Upstate New York, about 6 months, had 24 inches last year. It was fun, my dad went to work and my mom was a teacher so she was home with me. It was fun to look out side and see more snow than most days
it's true though if you find a rangerover or landrover with an engine and transmition in a barn or junk jard ods arr you only need to put some oil and gas in it and it would be posible to drive it right out of there.
@@slr7628 At about 9yo I built a trolley L-R, I drove one in my first job, the business had 3 which were unreliable at any mileage. Now I've had 30 continuous years of trouble free Toyota 4X4 ownership. "There is only 1 Land-Rover. But there are millions of Toyotas". And we know why! ;-)
Yea we don't do snow too well here in the south hahahaha. Side note. We just listened to 12 minutes of Ed talking about being in traffic. That's testament to his story telling abilities
ed is the only person that could replace one of the boys from GT ( Clarkson, May, Hammond ) This man can talk about anything car related and we all swoon over it.
Ed is a dude that has driven everything imaginable, gone to Lamborghinis driving school in Italy and yet the "craziest driving day of ed's life" is a all about 2 inches of snow! Lol
Ed Bolian it was the most technical I’ve ever done. I did it in a 1997 2 wheel drive stick shift open diff pickup truck coming home from out of state. I creatively made new driving laws as needed knowing if I stopped, I would never get moving again. Ended up on the wrong side of the road, through yards, etc. but made it without incident 🤘
Ed Bolian We had a very similar event in Portland, Oregon when I worked in sales at vw dealership. Everyone was on the highways, took many hours to get home when normally 30 mins. I have picture and video of cars littered everywhere on the side of the road. Good times !
Back when I Was a Trucker I Had Dropped Off My Trailer In Atlanta and Bob Tailed Up The Road To A Waffle House... After I Ate .. I Went Back to The Truck And Was Surfing The Web On My Computer ... When I Heard Gun Shots... There In The Front of Me ... About 40 feet away was a Shootout Right in The Waffle House Parking Lot... Then a Short Time Later... Lots Of Cops and Paramedics....
As a fellow GA resident, I surely remember the "snowmaggedon" lmao. I was in my sophomore year of highschool, and pretty much everyone didn't make it home except for my bus. Fortunately my bus had a driver that was used to driving in this kind of weather, and we made it home just fine. Everyone else however, either had to sleep over at the school, or wait for their parents to barely be able to pick them up. After I made it home, I hopped on my ATV and had a hell of a day. Doing doughnuts all over the street, driving my friends place to place, snow sledding off of my big ass driveway, man that was a fun time.
TheCannonball79 I’m a westerner, Wyoming, who lives in the south. I’ve also lived in Chicago and DC. Northerners can’t drive any better in the first snowfall either.
I mean I completely get this no one knows how to drive down here but that day it doesn’t matter who you are you can’t just drive on ice there’s a difference
It was not taught in the driving school I went to. Its Florida no snow dont worry about it said our instructor. At some point in our lives some of us may travel and need to know more than just drive slow.
Hell, most people in Texas freak out when it rains. Take this into consideration when we got 14" of snow here one year, in April... I have it on good authority that the DFW area was sharing a sanding truck prior to this event.
Well, snow is one thing. It's not that bad. It's the the fact that under that snow we usually have a layer of ice because it melts and re-freezes, that's what makes it so difficult
When I was in HS, 20ish years ago, we moved from Massachusetts to Charlotte in the winter. They got about an inch of snow, school was cancelled and we had no clue why. My dad still went into work because it was an inch of snow. He was the only one in the office and barely stayed a half day. My mom tried to go to the store but almost everything was closed. We soon found out that, back then at least, even the threat of snow shuts the entire city down.
Lol I was a freshman in Hs when this happened there were literally people stranded on 285 because of 2inches of snow. Many people abandoned their cars until roads were salted and Ice was melted
Omg an inch of snow! I live in Wisconsin and I drove through Atlanta during a dusting of snow and it was insane! I never knew so many ppl could have no common sense. Ppl either drove 4 mph on the interstate or 90, neither is proper etiquette in snow
Here in New Hampshire 2" of snow on the road barely even catches our attention. It's fascinating to see what an impact this kind of weather has on people in places where it's not normal weather so there's no real preparation for it. Kudos to Ed for his acts of kindness during this crisis. We all know he's an awesome guy, and this proves it!
keep in mid that the roads were covered in 1/2 inch of solid ice, then this heavy snow fall that ramps up throughout the day. This resulted in bosses being ahh crap we have to get people out of here at around the same time. The atlanta area and the area of the ring road are very hilly and people were stalling out on the ice under the snow,not the snow itself. Hope this gives a little perspective. The cars on fire were from idiots that tried to brute force their way up the fall line of the hill instead of driving in the shoulder/median anywhere that was not a hockey rink. add in worn all season most likely snow tires and it was a cluster.
@@MrNiddster 100 percent funny, i was in eastern NC for this storm and it happened in Raleigh as well, same geography and terrain changes around the capital. Just wanted to add some additional insight. It was nuts and i was glad that i did not drive that day.
Yup! It definitely is. Im from Southern Alberta and for some ridiculous reason I thought daily driving an MR2 Turbo mid January was a good idea.... Then a few years later I bought a CTS RWD and daily drove it with all seasons through 2-3 feet of snow for that entire winter! It always brings a smile to my face to see how unprepared and uneducated most drivers in other parts of the US are!
Living in Pittsburgh PA myself, I’m here to tell you that when it starts to freezing rain, followed by a dusting of snow, even in northern areas that are prepared for it, it is one of the worst driving situations ever. So I can understand a city that just flat out isn’t prepared to even think about it going down hill quickly in that situation.
Laughing from Quebec Canada, we get between 2-5Metres of snow every years, there isn't a single day that roads don't look like that xD p.s. it's so bad that most all season tire are illegal here you NEED to have real winter tires or all season tires made for winter(with the winter logo) and it's legit a good thing because driving on ice and snow, you NEED to have good tires they salt the roads but most times it snow faster than they can salt the roads xD
Ed, it was precisely the same issue here in the Birmingham area of Bama. It took me roughly 10 hours to get home from work that day, with some of that time spent helping rescue people, push cars, stopping at a shelter to regroup with family, etc. But it was definitely one day that will live on in history. Lots of people just don't realize that down here in the South, we don't have snow and ice enough to have the infrastructure of ice preparedness, such as sand or salt trucks, snow plows, and so on. Thankful for all the good people that helped that day, though
anonymous Acura TL-s in Lenox road. 3 inch thick sheet of ice on the hill past Marta. Car hit the curb but surprisingly no real damage, just couldn’t drive it up the hill after.
