On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
The snow had a hypnotic undulating motion which was freakin' drivers.
They insisted on driving slow although there was no hazard. I made it
outside the perimeter highway as traffic began to collapse. It was
like I was
Eric Walker said:
Here is another video of Russian drivers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2oQ6VbVIco
These images are something else. I can't tell whether the drivers in Russia
are absolutely terrible, or whether this is the situation anywhere, and the
drivers in Russia just happen
masterpiece,
checkout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLaTupw-hk
Safe driving, folks. Be humble.
/Sunil
From: jedrothw...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:55:55 -0500
Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Atlanta frozen again
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Here is why Russians have dash-cams. I think
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Sunil Shah s.u.n@hotmail.com wrote:
Safe driving, folks. Be humble.
My driving philosophy is quite simple. I treat automobiles in traffic
as a herd of animals with no intelligent control. This not only leads
you to expect unpredictable behavior but, once
Here is a good summary of the underlying causes of the gridlock:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/atlanta-snow-storm-102839.html?ml=m_t1_2h#.UuqZrRBdXCE
- Jed
Hilarious! And a very good idea : )
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:16:51 -0500
Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Atlanta frozen again
From: hohlr...@gmail.com
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Sunil Shah s.u.n@hotmail.com wrote:
Safe driving, folks. Be humble.
My
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
My driving philosophy is quite simple. I treat automobiles in traffic
as a herd of animals with no intelligent control.
If cars are like water buffalo, they're like water buffalo with jetpacks,
and, when there's ice,
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
These images are something else. I can't tell whether the drivers in
Russia are absolutely terrible, or whether this is the situation anywhere,
and the drivers in Russia just happen to have dashcams.
They have dashcams because accidents are common and
Well, to keep the average, my city, Rio de Janeiro, seems to be hotter
every year.
2014-01-29 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com
Atlanta has been hit by a blizzard again. Nearly an inch of snow. In
places you cannot see the pavement it is so deep. This paralyzes the whole
city because there
On 01/29/2014 08:56 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Why on earth would anyone sit in a car for 10 hours when you are only
4 miles from home?!? She is halfway home on a 9-mile commute. Okay,
park the car, get out, and walk. It wasn't that cold yesterday, and
walking keeps you warm. Have people
Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd opt for staying in the car. It takes a long time to walk 4 miles,
especially in the snow, and then you'd have to worry about your car being
towed.
When this happened to me, I left the car on a side street or the parking
lot at Home Depot. It does
Jed,
I know you are a smart guy. I left my office in Atlanta @ 3:00 PM
yesterday and arrived homed in Roswell @ 12:45 AM and I walked the last 1/4
mile in my subdivision. I picked up my neighbors wife, who is an atty @
11:00 PM at Mansell Road and another neighbor. She was WEARING HIGH HEELS
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
I picked up my neighbors wife, who is an atty @ 11:00 PM at Mansell Road
and another neighbor. She was WEARING HIGH HEELS and had no chance of
walking 4 miles. It was 24 degrees at the time.
I don't like to criticize people who are not used to
OK,
How about 75 year olds trying to walk 4 miles in 25 degree weather.
Or people with newborns/multiple kids in the car? Many people left at noon
yesterday AND ARE STILL IN THEIR CARS
Get real
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote:
ChemE Stewart
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
OK,
How about 75 year olds trying to walk 4 miles in 25 degree weather.
Or people with newborns/multiple kids in the car?
Such people are a different story. I was talking about people in good
health age 20 to 65. They should be capable of walking 5
We need some of your robots
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote:
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
OK,
How about 75 year olds trying to walk 4 miles in 25 degree weather.
Or people with newborns/multiple kids in the car?
Such people are a
I hoofed it in the Snowjam of 1982 over 5 miles from the Veteran's
hospital to Memorial Dr. Cars had blocked all lanes at the hospital
trying to get up the hill. I decided I would not do this again. I
made it; but, I ruined a nice suit and shoes.
