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Blizzard conditions, 1978... Tried three different routes from where I lived to take a friend home before I found one I could make (hills). And fog at night "so thick you could cut it with a knife". Same friend, but trying to get home from out of town.
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An Ice Storm. There's just no getting around it.
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It was the worst storm that I've ever seen ... water covered almost the wheels of my SUV ... it was really hard :S specially in a city like Caracas
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During a hurricane. It was fairly drivable though, but mighty scary!!
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1974 between Laramie and Cheyenne. Snow was accumulating so fast that drifts were forming on I-80. All traffic became stationary. People were running out of gas, getting hungry. Some people abandoned their vehicles and attempted to walk back to Laramie. They soon closed I-80 and began rescuing people. There were some who died of exposure.
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It was a hurricane that hit NY in either 1999 or 2000, it's name was Floyd. I hated the car I had and wished it would get washed away... without me in it of course.
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Blizzard, ice storm, sandstorm, can't say which was worse, all were scary.
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Blizzard and ice storm. LOTS of fun too.
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The absolute worst would be the rains that caused the Flood of '05. It was 10PM, near-zero visibility, 1/2" of water on the windshield because the wipers couldn't keep up, and I was alone on back roads, taking detours through places with no nearby houses and no cell coverage. Fortunately I was there early enough that NH-123 in the village was only ~8 inches deep (standing water; no current). The next morning, every road I had driven over was gone, including the last few feet of my driveway. At least I wasn't going to Alstead... or what's left of it. Like most New England natives, I drive in whiteouts and/or on ice regularly, sometimes with fog limiting visibility to under 5 feet or crosswinds over 50MPH. What other people call "extreme", I call "commuting". Currently my driveway is a sheet of wet ice going up a hill into a mud pit which is pretty tame by comparison. Typical NH spring :)
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A Tropical Storm when I was driving across the Panhandle from Jacksonville to Pensacola is one of the worst. It was like being blind.
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A Texas ice storm. Like a fool, I drove to work, not knowing the school had closed for the day on account of bad weather.
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Blizzards, ice storms... a good combo of the 2 also. Once a major major downpour.
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