In Finland we call days like these either monday, or tuesday.

@natureportal9285

4 жыл бұрын

Though sometimes wensday

@warshipguy2005

4 жыл бұрын

Here in Canada it's 7 or 8 months out of the year. 6 months if your lucky.

@venialgaming4295

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called half of the year for me

@henrycollins2478

3 жыл бұрын

Upstate New York, about 6 months, had 24 inches last year. It was fun, my dad went to work and my mom was a teacher so she was home with me. It was fun to look out side and see more snow than most days

@AlfaGiuliaQV

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, a normal weekday in late spring. signalling a change to summer tyres.

The story of my SLOWEST over the road driving average

@ismethebibil3759

5 жыл бұрын

Ed Bolian man you’re the best💯💯

@JpWi

5 жыл бұрын

Ed Bolian it was the most technical I’ve ever done. I did it in a 1997 2 wheel drive stick shift open diff pickup truck coming home from out of state. I creatively made new driving laws as needed knowing if I stopped, I would never get moving again. Ended up on the wrong side of the road, through yards, etc. but made it without incident 🤘

@blinkyd4952

5 жыл бұрын

👀 Get a Subaru just in case it happens again 😂

@jamesmanning4346

5 жыл бұрын

I Remember this day

@javansarmiento7151

5 жыл бұрын

Ed Bolian We had a very similar event in Portland, Oregon when I worked in sales at vw dealership. Everyone was on the highways, took many hours to get home when normally 30 mins. I have picture and video of cars littered everywhere on the side of the road. Good times !

"we weren't scared, the car was gonna work..." *laughs in range rover*

@Anirossa

5 жыл бұрын

Well, it's part Fiat so you never know

@Galf506

5 жыл бұрын

@@Anirossa Only part that would make it more reliable! (Seriously part Fiat? Didn't know lol)

@toad3222

4 жыл бұрын

@@Galf506 you'd be shocked how spread out some parts bins of cars are

@FODteam

3 жыл бұрын

First snow here this year dropped 2'6" and had 3' drifts. Ol jeep didnt let me down at all.

Ed: “Because we knew we had enough gas, and the car was going to work.” Every Range Rover ever: “Them’s fightin words, son!”

@nolan122

4 жыл бұрын

Cjbarker2 I read that in the Russell crow voice from southpark from some reason

@KristofferEk

4 жыл бұрын

it's true though if you find a rangerover or landrover with an engine and transmition in a barn or junk jard ods arr you only need to put some oil and gas in it and it would be posible to drive it right out of there.

@kurogane2638

4 жыл бұрын

@@KristofferEk pfffft lol

@slr7628

4 жыл бұрын

That has not been my experience at all lol I used to love them as a kid but quickly switched to Toyota 4x4 for off road needs

@ianrichardson3228

4 жыл бұрын

@@slr7628 At about 9yo I built a trolley L-R, I drove one in my first job, the business had 3 which were unreliable at any mileage. Now I've had 30 continuous years of trouble free Toyota 4X4 ownership. "There is only 1 Land-Rover. But there are millions of Toyotas". And we know why! ;-)

2 inches of snow?lmao that's barely wet roads.😂🌨

@bradnoyes7955

5 жыл бұрын

2 inches of snow is nothing, 2 inches of snow on top of ice is completely different.

@RaininPayne2

5 жыл бұрын

Problem is, the DOT doesn’t have the equipment to handle it down here.

@jacobmatthew5597

5 жыл бұрын

GABRIEL down here in Texas we’ve never heard of the word snow

@Cjbarker2

5 жыл бұрын

In NC, snow is fine, but it’s the ice and lack of competent scraping crews that make it a headache. The further south you go, the crazier it gets.

@goldstarchoice

5 жыл бұрын

It was frozen rain under the layer of snow.

Yea we don't do snow too well here in the south hahahaha. Side note. We just listened to 12 minutes of Ed talking about being in traffic. That's testament to his story telling abilities

@kevintucker3354

5 жыл бұрын

Lol... Damn straight, we ALL just listened to Ed talk about living in the south...

@Emperor_Dolan

5 жыл бұрын

You should see northern Wisconsin in winter.

@Black_Jesus3005

5 жыл бұрын

Dude could read a dictionary and I’d watch and listen. 🤣

@manydman

5 жыл бұрын

ed is the only person that could replace one of the boys from GT ( Clarkson, May, Hammond ) This man can talk about anything car related and we all swoon over it.

