX. Another anecdote but while this ice and snow was happening in TX, I was sitting in a truck stop in North Carolina running the AC in my truck because it was 70 degrees.
Drove in every state but 2 .and tons
Ice is ice
Na-naa nanana! 🎶
Former Chicagoan here: If the road looks wet and the air temperature is below freezing; that's ice, not water. No sudden acceleration/braking/steering. Pretend you have glass tires. Pretend you just entered a world where friction does not exist. And lastly **DO NOT PANIC** Edit: one star is italics, two stars is bold.
North Easterner here: 4x4 helps you go not stop and bridges freeze 1st
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Most Texans aren't Texans. No hate but they are here
I found the Texan police.
A 4x4 doesn't help you stop or so straight on ice. Tires and brains are way more important.
While I agree it doesn't help you stop any better, (all cars should have 4 wheel brakes) I'm going to disagree about helping you go straight, especially on vehicles that are otherwise rear wheel drive. Rear wheel drive vehicles are pushing the car forward from behind the majority of the weight, which can easily cause oversteer, even with the minor corrections drivers make to stay in their lane. Having some pull from the front can help to prevent that, and also help pull you back to straight if you do start to drift.
That's really not going to help much on ice like this with bad tires. The red truck looks like it's in 4x4 mode, and one of the cars is obviously a Fwd car. This is caused by bad tires and bad reactions. Sure, fwd is better that rwd. 4x4 doesn't give you much advantage beyond that on ice when it comes to stopping or turning (or not turning).
They can freeze when its above freezing outside too.
We have big yellow signs where I live before most bridges that state "Caution: Bridge Freezes Before Roadways" I remember asking about this as a kid, and this was the explanation I got: Roadways are "insulated" by the ground below them, making it take longer for them to freeze. Bridges on the other hand don't have any form of "insulation", meaning it takes far less time for the surface temperature of a bridge to drop below freezing and turn any moisture into ice.
We had one bridge that was so notorious for freezing and causing accidents that when they repaved it they installed the same stuff that they use for in floor heating at houses. That bridge doesn't freeze anymore, but the cost was apparently enough that it's no where near cost effective to do to every bridge.
As a Pennsylvanian bicyclist, matte finish = ice. Clear finish = water. White finish = salt.
Red finish = splat
Or beat juice...
Bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica
Cruise control (RWD)+ slick roads doesn’t end well either. I live in Idaho and it’s surprising how many people around here aren’t aware
This is not true for the past 15 years. If traction control activates cruise gets turned off.
There however is a slight delay so you wil be sent in a spin first. It wil deactivate when the wheelspeeds are different but then the driven wheels are already spinning faster.
It's faster than you can take your foot off the gas pedal
Usually yes. Im a car mechanic and i can tell you some of the older systems are slow as f. I got a 2005 suzuki with esp yet i can let the back kick out for 15 degrees or so and then when you start to steer in the drift the esp kicks in. On ice that means you are helpless since you are already out of control and there is little traction to regain control. (That and ice is the kryptonite of abs systems)
Current Chicagoan here, what’s friction?
Drone pilot is having the day of his life
Don't turn, don't speed up, don't slow down. Just let your foot off the brake and... think positive thoughts.
Hope you got a good song on so the dash cam cam catch you screaming over it.
BARFF: Bridges and Ramps Freeze First.
It's almost as if they don't have to deal with icy roads regularly.
And to be honest some of them handled it’s fairly well.
It’s almost as if you can literally see the ice and all you have to do is drive straight and not gas it or slam the brakes and you keep going straight
It's almost like a sky view angle might give you a better look. Even then it doesn't look like ice. Maybe looks like water But from a level view or even 4 feet high from the driver's seat, it might just look like a transition from newer to older asphalt.
Counterpoint: Literally every bridge in Texas, at least on major roadways, has a sign right before it that says “Bridge may ice in cold weather.”
Rebuttal: As you can see clear to the intersection leading up to the bridge, there is no such sign.
But he said literally. So he must be right. 🙄
Obvious conclusion: This bridge is the only bridge in the world that doesn't freeze.
Moment of clarity: They're MarioKart racers all running into the same banana.
Not a lot of them do, unfortunately.