@@isaac-qn6qb I had a a 2nd gen. Was 03 silver with black interior and black woodgrain, liked it a lot for an automatic. The only issue with that generation is there is a defective engineered part inside the transmission. It's about $35, but if left alone, eventually deteriorates and causes the transmission to break and you will have to ultimately replace it. I spent $2500 on mine. Definitely want to do your diligence on the transmission. Can't tell you much about the 3rd gen, but I'm sure there is plenty of material online.
Great story! I can say, with some authority, it will be a VERY long time before this happens again. I’m a meteorology major, and have been a storm chaser for the better part of 25 years. The weather event that generated this story was a hot topic of discussion within the professional weather enterprise for the rest of that year. After this event in the southeast, the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, AL, then headed by Meteorologist-In-Charge Jim Stefkovich, began a dialogue and a closer working relationship with the Alabama DOT so forecasters working shifts and issuing public forecasts can better understand the ice accretion process on roadways under colder-than-normal conditions for the region. This has been in effect copied by other NWS offices in the southeast, and there is now a much better understanding of the conditions that generate flash freezes on roads. Sorry for the long comment, but it is very rare that the two things I’m most passionate about, weather and cars, comes to the surface.
Mitchell Roberts Well, I’m just being honest. To be fair though, I’ve been studying weather for the better part of 25 years, being a storm chaser for 20 of those. I have a passion for not only the weather, but the communication process that happens around major weather events. Since the Super Outbreak of 2011 in Alabama, I’ve started following what has been going on down there in terms of how people communicate and what people do with said communication. Sooo, there’s that. 🤷🏻♂️
@@MatthewSchiess meteorologist the only profession where you are expected to be wrong. tell me its not going to rain all day i'm still taking some rain gear with me.
I remember this day well. Absolute pandemonium. I made the decision to leave my car in the safety of the parking deck at work and walk 10 miles home to Dunwoody. It was one of the best decisions of my life. It was very decent of you to go back and rescue those school kids.
Took me eight hours for a twenty minute trip. I finally parked at a Auto Zone and walked the two hours home. Passed hundreds of people not moving and cars sliding down the huge hill going into my neighborhood. Except a front wheel drive 1980's Honda Accord. It went up that hill no problem.
I live in Bulgaria and when I was a kid i used to do 150km/h (94mp/h) on the main road to Serbia during my first winter driving in 10 cm snow (about 4 inches) and I cound feel and counter every slide. Thats why it's unbelievable to me to hear tons of people unable to go uphill on a highway.
I'm outside Atlanta and even I thought it was funny as hell. The news said to stay home. Idiots went out anyway. People were interviewed asking why they were out and most were stupid reasons like "getting donuts"
I consider myself lucky, and was well prepared for that day. Something told me to prepare for inclement weather that morning. We were dismissed from work about 1:00pm that afternoon, I stayed and ate my lunch that I had brought with me that day. Listening to coworkers and reports that the roads were getting clogged with people going nowhere. My belly was full and I left Kennesaw at 1:30. After traveling about a half mile I abandoned my vehicle at 3:05pm in a Rooms To Go parking lot and walked home down US 41 south 7 miles. I made it home at 5:30pm. Truly an apocalyptic scene passing hundreds if not thousands of vehicles just sitting idling not going anywhere. I will never forget that day.
It makes sense in non-urban places with bad winters and good road crews. I'd take I-70 through the mountains in a blizzard long before US 34 or even hwy 6.
Every time I'm reminded that Ed is a dad I automatically wonder if the next generation is also establishing "Bolian clauses" because they keep finding ways around the teachers' rules.
Southerners speaking about winter reminds me of a video of Quebec guys watching a France news report about 2cm of snow and how roads will be paralyzed for a week. I was cracking up because over here we have to deal with insane amounts of snow, so it’s always hilarious to listen to
as someone thats plowed my 05 subaru impreza through 12+ inches of snow on many occasions, just cuz thats what you do when you gotta get to work in Michigan. i still love this story and i remember hearing about it on the news and facebook and its great to hear this invigorating story from somebody who was there first hand! it also goes to show how infrastructure is is a huge factor as well as winter driving experience. more or less explains why it was so bad down there glad you made it hone safe that night!!
having spent all 21 years of my life in Minnesota and now going to university in North Dakota, I find this incredibly funny. If we get 2 feet of snow up here in a blizzard they MIGHT delay classes for a couple hours
ATL looked liked the road to Baghdad ! 😬 Tennessee is the same way as Georgia with snow. I remember as a kid they would cancel school if it was snowing in Arkansas.
Hey. I remember they would do that, too. Except Pulaski county would still make me walk to school if it stopped snowing. Yeah, Arkansas was not my favorite place to be. Thank goodness I was only there for three years because my dad was in the USAF.
If you get the chance, look for pictures of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago during the '67, '79, and 2011 winters, makes the pictures Ed posted look laughable.
As someone who has both lived in the north and south. I can tell you winter is completely different down here. Gotta love it when it ices before the snow hits
I find this so hilarious, being from Indiana, where we normally get 5-8 inches of snow and maybe an inch of ice in January, and last year the temperature dropped to -35 Fahrenheit.
