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12-13-2007, 04:24 PM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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4 to 5" here in Wareham, lots of fools on the roads! I have 4X4 so I no care 
Plows have been by but there is still lots on snow on the roads |
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12-13-2007, 04:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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The majority of the "idiots" on the road during this type of weather usually have NO IDEA how to drive in the snow.
They drive with it's race time in Loudon, NH and they're in the pole position.
If it isn't the speeders, it's the "whoa-nellies" that drive EVERY ROAD at 20 mph regardless of whether it's plowed or not.
I feel sorry for any idiot that decides to tailgate me on the way home.
I'm not a "road rage" driver, but if you're showing your lack of driving intelligence, you can expect me to call you out on it.
I bet it's all part of the lack of sufficient driving instructions that newer drivers receive. You know, learn how to pass the test, not the true rules of the road!
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12-13-2007, 04:43 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,652
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barrington to warwick- 3 hours!! normal is 20 min.......
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12-13-2007, 05:35 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,322
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Quote:
Originally Posted by afterhours
normal is 20 min.......
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Ahhh, the Nyatt - Conimicut Points Bridge... I can't make it from Barrington to Duval Sq Providence in 20 minutes on a good day |
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12-13-2007, 07:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 4,449
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Left work at 5 in Eastie.
Made it to Cambridge/Allston in 20 minutes.
Got to Moody in Waltham at 6:30.
I hour to go the mile from Moody to my house!
Jess is catering an Xmas party in Boston tonight!
At least I'm home.
At one point Smarttraveller said it was 4 hours Braintree to Peobody.
I'll attest to that. I think everybody stuck on 128 was trying to cut through Waltham.
Home Sweet Home!
Rick
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John Redmond Thinks He's Smart By Changing My Avatar
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12-13-2007, 08:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,496
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I flew into Logan from Houston at about 12:30pm. Figured I'd jump on the Mass Pike to Newton, hit a store and get out before the storm was supposed to hit. Had I been listening to the radio I'd have known of a multi-car pile up about 6 miles south on 128.
It ended up taking me 6 hours to get home, and thank god I stopped for gas. I never stopped to shop either.
-spence
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12-13-2007, 08:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 4,449
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Oh yeah...hey Eddie. I was stuck on Main St. in Waltham Center for about a half hour, so I opened my window and started talking to the woman who'd been sitting next to me (I was trying a quick jog to the east to get on some really good back roads, she's going west).
She says to me, "I hate this town." I say, "Me, too."
She asks me what time I left work, I say 5 in Eastie.
She said she left Cambridge at 1:30 (it's 7:10 at this point) and she's got to drive all the way home to Shirley (like 40 more miles!).
So I pull up to another car (going West) and it's one of my ex-wive's friends who lives in Shrewsbury.
She doesn't realize that it's me, rolls down her window, says don't try to go in the direction that I'm going.
"I'm from Waltham," she says, and "Don't even try to go down that road, cause you're not going to get anywhere."
I say thanks and proceed to light up the fog lights, hit the hi beams, and pound on the horn, and the cars parted like the Red Sea as the Avalanche barged through.
I got home five minutes later. Hope she had a good time on 128!
Ha,
Rick
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John Redmond Thinks He's Smart By Changing My Avatar
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12-13-2007, 04:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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LOL Don't take this the wrong way fellas but everytime i go up to boston all i say to myself and my wife is were in hell did all these fools learn how to drive.  They say New york drivers are bad hell no not even close |
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12-13-2007, 04:52 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,450
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Quote:
Originally Posted by eastendlu
LOL Don't take this the wrong way fellas but everytime i go up to boston all i say to myself and my wife is were in hell did all these fools learn how to drive. They say New york drivers are bad hell no not even close |
you just have to realize the fast lane is on the right |
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12-13-2007, 04:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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Been sleet for over an hour now in gansett, only maybe 2" of snow. Have to go pick up the wife in newport in 2 hours  |
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12-13-2007, 05:08 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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4 hrs. from Cambridge to Brockton ... Brutal ... worse drive in my life .. Did a white knuckle 4hr. ride in a blizzard from Bethel Maine to Brockton on a Sunday ..that was former worst ...This one topped it .... too many cars .. |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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12-13-2007, 05:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,547
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tagger
4 hrs. from Cambridge to Brockton ... Brutal ... worse drive in my life .. Did a white knuckle 4hr. ride in a blizzard from Bethel Maine to Brockton on a Sunday ..that was former worst ...This one topped it .... too many cars .. |
What did ya do wimp out and leave early......?
We packed it up at 1 too. Only took 2 hrs to get from Halifax to Stoughton. |
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12-13-2007, 08:28 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MAC
What did ya do wimp out and leave early......?
We packed it up at 1 too. Only took 2 hrs to get from Halifax to Stoughton.
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No,,, wimped out and stayed ,,
started at 6 ,,, should have skidadled at noon .. |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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