Worst driving conditions you've been in?

[Cyn]

Don't use your high beams in the fog.

[Firedemon]

My buddy and I were driving from Northwestern Ontario back to Toronto and we hit a blizzard halfway there at about midnight. Blowing snow, whiteout, could maybe only see 5 feet in front of you. We ended up following a transport for 3 hours only doing 25MPH. Fuckin' hate winter.

[Sol-Blackguy]

Had to drive through a flash flood in a delivery van one time. The water was almost up to the door handle and was scared shitless that the water was going to come through and ruin the magazines in the back. My boss was a dick and would have probably tried to make me pay for them.

[Furtwangler]

I've dealt with the standard heavy rain/fog etc, but being in upstate NY where I lived is tons of lake effect. Last winter was driving in 2 1/2 inches on the highway, snowing 1nch per half hour, blizzard/whiteout conditions, in a shitty grand am with no snow tires (was getting them the next week because I didn't have enough money. Couldn't see farther than 2 feet from my car in any direction, car all over the place etc.

[Jonny]

Drive through this shit!

[warc]

I'd say worst for me was when I was driving back home from Big Bear after snow boarding, was kinda snowing and kinda raining, like slush. So I was going down a mountain on a windy icy road and it was raining/snowing so bad I could hardly see, honestly though I was gonna die lol

Holy shit, a fellow Lancastrian. Sup lol

Worst for me just happened today. Driving back to school on the CA-138 in heavy rain and fog. It's a two lane mountain road going downhill at a pretty steep incline. Couldn't see more than 20 feet ahead of me. Plus living in the southern california desert I have some shitty windshield wipers. Haven't replaced them since I bought my car four years ago.

[Zoot]

One morning while getting in my car to drive to work, it was chilly outside and the windows were fogged up. Before I took off, I decided to wait a few minutes for the heater to defog the windows.

After about 5 minutes, I realized that the engine wasn't getting hot enough to do its job (I drove a manual). So I said ok, I'll drive it a little bit to see if it clears up. I drove it outside my apartment complex and down the road, and it was still horrible. I pulled over and wiped the windows inside and out, after that I could see a little.

I drove about half a mile and turned onto a residential street, thinking that with my windows this way I might be better off taking back roads. This street just happened to be holding the rising sun to the east in its hands, cupping it on either side, so that I couldn't see more anything besides the fog, glare and gleam coming off the windshield...

I decided to pull over. Grabbed my stick to put it into first and veered to the right to pull over.

I ran into the back of a parked car, lol.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Driving a Type 4 fire engine hauling water up and down a makeshift mountain road that was cut by a dozer. Sheer drop of hundreds of feet and I'm practically grinding the inside while my outside dual tire is off the edge. All because the TuFL didn't want to put in another pump and risk blowing a hose because a $100 FSS hose > 100k contractor truck.

Second worst condition would be having to race out of a smoked canyon road with raging fire going on both sides. Ended up burning one side's paintjob and and the side mirrors melting.

Outside of work the worst I have to deal with is retarded deer clogging the road and the occasional black ice during winter.

[Kryssan]

Having been in a few places over the world, I can say I've driven through just about everything.



Honestly though, I'm surprised noone talked about high winds. Y'know, where they are powerful enough to be blowing cars across bridges on highways in front of you laterally? Makes driving more like bumper cars.

[Plow]

Drive through this shit!

man that one's so crazy they're driving on the wrong side of the road!

[Mizango]

I've driven through total whiteouts in blizzards. The snow all swirling about, with the car sliding, and no idea where the other cars are. Not fun.

^

[The_OG_Nelta]

I remember the world ended, I had to go to yellow stone park with my family, and my ex wife's crazy husband to find some other crazy radio host, because he proclaimed he had a map to a base where the government is building submarines to save people, just as I found the man's RV a super volcano blew up and fuck man, I ran like crazy. I made it back to the RV, decided to drive back to the airplane we had stolen which was x amount of time away, dodging volcanic rocks falling from the sky left and right. etcetcetc

[Brill Weave]

Couple of years ago there was a really bad windstorm in Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas. Apparently it was gale force winds. Trees and telephone poles down everywhere. A five minute drive home turned into a 45 minute drive to my friend's place because I couldn't get past trees and flooding.

[SilverBreeze]

Weather doesn't get that bad down here most of the time in Texas, but the worst for is when it's raining so hard that the windshield wipers don't do shit and it's flooding, there's always so many stranded cars whenever it happens.

[Day]

Why were yo high beams on nig nog, can't do that in the fog.

[tyven]

I've heard stories of terrible rain in the south, like firehouse like rains. Worst I've driven in is snow, but not really a problem with a Subaru.

I have driven in this multiple times, happened a few times when i would be driving back to college, 0 visibility on an interstate is the worst. thank god all the trucks would pull over

[Meepein]

Back when I lived in Redmond, WA, we got this lil tiny snow "storm" that dumped a grand total of like 2 inches. Oh, I thought to myself, this shall not be a problem. I come from New England and have a vehicle with 4WD, I'll be fine. Mainly cause I have driven to work in over 6 inches of snow without incident.

But, alas, in Washington State, they do not have these things called "plows". Nor do they believe in treating the roads at all. So come the next morning, the roads were exceedingly slippery. I made it to work (had a 30 minute drive take over 2 hours.) I was barely able to get into the parking lot due to the icy nature of the roads and the the fact that I had to go down a hill just to get into the lot, which was an adventure, just to find out that they closed the office without saying anything to us temporary employees. Thus, I had to get my way out of that parking lot, uphill now, which was a nigh impossible task, and another 2 hours to drive home.

So, the worst conditions I drove in was after slightly more than a dusting of snow which was left completely untreated cause people in WA don't want their cars to rust out (but having them wrap around a tree is fine.) In RI, I have gone to work in 8 inches of snow, only really limited by companies that want the parking lots empty for plows. In WA, 2 inches meant everything closes. A close second was driving through the desert in, uh, New Mexico I think during a wind storm that saw gusts up to 60mph. Thank god no one else was on the road, I was all over the damn place.

[ZarakiKujata]

I live in CT, everything fog/snow/rain you can think of I've had to drive in. My saturn station wagon saved my life a few times, once sliding on a bridge in a huge ass storm.

The old Sikorsky bridge on an icy day? Or pretty much every other day too.

[zoobernut]

The worst driving experience for me when I was driving was when I worked at a ski area, we were experiencing blizzard conditions and it was snowing very hard so I had to get up and head to work to clear the parking lot. This has to be done for safety reasons so the fire department can reach the lodge if there is a fire. So it was 2:30am and I am driving about 5mph up the mountain road to work and I couldn't see anything and the little reflectors on the side of the road were buried in snow so I had no idea where I was. Huge cliff on one side of me and whiteout conditions.

[Despain]

Too sunny outside. I don't know about you guys, but when the sun keeps finding a way to get in your line of sight?

Joking. Worst would probably be when it snowed recently, and the roads were completely iced up.