Transportation device not designed for winter conditions

[jtbo]

So I had to travel bit to work again, mere 300km this time so not very long trip, weather was/is quite nice here as you can find out from link:

http://jtbo.pp.fi/images/album/road_pics/winter/

So that french shopping cart is not perhaps your number 1 choice for snow conditions, wheel arches are stuffed with snow in less than half way and screwdriver is best tool to clean them. Now as I'm used to drive 600km without stopping, this small problem tends to increase time needed for travelling.

Also it is quite difficult to get something from boot unless cleaning quite massive amount of snow first.

Oh yes, there were one lane in city here completely blocked with snow, there was perhaps 30cm of it and I had to use that lane as needed to turn, car lost completely ability to turn even I drove rather slow into it, however speed was enough to make trough it, even could not see anything

[MJ]

I'm glad we don't get snow like that here very often Looks very pretty, but not great for driving in...

[jtbo]

I'm glad we don't get snow like that here very often Looks very pretty, but not great for driving in...

Driving was not so bad, there is only small amount of pain in hands from excessive wheel turning as car did disagree from direction of travel with me most of time and I needed to correct sliding a lot, so it was 5 hours of turning wheel left right left right

Around 80% of cars that normally are on road seemed to gone some other place so driving was somewhat more free than usually, decided to use then higher speeds than normally when possible, of course not many possibilities in such conditions.

Getting out from car and walking to shop was not nice as I got snow into nose, ear, eyes and mouth, also shoes got instantly wet, quite annoying really. When in car it was not so bad.

Here we get such weather perhaps once-twice a year, not too often really.

[nomashedswede]

So much for global warming !!!

[MJ]

...decided to use then higher speeds than normally when possible...

Do you want to crash

[jtbo]

Do you want to crash

Preferably not, but limits are quite off in many places, just 20km from here to north there is limit of 100, road is smaller than roads 20km south from here, however in south limit is 80, so there is not much of any reason behind limits. I tend to use more of appropriate speed for situation instead of what sign says when driving on night without other traffic, but when there is other traffic I tend to stick with limits as there are various advantages in that.

[filthyjohn]

I love snow driving! The spoilsport council are really grit-happy around here, salting the roads as soon as it hits 5 degrees.
Last winter they forgot to do the A183 and I was at work an HOUR before my mate who takes the same route, because I could get traction on snow and he couldn't.

[trabitom99]

Got to test my winter tyres for the first time on Sunday night, driving my mum to the airport in a blizzard ... Nothing like jtbo's experience of course but fun anyway ...

Fitted one of these:


yesterday morning - the car warms up a good deal quicker now ...

Tom

[volvosneverdie]

Woah.

That looks like some serious sliding conditions.
Gives new meaning to 'drifting' anyway.

Certainly s'now joke.

Glad it all turned out 'ice in the end.

And that you got to Finnish your journey.

Thank you, im here all week.
Try the shrimp.

[jtbo]

My wish is that at winter temp would always be -10C or colder, it is because they can't salt when it is that cold

Buggers put salt too much on roads here too, often weather would be nice, side of roads would be white and visibility good, road not even slippery, then salt truck goes by and soon salt water makes everything dark, everytime when car comes from opposite direction visibility goes to zero as salt water is just making windscreen very blurred and it is very hard to wipe off unlike plain water.

Also that is why I love heavy snowstorms as they can't put salt on road as it makes road filled with wet snow which is most dangerous condition after black ice. However sometimes idiots still put salt on and suprice suprice traffic is in chaos. Countless crashes in a year could be avoided if salt would be banned from roads, in UK situation is naturally different, tires are different, more traffic and people are not so used to drive in snow and ice.

Boss told me that I could go with plane so it would be easier to travel, last Sunday flights were cancelled and delayed, luggages from many passengers are yet to be received and still there would been nearly 100km to drive, I did fail to see how that would been easier, but boss is she, so woman's logic is sometimes bit different

I don't have real difficulties driving in whatever conditions are, it is quite rare that time needed for travelling would increase either, so somehow I enjoy driving in really bad weather.