This beyond shady, but since the truck driver was white, he will get away scot-free instead of being arrested.
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This beyond shady, but since the truck driver was white, he will get away scot-free instead of being arrested.
Equation
Lieutenant General
Texas is the Lone Star state (because of it's state flag), not the "Longhorn" (that's the University of Texas mascot and nickname) state. But I agreed with you about the state poor government in handling any crisis. That's why the states ranked so poorly in public education, but hey...how bout dem high school football stadium the size and expense of some college football programs!
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
No, it's not shady. The road was covered in black ice; the truck was breaking but could not stop or even substantially slow down. A bystander who narrowly missed the accident said he got out of his car and almost fell on the ground cus it felt like he stepped onto an ice rink.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Since when did Soviet Russia have trouble with -20 degrees weather? In soviet Russian -20 is Wednesday.
No, its pretty shady. I live in Calgary. We have been at -20 for over 2 weeks straight (check the weather forecast if you dont believe me). Doesn't mean every single car on the road has gotten into an accident, far from it. I didn't even put on my winter tires this year and I am fine. I just find it curious that media isn't even questioning what happened. Jeez, seems alot like state-controlled media in china doesn't it?
Since -20 C is rare in the south, Southern States don’t have the massive fleet of plow trucks and salt trucks like Canucks do,
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Yeah, what @vincent said. The Southern US sees snow like once every few years and it's even rarer when it can become ice. When I was in NYC, there was snow everywhere up to your chest piled on the sides of streets and salt trucks, plows all over the streets and everything's going forward as usual. In Georgia, forget about it. We had some snow in 2014 or something and the roads were literally littered with abandoned cars that couldn't go up hills or wouldn't dare drive anymore and there wasn't even that much snow. Conditions iced over and the city was paralyzed; driving was for crazy people. I biked and I had a nice road bike that could climb like a billy goat with its racing tires so I was passing people stuck in their cars and giving them the Woody Woodpecker laugh the whole way LOL. (But I sure as hell wasn't gonna go downhill.) Anyway, that truck had no chance if it was doing 60mph+ and the speed limits in Texas get to 75mph on the interstates.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The funny thing about Oakland Chinatown... it is across the street from the Oakland Police Department headquarters. I believe where that incident everyone has seen happened was a block away.
I totally agree. A few years ago I drove back from West Coast to New York passing through a Winter snow storm in the Midwest. I was driving a Suburban with 4WD and snow tires and there was virtually no traction at all. When I got to the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado, you see cars go out of control in front of you every minute or two. A common mistake is to pump the brake too often as you stop'n'go. Once I was driving uphill and there was a pile-up in front, I stopped and turned my wheel then felt my car sliding backwards. Thank God there was no car behind me. Lucky for me, the storm was so bad that no one could go faster than 20 - 30 mph. I hope it was an once-in-a-lifetime experience.