And I thought Atlanta freaked out when it snows...

I love the photo title: "Stupid Motherf*kers"

Sure sets the tone for such a fine institution as the PI...

I'd laugh, but I'm pretty sure Arizona would be just as bad if we got two inches of snow. And we don't have any hills to use as an excuse.

Backstory of Stupididity:

That was the year the mayor decided to not sand because it would hurt the Puget Sound environmentally. That would be the same Puget Sound that is made of salt water.

I winced only a bit, but that was no fail, Gerard. That was a smashing success. That car hit everything forward, backward and both sides.

I winced only a bit, but that was no fail, Gerard. That was a smashing success. That car hit everything forward, backward and both sides.

I thought it was salt the mayor didn't want to use. Also, putting rubber extensions on the plows so as not to hurt the pavement.
Something nice and compassionanate and liberal and green and democrat.

Julie: I don't know what you're talking about with "two inches of snow". Here in Scottsdale, everybody panics when there's a quarter inch of rain and the streets get all slick... although much of the panic, of course, is due to the idiots who don't stop driving like idiots in those conditions.

Richard, of course it was salt. My bad. He didn't want to add salt to the Sound.

Any chief executive who did something like that would be fired, and possibly sued for damages to boot.

Jake - good point. There are few things more annoying than getting stuck on the freeway here in a light drizzle; half the people drive at half speed as though the slightest wrong move will fling them to their doom, while the other half try to cruise by at about 80.

Well, it wasn't snow what did me in last year, but black ice.

Yeah, that looks more like ice in the video. Snow was falling, but it takes a layer of ice to make a car go sideways.

Once I was in a van with a bunch of people on Philadelphia's Schuylkill Expressway during an ice storm. We knew the conditions were treacherous and were creeping along. We came upon a woman whose car was sitting sideways in the road, helplessly spinning her wheels. Being the good Samaritans that we were, we stopped and a bunch of us piled out to give her a push. One girl got out ahead of me. She took two or three steps, then hit a slick spot and her legs went out from under her and she fell on her ass. I was a step or two behind her, hit the same spot, and had the same result. Eventually we did get the lady in the car straightened out and on her way.

I used to pay to watch the demolition derby. You Seattle folks just go for it in public - pretty cool.

ricki, my arse hurts just seeing that in my head. It isn't for nothing that they call it the Sure-Kill Expressway.

I believe that video was actually from Portland (our equally ditzy southern neighbor), but it just as easily could have been Seattle. The best car videos from this storm have featured Metro buses spinning out of control down narrow Green Lake arterials.

All that was missing was the sounds one hears when playing a pinball machine.

Looking forward to tomorrow. I have a 250 mile drive to do with freezing rain and snow in the fore cast. Its the first drive of the season for me. Looking at that video.. Yikes!!!! It takes an attitude adjustment for us Canadians and I know a few of us will be skidding, sliding and ditching it before we get our winter wheels under us.

Soviet of Washington, you're right on both counts... that is Portland and it is at least as ditzy here as in Seattle. The video proves the point. That's the intersection of SW 20th and Salmon and both streets are very steep; so steep, in fact, that only a fool or a liberal - but I repeat myself - would even attempt to navigate either of them in the snow.

Tsk, tsk. Two examples of incorrect punctuation? Gerard, you never!