This weather!

School is cancelled again tomorrow! Dunno how many of you are affected by this.
Not good. At all

Well if they didn't cancel, someone would be left at a bus stop in single digit temps and get sick. Then the 6 o'clock news would go crazy. So you cancel school and the kids go out in single digit temps and sled all day, then get sick. A catch 22.

Piper School District in western WyCo cancelled Friday classes, then un-cancelled them... KCK USD500 has a big post on the top of their website WE WILL BE OPEN!

To TailHooked's point... look for some news stories tomorrow night about WyCo kids with frostbite...

Sorry, not affected....
15 inches Monday.
5 plus inches since the lifts closed 3 hrs ago.

Sorry, not affected....
15 inches Monday.
5 plus inches since the lifts closed 3 hrs ago.
Originally Posted by Unique_Carpenter

We are sending you back to Mars..
Attached to your sticks you walk on snow with.
Please post photos & updates

School is cancelled again tomorrow! Dunno how many of you are affected by this.
Not good. At all Originally Posted by SweetSuzanna

Dammit to hell...I was supposed to take my GED exam today...
At this rate I'll never get out of the fast food industry....

A school bus overturned in South KC Wednesday afternoon with 3 students onboard. One of which was in a wheelchair.. Thankfully everyone is ok
I'd rather have school cancelled than kids riding on unsafe icy roads!

These day they don't fuck around with school stuff - not worth it. And I am from MI and had only 2 snow days my entire school years.


As Jessica says. Check this out-


https://www.kansascity.com/news/loca...225623945.html

These day they don't fuck around with school stuff - not worth it. And I am from MI and had only 2 snow days my entire school years.


As Jessica says. Check this out-


https://www.kansascity.com/news/loca...225623945.html Originally Posted by billtunes

Thank you Bill Tunes for the link. Everyone should view this clip.

The clip confirms the saying that many people don't know how to drive on the ice and snow. My viewing comes to the conclusions:

• The driver was doing too fast down hill on ice
• The driver did not know how to brake on ice: do not lock up the breaks
• The driver did not understand that a large school bus takes longer so slow or stop
• The center of gravety is high on a big truck or school bus.

Driving a truck, or any big vehicle is much different from a car. It is obvious that the driver was operating the school buss improperly. Whoever took the vidio of this accident could see what was about to happen when the bus started down the hill with ice on it. Hey this guy is driving too fast: get a vidio of this. Perhape the vidio will help to get the driver terminated from his position of safely transporting children.

Le't place the blame where it belongs, on the driver, not the wheather.

JR is right on people not knowing how to drive for the conditions. I have driven everything from a 24ft stake bed truck down. I can't tell if there was any treatment on the road, but KCMO side streets aren't properly addressed early in the morning. To me that was a steep hill to drive on ice. Once the road has glazed over, you are there for the ride. You can't reverse yourself once you are over the peak. The only thing you can do is try to steer the vehicle. The curves even make that difficult. Your momentum wants to keep you in a straight line. As you can see he clipped the blue car and ended up hitting the curb. Speed played a part, but the driver was doomed once cresting the hill. I have been on roads like that. It isn't a fun trip to the bottom. Just lucky to never had a accident.

JR is right on people not knowing how to drive for the conditions. I have driven everything from a 24ft stake bed truck down. I can't tell if there was any treatment on the road, but KCMO side streets aren't properly addressed early in the morning. To me that was a steep hill to drive on ice. Once the road has glazed over, you are there for the ride. You can't reverse yourself once you are over the peak. The only thing you can do is try to steer the vehicle. The curves even make that difficult. Your momentum wants to keep you in a straight line. As you can see he clipped the blue car and ended up hitting the curb. Speed played a part, but the driver was doomed once cresting the hill. I have been on roads like that. It isn't a fun trip to the bottom. Just lucky to never had a accident. Originally Posted by TailHooked

Tail hook,

I agree with everything you say, except ont thing. There is something you can do, and he should have done.

Most people don't understand or think about the use of the transmission when you are on a hill, or when you are on ice. In those conditions, especially when in a large truck or bus, one must use the transmission as a brake. Get in low gear and do it before you start down the hill, or encounter ice.

You will not have a 4 wheel drive on the large vehicles, but you will have the transmission, and hopefully a manual gear shift. I say hopefully because even the truck rental places have installed automatic transmissions (I hate them on trucks) for the 26 - 28 foot box trucks, and even the semi tractors in some cases. I hate that, but that is the way things are. When you have an automatic transmission on a big vehicle it is just harder to stop. With a manual, when you see an emergency, you just start clutching, double clutching and downshifting as fast as possible while staying off the brake - or using the break softly (right foot for the soft brake, left foot for the clutch) to help bring you down in the gears. This works on ice better than the brakes.

Unfortuntly, a lot of young people just have no idea of how to use a manual shift.
I once had a delivery pickup with manual shift: the young people working here hated it. I even had a vice president who wouldn't use it and didn't want to learn because it was too much of a challenge at his age: he held a Ph.D.. What? All of that education, and he was afraid to learn how to drive a stick shift.

While I am writing I will do what I am famous for: write some more. I like to write.
So here is the story.

In the 60s I was going over a mountain in in Western Virginia. As we reached the summit there was a sign saying:

Truckers
Long Decline
Get in Low Gear

A short distance later

Truckers
Get in Low Gear

A short distance later

Truckers
You need to
Get in Low Gear

Further down the grade A full sigh across the entire highway

Truckers
Arrow to the right
Emergency escapt route

WE TOLD YOU TO GET IN LOW GEAR

The escape route went down a hill and up another hill to slow them down. The top of the hill was cut off with a big sand pit at the top of the hlll

Use the low gear, it is there for a reason.