@matthoye4974

4 жыл бұрын

Ed is a dude that has driven everything imaginable, gone to Lamborghinis driving school in Italy and yet the "craziest driving day of ed's life" is a all about 2 inches of snow! Lol

Is it just me.... Or does every one of Ed's stories involve a waffle House at some point?? 🤣

@GreenJeep1998

5 жыл бұрын

He is in the South, not sure if there are many stories from that part of the country that don't involve the Waffle House.

@embarkingolive

4 жыл бұрын

Waffle house or shrewd negotiations.

@Draco8573

4 жыл бұрын

everyone from Georgia has stories about waffle house. And usually the late night waffle house stories are the strangest.

@obsidian00

4 жыл бұрын

Keeping It Keith Have you been to a Waffle House?! Everything starts/stops with a Waffle House down here...Mmmmm...waffles!

@rubeclayton8233

3 жыл бұрын

Back when I Was a Trucker I Had Dropped Off My Trailer In Atlanta and Bob Tailed Up The Road To A Waffle House... After I Ate .. I Went Back to The Truck And Was Surfing The Web On My Computer ... When I Heard Gun Shots... There In The Front of Me ... About 40 feet away was a Shootout Right in The Waffle House Parking Lot... Then a Short Time Later... Lots Of Cops and Paramedics....

As a fellow GA resident, I surely remember the "snowmaggedon" lmao. I was in my sophomore year of highschool, and pretty much everyone didn't make it home except for my bus. Fortunately my bus had a driver that was used to driving in this kind of weather, and we made it home just fine. Everyone else however, either had to sleep over at the school, or wait for their parents to barely be able to pick them up. After I made it home, I hopped on my ATV and had a hell of a day. Doing doughnuts all over the street, driving my friends place to place, snow sledding off of my big ass driveway, man that was a fun time.

Most employers: "You're still coming in right?"

@brendancrawford2894

5 жыл бұрын

Most employees: "we're already here"

@JAMESWUERTELE

5 жыл бұрын

I was going to say I have no excuse for being late, I’ve got a power plant to run.

@SJDMS87

5 жыл бұрын

@@brendancrawford2894 yes sir never left kept working there's a lot of OT

@FlorecentTurtle

5 жыл бұрын

waffle house employees: "...Hello Mr. Bolian! How bout this weather we are having."

@joshlarochelle1298

5 жыл бұрын

Ralph Evangelista this isn’t even bad weather.

It was so bad Kimmie had a jacket on 😂. Great vid. Remember this one well .

@TOUGHTATERTOT

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@BCaldwell

5 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for 9/2........

@lparker3484

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣

@dans6162

5 жыл бұрын

lollllll

@keatonsmith9694

5 жыл бұрын

I’m dead 💀

"I climed into my white Esca'lade, and I went to the safest place I could think of, the Interstate" -Buford Calloway 2014

Rob Pitts voice“This is a Rover”

“A dumpster fire of a driving experience” Lmaoooooooo

Southern snow storms. God's way of entertaining us Yankees in January.

@raider5231

4 жыл бұрын

Well, snow is one thing. It's not that bad. It's the the fact that under that snow we usually have a layer of ice because it melts and re-freezes, that's what makes it so difficult

@coolzr573

4 жыл бұрын

@@raider5231 um that's everywhere in the north for like 3-5 months. hell farther north truckers drive on roads made of ice.

@raider5231

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolzr573 but like you said you get it 3-5 months a yeah we might get it 1-2 days a year

@FXIIBeaver

4 жыл бұрын

And watching all the transplants from the north "drive" in this weather is hilarious.

@slightlycrookedworkshop

4 жыл бұрын

When I was in HS, 20ish years ago, we moved from Massachusetts to Charlotte in the winter. They got about an inch of snow, school was cancelled and we had no clue why. My dad still went into work because it was an inch of snow. He was the only one in the office and barely stayed a half day. My mom tried to go to the store but almost everything was closed. We soon found out that, back then at least, even the threat of snow shuts the entire city down.

Midwesterners laughing everywhere

As a Canadian, I find this story hilarious. Your icepocalypse is what we would call a light dusting.

Watching southerners drive in the snow. Priceless.

@murraypeacock9316

5 жыл бұрын

TheCannonball79 I’m a westerner, Wyoming, who lives in the south. I’ve also lived in Chicago and DC. Northerners can’t drive any better in the first snowfall either.

