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Drove down to San Antonio yesterday and met some fellow North Dakotans to hunt. My takeaways so far:

Oklahoma stinks. I assume it's all the oil wells?

Lotsa casinos too.

Those "4 layer" overpasses scare me. Wow.

85 mph speed limit. Noice.

Lotsa road construction south of Austin.

75% of the radio stations in Dallas are Spanish, nttawwt.

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1 hour ago, Parliament said:

 

Drove down to San Antonio yesterday and met some fellow North Dakotans to hunt. My takeaways so far:

Oklahoma stinks. I assume it's all the oil wells?

Lotsa casinos too.

Those "4 layer" overpasses scare me. Wow.

85 mph speed limit. Noice.

Lotsa road construction south of Austin.

75% of the radio stations in Dallas are Spanish, nttawwt.

 

Did you happen to find any stations in SA that weren't Spanish??  Asking for a friend

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What strikes me as strange is he's not the first person from up north that has said they were a little worried about those high interchanges we have.  Is it only common in the south?  I'd figure they'd have even more of them up there...

Oh and it's only HALF of Dallas stations.  Not 75%

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What strikes me as strange is he's not the first person from up north that has said they were a little worried about those high interchanges we have.  Is it only common in the south?  I'd figure they'd have even more of them up there...
Oh and it's only HALF of Dallas stations.  Not 75%
I can speak for Minneapolis they have none. The miami, dallas, Phoenix ones I've been on are crazy high vs what's up here
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It was the road construction south of San Antonio, not the shitshow from Waco to Georgetown , that bothered you?  M'kay....

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3 hours ago, Parliament said:

 

Drove down to San Antonio yesterday and met some fellow North Dakotans to hunt. My takeaways so far:

Oklahoma stinks. I assume it's all the oil wells?

 

 

 No. It’s the okies 

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1 hour ago, Drew said:

What strikes me as strange is he's not the first person from up north that has said they were a little worried about those high interchanges we have.  Is it only common in the south?  I'd figure they'd have even more of them up there...

Oh and it's only HALF of Dallas stations.  Not 75%

as said above, they shut down quick when there's snow or ice.  why would you expect them where there's snow or ice for long stretches each year?

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12 minutes ago, Drew said:

I thought they shut down here because we have no idea of what to do in ice and snow.  We use sand and shit instead of salt.

1) shit hits the fan in Texas with ice and snow not because the gvt has no idea what to do, but because they don’t fund snow plows or huge stockpiles of sand or ice and dedicated trucks to deliver it. Because it would be a waste of money. 

2) with the elevation changes on these things, sand or salt can’t help

3) southern drivers have no clue how to drive in treated or untreated icy roads. 

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Aren't they storing the aliens from Area 51 in Dayton?

At Wright-Patterson AFB. When I was doing consulting there a decade ago a bunch of people told us about the indescribable smell coming from that building.
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What strikes me as strange is he's not the first person from up north that has said they were a little worried about those high interchanges we have.  Is it only common in the south?  I'd figure they'd have even more of them up there...
Oh and it's only HALF of Dallas stations.  Not 75%


No. But it’s common in Texas.
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1) shit hits the fan in Texas with ice and snow not because the gvt has no idea what to do, but because they don’t fund snow plows or huge stockpiles of sand or ice and dedicated trucks to deliver it. Because it would be a waste of money. 
2) with the elevation changes on these things, sand or salt can’t help
3) southern drivers have no clue how to drive in treated or untreated icy roads. 

I seem to recall Snow Plows out in Lubbock when I was driving through and I recall the de-icing salts being dispersed on 35 in northern Austin many years back.

Most drivers handled it fine. We were crossing an iced bridge out of Austin and driver’s were taking turns one at a time. One hot dog decided to go during my turn, passed me, spun out and hit the wall. I waved to them as I passed.
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40 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Those overpasses are steep enough they’d be dangerous no matter how much salt you use. And narrow. There’s nowhere to push the snow to.

LOL at the idea that we ever get enough snow in any of our major metropolitan areas that it would need to be "pushed" anywhere.

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35 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

LOL at the idea that we ever get enough snow in any of our major metropolitan areas that it would need to be "pushed" anywhere.

January 1985 would have a word with you.

13.5 inches of snow in San Antonio

anywhere from 7-10 inches in Austin

 

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3 hours ago, Nivek said:


I seem to recall Snow Plows out in Lubbock when I was driving through and I recall the de-icing salts being dispersed on 35 in northern Austin many years back.

Most drivers handled it fine. We were crossing an iced bridge out of Austin and driver’s were taking turns one at a time. One hot dog decided to go during my turn, passed me, spun out and hit the wall. I waved to them as I passed.

The city of Lubbock has exactly 2 snow plows. Fun fact. 

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Our taxi driver took us from our hotel by love field to Lee harveys for shaggy gate 1.0 and mentioned the high rises by the elevated over passes have the best views of the crashes on them.


This sounds like the kind of guy who likes to kill ants with magnifying glasses in his spare time. Glad you made it out alive.
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20 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

I take it you haven't driven that stretch of 35 lately.

I know right...there's like basically 10 miles north of Georgetown that's fucked up anymore.  Mostly just Temple and another 4-5 miles. After that it's 3 lanes both ways north and south.

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