Drove an Infiniti g35 to and all over Vermont multiple times going snowboarding in the middle of winter on summer tires really dont understand how this was so bad
Born & raised in Michigan. I worked for Bombardier corporate (Wisconsin & Montreal) for over a decade. In 2014 I had lived in ATL for almost 10 years. I went to work that morning on the 28th floor of a downtown Atlanta high-rise and thought nothing of it. Around Noon it started coming down. It looked like rain at first, until I could see the black two-tracks through slush on the streets below, and the vibe in the building changed quickly. It went from being a fun novelty-type feeling, to what I'd expect people to feel if they were saying "I think there might be a fire!" vibe. The energy that people were feeling was to evacuate. Around 1:00 my iPhone started showing that all red map that Ed showed in this video and I thought okay, time to go. I was driving a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited (but a 4x2 with summer tires). The issue for most off my commute was not the weather. It was the traffic. OMG the traffic. The HORROR. Like Ed, my 25 minute commute home from 191 Peachtree Street (basically ground zero of downtown Atlanta) to my home in the close-in suburb of Vinings took 8.5 hours. The only was yo do it was too find the narrowest two-lane road you could fine. . Freeways were hopeless, and the 4 and 6-lane surface streets were almost worse, because the acceptable incline grade on an ATL city street is WAAAAY steeper than the DOT freeway limits. Many times I found myself in the center turn lane of a 6-lane road headed downhill to get a running start at the approaching uphill. Three of those times I saw the light turn red and I just kept on coming. Crossing traffic Caras were on the throttle when it turned green, but I had no fear. Cars would just sit and spin as I sailed through he red lights. (I would do it exactly the same way again). My neighborhood was all hilly curvy roads, and I was thinking about how far from my house I should consider parking (open a lawn or sidewalk) lest I end up sliding down a two lane and taking out thew shrubs (or living room) of a neighbor. I parked and walked the last 1/2 mile and I looked down to the bottom of the hill where I lived, I saw a sight from a movie: 4 or 5 cars had spun out and taken out stop signs, other cars and a garage. Two Cobb County police cars had also crashed down the hill piling into the neighbor cars like Chicago Police in the Blues Brothers. And to top it all off, there was a schoolbus at the bottom. The bus did not crash. The drive told me she looked over the crest of the hill and before she could say "I don't think I should go down there," she was sliding. She was able to keep it on the road, but about 25 very wide-eyed elementary school kids with no way home were pressed tot he windows (it's now approaching 8pm.). I walked home to let my dogs out and change out of my loafers and slacks so I was less of a liability and when I walked the 200 yards back to the bus, the kids we gone! The driver told them they could not get off even if they lived around the corner or in a few cases even closer. The kids mutinied and walked home I was told. But the bus driver was told if she abandoned her bus, she would be liable. (stupid rule). We brought her dinner, and then around 11:00p.m. she finally agreed to stay in the guest room of a neighbor. And 36 hours later the bus was still sitting there. What a day. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! So the question everyone north of the Mason Dixon line wants to ask is, "How does this happen with 2 inches of snow?!" My simple answer is this: In the north, we rarely see 2-3 inches of snow that aren't accompanied by two important ingredients: salt (or at least sand) that provides friction. And equally important, municipal plows. This sounds simple, but the worst of the problem in ATL was that hundreds or thousands of cars were driving over the same untreated slushy snow. The air temp was just right (32F at 11:00 a.m. falling to 25F by 6:00 p.m.) and the pavement temp even colder that made the snow turn to slush and then ice - and that ice was compacted by SO MANY vehicles and consistently cold temps. When I got out of my Jeep, the road was like a skating rink with 2 inches of ice. That rarely happens up north - again because of the prep and the plows, that push that slush to the gutters before it can freeze solid. But as a result, ATL was paralyzed until the temps got above 32F, which in this case was like 3 or 4 days. I remember walking my dogs 36 hours later, and everyone was totally snowbound on a sunny day with 2-3 inches of slush. No plow and no salt truck had touched the roads, so the ice was still 2 inches thick and going nowhere. It was SO weird.
Damn, that’s Southern hospitality at it’s finest. Well done helping out. Your an amazing storyteller, and a smile to boot. People in the prairies here in Canada laugh at us on the west coast because snow snarls traffic for us. They can laugh because the only hill they see is when the snow is piled up, or the road salt mountain.
I lived in Buffalo, NY for 9 years so you can imagine the snow up there. One year we had a storm come through and dump over 6 feet of snow. The city up there deploys front end loaders to clear the streets. However in the same spirit, my brother in law and myself ventured out in his 4x4 Dodge Ram with chains and gas cans to help people. Towing people out of the ditch or helping people get home brought a lot of enjoyment. We need more of that camaraderie these days.
I am from Dallas, Texas originally. Your comment about just a fart of snow causing an absolute dumpster fire is so true in cities like that. It is fun to sit on the sofa with a hot chocolate and watch the news broadcast of everyone else flailing around in their ill prepared cars.
Just look out for Georgia plates in general. At least where i live in GA the amount of stupid stuff I see people doing on the road still, somehow, amazes me.
Great story, Ed. I was working at GA State and my Spidey Sense told me to get out of Dodge. I start home (400, Exit 17 then 5m east) around 11:20a. Oddly enough, I did the 39 miles in 9 1/2 hours. Got off at Peachtree Pkwy to gas up as my car was on fumes and I had maybe 100yds before I would be stuck too. Cop had blocked the exit onto Peachtree and told me to go back. I just said that if you don't let me thru, I'll be camping out with you. He sighed and let me through. Pulled into the first gas station as my car was bucking and I coasted to the pump. Phew. I was the only vehicle on 400 to my exit. Head towards the lake and I have help a Corvette and a Camaro up a hill - all while my car is slowly slipping backwards on the incline. The planets aligned and I was able to get enough traction and momentum to crest my final hill. A trip for the books. Side note, one of my colleagues wanted to grab lunch first and he lives in Sandy Springs. That 1 hour delay made his trip 16 hours.
ed I loved how you slip little tid bits in your stories! This video delivered as well, with you telling us your wife never has fuel in your vehicle. lol.
I didn't grow up in Georgia, but went to school in Savannah. I was connecting through the Atlanta airport on my way back to Savannah. This was mid January 2011 and I happen to be in the first plane to be grounded in the rare snowstorm. One place ahead in the line of planes and we would have taken off. I fell asleep on the plane (something I never do) and woke up thinking we were in Savannah when, in fact, I was stuck in Atlanta. Ended up being 3 days of sleeping in the airport. After our next planned flight was cancelled too, me and about 8 other people at the gate pooled together and rented a couple cars and drove back to Savannah. I now live in Utah and that same amount of snow does nothing to us. We just go about our day.
