Congratulations Bountiful (ski resort, home, buying)

[dcisive]

You may have the WORST of the WORST drivers in all of Utah Ok so it's not an award anyone there wants. But observing the latest viral YouTube on the weather crash mess they created up there over the weekend by NOT thinking what they were doing behind the wheel takes it all I'm afraid. I guess you truly can't fix stupid

[Ghungroo]

Your referring to this article/video right? Clearly underneath that snow was a big sheet of ice, and I'm afraid there's not much you can do in many of the situations on that video when you're navigating on ice and trying to get out of the path of cars coming towards you. Some of the cars were obviously going waaaay too fast, but I saw quite a few of them steering in the direction of the skid. I thought the really stupid people were the ones standing next to their parked cars while other cars were clearly coming down the hill poised to hit them at any moment. I would get out of my car and away from the road as far as possible in that situation! The exact kind of situation as that video is my worst nightmare on Utah roads! I hate snow!

By the way, have you seen this video of Seattle drivers in snow a while back? One of my favorites, like a pinball machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnOH...eature=related

[dcisive]

What you are apparently NOT aware of there were folks at the top of the hill trying to stop and wave people down to keep them from going OVER the hill knowing what was happening. But once again like dumb sheep they just ignored them and kept on going. No sorry I'm not buying it. It's one thing to get "caught" in a bad situation. It's quite another to purposely ignore the opportunity to avoid it and go and do it anyway. It's all in keeping with the "I'm from Utah I'll do as I darned well please" attitude I so dearly love....NOT

[RockRat]

While Bountiful may have the worst drivers in Utah, driving to and from the Solitude Ski Resort this past Friday morning and afternoon let me see some "runner-ups" who were truly atrocious! Going up in the morning, I found myself leading a procession of pickups and SUV's racing up the winding, slush-covered canyon road as if it were a dry, clear day. They would position themselves seemingly inches from my rear bumper and the minute they could pass, they blew past me doing well over the posted speed limits. This scenario was repeated in the afternoon, but since the weather had turned sunny and nice by that time, and the roads had been plowed, it wasn't nearly as terrifying. Next time, though, I'll think about taking the bus! By the way, the skiing was excellent and I thought Solitude was a really nice place.

[SnowBuddy]

Originally Posted by RockRat

While Bountiful may have the worst drivers in Utah, driving to and from the Solitude Ski Resort this past Friday morning and afternoon let me see some "runner-ups" who were truly atrocious! Going up in the morning, I found myself leading a procession of pickups and SUV's racing up the winding, slush-covered canyon road as if it were a dry, clear day. They would position themselves seemingly inches from my rear bumper and the minute they could pass, they blew past me doing well over the posted speed limits. This scenario was repeated in the afternoon, but since the weather had turned sunny and nice by that time, and the roads had been plowed, it wasn't nearly as terrifying. Next time, though, I'll think about taking the bus! By the way, the skiing was excellent and I thought Solitude was a really nice place.

I thought about taking the bus as well.... but Saturday afternoon coming down from Solitude, we had a hold up as one bus had slid across the road and directly across the road from it, it looked like an SUV wedged up against another bus!! It was carnage ... but nothing like that video.

[SnowBuddy]

Oh and the Bountiful video has gone viral, a friend back home told me it was on the national Australian news last night!

[Tim Tim Tim]

I would be interested to see how many of those people actually had snow tires vs just the crappy all seasons that most people feel is good enough.

[11thHour]

Originally Posted by Tim Tim Tim

I would be interested to see how many of those people actually had snow tires vs just the crappy all seasons that most people feel is good enough.

Yep. We also live in a hilly area on the benches, and whether there's snow on the ground or not, our vehicles get the snow tires put on in by Thanksgiving. They make a tremendous difference. Of course they won't make up for stupidity, however.

[Tim Tim Tim]

Originally Posted by 11thHour

Yep. We also live in a hilly area on the benches, and whether there's snow on the ground or not, our vehicles get the snow tires put on in by Thanksgiving. They make a tremendous difference. Of course they won't make up for stupidity, however.

Nothing can make up for stupidity. It looked like a decent amount of those people had the right idea on how to drive out of the slide but with those garbage tires, they never had a chance.

when I lived there in SLC that was a HUGE pet peeve of mine, I was in a little RWD Mazda rx8 (which I put snow tires on) driving down the road where the AWD suv's were stuck. Seriously, you spent 30k on a vehicle but cant spend an extra 500 bucks on a set of tires for the winter? Not only are you endangering yourself, your endangering me too!

[TCAS007]

Originally Posted by dcisive

What you are apparently NOT aware of there were folks at the top of the hill trying to stop and wave people down to keep them from going OVER the hill knowing what was happening. But once again like dumb sheep they just ignored them and kept on going.

Do you have a source for that? From what I heard from someone who lives close there was nobody standing there to stop people from going. Also the top part of the road was snowy but did not have the ice under it as further down.

I do agree though that many drivers are stupid and many have bad tires. It doesn't matter if they're from Bountiful or any other city though.
So I can not understand how you can call everyone from Bountiful "stupid".