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It's snowing! (Original Post) underpants Dec 2018 OP
get studded snow tires and then dont drive all winter samnsara Dec 2018 #1
Yeah... 2naSalit Dec 2018 #2
Hell yes! Glamrock Dec 2018 #3
Note underpants Dec 2018 #4
As if the grammar Nazis here on DU weren't bad enough. Glamrock Dec 2018 #5
! underpants Dec 2018 #6
We're you piloting sober TEB Dec 2018 #7
I might have been a little high Glamrock Dec 2018 #8
Yes underpants Dec 2018 #11
Ok 😂 TEB Dec 2018 #12
Back when I was a pagan trev Dec 2018 #9
It hasn't made it/won't make it to northern Virginia. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2018 #10
i used to love driving at night through snow orleans Dec 2018 #13

2naSalit

(86,798 posts)
2. Yeah...
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 10:27 AM
Dec 2018

wear polarized lenses in the day, you'll see a "tunnel" through it. At night, just slow down and watch for the side markers, use low beams! Don't forget where you are.

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)
3. Hell yes!
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 10:45 AM
Dec 2018

And suddenly I'm Han Solo. Piloting the Millenium Falcon. The Empire hot on my trail. Did I mention I made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs?

underpants

(182,884 posts)
4. Note
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 11:19 AM
Dec 2018

Parsecs are units of distance not time

par·sec
/ˈpärsek/Submit
noun
a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.26 light years (3.086 × 1013 kilometers). One parsec corresponds to the distance at which the mean radius of the earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc.

This was pointed out to me at a Star Wars viewing party once. The force was STRONG with those people.

trev

(1,480 posts)
9. Back when I was a pagan
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 04:08 PM
Dec 2018

… I used to practice a mental discipline we called "merging." It was a way of connecting our minds to other minds and to the Cosmos in general. I remember several times driving down the freeway in a blizzard at 70 mph, easily anticipating the decisions of the surrounding drivers. I knew what they were going to do before they did.

Light speed, indeed.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,617 posts)
10. It hasn't made it/won't make it to northern Virginia.
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 04:34 PM
Dec 2018

The temperature is 35 degrees F here. It feels cold enough, but it isn't. You get the snow this time. There's no precipitation here at all that I can tell.

orleans

(34,074 posts)
13. i used to love driving at night through snow
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 12:40 AM
Dec 2018

i'd turn on the brights so i could see the snow tunnel better as i drove through it

i loved it

now that i'm older i find night driving more of a pain in the ass -- not completely but it's harder now. so is driving thru snow tunnels. but i remember how much i loved it once

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