"the whole world laughs" ... Apart from the UK. We silently nod in sympathy. We know your pain. :) I am more prepared with a set of Crossclimates on my Focus now though for that day we get every few years. :)
Love this. I daily drove a 02 VW Jetta TDI that was slammed on summer tires and had 250 HP and never had one problem living here in icy and snowy North Dakota
My snowpocalypse was great. Got out of hs at 12, walked home in the brisk dry weather. Was hanging out and an hour goes by and I saw all the snow we had gotten. Walked up to the intersection in front of the school to see absolute madness. Helped push some cars and then hung out with my buddy who had a Jeep and we had a blast when people finally abandoned trying to move around. Had like a whole week off of school it was great.
In Finland we call days like these either monday, or tuesday.
Though sometimes wensday
Here in Canada it's 7 or 8 months out of the year. 6 months if your lucky.
It’s called half of the year for me
Upstate New York, about 6 months, had 24 inches last year. It was fun, my dad went to work and my mom was a teacher so she was home with me. It was fun to look out side and see more snow than most days
Yes, a normal weekday in late spring. signalling a change to summer tyres.
Ed: “Because we knew we had enough gas, and the car was going to work.”
Every Range Rover ever: “Them’s fightin words, son!”
Cjbarker2 I read that in the Russell crow voice from southpark from some reason
it's true though if you find a rangerover or landrover with an engine and transmition in a barn or junk jard ods arr you only need to put some oil and gas in it and it would be posible to drive it right out of there.
@@KristofferEk pfffft lol
That has not been my experience at all lol I used to love them as a kid but quickly switched to Toyota 4x4 for off road needs
@@slr7628 At about 9yo I built a trolley L-R, I drove one in my first job, the business had 3 which were unreliable at any mileage. Now I've had 30 continuous years of trouble free Toyota 4X4 ownership. "There is only 1 Land-Rover. But there are millions of Toyotas". And we know why! ;-)
Yea we don't do snow too well here in the south hahahaha. Side note. We just listened to 12 minutes of Ed talking about being in traffic. That's testament to his story telling abilities
Lol...
Damn straight, we ALL just listened to Ed talk about living in the south...
You should see northern Wisconsin in winter.
Dude could read a dictionary and I’d watch and listen. 🤣
ed is the only person that could replace one of the boys from GT ( Clarkson, May, Hammond )
This man can talk about anything car related and we all swoon over it.
Ed is a dude that has driven everything imaginable, gone to Lamborghinis driving school in Italy and yet the "craziest driving day of ed's life" is a all about 2 inches of snow! Lol
"we weren't scared, the car was gonna work..."
*laughs in range rover*
Well, it's part Fiat so you never know
@@Anirossa Only part that would make it more reliable! (Seriously part Fiat? Didn't know lol)
@@Galf506 you'd be shocked how spread out some parts bins of cars are
First snow here this year dropped 2'6" and had 3' drifts. Ol jeep didnt let me down at all.
The story of my SLOWEST over the road driving average
Ed Bolian man you’re the best💯💯
Ed Bolian it was the most technical I’ve ever done. I did it in a 1997 2 wheel drive stick shift open diff pickup truck coming home from out of state. I creatively made new driving laws as needed knowing if I stopped, I would never get moving again. Ended up on the wrong side of the road, through yards, etc. but made it without incident 🤘
👀 Get a Subaru just in case it happens again 😂
I Remember this day
Ed Bolian We had a very similar event in Portland, Oregon when I worked in sales at vw dealership. Everyone was on the highways, took many hours to get home when normally 30 mins. I have picture and video of cars littered everywhere on the side of the road. Good times !
Is it just me.... Or does every one of Ed's stories involve a waffle House at some point?? 🤣
He is in the South, not sure if there are many stories from that part of the country that don't involve the Waffle House.
Waffle house or shrewd negotiations.
everyone from Georgia has stories about waffle house. And usually the late night waffle house stories are the strangest.
Keeping It Keith Have you been to a Waffle House?! Everything starts/stops with a Waffle House down here...Mmmmm...waffles!
Back when I Was a Trucker I Had Dropped Off My Trailer In Atlanta and Bob Tailed Up The Road To A Waffle House... After I Ate .. I Went Back to The Truck And Was Surfing The Web On My Computer ...
When I Heard Gun Shots...
There In The Front of Me ... About 40 feet away was a Shootout Right in The Waffle House Parking Lot...
Then a Short Time Later...
Lots Of Cops and Paramedics....
Most employers: "You're still coming in right?"
Most employees: "we're already here"
I was going to say I have no excuse for being late, I’ve got a power plant to run.
@@brendancrawford2894 yes sir never left kept working there's a lot of OT
waffle house employees: "...Hello Mr. Bolian! How bout this weather we are having."
Ralph Evangelista this isn’t even bad weather.
As a fellow GA resident, I surely remember the "snowmaggedon" lmao. I was in my sophomore year of highschool, and pretty much everyone didn't make it home except for my bus. Fortunately my bus had a driver that was used to driving in this kind of weather, and we made it home just fine. Everyone else however, either had to sleep over at the school, or wait for their parents to barely be able to pick them up.
After I made it home, I hopped on my ATV and had a hell of a day. Doing doughnuts all over the street, driving my friends place to place, snow sledding off of my big ass driveway, man that was a fun time.
2 inches of snow?lmao that's barely wet roads.😂🌨
2 inches of snow is nothing, 2 inches of snow on top of ice is completely different.
Problem is, the DOT doesn’t have the equipment to handle it down here.
GABRIEL down here in Texas we’ve never heard of the word snow
In NC, snow is fine, but it’s the ice and lack of competent scraping crews that make it a headache. The further south you go, the crazier it gets.
It was frozen rain under the layer of snow.
"I climed into my white Esca'lade, and I went to the safest place I could think of, the Interstate" -Buford Calloway 2014
Watching southerners drive in the snow. Priceless.
TheCannonball79 I’m a westerner, Wyoming, who lives in the south. I’ve also lived in Chicago and DC. Northerners can’t drive any better in the first snowfall either.
*ice 3” of sheer ice. But yeah I agree people didn’t know how to drive and it sucked driving around them
I mean I completely get this no one knows how to drive down here but that day it doesn’t matter who you are you can’t just drive on ice there’s a difference
It was not taught in the driving school I went to. Its Florida no snow dont worry about it said our instructor. At some point in our lives some of us may travel and need to know more than just drive slow.