@luketeverino6085

5 жыл бұрын

*ice 3” of sheer ice. But yeah I agree people didn’t know how to drive and it sucked driving around them

@willgantt3546

5 жыл бұрын

I mean I completely get this no one knows how to drive down here but that day it doesn’t matter who you are you can’t just drive on ice there’s a difference

@0DaddyDan

5 жыл бұрын

It was not taught in the driving school I went to. Its Florida no snow dont worry about it said our instructor. At some point in our lives some of us may travel and need to know more than just drive slow.

@C-M-E

5 жыл бұрын

Hell, most people in Texas freak out when it rains. Take this into consideration when we got 14" of snow here one year, in April... I have it on good authority that the DFW area was sharing a sanding truck prior to this event.

Lol being an upstate New Yorker this is funny to listen to😂😂

@12theman345

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah michigander here laughing in all weather tires and 2 to 3 feet of snow.

@Bliggity

5 жыл бұрын

Being from Chattanooga this is funny to listen to. We have plows and briners but we are 2 hours north.

@xxx_codgod_xxxcod2755

5 жыл бұрын

Yep north Idaho guy here laughing here too

@sharitastinson109

5 жыл бұрын

I'm from Philly, so u know I'm laughing😂😂😂😂

@Tiwill0V2

5 жыл бұрын

Laughing from Quebec Canada, we get between 2-5Metres of snow every years, there isn't a single day that roads don't look like that xD p.s. it's so bad that most all season tire are illegal here you NEED to have real winter tires or all season tires made for winter(with the winter logo) and it's legit a good thing because driving on ice and snow, you NEED to have good tires they salt the roads but most times it snow faster than they can salt the roads xD

I’m from upstate New York and it is very fun to listen to how southerners react to winter weather

2in of snow 😂 In Canada people are still going 120kph with that on the road with a timmies in our hands haha

@knuckleberry4720

5 жыл бұрын

in upstate new york to lol good day neighbor

@coolzr573

4 жыл бұрын

120kph what is that like 15mph

@techoutsider2801

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Burton are people from the US that dumb? 75mph lol

@coolzr573

4 жыл бұрын

@@techoutsider2801 let me know when you make it to the moon with that metric!!!!!!

@sigh.sy.s

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolzr573 doesn't NASA use metric. And haven't tons of countries gone to space using metric...

I’m surprised this isn’t about, Ed drifting his Lamborghini in the snow.

@HighMagnitudeGT

5 жыл бұрын

Okie TC you need to, learn how use commas

@okietc1889

5 жыл бұрын

HighMagnitudeGT im surprised you clearly can’t see it and a period

@ChudMoney_

5 жыл бұрын

Trust me dude I, see the comma and period.

@okietc1889

5 жыл бұрын

Bryces , cool.

@elijahfranks4495

5 жыл бұрын

@@okietc1889 Lmfao that's not how commas work

You know ur from the south when they talk about "Scraping the Roads"

@jackielinde7568

5 жыл бұрын

Isn't "scraping the road" what they do when the Roadkill Cafe puts in another order for meat?

@louisyork1894

4 жыл бұрын

Woody Balto yup. I’m from the south and I’ve heard that term my entire life 😂

@chrisstromberg6527

4 жыл бұрын

You don’t scrape a road you plow it.

I was one of those National Guard guys, hahahaha

God: I have 2 inchs of more snow, imma put it on atlanta Atlanta: AHHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHHHHHHHHHHH SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

@VINwiki

4 жыл бұрын

Accurate

I'm from northern Canada so this is hilarious to listen too

@OneMouseGaming

5 жыл бұрын

keep in mid that the roads were covered in 1/2 inch of solid ice, then this heavy snow fall that ramps up throughout the day. This resulted in bosses being ahh crap we have to get people out of here at around the same time. The atlanta area and the area of the ring road are very hilly and people were stalling out on the ice under the snow,not the snow itself. Hope this gives a little perspective. The cars on fire were from idiots that tried to brute force their way up the fall line of the hill instead of driving in the shoulder/median anywhere that was not a hockey rink. add in worn all season most likely snow tires and it was a cluster.

@OneMouseGaming

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrNiddster 100 percent funny, i was in eastern NC for this storm and it happened in Raleigh as well, same geography and terrain changes around the capital. Just wanted to add some additional insight. It was nuts and i was glad that i did not drive that day.

@dafirnz

5 жыл бұрын

Canada, where showing up to work 5 minutes late because of a blizzard is unacceptable.

