Was I the only one who had a Depends Undergarments ad play before the video would play?
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Letās hear it for the truck driver. It looks like, even in a seriously dangerous situation, s/he didnāt hit anyone. I wonder if they teach that move in truck driver grad school?
sweet merciful murgatroyd. i hope everyone was okā¦ thatās the scariest thing iāve seen all day. O_O
Look again. Thereās at least one wrecked car next to the trailer at 0:32, and it looks like there may be a second one on fire behind the first one.
I donāt believe that was a scripted move. Just total chaos on ice.
[quote=āunshaved_weirdo, post:17, topic:50297ā]
I donāt see black ice[/quote]
lol. Thatās why they call it āblackā ice ā¦
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I love that thereās almost a shoulder shrugging āhmmmā sound from the driver shooting, as if āhhmmm, here comes another oneā. I think heād have to shrug his shoulders regardless to shoot from that position.
[quote=āAcerPlatanoides, post:11, topic:50297ā]
Also caused two accidents at least, in the oncoming lane[/quote]
That wasnāt an oncoming lane - the cars were travelling the same way. I think the road had split a ways back, and the median barrier is there to make sure people donāt swerve across 8 lanes when they suddenly realise theyād made the wrong choice.
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It was only a B-double semi, theyāre small fry. Try sharing the road with an Aussie Outback BAB-Quad Road Train ā¦
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Thatās some pretty aggressive commenting right there.
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I change my assessment to ādriving too fast for the conditionsā.
Victim is a bit strong for a car crash unless the circumstances are known, donāt you think? Someone fell asleep at the wheel and crashed? Not paying attention? Texting? Theyāre hardly a victim in the donāt-blame-the-victim tradition.
Now, the person they crashed intoā¦ thatās something else.
Guy is pretty nonchalant. Is that a Russian accent?
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It was super icy conditions. I mean. Did you watch the video? That was pretty obvious. Google āblack iceā and get back to me.
I grew up in South Dakota, which does not stay temperate in the winter.
But I do not recall hearing the term āblack iceā used outside of Wm. Gibson books until a couple of years ago when my mother-in-law (Massachusetts) started warning me about it several times a week.
Meriam Webster, however, puts the first known use of āblack iceā to 1961.
A very few years after the interstate highway system was created, and with it the common availability of travel at speeds where one canāt easily stop or see the ice coming.
You mustāve lived in the sticks, because they mentioned it constantly on the news in the Twin Cities.
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Madison, SD, 30 miles from the MN border.
While MN mosquitos could fly that far, Twin Cities TV signals could not.
We had 4 channels - ABC, CBS and NBC out of Sioux Falls, and KESD (PBS) out of Brookings.
Some nights, if the clouds were right, I could get a ghost station or two out of Omaha.
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European/coastal elite calling - are there bits of the Dakotas that arenāt considered the sticks?
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