Posted by paul on January 11, 2015 at 08:48:54 from (66.44.132.180):
In Reply to: Winter at its worst posted by bigboreG on January 11, 2015 at 07:41:01:
Around here you couldn't have filmed anything, whiteout conditions. You could not see that far to video it.
What happens is there are gusts of true whiteout, and then a bit of time you can see a few 100 feet.
People drive from patch to patch where they can see.
Some folks really slow down when it goes true whiteout; others just drive through to where they can see again without slowing down.
That starts the accident, when someone not slowing down runs into someone that did slow down.
so.... A person is scared to slow down, the biggest danger is getting rear ended.....
Once there is an accident, everyone comes piling in behind.
40 years ago in conditions like that everyone drove 10-20 mph. Now you just have to cruise 45 mph or you will get hit.
They had a semi and car crash like that around here in that storm, they didn't know how to block the road off to work on the accident - no one could see the sheriff car trying to block the nearest intersection. They had so many accidents in different directions, they had the fire trucks out blocking the highways leaving town to allow one side of the accident scene to be free of traffic.
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