@Anirossa

5 жыл бұрын

For me as a Norwegian as well, lol

@stephenholthe

5 жыл бұрын

Yup! It definitely is. Im from Southern Alberta and for some ridiculous reason I thought daily driving an MR2 Turbo mid January was a good idea.... Then a few years later I bought a CTS RWD and daily drove it with all seasons through 2-3 feet of snow for that entire winter! It always brings a smile to my face to see how unprepared and uneducated most drivers in other parts of the US are!

Omg an inch of snow! I live in Wisconsin and I drove through Atlanta during a dusting of snow and it was insane! I never knew so many ppl could have no common sense. Ppl either drove 4 mph on the interstate or 90, neither is proper etiquette in snow

@fishstickparty

5 жыл бұрын

Same in Arizona when the monsoon hits. Flash floods everywhere people either completely stopped on the highway or going 90 through 2 feet of water.

@abramspearman9046

5 жыл бұрын

OJ just moved to Tucson. Have yet to see a monsoon.

@fishstickparty

5 жыл бұрын

@@abramspearman9046 weather is more predictable and mild in Tucson

@dan-5678

5 жыл бұрын

Same back when I lived in Tennessee for a couple years! Lol

@goofyleo3869

5 жыл бұрын

Green Bay checking in, here. 😎

Lol I was a freshman in Hs when this happened there were literally people stranded on 285 because of 2inches of snow. Many people abandoned their cars until roads were salted and Ice was melted

I love how he has photo evidence for every story

Driving though Atlanta any day of the week isn’t much better

@draxvelo2788

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah people don’t know how to drive

Need to come up to Michigan in January and drive some back roads where the plows don't come

@rds990

5 жыл бұрын

MINNESOTA !!

@brendancrawford2894

5 жыл бұрын

Backroads think about subdivisions they don't plow those until about noon they only plow them if it's a bus route.

@zanegallaher1626

5 жыл бұрын

I know and you get 8 inches of snow and works like hey can you get here 15 minutes early?

@Emperor_Dolan

5 жыл бұрын

I had to drive a rear wheel drive mail truck in northern Wisconsin in the winter. Not fun.

@JoshuaBrown-is8fb

5 жыл бұрын

I love unplowed roads! Go Iowa! 😂

Me: *looks out the window* Only 2 inches of snow Me: Where the F is the rest of the snow?

I consider myself lucky, and was well prepared for that day. Something told me to prepare for inclement weather that morning. We were dismissed from work about 1:00pm that afternoon, I stayed and ate my lunch that I had brought with me that day. Listening to coworkers and reports that the roads were getting clogged with people going nowhere. My belly was full and I left Kennesaw at 1:30. After traveling about a half mile I abandoned my vehicle at 3:05pm in a Rooms To Go parking lot and walked home down US 41 south 7 miles. I made it home at 5:30pm. Truly an apocalyptic scene passing hundreds if not thousands of vehicles just sitting idling not going anywhere. I will never forget that day.

Range rover should be paying you for this video

@olof5428

4 жыл бұрын

littraly any car with resonable power and correct tires could do that

@macbook802

4 жыл бұрын

Range Rover can't afford to pay its own bills.

Bolian and Pitts 2020

@LouisSubearth

5 жыл бұрын

Make Atlanta ready for Snow?

@vivekdarji9053

5 жыл бұрын

@Andrew Smith maybe...dont be so confident

@DocBryson

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, please. That would be amazing. VP Rabbit would be selling used pickup trucks from the Situation Room in his spare time.

@caseyhogan2142

4 жыл бұрын

Raise the speed limits! Curb incompetence on the roadway

"The roads are bad so let's take the highway" Never understood this logic.

@toad3222

4 жыл бұрын

Unless your on a motorbike it's truly a stupid idea

@octorokpie

4 жыл бұрын

It makes sense in non-urban places with bad winters and good road crews. I'd take I-70 through the mountains in a blizzard long before US 34 or even hwy 6.

Southerners speaking about winter reminds me of a video of Quebec guys watching a France news report about 2cm of snow and how roads will be paralyzed for a week. I was cracking up because over here we have to deal with insane amounts of snow, so it’s always hilarious to listen to

Great story! I can say, with some authority, it will be a VERY long time before this happens again. I’m a meteorology major, and have been a storm chaser for the better part of 25 years. The weather event that generated this story was a hot topic of discussion within the professional weather enterprise for the rest of that year. After this event in the southeast, the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, AL, then headed by Meteorologist-In-Charge Jim Stefkovich, began a dialogue and a closer working relationship with the Alabama DOT so forecasters working shifts and issuing public forecasts can better understand the ice accretion process on roadways under colder-than-normal conditions for the region. This has been in effect copied by other NWS offices in the southeast, and there is now a much better understanding of the conditions that generate flash freezes on roads. Sorry for the long comment, but it is very rare that the two things I’m most passionate about, weather and cars, comes to the surface.