Yesterday, I watched Ch.2's weather radar. It
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
We need some of your robots
I wonder how Google's self driving car would handle this.
What we need is less commuting and more telecommuting and satellite
offices. If most people lived within walking distance of their office, many
able bodied people would
That's nifty. Why do you have a dashcam? In case you have an accident?
That's why people have them in Russia. They are very common. Which is why
they got so many videos of the Chelyabinsk meteor.
I remember a scifi novel of an anarchist future society where everyone
carried a light sabre (pre
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
I remember a scifi novel of an anarchist future society where everyone
carried a light sabre (pre Star Wars). Everyone was extremely polite
and crime was virtually non-existent.
That did not work out well in pre-modern Japan where the samurai carried
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
That did not work out well in pre-modern Japan where the samurai carried
swords. There were severe penalties for using them. Granted it was safer
than most other medieval societies, especially for women travelling
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it *was* fiction; but, when I said everyone carried weapons, it
included women. IIRC, they were some of the fiercest fighters.
Women used to carry daggers for protection. Not always, the way samurai
were always supposed to carry swords. See:
This turned out to be one of the worst traffic jams in U.S. history. It is
not clear to me why it was so bad. Explanations in the mass media do not
add up --
Everyone went home at once. Yes, but they do that every day.
The schools let out at the same time offices closed. That does not add much
I think a million or so people, including all of the commuters
and busses, hit 285, 75/85, GA 400, I-20 at the same time between 12-2.
Normally that croud is spread between 2:30-7. I watched the
outside temperature drop 10 degrees within a couple of hours from my truck.
@ 26 F GA 400 became a
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, to keep the average, my city, Rio de Janeiro, seems to be hotter
every year.
I'm glad that all of the heat went from Atlanta to Rio de Janeiro. Out in
the Bay area it's almost t-shirt weather. It's quite nice.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Large trucks jackknifed and blocked traffic. This is the one thing that
does seem to have happened on a large scale.
Growing up in Colorado, I've come to respect any ice that might be on the
road. A note to all the
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
I watched the outside temperature drop 10 degrees within a couple of hours
from my truck. @ 26 F GA 400 became a sheet of ice.
Approximately what time was that?
- Jed
It's both, Jed and Stewie. People panicked but they were driviing
slow when the density was low as is evidenced in my vid. I should put
the whole drive up. I made the trip quickly because I drove 60 mph
while traffic was travelling at 40 mph. I wove in and out in the
gaps. I'm sure that I
6-8 pm, 33 degrees at 3 PM when I left, 24 degrees at 8 PM, most of the
drop happened when the Sun set. I think the first few hours of delay were
due to volume, then once all those people became jammed on the highways, it
all turned to a sheet of ice.
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Jed Rothwell
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
6-8 pm, 33 degrees at 3 PM when I left, 24 degrees at 8 PM, most of the
drop happened when the Sun set.
That is what I recall. I said it did not freeze until 5 or 6 p.m., which
was sundown. There was snow but not a lot of ice. I don't know about the
main
The cars melted the snow from 12-5 and then it all froze to ice over the
next couple of hours
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'cheme...@gmail.com'); wrote:
6-8 pm, 33 degrees at 3 PM when I
Remarkable photos here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/01/snow-storms-hit-the-south/100671/
Here is why Russians have dash-cams. I think these are mainly Russian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqktzCeFcbI
So much for the notion that people in Russia know how to drive in the snow.
Two final notes.
A friend of mine who is a pharmacist at the hospital says that essential
staff was
I averaged 2 miles per hour for 9 hours. I walked the last 1/4 mile
faster. Hard to get in a severe traffic accident at that speed
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is why Russians have dash-cams. I think these are mainly Russian:
Winter Car
Not a dashcam vid; but, one of my fav Russian crash cams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY4jmVfBAyQ
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