i lived between the laundry room, RA office, and head RA's room in barringer. it fuckin' sucked. i lived in slusher wing as a freshman, it was a much better experience.

 

I lived in West AJ freshmen year on the same floor as part of the "WELL" program (a bunch of straightedge wuss's) My RA was a straightedge hard-core redneck loser who in turn got me thrown out of school. If I see him again this fall I'm gonna find out where he lives, piss in a frisbee, and throw it into his dorm.

 

this has kinda gotten off topic, haha. but um, yea. i think in most of the cases of accidents happening during snow, having a set of snow tires will definitely help prevent accidents. in SOHC-T's case, sliding in the snow, that just means you don't get traction, so you slide. make sense, since he's running performance tires. if you hydroplane/slide in the rain, you can't expect your tires to not slide in the snow. i had snow tires on my rear wheels and whenever i started sliding, i could easily control it.

in 16g-95gsx's case, you just can't do shit about ice. if you hit ice, just pray for good luck, hehe.

wassup pj!! glad to see you joined drag, hehe. you shouldn't have to worry too much about snow. if my sportline-dropped s14 can make it through the mad snow we had last winter, i don't see how your prokit-dropped can't.

and dan, i have a ka so does pj btw. and tim, altho i don't think he's on drag. he lives in collegiate suites, drives an s13 hatch. dunno if you've seen it. but yea. anyways...

 

Snow does not cause accidents any more than matches burn down houses. Our society loves to blame things on external factors. The simple fact is, if you lose control of your car in the snow, unless there was some sort of mechanical failure (like a wheel fell off), it's probably your fault for one of three reasons:

1. You were driving too fast for conditions. Yes, 5-10 MPH can be too fast for conditions if it is very slippery.

2. You did not handle the car properly. This can include driving on roads that are unsafe in the snow, or that your car is not able to handle in the snow. It can also include not knowing how to handle a car in the snow, which I see a lot everytime it snows. Nobody is born knowing how to drive in the snow. There is no shame in not knowing, but if you are going to do it, you need to practice somewhere safe first so you can learn how to control a car properly even when it's very slippery.

3. You had improper equipment for the conditions. If you have 285 wide Z-rated tires, everybody knows you're going to have almost no traction in snow. You know this before you put the key in the ignition.

All three of these factors are under the control of the driver. And if the wheel DID fall off, you still didn't wreck because of the snow, you wrecked because the wheel fell off!

Someone else mentioned ice. I was not talking about ice, I was talking about snow. Black ice can be a different story because many times you simply cannot see it. If you said hitting a patch of black ice caused an accident, sure, I will accept that. But snow is pretty freaking obvious. I don't think anybody has ever not been aware they were driving on snow. So if you wreck your car in the snow, it's most likely your fault for one of the three reasons above.

For some reason many people in this part of the country do not know how to drive in the snow even though we get snow pretty regularly. It's amazing how many wrecks there are everytime it snows around here.

I don't say this to try and make you feel bad, but if you understand that you can control the situation and think ahead to steps you can take to prevent an accident, you won't have to keep getting into wrecks in the snow like so many other people.

 

i lived on the top floor of Lee (3 doors down from where that kid jumped) it was cool, my RA partied with us regularly

 

Usually it's the same people that go to the store and buy all the bread and milk whenever the weather forecast calls for a chance of snow.

First, I can only remember one time in my life (I'm 30 now) that it has snowed so much we couldn't get out of the house. And even then, it was only for 24 hours.

Second, why buy bread and milk? The 2 things that spoil the fastest....

 

beer is bettter......

 

I just wanna point out that my tires suck major ass in the snow. Being awd like I am you'd expect my car to be very good in the snow, but that is the exact opposite and I have a feeling the tires are to blame. That one day that I wrecked last semester was seriously the scariest driving experience ever (not the wreck itself as I'm really calm during that crap, but just the rest of the ride home cause the car was going all over the place and I was going way less than 1/2 the speed limit through the back roads). I nearly wrecked many times that trip, all while being extremely careful, but I completely agree that I believe tire selection is something that should be considered EXTREMELY. I use Toyo T1-S tires, which are great for both dry and wet conditions, but very apparently not snow.

 

all i have to say is PRITCHARD!!!!
that place was quite the experience and though i'm glad to be out of it i loved it.
and oh yes .... 24/7 cs was what it was all about

 

Damn, I was nice off my freshman year on campus. I lived in West Egg.