@mitchellroberts7954

5 жыл бұрын

meteorology major lol totally lost credibility when you thought it was a good idea to say that

@MatthewSchiess

5 жыл бұрын

Mitchell Roberts Well, I’m just being honest. To be fair though, I’ve been studying weather for the better part of 25 years, being a storm chaser for 20 of those. I have a passion for not only the weather, but the communication process that happens around major weather events. Since the Super Outbreak of 2011 in Alabama, I’ve started following what has been going on down there in terms of how people communicate and what people do with said communication. Sooo, there’s that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@coolzr573

4 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewSchiess meteorologist the only profession where you are expected to be wrong. tell me its not going to rain all day i'm still taking some rain gear with me.

@lelouchvibritannia1788

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolzr573 that's weird

I spent 13.5 hours in a car that day. Drove 7 miles... left work at 12:30PM and got home at 2 am after wrecking and walking home a mile.

@ATLFUNKCARTEL

5 жыл бұрын

anonymous Acura TL-s in Lenox road. 3 inch thick sheet of ice on the hill past Marta. Car hit the curb but surprisingly no real damage, just couldn’t drive it up the hill after.

@isaac-qn6qb

5 жыл бұрын

ATLFUNKCARTEL did u like ur TL. Thinking about picking up a 3rd gen

@sahilthegreat_

5 жыл бұрын

Isaac i had one. They’re eh. They’re a good daily driver. But they’re not good performance wise.

@ATLFUNKCARTEL

5 жыл бұрын

​@@isaac-qn6qb I had a a 2nd gen. Was 03 silver with black interior and black woodgrain, liked it a lot for an automatic. The only issue with that generation is there is a defective engineered part inside the transmission. It's about $35, but if left alone, eventually deteriorates and causes the transmission to break and you will have to ultimately replace it. I spent $2500 on mine. Definitely want to do your diligence on the transmission. Can't tell you much about the 3rd gen, but I'm sure there is plenty of material online.

Ed: “We picked up two girls in work out clothes”. Honey I promise there was no one else to help them 😏.

Ed just described a regular winter day in Chicago

Indeed.. my dad had to pick my mom up on 285 using a four wheeler.

@sharitastinson109

5 жыл бұрын

NOOOO!!! Really

My favorite part of this video is when he says it’ was only 2 inches of snow😂😂

@brendancrawford2894

5 жыл бұрын

2 inches of snow pfff when I see that I speed more.

@LimkoGaming

5 жыл бұрын

Nw ga got way more than what he is saying lol atlanta didnt get much but theydid get alot of ice

@rockerman45

5 жыл бұрын

plus the few inches of ICE under the snow

@brendancrawford2894

5 жыл бұрын

@@rockerman45 that makes it more interesting.

@coolzr573

4 жыл бұрын

@@rockerman45 in the north truckers drive on roads made of ice. what's your point

Living in Pittsburgh PA myself, I’m here to tell you that when it starts to freezing rain, followed by a dusting of snow, even in northern areas that are prepared for it, it is one of the worst driving situations ever. So I can understand a city that just flat out isn’t prepared to even think about it going down hill quickly in that situation.

One of my favourite stories so far!

I definitely have this day etched in my memory, it took me 11 hours to get home. Everywhere inside of 285 was complete insanity.

@LuckyFoxes789

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! I also remember the famed blizzard of 93!

@mathiso01

5 жыл бұрын

Took me eight hours for a twenty minute trip. I finally parked at a Auto Zone and walked the two hours home. Passed hundreds of people not moving and cars sliding down the huge hill going into my neighborhood. Except a front wheel drive 1980's Honda Accord. It went up that hill no problem.

@coolzr573

4 жыл бұрын

​@@mathiso01 the driver of that accord was probably from the north

We saw this from MN and had a pretty good chuckle.

That Land Rover being the best 4x4 by far joke was hilarious

Here in New Hampshire 2" of snow on the road barely even catches our attention. It's fascinating to see what an impact this kind of weather has on people in places where it's not normal weather so there's no real preparation for it. Kudos to Ed for his acts of kindness during this crisis. We all know he's an awesome guy, and this proves it!