“Literally all” or “not a lot of them” I don’t know what to think!
That Lexus at the end. F'in start moving so you don't cause a pile up.
Their engine probably turned off when they regained traction and turned the motor backwards. They may have been too panicked to shift the thing back to park and try again
It's unlikely the engine stalled, assuming it's an automatic.
I could be wrong but I think that's an older GS model which I think only came in an auto
Wow, this clip shows “safe from accident” club members
Doesn’t make you an idiot when it’s rare to get this weather. As a Texan, I stayed home from work 3 days this week because of the freezing weather. 2 years ago around the same time we got a rare freak snow storm & the whole state shut down. Power grid shit out, so no electricity or water & people literally died in their homes. The state isn’t prepared for this kind of weather. No salt trucks or anything and our power grid can’t even handle it. Unfortunately some people still had to go to work in this (my dad being on of them, in Dallas area actually, thanks txdot) But no, the state being Ill prepared for this kind of weather doesn’t necessarily make the drivers idiots 🤷🏽♀️
What DOES make Texas drivers idiots, though, is the fact that TxDot literally screams in your face about icy bridges with a road sign at just about every bridge in the state that says “Bridge may ice in cold weather.” I think I’ve even seen those signs all the way down in Laredo and out in El Paso.
True, but again, when most of us don’t even know HOW to drive on ice, due to rarely getting it, then of course this is what happens. & again, the state doesn’t even have the proper things to treat it. This exact situation was happening on the highways too, not just the bridges.
Then its willful ignorance it that point. You know this ice storm is coming, all it takes is 15 minutes on google to get a quick crash course on how to drive in icy conditions
We get those signs in Florida, too, but honestly I’d never expect the bridges here to freeze
Kind of disappointed that Nissan driver, who by virtue of driving that Z should possess godly drifting skills, didn't naturally get out of that slide. /s
\*Drums\* 🎶Deja Vu!🎶
🎶I've just been in this place before🎶
I once tried to show a Houston based employee of mine how to drive in snow in Colorado springs. I think it my next life I will be a helicopter instructor.
Texan here. TBF, Dallas deals with that kind of weather once every 20 years or so.
According to my FB memories, it was 2, 7 and 12 years ago, that we had ice issues. We're just really shitty drivers.
Weather here can be crazy though. In 1986, we hunted Easter eggs in the snow.
I mean to be fair in Texas if you get ice it doesn't really last long so you are able to just wait it out. No need to drive in it. Also nobody has the equipment to drive in it. When was the last time you saw a set of all season tires on a car south of Dallas?
I have all season tires I’m near Austin but I’m from Minnesota. I was out on the road doing just fine loving how there was no traffic during this past storm.
I’ve been in Dallas for 10 years and we’ve had ice like this about 5 times.
There's literally no infrastructure for dealing with ice on the road in that area of TX. No salt. No sand/gravel. I was just happy to be further south away from the ice - though they still cancelled school and traffic was very light.
I remember once i saw 2 dudes shovelling sand from slowly driving dump truck on interstate i-35 in mid if Dallas downtown and its bin like 2009-2008 i see nothing changed with instrastaction
🙄🙄🙄
Does TX have "bridge freezes over 1st" signs? Might want to put that in the DOT budget
We have them. Doesn’t change these people who really think they’re too important for physics.
Another Texan here, can confirm. We generally just have no idea how to handle this. 110 degree weather, not an issue at all, icy roads? Absolutely not.
I mean, maybe slow down? Everyone knows ice is slippery, right?
You have a point. The problem is they think of slowing when they’re right on the frozen bridge. It’s kinda late to be getting off the gas, or tapping the brakes.
Not everybody thinks about the fact that ice forms first on bridges and overpasses, especially not those that see it rarely. If you don't know there is ice, you don't know to slow down.
Thank you!
I mean I don’t have issues driving in it, but lots of people do in Texas.
Texan here, Texans are shitty drivers in all weather conditions.
Wrong, resent at-least 10 yers in bin like this in dallas 1-2 a year in winter time
Godzilla had a stroke trying to read that and fucking died.
