Oh! Snow!
Today we got the snow that I have been so dreading. It’s not really snow I hate, just the cold and the mess of terrible drivers that the snow brings out.
It seems to me the people on the freeways cannot possibly be the same ones that were on the freeways last year. Can it? I mean, we are here year after year and we simply can’t seem to figure out how to drive when the white stuff starts falling. It would seem to me that even if every person on the freeway was new to Ohio last year, they would at least have gotten some experience driving in the stuff.
I’m not trying to be one of those people who bitches for no reason. I understand people need to slow down. Actually, if people would just slow down, allow a little extra time to get where they need to go, and respect the road we’d have a lot less trouble this time of year. It’s not the people who take it a little slower that cause trouble. It’s people who think they don’t need to that cause the trouble. Go flying down a snow covered highway in your car and you are likely to end up in the ditch. Go flying down a snow covered highway in your 4 wheel drive truck or SUV and you are likely to cause someone else to end up in the ditch. Either scenario could easily cause a very bad crash, and the crashes are what cause the real traffic tie ups.
So please, just take your time. Buckle up. Be alert. Stay alive.
December 7th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Be safe in the snow. San Jose is been getting a lot of rain but I think we would all kill ourselves if we had to drive in the snow.
December 8th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
We’ve had tons of snow already up here in Canada too
March 10th, 2008 at 8:16 am
[...] Now That’s Some Snow by Marie Esselstein Having lived in central Ohio since I was a small child, it always amuses me how silly people act when we get a few measly inches of the white stuff. You would think this was the first time many people had ever seen snow, much less had to drive in it. [...]