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In case you didnt hear about THUNDERSNOW!!!1one.. It basically put the entire DC area into a multi-hour nightmare commute.
People in my office, left at 4pm, and what should have taken ~1hour, took 9.
I held off because I have been in this area long enough to know that unless you left before it started, you are stuck.
8pm, I give up, and decide to make a break for it. 45 minutes later I have turned my little Koup into a snowplow and have broken free of the unplowed parking lot. (literally the snow was higher then the bottom of the bumper. In that time, I truly figured out that the traction control on the Koup is WORTHLESS.
The entire rest of my drive home, was with NO traction control on at all.
I live 9 miles from work, GPS and Google confirm it.
Depending on the route, I can either direct shot down 495 and onto 395 or take a few other routes (side streets, alternate but parallel routes etc.), I KNEW 495 and ALL the major routes would be a parking lot, most of this area is transient and almost no one knows any routes beyond their main one and a backup route that everyone else knows too. Due to construction and bridges, I have to take part of these routes without a choice.
2 hours in, I decide to hunt for the most annoying music I can tolerate and begin to blast it while dancing like a retard in my car. To the point that people having rage fits literally stop mid scream and confused stare at me...
By this time, I decide that my 20k USD Koup is better then every single Mercedes, BMW and Lexus that I have passed or had to wait for because they were abandoned outright, or stuck having a burnout contest against themselves.
Finally I get to the area that I can break off and side street it on. Part of my brain at this point is reminding me of the fact that A. the snow is higher then the bottom of your bumper and B. you are NOT a 4x4. And then I pass another abandoned 4x4...
Ok, WTH, worst that happens is I sleep in my car, or I walk home. Side street I go, promptly followed by multiple cars of similar height (civic,camry, etc.) and a few trucks.
Who almost ALL get stuck. While I continue my ever so slow drive home.
I ended up literally driving around 4x4s, cars that cost 2-4x as much as the Koup, and Jeeps, who were stuck, abandoned, or spinning 4 tires like they were trying to break 100mph at a standstill.
Nearest that Google maps can figure out, because even it would not accept the route I put in, I drove 25 miles to go 9.
I walked in my door at midnight and was laughing still.
How does a car, that is FWD, with traction control OFF, drive AROUND Jeeps in 4x4 mode (assuming 4h) that are stuck?
Kia Forte Koup, it's also a snowplow!
People in my office, left at 4pm, and what should have taken ~1hour, took 9.
I held off because I have been in this area long enough to know that unless you left before it started, you are stuck.
8pm, I give up, and decide to make a break for it. 45 minutes later I have turned my little Koup into a snowplow and have broken free of the unplowed parking lot. (literally the snow was higher then the bottom of the bumper. In that time, I truly figured out that the traction control on the Koup is WORTHLESS.
The entire rest of my drive home, was with NO traction control on at all.
I live 9 miles from work, GPS and Google confirm it.
Depending on the route, I can either direct shot down 495 and onto 395 or take a few other routes (side streets, alternate but parallel routes etc.), I KNEW 495 and ALL the major routes would be a parking lot, most of this area is transient and almost no one knows any routes beyond their main one and a backup route that everyone else knows too. Due to construction and bridges, I have to take part of these routes without a choice.
2 hours in, I decide to hunt for the most annoying music I can tolerate and begin to blast it while dancing like a retard in my car. To the point that people having rage fits literally stop mid scream and confused stare at me...
By this time, I decide that my 20k USD Koup is better then every single Mercedes, BMW and Lexus that I have passed or had to wait for because they were abandoned outright, or stuck having a burnout contest against themselves.
Finally I get to the area that I can break off and side street it on. Part of my brain at this point is reminding me of the fact that A. the snow is higher then the bottom of your bumper and B. you are NOT a 4x4. And then I pass another abandoned 4x4...
Ok, WTH, worst that happens is I sleep in my car, or I walk home. Side street I go, promptly followed by multiple cars of similar height (civic,camry, etc.) and a few trucks.
Who almost ALL get stuck. While I continue my ever so slow drive home.
I ended up literally driving around 4x4s, cars that cost 2-4x as much as the Koup, and Jeeps, who were stuck, abandoned, or spinning 4 tires like they were trying to break 100mph at a standstill.
Nearest that Google maps can figure out, because even it would not accept the route I put in, I drove 25 miles to go 9.
I walked in my door at midnight and was laughing still.
How does a car, that is FWD, with traction control OFF, drive AROUND Jeeps in 4x4 mode (assuming 4h) that are stuck?
Kia Forte Koup, it's also a snowplow!
