Had to camp out in a sketchy neighborhood to get tickets, one of my friends brother was on the police department there so we were very well protected, again parental units
Also saw Aerosmith and several other bands there. It was the local big venue
My fav!!
Live, Giant's Stadium, please don't tell the parental units
2010 was the same December where Raleigh/Cary got 10 inches of snow the day after Christmas. I didn't live here then, but I was here with the family for Christmas.
10 inches of snow in the South would paralyze a number of towns or cities in the path. Even in Northern VA , Fredericksburg area and I-95 was hugely affected in that truckers and cars were stuck on the interstate with people having to hunker down in their vehicles for a few days before help arrived. When I lived in NC back in the day the towns would shut down if 3 inches of snow fell. I missed those snow days when kids got the day(s) off. One of my buddies who went to boarding school said there was no such thing as snow days in that the headmaster , faculty and their families and students, some support staff all lived on campus and trekked their way to classes.
It takes less than an inch to shut Raleigh down if the cold remains and the snow doesn't disappear almost instantly. I had just driven down from Vermont for Christmas and I was staying in a hotel. I had to get back to my daughters house to get something to eat because all the places to eat were closed tight. I was used to driving in snow and unplowed areas so I just cleaned the snow off my car and headed out. Some of the streets in Cary are 8 lanes wide and I had it all to myself. Made it there with no problems and no danger of other traffic. My son in law had thrown away any semblance of a snow shovel when they moved so his driveway was untouched.
It amazed me that when I visited a few Northern states I would say 3 out of every 4 vehicles were AWD. It may snow maybe 2-3 times a year if that in a few states and we survived with RWD with sand bags and studded tires snow chains when it snowed much more frequently when I grew up in colder climates back in the day. No doubt South states are overwhelmed or probably do not have the budget and equipment to deal with winter storms.It takes less than an inch to shut Raleigh down if the cold remains and the snow doesn't disappear almost instantly. I had just driven down from Vermont for Christmas and I was staying in a hotel. I had to get back to my daughters house to get something to eat because all the places to eat were closed tight. I was used to driving in snow and unplowed areas so I just cleaned the snow off my car and headed out. Some of the streets in Cary are 8 lanes wide and I had it all to myself. Made it there with no problems and no danger of other traffic. My son in law had thrown away any semblance of a snow shovel when they moved so his driveway was untouched.
Down here they still have the mistaken belief that you don't send the plows out until after the snow has officially stopped falling. That means that many of the plow drivers couldn't get to the plows much less drive them, which caused further delays. In Vermont if a big snowstorm is expected they are out there parked in the rest areas on the interstate highway waiting for the storm to reach them and they start clearing and sand/salting the roads before they get unpassable. It's a much better system for everyone's safety as well as keeping businesses open. Rough on car bodies, but I can replace a car, I cannot replace my life if I get into an accident because of ice and snow on the road.
The next day in NC the temperature went well above freezing and by the 28th it was all pretty much gone and I drove home where, like a forecast of things to come, there was zero snow on the ground. However, a few months later when I officially moved it was very cold the ground was white with that frozen stuff and snow flurries all day as they were loading the stuff on the van and spitting a few flakes as I left and headed south. That was on April 15th and tells you everything need to know about how I anxiously, with no doubts, made that move to a more enjoyable climate.
I have predicted for years that there was a change happening. The south went from almost never having snow, now to crippling storms and states have had to invest in snow removing equipment. That was something that didn't exist in the 80's. Being over three quarters of a century old I know that I won't be around for the big deep freeze, but it is going to happen and end up with snowbirds heading north instead of south for the winter. That means that @MinnieM123 will have to move to Florida to get that cold snowy environment that she insanely loves so much. I'm sorry, it's a little harsh to say "insanely" lets just call it an unfortunate misconnection of brain electrons and their firing sequence. It's so sad, if she would just take her meds regularly, who knows, she might be cured.
Never owned an AWD, or even a four wheel drive. For most of my life I used snow tires and my cars were all rear wheel drive. In the 80's I started to get Front wheel drive cars and vans and used all season tires year round. Never had a single problem that would have been helped with any of the options. In fact more AWD vehicles were sliding off the road into ditches because the owners felt that with AWD they were invincible, however, when there is ice on the roadway, especially snow covered the only way to know that you will not have a problem is if you stay at home by the fire and didn't go out at all until spring.
A buddy of mine who lies in the snow belt area has FWD cars but gets snow tires put on Nov-Apr. He advises during some bad storms that he gets from point A to point B while he sees AWD SUVs at times in a ditch, once flipped over etc. A number of them he advised don't change to snow tires but drive at a little higher rate of speed thinking nothing can happen to them with an AWD vehicle. Some have to learn the hard way. A cousin in the family drives his stick shift AWD Subaru WRX with stock performance summer tires which is surely not wise in inclement weather especially when the temps dip to freezing.
Don´t you need soft tires? aka winter tires?
My Honda never had that problem and I drove that thing in several inches of snow. But it doesn't snow that much here to justify extra tires
That really is a myth. Letting air out of ones tires only serves to make the tires have a wider profile, but unless the sidewalls have a tread on them (the don't) all that does is create more resistance as the snow piles up ahead of the tire. The narrower the tire, within reason, the less forward or reverse resistance therefore making it work better. To much tire pressure is also a negative because then less griping parts of the tire are touching the pavement.
So many people don't know how to drive in snow!! My ex-boyfriend was AWFUL. His mother taught him that when it snows, you have to pump the breaks no matter what, and pumping the breaks meant tromping on them. He slid through every intersection in the winter because he insisted that you had to keep slamming on the break. I tried to tell him that you only pump your breaks if you are sliding, and you don't want to stomp on the brake, but press lightly until the tires gain traction, but he insisted his mom knew better and she had taught him. He was an all around terrible driver. How he was never in a serious accident is beyond me. Most people wouldn't even get in a car with him.
I'd say snow tires have improved stopping power on the breaks than all seasons. For now if I encounter inclement weather traveling I have the very noisy all season Firestone Weather Grip tires with a 3 peat symbol wherever that means. Dealer told me it is very good in rain, ( true ) and better than all seasons in snow if I ever encounter snow. Whatever weather I can control my vehicles better slowing down , accelerating in a pinch or in slower conditions with manual transmission. Also my breaks last a very long time since I downshift gears and or coast in neutral to a stop. One thing the dealers tell me which not one member of my family ever does is check and or pump the tire of the spare to proper PSI.
Technically its not about the snow itself. Its because the standard all season tires get harder and lose traction.
I found this whole conversation interesting, not because of the snow (in which I drove for years in NJ and dealt with snow tires every year before moving south) but because I just test drove several versions of Honda CR-V yesterday. Almost traded in my Honda Passport for one, but they didn’t have the color I wanted.