Every time I'm reminded that Ed is a dad I automatically wonder if the next generation is also establishing "Bolian clauses" because they keep finding ways around the teachers' rules.

Hearing this story makes me glad that im from Norway and had to learn how to drive in terrible winter storms and extremely cold weather

@klasmvm4966

4 жыл бұрын

not the same thing in any way but ok

ed I loved how you slip little tid bits in your stories! This video delivered as well, with you telling us your wife never has fuel in your vehicle. lol.

having spent all 21 years of my life in Minnesota and now going to university in North Dakota, I find this incredibly funny. If we get 2 feet of snow up here in a blizzard they MIGHT delay classes for a couple hours

A VinWiki story a day keeps the police at bay

@ravagingx8172

5 жыл бұрын

You’re everywhere stfu

Ed is a Good Man! Not everyone will tell a story knowing that 90% of the comments are gonna be from those making fun of you and your neighbors.

@corey8704

4 жыл бұрын

I'm outside Atlanta and even I thought it was funny as hell. The news said to stay home. Idiots went out anyway. People were interviewed asking why they were out and most were stupid reasons like "getting donuts"

Coming from Montreal, I can’t stop laughing at this. I’m sorry 😂

"We weren't scared cause we knew we had enough gas" -said nobody in a land rover ever

These are the kinds of stories that get laughs from those of us who are northeast born-and-raised. :P But at the end of the day, it's a whole different ballgame when you're not prepared for it, like we are. Thanks for sharing, Ed!

It sound like a range Rover commercial lol

As someone who has lived in Michigan my whole life, I love hearing southerners talk about snow 😂

Crazy he was able to sell a lambo in that situation

Last time I was this early Ed was renting exotics from his college dorm.

@LouisSubearth

5 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early, Ed was still filming prank videos in college.

I remember this day vividly. Great time in Atlanta

Its genuine entertainment as a northerner watching southerners struggle with whats to us an average winter day

I live in Bulgaria and when I was a kid i used to do 150km/h (94mp/h) on the main road to Serbia during my first winter driving in 10 cm snow (about 4 inches) and I cound feel and counter every slide. Thats why it's unbelievable to me to hear tons of people unable to go uphill on a highway.

Drove an Infiniti g35 to and all over Vermont multiple times going snowboarding in the middle of winter on summer tires really dont understand how this was so bad

Anchorage, AK here... I have no words for this just crying laughing emojis so have some of those 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2 inches 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@allysonand

4 жыл бұрын

There's a big difference between driving on snow when it's 10 degrees outside or driving on ice when it's 30°. You Alaska boys have it easy

@NikkyElso

4 жыл бұрын

@@allysonand meanwhile in Anchorage right now: 50 degrees and driving on icy slush. I should post my dash cam footage to KZread 😂

New best line..... “Dumpster-fire of a driving experience “ !!!!! Lol I literally had to stop the video and replay it HAHAHA 😂

Lol, it's the weather you're not used to that gets you in trouble; rain in the desert, drought in the jungle, heat up north and snow in the south.

I find this so hilarious, being from Indiana, where we normally get 5-8 inches of snow and maybe an inch of ice in January, and last year the temperature dropped to -35 Fahrenheit.

New Ed!! The day is now complete!

I’m not sure what I love more about this channel, the car stories or the fact a lot of these are based out of Atlanta which is like my backyard

Ed, it was precisely the same issue here in the Birmingham area of Bama. It took me roughly 10 hours to get home from work that day, with some of that time spent helping rescue people, push cars, stopping at a shelter to regroup with family, etc. But it was definitely one day that will live on in history. Lots of people just don't realize that down here in the South, we don't have snow and ice enough to have the infrastructure of ice preparedness, such as sand or salt trucks, snow plows, and so on. Thankful for all the good people that helped that day, though

ATL looked liked the road to Baghdad ! 😬 Tennessee is the same way as Georgia with snow. I remember as a kid they would cancel school if it was snowing in Arkansas.

@jackielinde7568

5 жыл бұрын

Hey. I remember they would do that, too. Except Pulaski county would still make me walk to school if it stopped snowing. Yeah, Arkansas was not my favorite place to be. Thank goodness I was only there for three years because my dad was in the USAF.

@GreenJeep1998

5 жыл бұрын

If you get the chance, look for pictures of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago during the '67, '79, and 2011 winters, makes the pictures Ed posted look laughable.

You know what you call that in Chicago just a regular afternoon in the winter

Such good memory, i need to get my story telling skills up to par.

