Watched this on Ryan hall’s live stream and couldn’t believe it.
done it before, pull off to the side off the road.
rule is, if the hotel is full fuck off to another overpass. you don’t just stop in a fucking lane.
That happened to me in St Louis during our last tornado. The worst part was they were blocking an exit on the highway where multiple gas stations and public parking garages were located.
It’s fucking selfish when it’s just hail, when there’s a tornado less than a mile to the south it’s fucking dangerous.
What a small world. I was driving south on 170 with my wife at that same time. We luckily were right before the exit to the Galleria when the hail started. We quickly ducked into their parking garage until the tornado had passed.
Theres dozens of us. Dozens!
Don’t you love these little test-runs for societal collapse?
- Everyone-for-himself as a first-resort
- Always has been, etc
I grew up in the Midwest. They showed us videos of what an overpass looks like when a tornado goes through. That shit ain’t saving anybody. You’d honestly be safer in a rapidly flooding ditch than under one of those when a twister comes through.
“The hail will spoil my lovely green paint and red stripes!” Henry said.
Plum crazy buncha morons.
It’s not just hail damage, but visibility can also severely limited in huge storms. With a lot of water on the road risk of aquaplaning can also grow higher. Modern windshields shatter to a lot of small pieces, if a big hail hits it you won’t see nothing.
It can be safer to wait some minutes until the core of the storm moves away a bit. Just don’t forget to switch on both turn signals, aka hazard warning signals. At least it’s a common thing here where I live.
I’ve done this before, the rain could look less frightening on a fixed video than how you feel if you drive in it.
Couldn’t you, like, pull over on the side of the road for a very similar effect, rather than parking in the middle of the lane on a highway?
Wonder if it’s legal (prev comment)
Not letting through an ambulance is a different question, and obviously it depends on the volume of traffic it can be done safely. Yes on this image it’s clear they are doing it wrong, but as I’ve seen in other posts not letting through an ambulance is mostly an american thing only. Here if you don’t give way to an ambulance deliberately and a police car sees it, they can confiscate your driving license on the spot, so this is not really a problem here.
I remember a bunch of motorbikes on the hard shoulder under a bridge while I was passing with the wipers at maximum and still seeing close to nil.
Is this a bad thing? Definitely shouldn’t be driving during these conditions due to low visibility, high risk of significant damage leading to crash, etc.
How can this not be a problem for emergency vehicles and other cars in severe weather
(not to be rude, exaggerating for the point)
Yes, this is a bad thing. As you said, visibility is poor and then someone comes to a dead stop somewhere in front of you on an interstate or someplace where you don’t expect stopped traffic, that can also easily lead to a crash. In the event of heavy hail, you are supposed to slow down, not stop, try to use the exit and take cover in a safe place, preferably not in the flow of traffic.
Fuck yeah it is, are you joking?
If you ever think the conditions are too dangerous to drive in then you slowly pull over off the side of the road, you don’t block it for every other vehicle. Blocking a lane is exactly how you cause accidents.
This is just some egocentric shit.
Yes? That’s an obvious thing to do.
What’s it like, being the only person living in your world…? Lonely, but it’s nice winning every argument, i assume.
Pretty good, try it.
