What a storm !

redneck grrrl

redneck grrrl

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I thought if a traffic signal was out you treated it like a four way stop, has this changed?

Storm hit about 4:15 yesterday afternoon and the office closed up shop. Most left then, I waited it out right where I was. I knew my kids were safe and if a tree was going to fall on my house it would happen if I was there or not. The drive home was interesting.

this tree just missed the Doctors parking area
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one of many on my drive home.
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redneck grrrl said:
if a tree was going to fall on my house it would happen if I was there or not.
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Quoted for truth!

redneck grrrl said:
I thought if a traffic signal was out you treated it like a four way stop, has this changed?
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I thought traffic lights had some kind of battery backup that would default to flashing yellow for the main thoroughfare and flashing red for side streets. But they were working on some power lines near my work last week and there were 3 intersections with the lights totally out. It looked like a planned outage, and this was on Tryon street in southwest Charlotte, so it was turning into a real backed up mess with no police in sight to direct traffic.
 
i believe they have to have power to flash, and they switch to that when the traffic information signal or equip is down.

There are still a number of lights in Hickory that are down this morning, as well as power outages Im sure. Heard that many roads North of town are still closed because of trees being down.
 
Got a bit dicey out my way too...several downed trees across roadways.

As for traffic lights being out...I coulda sworn those little driver's ed books said treat it like 4 way stop.
 
UTfball68 said:
As for traffic lights being out...I coulda sworn those little driver's ed books said treat it like 4 way stop.
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x2.

On a similar note, What moron started telling people that they need to run flashers when its raining. It seems like I see more and more idiots driving in the rain, at/near the speed limit, with their flashers on.
 
It ran through my area (columbia) yesterday between noon and 3pm. It got pretty rowdy. Had a tree fall but that was about it. The swamp got rocked pretty good though.
 
We got hit pretty bad! Supposedly a twister touched down but I believe it was extremely high winds... tons of trees uprooted but not moved
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The driving-with-flashers-on thing is something people are told to do when visibility is super bad, like thick fog or heavy snowfall or really heavy rain, just to increase chances people will see you. Or, if for some reason you are driving much slower than traffic.
But obviously if visibility is that bad, you should be driving slow.
 
Old apple farmer up the road told me he had dumped an inch out of his 6 inch rain gauge then later dumped it again as it over flowed. Thats over 7 inches here. Josh1 and i spent 5 hours in the driveway. It was after dark before anything but a lifted 4x4 could cross our creek. Had to bring in the wifes and kids in jeeps leaving their cars and suvs sitting on the other side. lotsofun
 
Cleveland county was hit pretty hard--the town of Lawndale took a sizable hit.
we live near shadyside dragway and thank goodness we didn't have anything but limbs down.
 
Loganwayne said:
It rained the river came up but didn't come outta the banks


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oh bullshit, I was talking to you on the phone and told you it came out near Wells Rd.
 
RatLabGuy said:
The driving-with-flashers-on thing is something people are told to do when visibility is super bad, like thick fog or heavy snowfall or really heavy rain, just to increase chances people will see you. Or, if for some reason you are driving much slower than traffic.
But obviously if visibility is that bad, you should be driving slow.
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I thought thats what headlights and taillights are for... Its funny that all this driving with flashers has only started mostly in the last few years... I guess as the general public becomes dumber you must do what you can to protect them from each other.
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
I thought thats what headlights and taillights are for... Its funny that all this driving with flashers has only started mostly in the last few years... I guess as the general public becomes dumber you must do what you can to protect them from each other.
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Pretty sure its the same people in silver and gray cars who DON'T run their headlights in fog or misty rain.
 
Bethlehem NC got hammered. I grew up there. Many neighbors have calasped houses from trees. My childhood friend had around fifty a cross his drive. Hugo was like 80.
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Houses are under or behind this stretch of road. Alot of my extended family received various damage. 7 households total. Luckily the worst is a blown down shed and barn damge. The rest trees, windows, and a cousins dodge truck got a door kicked in by some random debris.
Lucky considering I saw several houses crushed by trees.
 
RatLabGuy said:
The driving-with-flashers-on thing is something people are told to do when visibility is super bad, like thick fog or heavy snowfall or really heavy rain, just to increase chances people will see you. Or, if for some reason you are driving much slower than traffic.
But obviously if visibility is that bad, you should be driving slow.
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That's illegal in the Democratic People's Republic of Maryland.

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This is yalls NC rain flooding the new river! Had to try for some monster large mouths but was lil to high today!!
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paradisePWoffrd said:
I thought thats what headlights and taillights are for... .
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You can't see headlights from behind somebody, and yellow cuts through fog etc better than red.

I'm just saying this is what our neighbors kid was told in his driving class. In the right conditions/scenario, it does make sense.

They were also told, "if you need to stop hard, just press and hold the brakes, the traction control will studder it for you..."
 
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