I remember this day well. Absolute pandemonium. I made the decision to leave my car in the safety of the parking deck at work and walk 10 miles home to Dunwoody. It was one of the best decisions of my life. It was very decent of you to go back and rescue those school kids.

Georgia: winter is hard. Michigan: hold my craft beer.

“Scraping the road” We call it plowing, not scraping.

@rockerman45

5 жыл бұрын

scraping a few inches of solid ice yes

@klasmvm4966

4 жыл бұрын

two different things

Am I the only one that hears this story and realizes Ed is a seriously good person? It seemed like he helped anyone he could.

Ed is a hero for getting all those kids and people home

We do have Salt trucks. The best time to rob a bank. My 4x4 Tahoe was amazing.

Thanks for the great Range Rover sales pitch Ed 😂

Good job Ed, sounds like you were running a “snow taxi”...😉👍

I didn't grow up in Georgia, but went to school in Savannah. I was connecting through the Atlanta airport on my way back to Savannah. This was mid January 2011 and I happen to be in the first plane to be grounded in the rare snowstorm. One place ahead in the line of planes and we would have taken off. I fell asleep on the plane (something I never do) and woke up thinking we were in Savannah when, in fact, I was stuck in Atlanta. Ended up being 3 days of sleeping in the airport. After our next planned flight was cancelled too, me and about 8 other people at the gate pooled together and rented a couple cars and drove back to Savannah. I now live in Utah and that same amount of snow does nothing to us. We just go about our day.

“Four by four by far”

I now know to watch out for Georgia plates come wintertime.

@dGxZ3R0

4 жыл бұрын

Just look out for Georgia plates in general. At least where i live in GA the amount of stupid stuff I see people doing on the road still, somehow, amazes me.

Awesome you went back out to help others!

Awesome story Ed

Half the reason we love Ed's stories is that we know he is the exception to the rule of Used Car Salesmen. Your a good man, Ed.

2 inches of snow is just a light dusting here in Michigan.

@troyandrade435

6 күн бұрын

But let's be honest here, when we get a light dusting, people are still spinning out left and right!

Born & raised in Michigan. I worked for Bombardier corporate (Wisconsin & Montreal) for over a decade. In 2014 I had lived in ATL for almost 10 years. I went to work that morning on the 28th floor of a downtown Atlanta high-rise and thought nothing of it. Around Noon it started coming down. It looked like rain at first, until I could see the black two-tracks through slush on the streets below, and the vibe in the building changed quickly. It went from being a fun novelty-type feeling, to what I'd expect people to feel if they were saying "I think there might be a fire!" vibe. The energy that people were feeling was to evacuate. Around 1:00 my iPhone started showing that all red map that Ed showed in this video and I thought okay, time to go. I was driving a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited (but a 4x2 with summer tires). The issue for most off my commute was not the weather. It was the traffic. OMG the traffic. The HORROR. Like Ed, my 25 minute commute home from 191 Peachtree Street (basically ground zero of downtown Atlanta) to my home in the close-in suburb of Vinings took 8.5 hours. The only was yo do it was too find the narrowest two-lane road you could fine. . Freeways were hopeless, and the 4 and 6-lane surface streets were almost worse, because the acceptable incline grade on an ATL city street is WAAAAY steeper than the DOT freeway limits. Many times I found myself in the center turn lane of a 6-lane road headed downhill to get a running start at the approaching uphill. Three of those times I saw the light turn red and I just kept on coming. Crossing traffic Caras were on the throttle when it turned green, but I had no fear. Cars would just sit and spin as I sailed through he red lights. (I would do it exactly the same way again). My neighborhood was all hilly curvy roads, and I was thinking about how far from my house I should consider parking (open a lawn or sidewalk) lest I end up sliding down a two lane and taking out thew shrubs (or living room) of a neighbor. I parked and walked the last 1/2 mile and I looked down to the bottom of the hill where I lived, I saw a sight from a movie: 4 or 5 cars had spun out and taken out stop signs, other cars and a garage. Two Cobb County police cars had also crashed down the hill piling into the neighbor cars like Chicago Police in the Blues Brothers. And to top it all off, there was a schoolbus at the bottom. The bus did not crash. The drive told me she looked over the crest of the hill and before she could say "I don't think I should go down there," she was sliding. She was able to keep it on the road, but about 25 very wide-eyed elementary school kids with no way home were pressed tot he windows (it's now approaching 8pm.). I walked home to let my dogs out and change out of my loafers and slacks so I was less of a liability and when I walked the 200 yards back to the bus, the kids we gone! The driver told them they could not get off even if they lived around the corner or in a few cases even closer. The kids mutinied and walked home I was told. But the bus driver was told if she abandoned her bus, she would be liable. (stupid rule). We brought her dinner, and then around 11:00p.m. she finally agreed to stay in the guest room of a neighbor. And 36 hours later the bus was still sitting there. What a day. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! So the question everyone north of the Mason Dixon line wants to ask is, "How does this happen with 2 inches of snow?!" My simple answer is this: In the north, we rarely see 2-3 inches of snow that aren't accompanied by two important ingredients: salt (or at least sand) that provides friction. And equally important, municipal plows. This sounds simple, but the worst of the problem in ATL was that hundreds or thousands of cars were driving over the same untreated slushy snow. The air temp was just right (32F at 11:00 a.m. falling to 25F by 6:00 p.m.) and the pavement temp even colder that made the snow turn to slush and then ice - and that ice was compacted by SO MANY vehicles and consistently cold temps. When I got out of my Jeep, the road was like a skating rink with 2 inches of ice. That rarely happens up north - again because of the prep and the plows, that push that slush to the gutters before it can freeze solid. But as a result, ATL was paralyzed until the temps got above 32F, which in this case was like 3 or 4 days. I remember walking my dogs 36 hours later, and everyone was totally snowbound on a sunny day with 2-3 inches of slush. No plow and no salt truck had touched the roads, so the ice was still 2 inches thick and going nowhere. It was SO weird.