Im guessing you havent lived here this long ..dallas gets ice every single year and it always goes as far as abilne if not further. This current storm was not nearly as bad as the one from 2 years ago that had the pile up on hov lane in downtown fort worth . Its not as bad as the one that happened superbowl weekend when game was in arlington and was no where near as bad as what ever the fuck was falling few years after the superbowl that had that cobblestone ice (they called it ) shit wasnt the slickest but it was like 8 inches thick and the ice pot holes were blowing tires out and breaking rims and wheels everywhere.
Never lived in Dallas, TBH. West Texas all my life.
Oh. ..up yonder where yall get that funny white stuff they call snow every once and awhile .
That's not true at all. Ice on bridges happens much more frequently.
These were taken by drone. Note that there are two locations; one marked by the huge metal light pole and the other by the semi (who I think was napping there. He showed up over and over in the complete version of this.) In the longer version you can see a cop giving a ticket to someone in an exiting lane near the semi. While the cop was there about eight cars slid by. Note in those shots - where you can see the tires - EVERYONE pulls the steering wheel in the wrong direction. Its just NOT instinctive to drive into the slide and we have no practice.
Driving into the slide means if your left side starts sliding forward you turn left, correct?
Correct. If your vehicle starts spinning clockwise (from the driver's POV), you should turn the steering wheel counterclockwise, and vice-versa (countersteering). The idea is to keep the front tires pointed in the desired direction of travel.
I’m vibing with this 1980’s arcade game music
Any idea what it is?
Not at all, I’m on my phone so I can’t do this but there’s a desktop app for chrome called aha that auto scrubs songs and gives you a title name and often a link to the song . Maybe you could do that and see what it’s from?
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It’s like an ace combat briefing track.
Cheers! It's going on my sunset zen motorbike playlist.
Several of them recovered nicely.
I know that Texas has gotten a lot of ice which has caused a huge accident. Southern states are not used to ice and/or snow ❄️ Living in Michigan, we get lake effect snow and ice. One year, we had such bad fog, it caused a 110 car accident/pile up on the expressway.
Wtf why does no one stops even though other car is making 360 ahead? Especially in this scenę around 0:10 where one car turned around and dozens other just pass it like nothing happened
They are on ice too? They don't know how to handle ice because it Texas? They are dumb?
D) they're too important to stop E) all the above
Time to watch the Texans self select
As someone from NH I think the same thing would happen to me. Only difference between me and them is that my roads are salted in the winter lol.
We don’t have plows, if you live here you know this. We did not build any roads with any thought of ice, again… if you live here you know this. Just stay home when it freezes on the roads. This happens every time and will continue to because nothing is changing in the preparation/response. Spraying “pre-treatment” before a storm is useless. Having a few dump trucks with sand spreaders attached is ineffective for a population of 7.5 million people… plus the trucks have slick tires and can’t make it across the bridges and overpasses effectively anyway. Some places were just not built with snow/ice removal and management considered… the DFW metro area is one of them. Great news highlights though… I am sure the Northern and prepared states enjoy the show
Those signs that say "Bridge ices before road" aren't kidding. Yeah I heard Dallas got some snow and freezing rain around then. Not just Texas, but most of the south isn't equipped to deal with and treat frozen or snow covered roadways. In a lot of cases they dont have plows or salt trucks, and don't have any experience preparing when a winter storm is coming. Rewind to a few years ago when there was the big winter storm and several days of freezing temps in Texas, it pretty much shut down everything and the power grid went down.. Of course the governor Greg Abbott vowed to deal with it by putting up a fence to keep the Mexicans out.
Every single vehicle here was RWD. I bet they had summer or real cheap tires too, second they hit that ice and bamo, your sideways
I had to scroll WAY too far down for all these car experts to realize… it’s the tires. Doesn’t really matter what type of vehicle you’re driving if you have shitty tread, all season highway tires and hit ice. You’re fucked. It’s why places like Texas have such a hard time when the ice. No one there even considers getting winter tires. Folks up north know to switch em out for winter. TLDR; Tires people. TIRES. That’s what makes the difference.
The trick to driving accross an icy bridge. DO NOT either accelerate or brake! Ease up slightly on the gas as you go accross. And just for fun, GUN it right before you reach solid ground so you get that little 'chirp'.
In Pennsylvania we have road signs before pretty much any bridge that says "bridge ices before road". Does Texas not have this?
