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A friend of mine just made it home. He works off Wake Forest Rd and lives in S. Cary (Kildaire and 10-10). So it IS possible if you know how to navigate the roads.
Exactly why I'll thank the folks at the grocery store if we decide to walk to one over the next few days. These people have to drive over the roads we don't want to drive on. They get my respect.
I am also *very grateful for the grocery store employees*
5 minutes after I left my neighborhood HT, the snow started piling up... and the roads got slick.
Thanks to them many people now have supplies.
I hope they get home safely.
The ramp to 540 was blocked by multiple cars at the Durham Morrsiville line, had to pull a 180 and go the wrong way down the ramp to get around. My normal 20 minute ride took about an hour and 15 minutes.
NC drivers really need to learn to avoid the brake when driving in the snow, especially when going up hill!
Yes... the brake is not your friend on snow and ice.
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Kudos to Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools for calling the early dismissal on the money today and preventing us from having another make-up day! The last schools were dismissed at 12:15, and the snow started falling about 30 minutes later. They couldn't have timed it better if they tried!
NC drivers really need to learn to avoid the brake when driving in the snow, especially when going up hill!
ANYONE driving in this (not just NC/Southern natives) really needs to learn not to come to a complete STOP when pointed uphill. That way lies grief.
Best thing to do is to "drive 1/4 mile ahead" (think about what's coming up next) and be prepared in advance. Optimum state is continual movement. Don't stop. Especially uphill. Leave gaps; keep moving, even if only slowly. The two main classes of problems seem to be excess speed approaching an intersection, and stopping uphill at an intersection (the light catching several bunched-up cars, aimed uphill).
If, say, 1/2 or 3/4 of the cars out there were NOT out there, it probably would have been a lot better.
2.5 hours later and wife is still not home. She just called and said that it is impossible to get into Swift Creek area. All roads (Kildaire Farm, Holly Springs, Yates Mill Pond/Lake Wheeler, and Fayetteville) are all blocked.
Right now she's stuck at Holly Springs Rd and Cary Parkway inching her way south.
She made it! It took her 5 hours to get from near Rex Hospital on Blue Ridge down to the intersection of Lake Wheeler and Ten-Ten (16 miles)
A friend in Atlanta got stuck in the last storm. She was stuck in interstate from 2:30pm til 4:00 am. She said it was a nightmare. Hope everyone gets home safely!
It took me FIVE HOURS to come from work in Downtown Durham to Cary!! AWFUL!!
The government DID NOT prep the roads for this at all!! (SHAME ON THEM!!) The media has been HYPING up this "bad weather" for days, schools closed, businesses closed, but the roads weren't touched...REALLY?!?! I saw one snow plow after I got into Cary, but a snowplow isn't going to do anything when it's all ICE.
I'm from DC and I'm used to driving in the snow and ice, but unfortunately the NC natives (and others) totally panic and it shows on the road! People were driving 5 mph when it was only dusting and turning a two-lane road into a one-lane trail ride.
Be considerate of the conditions...leave space in front of you, when you see a car slide backwards down a hill, don't go up the same way (*monkie-see-monkie-doo*), when someone in front of you is stuck and is sliding, DON'T MOVE up closer!
Today was THEE MOST awful, frustrating commute of my life!
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