Hell, most people in Texas freak out when it rains. Take this into consideration when we got 14" of snow here one year, in April...
I have it on good authority that the DFW area was sharing a sanding truck prior to this event.
Rob Pitts voice“This is a Rover”
“A dumpster fire of a driving experience”
Lmaoooooooo
Midwesterners laughing everywhere
It was so bad Kimmie had a jacket on 😂. Great vid. Remember this one well .
🤣🤣
Can't wait for 9/2........
Hahahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣
lollllll
I’m dead 💀
2in of snow 😂 In Canada people are still going 120kph with that on the road with a timmies in our hands haha
in upstate new york to lol good day neighbor
120kph what is that like 15mph
Josh Burton are people from the US that dumb? 75mph lol
@@techoutsider2801 let me know when you make it to the moon with that metric!!!!!!
@@coolzr573 doesn't NASA use metric. And haven't tons of countries gone to space using metric...
Southern snow storms. God's way of entertaining us Yankees in January.
Well, snow is one thing. It's not that bad. It's the the fact that under that snow we usually have a layer of ice because it melts and re-freezes, that's what makes it so difficult
@@raider5231 um that's everywhere in the north for like 3-5 months. hell farther north truckers drive on roads made of ice.
@@coolzr573 but like you said you get it 3-5 months a yeah we might get it 1-2 days a year
And watching all the transplants from the north "drive" in this weather is hilarious.
When I was in HS, 20ish years ago, we moved from Massachusetts to Charlotte in the winter. They got about an inch of snow, school was cancelled and we had no clue why. My dad still went into work because it was an inch of snow. He was the only one in the office and barely stayed a half day. My mom tried to go to the store but almost everything was closed. We soon found out that, back then at least, even the threat of snow shuts the entire city down.
Lol I was a freshman in Hs when this happened there were literally people stranded on 285 because of 2inches of snow. Many people abandoned their cars until roads were salted and Ice was melted
You know ur from the south when they talk about "Scraping the Roads"
Isn't "scraping the road" what they do when the Roadkill Cafe puts in another order for meat?
Woody Balto yup. I’m from the south and I’ve heard that term my entire life 😂
You don’t scrape a road you plow it.
As a Canadian, I find this story hilarious. Your icepocalypse is what we would call a light dusting.
I’m surprised this isn’t about,
Ed drifting his Lamborghini in the snow.
Okie TC you need to, learn how use commas
HighMagnitudeGT im surprised you clearly can’t see it and a period
Trust me dude I, see the comma and period.
Bryces , cool.
@@okietc1889 Lmfao that's not how commas work
I’m from upstate New York and it is very fun to listen to how southerners react to winter weather
Omg an inch of snow! I live in Wisconsin and I drove through Atlanta during a dusting of snow and it was insane! I never knew so many ppl could have no common sense. Ppl either drove 4 mph on the interstate or 90, neither is proper etiquette in snow
Same in Arizona when the monsoon hits. Flash floods everywhere people either completely stopped on the highway or going 90 through 2 feet of water.
OJ just moved to Tucson. Have yet to see a monsoon.
@@abramspearman9046 weather is more predictable and mild in Tucson
Same back when I lived in Tennessee for a couple years! Lol
Green Bay checking in, here. 😎
Here in New Hampshire 2" of snow on the road barely even catches our attention. It's fascinating to see what an impact this kind of weather has on people in places where it's not normal weather so there's no real preparation for it.
Kudos to Ed for his acts of kindness during this crisis. We all know he's an awesome guy, and this proves it!
I'm from northern Canada so this is hilarious to listen too
keep in mid that the roads were covered in 1/2 inch of solid ice, then this heavy snow fall that ramps up throughout the day. This resulted in bosses being ahh crap we have to get people out of here at around the same time.
The atlanta area and the area of the ring road are very hilly and people were stalling out on the ice under the snow,not the snow itself. Hope this gives a little perspective. The cars on fire were from idiots that tried to brute force their way up the fall line of the hill instead of driving in the shoulder/median anywhere that was not a hockey rink.
add in worn all season most likely snow tires and it was a cluster.
@@MrNiddster 100 percent funny, i was in eastern NC for this storm and it happened in Raleigh as well, same geography and terrain changes around the capital.
Just wanted to add some additional insight. It was nuts and i was glad that i did not drive that day.
Canada, where showing up to work 5 minutes late because of a blizzard is unacceptable.
For me as a Norwegian as well, lol
Yup! It definitely is. Im from Southern Alberta and for some ridiculous reason I thought daily driving an MR2 Turbo mid January was a good idea.... Then a few years later I bought a CTS RWD and daily drove it with all seasons through 2-3 feet of snow for that entire winter! It always brings a smile to my face to see how unprepared and uneducated most drivers in other parts of the US are!
Living in Pittsburgh PA myself, I’m here to tell you that when it starts to freezing rain, followed by a dusting of snow, even in northern areas that are prepared for it, it is one of the worst driving situations ever.
So I can understand a city that just flat out isn’t prepared to even think about it going down hill quickly in that situation.
Lol being an upstate New Yorker this is funny to listen to😂😂
Yeah michigander here laughing in all weather tires and 2 to 3 feet of snow.
Being from Chattanooga this is funny to listen to. We have plows and briners but we are 2 hours north.
Yep north Idaho guy here laughing here too
I'm from Philly, so u know I'm laughing😂😂😂😂
Laughing from Quebec Canada, we get between 2-5Metres of snow every years, there isn't a single day that roads don't look like that xD
p.s. it's so bad that most all season tire are illegal here you NEED to have real winter tires or all season tires made for winter(with the winter logo) and it's legit a good thing because driving on ice and snow, you NEED to have good tires
they salt the roads but most times it snow faster than they can salt the roads xD
God: I have 2 inchs of more snow, imma put it on atlanta
Atlanta: AHHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHHHHHHHHHHH SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Accurate
Need to come up to Michigan in January and drive some back roads where the plows don't come
MINNESOTA !!
Backroads think about subdivisions they don't plow those until about noon they only plow them if it's a bus route.
I know and you get 8 inches of snow and works like hey can you get here 15 minutes early?
I had to drive a rear wheel drive mail truck in northern Wisconsin in the winter. Not fun.
