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Old 03-31-2011, 09:49 AM
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By the way - do you get irate at people driving in bad weather with their flashers on? Really hard to tell when they brake. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Nah. If someone's driving scared, and isn't going to pull over, I want him to do whatever it takes to let me know he's driving scared. Put on the flashers, flash your high beams, lay on your horn, whatever. Just do something so that I know you're not right and I should give you a wide berth. That said, it is frustrating how frequently people drive scared down here. Today is understandable, but driving half the speed limit because it's drizzling happens all the time and makes no sense. Still, put on your hazards so I know you're out of your mind.
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Old 03-31-2011, 10:19 AM
 
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We have had over our normal amount of rain for March, Apr and May in this week alone, in my area anyway. Now we will pay the price with a dry Apr and May. Be nice if we could of spread out 7.5" of rain over a few weeks time instead of just one week.
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Old 03-31-2011, 10:34 AM
 
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Nah. If someone's driving scared, and isn't going to pull over, I want him to do whatever it takes to let me know he's driving scared. Put on the flashers, flash your high beams, lay on your horn, whatever. Just do something so that I know you're not right and I should give you a wide berth. That said, it is frustrating how frequently people drive scared down here. Today is understandable, but driving half the speed limit because it's drizzling happens all the time and makes no sense. Still, put on your hazards so I know you're out of your mind.
This! If you don't drive at the speed limit or close to it (up to 10 miles less) put your blinkers on so everyone in the road know that you are not normal car. I don't understand people who say it's bad? How it's bad? You see blinkers, you move one lane to the left/right and/or slow down before you see the car. I don't see what is the difference between people letting you know that they are not behaving as usual and people that are standing on the side with the blinkers.

Bad visibility and not driving as everyone = put damn blinkers on, otherwise someone will plow in your end because no one can see you moving half of the speed
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Old 03-31-2011, 10:37 AM
 
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it is illegal, however I dont care if someone puts them on or not. If they cant drive in the conditions, get off the road.
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Old 03-31-2011, 10:42 AM
 
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We had a tornado come through. Thankfully the only damage I have is a dead orange tree and wooden fences down. My neighbor has some house damage. Scary stuff.
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Old 03-31-2011, 10:45 AM
 
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We had a tornado come through. Thankfully the only damage I have is a dead orange tree and wooden fences down. My neighbor has some house damage. Scary stuff.
I was at Fresh Market on S Dale Mabry when it got really bad for a few minutes. The glass sliding doors blew open, knocking over all of the front displays and the power went out. I waited a few before leaving. I left and took Manhatten heading south. There was extensive flooding and cars broken down in puddles. Some traffic lights were out. I took some pictures.

Doesnt phase me, but I can see why people get scared.
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Old 03-31-2011, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Saint Petersburg, FL
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It wasn't terrible here, it went just north of us, but we have medium size branches down in the backyard and some sort of line down. It can't be power, because we have that, but I'm afraid to mess with it.

The tornado watch was extended until 8:00, I'm hoping that was overly-cautious.
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Old 03-31-2011, 11:33 AM
 
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I was at Fresh Market on S Dale Mabry when it got really bad for a few minutes. The glass sliding doors blew open, knocking over all of the front displays and the power went out. I waited a few before leaving. I left and took Manhatten heading south. There was extensive flooding and cars broken down in puddles. Some traffic lights were out. I took some pictures.

Doesnt phase me, but I can see why people get scared.

I used to not be phased by wild weather but after going through Hurricane Andrew in Miami I became a wild weather wimp lol.
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Old 03-31-2011, 11:39 AM
 
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Time to trade the umbrella for a snorkel
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Old 03-31-2011, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Tampa, FL
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Nothing to do with tailgating. It's that the lights are flashing. What's the polarizing viewpoint? I'm scared so I'll turn my flashers on in case somebody decides I don't exist and tries to run me over? Just pull over and sit till it passes.

Muhahahahahahaha
the polarization comes from the fact that people tend to feel very strongly about the issue. they're either fine with it or they get super mega pissed at people who do it. very little in-between.

maybe it's not the case here in fl. in dc, people are very strongly opinionated about.... well, everything. the blinker-in-storm issue is one of those items.
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