I-95 Highway traffic jam

[Dusty]

Far safer than the zippo handwarmers.

-Crissa

My check from Zippo should arrive any day now...

It's totally safe. The Zippo hand warmer uses a catalytic reaction for warmth not combustion. It uses some kind of platinum fiber wad that passively reacts with the lighter fluid fumes. It won't even catch a sliver of tissue paper on fire. It radiates constant heat similar to a super warm mug of coffee.

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[Crissa]

My check from Zippo should arrive any day now...

It's totally safe. The Zippo hand warmer uses a catalytic reaction for warmth not combustion. It uses some kind of platinum fiber wad that passively reacts with the lighter fluid fumes. It won't even catch a sliver of tissue paper on fire. It radiates constant heat similar to a super warm mug of coffee.

It still contains volatile fluids and fumes. A lithium battery isn't constantly leaking flammable fumes, that's all.

-Crissa

 

[CyberGus]

Looks like there's been another pile-up, this time in Kentucky:

Winter storm leads to pileup involving up to 75 vehicles on Interstate 64 in Kentucky
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-75-vehicles-interstate-64-kentucky-rcna11326

"In a tweet, Kentucky State Police also said I-64 was closed at mile marker 179 “due to a tractor trailer jack knifed.” Several other highways in the area “are solid ICE," state troopers said in another tweet."​

Well there you have it..."solid ICE", no Teslas involved

 

[firsttruck]

Looks like there's been another pile-up, this time in Kentucky:

Winter storm leads to pileup involving up to 75 vehicles on Interstate 64 in Kentucky
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-75-vehicles-interstate-64-kentucky-rcna11326

"In a tweet, Kentucky State Police also said I-64 was closed at mile marker 179 “due to a tractor trailer jack knifed.” Several other highways in the area “are solid ICE," state troopers said in another tweet."​

Well there you have it..."solid ICE", no Teslas involved

Does not matter. There will be dozens of stories about how much worse the pileup would have been IF there had been even a Tesla Cyberquad for kids involved.

 

[Ogre]

I got some bacon pepper jam. Sounded weird.

Haven't tried it in the Tesla yet. I expect it'll still be a fun sort of spicy sweet.

 

[israndy]

I have spent several nights in the car with the environmental systems running to keep us warm, I usually lose about 20% at the most overnight, even in severe cold. If I was concerned about battery I would turn down the air and rely more on the seat heaters, and a warm jacket and boots. I rarely go on road trips w/o like a bag of nuts to snack on and a big jug of ice water. But how did people get privacy to pee and poop?

I got stuck behind that mud slide leaving LA years ago:




I spent the night waiting for traffic to clear, every road out of the Pomona RV show going home was shut. GPS and passing police kept telling me this closed-for-the-weekend route was still the fastest available. I had had enough by dawn and took the route along the Sierras home. Wish info had been better, we all would have gone around it if the news covered it in a more timely fashion. We had no idea what was ahead of us.

Except for how cold it was in DC, this was a very similar event.

 

[Crissa]

Yeah, that happened here in Santa Cruz... slides blocked every highway into the county from the north and east. Much if our population commutes to silicon valley, and they were all trapped either on the highways or in the valley, while crews worked overnight to clear it. Three of the highways had slide-outs and were permanently lost until they could be rebuilt the next couple summers.

This sort of thing happens every once in awhile. Always pays to have a kit. On my motorcycle I keep a liter of water, a level 2 charge inlet, and a trauma kit. When it's bad weather, I add a thermal liner, a rain suit, and extra gloves and an umbrella. ^-^

-Crissa

 

[Cybertruck Hawaii]

Instead deploying the Amber Alert system, the government should use it to inform the public about a hours long gridlock in the dead of winter along the entire freeway length so that the public can avoid entering the predicament by taking an alternative route. But, what do I know about a winter gridlock with me sitting in Waikiki Beach in Hawaii?

 

[Crissa]

That's why they're installing those big digital displays along major highways. To give warnings like that. There's also radio stations for mountain passes.

I've driven past many with different warnings recently! "Winter Weather Conditions - Drive Prepared" and more specific when passes were limited or closed.

The state department of transportation equivalents all are paid by the feds to detail the road conditions. State highway patrol in some states uses social media or websites to list closures. And there's the Googles and Waze, but you have to check these things.

-Crissa

 

[Ogre]

That's why they're installing those big digital displays along major highways. To give warnings like that. There's also radio stations for mountain passes.

There is one in front of our house. Highway 58 gets tons of accidents and is subject to occasional snow closures and chain up warnings so we get updates whenever wife comes home. Almost all of them also have traffic cameras and weather stations. It is a super clever setup.

Wife used it to check if there was still snow here when we were coming back from California.

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