I love unplowed roads! Go Iowa! 😂
One of my favourite stories so far!
Bolian and Pitts 2020
Make Atlanta ready for Snow?
@Andrew Smith maybe...dont be so confident
Yes, please. That would be amazing. VP Rabbit would be selling used pickup trucks from the Situation Room in his spare time.
Raise the speed limits! Curb incompetence on the roadway
Ed, it was precisely the same issue here in the Birmingham area of Bama. It took me roughly 10 hours to get home from work that day, with some of that time spent helping rescue people, push cars, stopping at a shelter to regroup with family, etc. But it was definitely one day that will live on in history. Lots of people just don't realize that down here in the South, we don't have snow and ice enough to have the infrastructure of ice preparedness, such as sand or salt trucks, snow plows, and so on. Thankful for all the good people that helped that day, though
I spent 13.5 hours in a car that day. Drove 7 miles... left work at 12:30PM and got home at 2 am after wrecking and walking home a mile.
anonymous Acura TL-s in Lenox road. 3 inch thick sheet of ice on the hill past Marta. Car hit the curb but surprisingly no real damage, just couldn’t drive it up the hill after.
ATLFUNKCARTEL did u like ur TL. Thinking about picking up a 3rd gen
Isaac i had one. They’re eh. They’re a good daily driver. But they’re not good performance wise.
@@isaac-qn6qb I had a a 2nd gen. Was 03 silver with black interior and black woodgrain, liked it a lot for an automatic. The only issue with that generation is there is a defective engineered part inside the transmission. It's about $35, but if left alone, eventually deteriorates and causes the transmission to break and you will have to ultimately replace it. I spent $2500 on mine. Definitely want to do your diligence on the transmission. Can't tell you much about the 3rd gen, but I'm sure there is plenty of material online.
I was one of those National Guard guys, hahahaha
Driving though Atlanta any day of the week isn’t much better
Yeah people don’t know how to drive
I love how he has photo evidence for every story
Great story!
I can say, with some authority, it will be a VERY long time before this happens again.
I’m a meteorology major, and have been a storm chaser for the better part of 25 years. The weather event that generated this story was a hot topic of discussion within the professional weather enterprise for the rest of that year.
After this event in the southeast, the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, AL, then headed by Meteorologist-In-Charge Jim Stefkovich, began a dialogue and a closer working relationship with the Alabama DOT so forecasters working shifts and issuing public forecasts can better understand the ice accretion process on roadways under colder-than-normal conditions for the region.
This has been in effect copied by other NWS offices in the southeast, and there is now a much better understanding of the conditions that generate flash freezes on roads.
Sorry for the long comment, but it is very rare that the two things I’m most passionate about, weather and cars, comes to the surface.
meteorology major lol totally lost credibility when you thought it was a good idea to say that
Mitchell Roberts Well, I’m just being honest. To be fair though, I’ve been studying weather for the better part of 25 years, being a storm chaser for 20 of those.
I have a passion for not only the weather, but the communication process that happens around major weather events. Since the Super Outbreak of 2011 in Alabama, I’ve started following what has been going on down there in terms of how people communicate and what people do with said communication.
Sooo, there’s that. 🤷🏻♂️
@@MatthewSchiess meteorologist the only profession where you are expected to be wrong. tell me its not going to rain all day i'm still taking some rain gear with me.
@@coolzr573 that's weird
I remember this day well. Absolute pandemonium. I made the decision to leave my car in the safety of the parking deck at work and walk 10 miles home to Dunwoody. It was one of the best decisions of my life. It was very decent of you to go back and rescue those school kids.
I definitely have this day etched in my memory, it took me 11 hours to get home. Everywhere inside of 285 was complete insanity.
Oh yeah! I also remember the famed blizzard of 93!
Took me eight hours for a twenty minute trip. I finally parked at a Auto Zone and walked the two hours home. Passed hundreds of people not moving and cars sliding down the huge hill going into my neighborhood. Except a front wheel drive 1980's Honda Accord. It went up that hill no problem.
@@mathiso01 the driver of that accord was probably from the north
Its genuine entertainment as a northerner watching southerners struggle with whats to us an average winter day
Range rover should be paying you for this video
littraly any car with resonable power and correct tires could do that
Range Rover can't afford to pay its own bills.
I live in Bulgaria and when I was a kid i used to do 150km/h (94mp/h) on the main road to Serbia during my first winter driving in 10 cm snow (about 4 inches) and I cound feel and counter every slide. Thats why it's unbelievable to me to hear tons of people unable to go uphill on a highway.
Ed is a Good Man! Not everyone will tell a story knowing that 90% of the comments are gonna be from those making fun of you and your neighbors.
I'm outside Atlanta and even I thought it was funny as hell. The news said to stay home. Idiots went out anyway. People were interviewed asking why they were out and most were stupid reasons like "getting donuts"
I consider myself lucky, and was well prepared for that day. Something told me to prepare for inclement weather that morning. We were dismissed from work about 1:00pm that afternoon, I stayed and ate my lunch that I had brought with me that day. Listening to coworkers and reports that the roads were getting clogged with people going nowhere. My belly was full and I left Kennesaw at 1:30. After traveling about a half mile I abandoned my vehicle at 3:05pm in a Rooms To Go parking lot and walked home down US 41 south 7 miles. I made it home at 5:30pm. Truly an apocalyptic scene passing hundreds if not thousands of vehicles just sitting idling not going anywhere. I will never forget that day.
Hearing this story makes me glad that im from Norway and had to learn how to drive in terrible winter storms and extremely cold weather
not the same thing in any way but ok
"The roads are bad so let's take the highway"
Never understood this logic.
Unless your on a motorbike it's truly a stupid idea
It makes sense in non-urban places with bad winters and good road crews. I'd take I-70 through the mountains in a blizzard long before US 34 or even hwy 6.
We saw this from MN and had a pretty good chuckle.
Awesome you went back out to help others!
Indeed.. my dad had to pick my mom up on 285 using a four wheeler.
NOOOO!!! Really
Am I the only one that hears this story and realizes Ed is a seriously good person? It seemed like he helped anyone he could.
My favorite part of this video is when he says it’ was only 2 inches of snow😂😂
2 inches of snow pfff when I see that I speed more.
