February Club Meeting Location

[GTRS Fiero]

You have peppers for lights?

[Fierofool]

I just messaged with Mike.   He cant log in but said to issue a snowcheck for Saturday the 15th.

[scottb]

No meeting?

[Fierofool]

Not today.

[Raydar]

Glad I checked in, again. Works for me.
Since the roads are supposedly covered with salt/brine, I didn't want to drive in it anyway. (Yes... I'm a rustophobe.)
Y'all be careful if you go out.

[The Art Doctor]

You have peppers for lights?

Yes I do, you can get the covers on eBay and add them to white Christmas lights.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/RED-CHILI-PEPPER-LIGHT-COVERS-PK-OF-20-NEW/383309839643?hash=item593f0bfd1b:g:AxYAAOSww~VdsfaI

[MikeMac]

I don't know how the weather was on the east and west sides but it was pretty bad north. My wife and I headed out from Ball Ground in different cars to meet some friends for breakfast in Cumming. I was going to continue on down to Atlanta for some errands and attend the meeting, the wife was going to return to Ball Ground and our friends were continuing to Gainesville. While we were in Cumming it was snowing pretty heavily the 2 hours we were there.

 Since the meeting rescheduled my wife and I headed home in the 2 cars. I'm driving on Hwy 372 and go around a curve and downhill and there is a full size long wheel base Dodge van in the right side ditch with the rest of the van blocking most of the road. I'm only running about 30MPH but touch the brakes and no traction. I slide down the hill with the anti lock working trying to get traction. Luckily I was able to slide by him in what remained of the left lane. My wife had the same issue but managed to get stopped. As I slid by I noticed his Damn New York tag. Why is it always the Northerners that end up wrecked when we have bad winter weather in Georgia? If I had a dollar for how many times I've seen this?

 Ice is ice no matter where you are. Before getting back home I passed 2 more accidents where cars had gotten together and in both instances there where cars with tags on the front bumper, if ya catch my drift. The friends headed to Gainesville were turned back by State Patrol in Dawson County.

[GTRS Fiero]

Replying to MikeMac:

Then those people from up north or the guys with 4-wheel drive who think they can drive in any snow come flying along at or near the speed limit and begin bouncing off things like a steel ball in a pinball machine.

When learning to drive, one of the things covered is the best practice of being able to stop when cresting a blind hill.  This is especially true during bad weather.  In general, losing control of a vehicle means the person was driving beyond their capabilities.

I have several trucks.  One of them just has no grip on wet or ice.  I believe the problem is the tires (which came with the truck).  The others have much better traction.

For any given snow here, most of the vehicles in the ditch are FWD or SUVs, although I did see a Camaro spin out recently.  Mostly, the RWD trucks and sports cars drive on by.  4WD is dangerous on ice--particularly certain setups.

[MikeMac]

My house at noon.

Edit:From my front porch to the houses across the street. There is a road in there somewhere. We still haven't been able to get the cars up the driveway!

[GTRS Fiero]

You can use that picture for your Christmas card cover.

[MikeMac]

A Fiero under there somewhere. My custom rear bumper!

[GTRS Fiero]

It looks like several inches of snow on there.

I don't see any ice.  Snow provides much better traction than ice.  If your vehicles are FWD, you can try backing them up the hill.  Be gentle and steady on the throttle.

My boss used to have an Aveo.  As much as I think those Daewoo products are junk, that Daewoo was awesome in the snow.  After several hundred miles, my boss traded the Aveo for a Nissan Versa.  The Versa is terrible in the snow.

[MikeMac]

Hopefully calling today's meeting until next week didn't  put anyone out. I knew the meeting location itself was clear but I had heard the area around Athens was bad and I knew that Gainesville was bad. We have regular members that come from both areas. Better safe than sorry?

 I had suggested in another thread that we go ahead and meet at the Duluth Diner since we have to advertise the new meeting date. Thoughts?

[GTRS Fiero]

It would be interesting to know if JR's closed yesterday, or not.  Just for future reference, if they closed, how much notice would the club have had?

[scottb]

Duluth Diner works for me