Just back from a day trip to Norfolk, rained all the way down, most of the way back… THREE and a HALF @#@& hours to go 189 miles on Interstate… sigh…
Why is it that people driving vans absolutely REFUSE to look in their @&@*!!! mirrors BEFORE they change lanes??? Not once but twice today I got put in the median by those asshats…
Coming back, it took 1 1/2 hours to get from VA Beach to the tunnel (all of about 20 miles), and watched multiple people try to jump the line at the 564/64 split. Folks were finally getting pissed off enough to not let them in, blocking three lanes when the line cutters couldn’t force their way in. I did see a Trooper show up and start ‘directing’ people off to 564, whether they wanted to go or not! GOOD for him!!!
Four hours coming back, I’ve had it, finishing my Scotch and going to bed…
Why is it that people driving vans absolutely REFUSE to look in their @&@*!!! mirrors BEFORE they change lanes??? Not once but twice today I got put in the median by those asshats…
Coming back, it took 1 1/2 hours to get from VA Beach to the tunnel (all of about 20 miles), and watched multiple people try to jump the line at the 564/64 split. Folks were finally getting pissed off enough to not let them in, blocking three lanes when the line cutters couldn’t force their way in. I did see a Trooper show up and start ‘directing’ people off to 564, whether they wanted to go or not! GOOD for him!!!
Four hours coming back, I’ve had it, finishing my Scotch and going to bed…
Maybe some ice cream tomorrow, in any case IT’S FRIDAY!!! 🙂
Scotch.. then Ice Cream… then Firday?? WOOHOO!!
Driving in the rain sucks… but not quite as bad when the temps get in the low 30’s then it is absolutely awful.
Glad your safe 🙂
In Charlotte we have the thing called instant wrecks. Just add water!
mmmm…ice cream. BH brought home a Dove bar for me tonight. Relax and enjoy your weekend!
I drive a van everyday and I keep my eyes damn near glued to the mirrors. Small cars seem to have a habit of riding right in the blind spot. That said, their are some idiots who don’t like the idea of letting people merge onto the interstate. That big van comes in handy then. Mr. Brand New BMW, let me introduce you to 90k mile work van!
Sounds like the FOCUS brigade (courtesy of the Texas Ghostrider – now inactive). Fuck you cause you’re stupid.
What Keads said.
In Kali, a cloudy sky is enough.
Nothing on earth has the ability to screw the traffic pattern like the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel. Nothing! Lived there years ago it has not improved.
Keads, Atlanta traffic is just like that. 3 drops of rain, and everyone forgets how to drive.
Just wait until they put in the Toll Booths!
Pissed- Thanks, and yeah, add low temps/black ice, idjits and it’s a recipe for disaster!
Keads- yep! BTDT in Charlotte
Suz- gonna try! you too!
Robert- True! Work van vs. minivans… At least folks with work vans DO know how to use mirrors, minis not so much…
WSF- I LIKE that one! 🙂
Skip- Try the first rain in 4 years (1997)… 900 accidents on the MORNING commute and 700 on the evening commute in LA…
45- It’s only gotten worse!
Dirk- I’m to the point I only go through ATL at 0200…
Les- I don’t EVEN want to think about that!
Atlanta is like NASCAR… until it rains, and then its like everybody forgot how to drive. Which is better than DC, which is like nobody ever learned to drive, period.
Yep! And it’s still raining…
which makes me wonder why I left the mountains 2000 miles ago to work for my favorite Uncle in this area.
I’m above the Tunnel though.
You shoulda been down here when it snowed last New Years
Wyoming-equipped 3/4 ton pick-up helps.
Q
Andy- True!
Q- If I’d know that, I’d have stopped and gotten a cup of coffee with ya. I was THERE last year when it snowed, THAT sucked!!! I made it back to the hotel and stayed until the roads cleared.
It’s amazing how generally bad driving turns to abysmal the minute it looks like raining.
Julie- That is true ANYWHERE in the world… sigh
I told you when I take days off to be cautious!! Just saying…….