Nw ga got way more than what he is saying lol atlanta didnt get much but theydid get alot of ice
plus the few inches of ICE under the snow
@@rockerman45 that makes it more interesting.
@@rockerman45 in the north truckers drive on roads made of ice. what's your point
I remember this day vividly. Great time in Atlanta
Every time I'm reminded that Ed is a dad I automatically wonder if the next generation is also establishing "Bolian clauses" because they keep finding ways around the teachers' rules.
I litterally love driving around in horrible blizzards, ill start driving and keep going when it get to 5 6 inches, and I only got 2wd
A VinWiki story a day keeps the police at bay
You’re everywhere stfu
Me: *looks out the window*
Only 2 inches of snow
Me: Where the F is the rest of the snow?
Last time I was this early Ed was renting exotics from his college dorm.
Last time I was this early, Ed was still filming prank videos in college.
Such good memory, i need to get my story telling skills up to par.
It sound like a range Rover commercial lol
Southerners speaking about winter reminds me of a video of Quebec guys watching a France news report about 2cm of snow and how roads will be paralyzed for a week. I was cracking up because over here we have to deal with insane amounts of snow, so it’s always hilarious to listen to
Crazy he was able to sell a lambo in that situation
As someone who has lived in Michigan my whole life, I love hearing southerners talk about snow 😂
Half the reason we love Ed's stories is that we know he is the exception to the rule of Used Car Salesmen. Your a good man, Ed.
as someone thats plowed my 05 subaru impreza through 12+ inches of snow on many occasions, just cuz thats what you do when you gotta get to work in Michigan. i still love this story and i remember hearing about it on the news and facebook and its great to hear this invigorating story from somebody who was there first hand! it also goes to show how infrastructure is is a huge factor as well as winter driving experience. more or less explains why it was so bad down there glad you made it hone safe that night!!
Ed: “We picked up two girls in work out clothes”. Honey I promise there was no one else to help them 😏.
having spent all 21 years of my life in Minnesota and now going to university in North Dakota, I find this incredibly funny. If we get 2 feet of snow up here in a blizzard they MIGHT delay classes for a couple hours
ATL looked liked the road to Baghdad ! 😬
Tennessee is the same way as Georgia with snow. I remember as a kid they would cancel school if it was snowing in Arkansas.
Hey. I remember they would do that, too. Except Pulaski county would still make me walk to school if it stopped snowing. Yeah, Arkansas was not my favorite place to be. Thank goodness I was only there for three years because my dad was in the USAF.
If you get the chance, look for pictures of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago during the '67, '79, and 2011 winters, makes the pictures Ed posted look laughable.
Ed just described a regular winter day in Chicago
"We weren't scared cause we knew we had enough gas" -said nobody in a land rover ever
As someone who has both lived in the north and south. I can tell you winter is completely different down here. Gotta love it when it ices before the snow hits
I find this so hilarious, being from Indiana, where we normally get 5-8 inches of snow and maybe an inch of ice in January, and last year the temperature dropped to -35 Fahrenheit.
I’m not sure what I love more about this channel, the car stories or the fact a lot of these are based out of Atlanta which is like my backyard
Drove an Infiniti g35 to and all over Vermont multiple times going snowboarding in the middle of winter on summer tires really dont understand how this was so bad
I flew into Atlanta on the first day of the snowstorm... Spent 4 days sleeping in the airport, as you literally could not go anywhere. Total insanity!
You know what you call that in Chicago just a regular afternoon in the winter
Yeah Ed nailed it on this one, couldn't have explained that day better.
We do have Salt trucks. The best time to rob a bank. My 4x4 Tahoe was amazing.
Born & raised in Michigan. I worked for Bombardier corporate (Wisconsin & Montreal) for over a decade. In 2014 I had lived in ATL for almost 10 years. I went to work that morning on the 28th floor of a downtown Atlanta high-rise and thought nothing of it.
Around Noon it started coming down. It looked like rain at first, until I could see the black two-tracks through slush on the streets below, and the vibe in the building changed quickly. It went from being a fun novelty-type feeling, to what I'd expect people to feel if they were saying "I think there might be a fire!" vibe. The energy that people were feeling was to evacuate.
Around 1:00 my iPhone started showing that all red map that Ed showed in this video and I thought okay, time to go. I was driving a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited (but a 4x2 with summer tires). The issue for most off my commute was not the weather. It was the traffic. OMG the traffic. The HORROR. Like Ed, my 25 minute commute home from 191 Peachtree Street (basically ground zero of downtown Atlanta) to my home in the close-in suburb of Vinings took 8.5 hours.
The only was yo do it was too find the narrowest two-lane road you could fine. . Freeways were hopeless, and the 4 and 6-lane surface streets were almost worse, because the acceptable incline grade on an ATL city street is WAAAAY steeper than the DOT freeway limits.
Many times I found myself in the center turn lane of a 6-lane road headed downhill to get a running start at the approaching uphill. Three of those times I saw the light turn red and I just kept on coming. Crossing traffic Caras were on the throttle when it turned green, but I had no fear. Cars would just sit and spin as I sailed through he red lights. (I would do it exactly the same way again).
My neighborhood was all hilly curvy roads, and I was thinking about how far from my house I should consider parking (open a lawn or sidewalk) lest I end up sliding down a two lane and taking out thew shrubs (or living room) of a neighbor. I parked and walked the last 1/2 mile and I looked down to the bottom of the hill where I lived, I saw a sight from a movie: 4 or 5 cars had spun out and taken out stop signs, other cars and a garage. Two Cobb County police cars had also crashed down the hill piling into the neighbor cars like Chicago Police in the Blues Brothers.
And to top it all off, there was a schoolbus at the bottom. The bus did not crash. The drive told me she looked over the crest of the hill and before she could say "I don't think I should go down there," she was sliding. She was able to keep it on the road, but about 25 very wide-eyed elementary school kids with no way home were pressed tot he windows (it's now approaching 8pm.).
I walked home to let my dogs out and change out of my loafers and slacks so I was less of a liability and when I walked the 200 yards back to the bus, the kids we gone! The driver told them they could not get off even if they lived around the corner or in a few cases even closer. The kids mutinied and walked home I was told. But the bus driver was told if she abandoned her bus, she would be liable. (stupid rule). We brought her dinner, and then around 11:00p.m. she finally agreed to stay in the guest room of a neighbor. And 36 hours later the bus was still sitting there. What a day.