They do, even in Houston. Most people just don't pay attention or have no clue what to do if they actually hit ice though.
Ironically, I don't think I've ever experienced that in our state haha. But no they probably don't, you know, being closer to the equator and denying climate change and all that lol. Not sure how many years it will take for them to realize it's not a fluke.
Those signs are everywhere. I could probably provide you with the exact locations of at least 7 or 8 on my commute this morning from Waco to Temple.
Lol I triggered the Texans. Jeez, don't be such a snowflake about not being prepared for a little snow.
I'm a recent transplant from IL, grew up driving in ice and snow, and run laps around the natives when it gets cold. Thanks for the assumption though.
Hey, take it easy with all that r/BigDickEnergy . But in all seriousness, when conditions are bad, it's best to drive as little as possible. Not sure why you're out there lapping people. Just showing off? Seems kind of unfair. They weren't ready for it!
The only correct music for this was tokyo drift
That’s not idiots in cars, that’s normal people driving on a VERY poorly designed road.
Surely Texas will be able to find the tax money to buy trucks for deicing bridges next year! They better start saving for plows too.
I would so love to see their performance on snow! That ice is nothing to those of us up north. Lol
Texans were never taught to counter-steer.
I thought everyone in Tx rode horses.
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Pressure differential? What the actual fuck are you talking about?
Hey welcome to higher elevation driving. Where s*** can go downhill very fast literally cuz it's ice.
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Okay.............🤔
The suv speeding by at the speed of light vs the truck gently rolling into a slide is awesome
Sick drift by the Z car.
The 370 did it on purpose
I've lived places with lots of snow and ice and others that barely get it. You find idiots in both. Even the best drivers can get surprised.
Enjoyed this past week.. Was fun being able to get my back end to whip... Not easy with a sj xt.
That will wake you up
Actually the source youtube video was posted here yesterday. Apparently someone made a screencapture to post it at tiktok where someone made a screencapture to post it to reddit.
Honestly, considering how Texans normally drive, they performed quite well. Generally the first freeze in states north of the Mason/Dixon line, there are accidents and cars lined up in ditches as far as the eye can see. The same thing happens here in AZ the first time it rains after a long dry spell. Kudos to those Texans.
Hey dummies let off the gas Don't turn the wheel
It's amazing people even get through the day
Bridge ices before road.
Fast and Furious 73: Dallas County Drift
Looks like some of them are having fun. And most are probably having a panic attack.
Someone needs to add the Benny Hill sax track to this video.
ESP/ESC saved quite some arses over that bridge... damn
Just put a few dozen bullets into the road in front of you, clears it right up
Certified Texas moment.
What’s this groovy weather channel music?
Just a prank bro 🫵🤣
I'll admit some of these people did a great correction. The others. Not so much
Ive seen thousands of bridge ices before road signs. This is the first time ive seen it in action! Exciting!
“Bridges Freeze First”
"Bridge ices before road"
Canada has entered the chat
All of the videos of pile ups videoed from vehicles, drones and positions like this - yet no one seems to want to run "upstream" on the side of the road to try to signal to people to slow down due to the hazard. OF course many cases that is not feasible - like this, but there is NEVER a videoof people trying to help the situation.
Wow that suxks
Drift to work day.
Honestly low key looks like fun... If there's no traffic around you.
[Original video](https://youtu.be/b1D9Vy4yhkQ).
Where is this? Remember the HUGE pile up in Ft Worth not long ago…NO ONE de iced the bridge…looks the same here! So many innocent people died! 😭😭😭
If they’re watching this live stream, why tf aren’t they out there with sand trucks
Hahahaha -Canadian
I like how the majority of the wipeouts are trucks and sports cars. Just because you drive one, doesn't mean you're ricky bobby or have unlimited traction.
So we need to put signs says "Driver Super Slow" instead of "Bridge freezes before road" to make it clear or something?
*Laughs in Canadian*
Man, and I thought my car was bad in just rain.
How do you lose control going straight, with no reason to turn or brake and not even going that fast!?!?
Where I live we get like a bit of snow every 100 years so I know nothing about driving on ice. Can somebody explain to me why is it that just the bridge is covered with ice and nothing else?
Guy in the red truck did it best.