I litterally love driving around in horrible blizzards, ill start driving and keep going when it get to 5 6 inches, and I only got 2wd

Schools in Atlanta: cancelled due to 1 snowflake My highschool in Wisconsin: doesn’t cancel when it’s -29 below and 8 inches of snow in one night

@grantsdad177

5 жыл бұрын

xd systematic same in Michigan lol

@brendenfriers9668

4 жыл бұрын

I would much rather have my schools close with an inch of snow on the ground if it meant that for most of the winter it’s above 55 degrees

Man that sounds like every day weather in Canada, gotta love hearing about southerners

@brendancrawford2894

5 жыл бұрын

You guys will never get stuck you guys got your mooses. The true Winter mobile.

I remember seeing a guy with 28" wheels on a 87 caprice trying to drive during the icepocalypse. It was sooooo funny.

@embarkingolive

4 жыл бұрын

In live in canada, when I hear icepocalypse I think back to 1996. We got hit with such a bad storm it left everything coated in at least 2 inches of solid ice. Took down trees, power lines, you name it. Snow tires don't work on ice. Many believe they do. Hilarity ensued.

I remember Ft Benning shutting down due to snow in the winter of '92-'93...got in the Ford LTD 2D & cut fresh tracks all over the place...lol I hope y'all have a great day & be safe.

I literally saw a camel on the side of the highway during one of the PA snow storms

@jeffsworldd

5 жыл бұрын

Kyle Dowling gotta love PA snow storms 😁

@EMFAudio

5 жыл бұрын

Must have been in Bethlehem.

@fitness_mcgee6353

5 жыл бұрын

That’s actually a great story if you know the context

@BradCMSP

5 жыл бұрын

309?

@kyledowling3484

5 жыл бұрын

@@BradCMSP yessir

"the whole world laughs" ... Apart from the UK. We silently nod in sympathy. We know your pain. :) I am more prepared with a set of Crossclimates on my Focus now though for that day we get every few years. :)

Ed, I'm from KC, where we're not unaccustomed to snow and ice, so it's easy for me to find the humor in stories like this. I did find myself in Dallas the first week of January, I believe '91 when they got over an inch of ice. A friend and I were headed down to his dad's house because it had been unbearably cold at home and Dallas had been a balmy 59. We figured we go down, fire up the hot tub and invite some girls over. Our first night there it started to hail, then then it turned into a winter mix with rain and quickly started freezing up on the streets. Within a couple of hours, the city was at a standstill. I couldn't believe it when the news started reporting businesses closures; back home you had school closures, everyone else was expected to find a way to work. We were there four days, and on the drive home, the streets were still covered and those that ventured out were inevitably spinning out on the intestate and ending up in the median. I'd never seen anything like it before. Needless to say, we never fired up the hot tub, but my buddy did get a couple girls from the neighborhood to come over, so the trip wasn't a complete loss!

As someone who has both lived in the north and south. I can tell you winter is completely different down here. Gotta love it when it ices before the snow hits