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!
So the question everyone north of the Mason Dixon line wants to ask is, "How does this happen with 2 inches of snow?!" My simple answer is this: In the north, we rarely see 2-3 inches of snow that aren't accompanied by two important ingredients: salt (or at least sand) that provides friction. And equally important, municipal plows.
This sounds simple, but the worst of the problem in ATL was that hundreds or thousands of cars were driving over the same untreated slushy snow. The air temp was just right (32F at 11:00 a.m. falling to 25F by 6:00 p.m.) and the pavement temp even colder that made the snow turn to slush and then ice - and that ice was compacted by SO MANY vehicles and consistently cold temps.
When I got out of my Jeep, the road was like a skating rink with 2 inches of ice. That rarely happens up north - again because of the prep and the plows, that push that slush to the gutters before it can freeze solid. But as a result, ATL was paralyzed until the temps got above 32F, which in this case was like 3 or 4 days. I remember walking my dogs 36 hours later, and everyone was totally snowbound on a sunny day with 2-3 inches of slush. No plow and no salt truck had touched the roads, so the ice was still 2 inches thick and going nowhere. It was SO weird.
Man that sounds like every day weather in Canada, gotta love hearing about southerners
You guys will never get stuck you guys got your mooses. The true Winter mobile.
Damn, that’s Southern hospitality at it’s finest. Well done helping out. Your an amazing storyteller, and a smile to boot.
People in the prairies here in Canada laugh at us on the west coast because snow snarls traffic for us. They can laugh because the only hill they see is when the snow is piled up, or the road salt mountain.
“Scraping the road”
We call it plowing, not scraping.
scraping a few inches of solid ice yes
two different things
I lived in Buffalo, NY for 9 years so you can imagine the snow up there. One year we had a storm come through and dump over 6 feet of snow. The city up there deploys front end loaders to clear the streets. However in the same spirit, my brother in law and myself ventured out in his 4x4 Dodge Ram with chains and gas cans to help people. Towing people out of the ditch or helping people get home brought a lot of enjoyment. We need more of that camaraderie these days.
2 inches of snow is just a light dusting here in Michigan.
But let's be honest here, when we get a light dusting, people are still spinning out left and right!
I am from Dallas, Texas originally. Your comment about just a fart of snow causing an absolute dumpster fire is so true in cities like that. It is fun to sit on the sofa with a hot chocolate and watch the news broadcast of everyone else flailing around in their ill prepared cars.
I now know to watch out for Georgia plates come wintertime.
Just look out for Georgia plates in general. At least where i live in GA the amount of stupid stuff I see people doing on the road still, somehow, amazes me.
Great story, Ed. I was working at GA State and my Spidey Sense told me to get out of Dodge. I start home (400, Exit 17 then 5m east) around 11:20a. Oddly enough, I did the 39 miles in 9 1/2 hours. Got off at Peachtree Pkwy to gas up as my car was on fumes and I had maybe 100yds before I would be stuck too. Cop had blocked the exit onto Peachtree and told me to go back. I just said that if you don't let me thru, I'll be camping out with you. He sighed and let me through. Pulled into the first gas station as my car was bucking and I coasted to the pump. Phew. I was the only vehicle on 400 to my exit. Head towards the lake and I have help a Corvette and a Camaro up a hill - all while my car is slowly slipping backwards on the incline. The planets aligned and I was able to get enough traction and momentum to crest my final hill. A trip for the books. Side note, one of my colleagues wanted to grab lunch first and he lives in Sandy Springs. That 1 hour delay made his trip 16 hours.
I literally saw a camel on the side of the highway during one of the PA snow storms
Kyle Dowling gotta love PA snow storms 😁
Must have been in Bethlehem.
That’s actually a great story if you know the context
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@@BradCMSP yessir
ed I loved how you slip little tid bits in your stories! This video delivered as well, with you telling us your wife never has fuel in your vehicle. lol.
“Four by four by far”
Ed is a hero for getting all those kids and people home
Coming from Montreal, I can’t stop laughing at this. I’m sorry 😂
I didn't grow up in Georgia, but went to school in Savannah. I was connecting through the Atlanta airport on my way back to Savannah. This was mid January 2011 and I happen to be in the first plane to be grounded in the rare snowstorm. One place ahead in the line of planes and we would have taken off. I fell asleep on the plane (something I never do) and woke up thinking we were in Savannah when, in fact, I was stuck in Atlanta. Ended up being 3 days of sleeping in the airport. After our next planned flight was cancelled too, me and about 8 other people at the gate pooled together and rented a couple cars and drove back to Savannah.
I now live in Utah and that same amount of snow does nothing to us. We just go about our day.
"the whole world laughs" ... Apart from the UK. We silently nod in sympathy. We know your pain. :)
I am more prepared with a set of Crossclimates on my Focus now though for that day we get every few years. :)
Good job Ed, sounds like you were running a “snow taxi”...😉👍
Great story as always! I have a question for you Ed. When you record a story, who are you talking to?!
ChrisB he mentions it in another video. There’s an empty directors chair he looks at because staring at the camera messes him up for whatever reason.
New best line..... “Dumpster-fire of a driving experience “ !!!!! Lol I literally had to stop the video and replay it HAHAHA 😂
Anchorage, AK here... I have no words for this just crying laughing emojis so have some of those 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2 inches 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There's a big difference between driving on snow when it's 10 degrees outside or driving on ice when it's 30°. You Alaska boys have it easy
@@allysonand meanwhile in Anchorage right now: 50 degrees and driving on icy slush. I should post my dash cam footage to UA-cam 😂
Love this. I daily drove a 02 VW Jetta TDI that was slammed on summer tires and had 250 HP and never had one problem living here in icy and snowy North Dakota
Georgia: winter is hard.
Michigan: hold my craft beer.
My snowpocalypse was great. Got out of hs at 12, walked home in the brisk dry weather. Was hanging out and an hour goes by and I saw all the snow we had gotten. Walked up to the intersection in front of the school to see absolute madness. Helped push some cars and then hung out with my buddy who had a Jeep and we had a blast when people finally abandoned trying to move around. Had like a whole week off of school it was great.