But I guess some people never learn. Here's a video from Portland, two days ago. Snow tires, anyone heard of such things? Oh yeah, this is the US, we're too lazy to do that. The rest of the industrialized world with snow do change tires every winter, though. We came up with a more convenient model: SUVs.
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Well...you got to see Hipster Know-it-alls in the Seattle area think that they could drive on Queen Anne hill during the last snow/ice storm. Pretty amazing, isn't it? The sad thing is that their clueless lunacy will persist after all this stuff melts and manifest itself (they'll take a break from wrecking cars and go after what was once a pleasant, polite and livable city) by making us listen to their "common sense" and "obvious solutions". I really miss the days when so many of us in this area could hop into the snowtire-equipped-Volvo for a safe and short drive to Ballard for some fresh lefsa while listening to Stan Boreson. But then again, we were nothing but a bunch of backyard Scandinavians who had yet to be converted to "The Modern World". It's not all bad though. My friend, Amundson, who owns a body shop will continue to make a ton of money!
Doc, we're just as dumb in the UK.
Oh, I forgot. We're not an industrialised nation any more...
Still, I'll be out with a camera should we get any snow this year. I reckon I could better your video...
Fair enough Janine about Portland, but, every time we have a bit more snow in NJ there is chaos. Every time. And schools close. If schools closed every time we had snow in Sweden, they would be closed three months every year . . .
In Germany it is law that tires have to be appropriate to the weather conditions. So 75% of car owners are changing tires before winter.
I have a friend in Seattle that sent me that exact same video. King 5 News is in Seattle. Seattle drivers are retarted, so, I beleive this is a video of Seattle traffic. (Eat your heart out Portland!)
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