Thank you! It drives me nuts that the DMV and certain other areas are mocked because “we can’t drive” ON ICE! Anyone from the DMV knows that 1.5 inches of snow is about to become ice immediately and there is nothing like black ice to make you a believer.

I’m glad there are others who can take a minute to put the self-righteousness aside and realize this. I live the North East. We don’t set any records, here, but it gets plenty cold and plenty of snow. We still have lots of folks who have no idea what they’re doing, but for the most part we’re okay... usually... The…

They always leave out the fact that there’s a solid sheet of ice underneath the “1 inch of snow”. Happened to us in the SE a few years ago, when Atlanta and Birmingham got absolutely shut down for a few days. All the news reports just said “a light dusting” and failed to mention that every inch of road surface was…

Well, if they’re round then I’m sure you can put chains on them, unless installing chains violates some kind of safety function of these tires.

you get it. i live in alaska now, but im originally from virginia. its SO much easier to drive when we get snow here in alaska compared to what i was used to back in VA.

yeah, the worst is that “just above/below freezing” snow. that’s when you get the enormous snowflakes plopping down to turn the roads into a slippery mess.

I live in a place with actual cold and actual snow - Central Alberta. I never make fun of people in other places who have issues with winter driving. By the time it snows for real here, the ground is usually frozen to about 18 inches deep. That means the snow doesn’t melt when it hits. It packs up and adhesion is…

Spot on. Sound advice.

Please remove me from this email.

I wish I was in this email chain. Simply so I can set an alarm on my calendar a year from now to send a replyall saying “Just wanted to follow up to make sure you got your question answered.”

unsubscribe me from this kinja

When this happened within Microsoft years and years ago, it was so all-encompassing, embarrassing, work-crippling and infamous, members of the Outlook team made t-shirts after finally killing it.

Two good stories about this from a previous job:

How bizarre...everyone knows the answer to “when will WageWorks fund the HSA” is NEVER.

Connecticut Bar Association circa 2006 in the house. (If you weren’t a Connecticut lawyer at ten years ago, the replyallpocalypse can’t be explained. If you were, it doesn’t need explaining.)

My wife worked for Time (the magazine part) when she was going to grad school at NYU and the stories she would tell me about how much of a shit show it is over there is mind boggling. She said she was surprised it was a company still but is still friends with some of the people that work there. (most of them not…

I had a sneaking suspicion someone was going to get Rick-rolled. I wasn’t disappointed.

Not quite the same, but a few months ago some guy in my company sent out an email to every employee (about 60,000 people) calling out another employee for stealing his wife.

When I was a contractor for the Army this happened, except the email that started it all was a Bill Gates was giving away money to everyone who forwarded this email. The next morning the IT Admins sent out an email to stop replying to the email because it actually brought down the email servers. That’s right we DDoS’d…

There’s seriously a rickroll in there, too? God bless ‘em.