Low tire pressure is how you get to be that guy with a blown tire on the side of the highway in the middle of winter.

This makes sense

On ice, larger contact patch is generally not what you want. Larger contact patch leads to reduced lbs/square inch, which is key to maintaining static friction.

Regarding scooping water out of the ocean, I heard a host on the radio saying that you “can’t dump salt water on a city” adding the word “obviously.”

A set of Nokian snows at 20psi will turn a FWD minivan from a sled into a tank.

I don’t need to know what’s in each trim package, I’ll be reading it off the detailed placard on the other side of the ‘do not touch’ rope at every cruise and Cars ‘n’ Coffee for the next few decades.

I don’t care for replacing the people or the cars. Just the pets. Maybe they can offer James Woods something to console him, like, i dunno...maybe a piece of candy?

Because the Dems are not dicks like the maga’s are. The maga’s are all about grievance and anger and will go to any length to prove that point. Trumpf is already in his grievance mode on California and he’s not even in office yet.

As opposed to gasoline, the notorious fire suppressant 

Well I need to put this on my dream job list.

oddly satisfying batman themed car plow.

ironically the logic is flexible - disaster in blue state: “god is punishing them for being evil” disaster in red state: “liberals made this happen”

If they had anywhere else to go, they would have. Cars ahead stopped, cars behind stopped, no room to turn. It is likely that the air was becoming unbreathable with acrid fumes and soot and staying in the cars was not an option. 

Exactly, anyone abandoning their car for any conceivable reason, like ANY reason, out of gas, broke down, flat tire, shit fire, is not going to be thinking about leaving their keys. I mean never leaving your keys in your car is kind of drilled into you from the time you learn to drive both to not lock yourself out and…

Do you think that someone fleeing a fire is going to think that through? Hey let me leave my keys so they can move my hunk of metal later.

Police and Fire departments ordered them to flee their cars.

Having been caught in fires in 2018 in Malibu you have no idea how ferocious the fire moves through an area. If there’s a traffic jam and it’s not moving at all, you see other people panic and make a run for it. As soon as the car in front does that that screws everyone behind them. It has a knock on effect.

easy to say, you are not sitting in a mile of unmoving traffic with cars already on the shoulder with a fire getting closer in your rearview mirror every minute.

“but we can’t see or quantify any actual damage from climate change”

Things can be replaced, people can not.