Find the 4-wheel drive vehicles in this timelapse...

It's the music that makes this vid.

If I could put it in *happy I would

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Ah. The south waterfront of Portland, Oregon. I love my city, but the snow always makes us look stupid. Too many ex-Californians who haven't a clue how to drive in bad weather.

the music best known as that music from benny hill.

The part where the guys get out and switch places, back up across the intersection and take off and get on, is the best...

>> ^Kerotan:
the music best known as that music from benny hill.


Yakety Sax. If you like it, take any youtube video id, enter it here...

http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/

...and thank me later.

I love that guy near the end who saw about 10 people make it. He probably bought a new car right after this.

Sadly, alot of the fails were 4 wheel drive.

seems like they were all manual transmissions? why are they starting to roll back once they stop at the intersection?

I love watching the people try to gun it at the bottom of the hill. Gotta maintain the speed..... At least that's how we do it in Pittsburgh

Yay Portland, OR.

This was basically me driving up the road and into my driveway tonight. Though some good samaritans helped push me up.

>> ^nadabu:
Ah. The south waterfront of Portland, Oregon. I love my city, but the snow always makes us look stupid. Too many ex-Californians who haven't a clue how to drive in bad weather.


ha ha yeah...I'm in Southern Oregon but grew up in Flagstaff, Az. People here are so afraid of snow, it's ridiculous! quite a few schools were canceled the other day because of the *possibility* of a few inches of snow, which of course never happened. All we got was a little ice here and there, and yet, people still find a way of getting into wrecks.

I miss being around drivers who know how to drive in the snow. Actually, I just kind of miss the snow in general.

This bring back memories. We don't get much snow and ice where I live, but about every 4 years we do get an ice/snow storm. One time the power was out, there was nothing to do, and a friend of mine lives by this hill in a neighborhood that's a popular shortcut, so we all went over to his house, played in the snow in the front yard and had a laugh at all the cars coming through trying to get up the hill.

If you liked that, check this out - http://www.videosift.com/video/Can-t-quite-make-it-must-keep-trying

>> ^nadabu:
Ah. The south waterfront of Portland, Oregon. I love my city, but the snow always makes us look stupid. Too many ex-Californians who haven't a clue how to drive in bad weather.


I live in PDX, too. It's not the snow that makes Portland drivers look stupid — I grew up in Boston, and the snow is completely different here. In Portland, the snow compresses, melts, and refreezes on the pavement. Any snowfall quickly turns to ice due to the temps that fluctuate around 32°F. Granted, nobody does know how to drive on snow here but that's not the issue: driving on this snow — and by "snow" I mean "ice" — is treacherous no matter where you live.

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In Streetview the block doesn't look terribly steep.

I think it actually is: the block is about 220' long (using the measure on gMaps) and judging by the bldg, the rise is about 15'. 15/220*100 = 6.8% rise, pretty steep if there's ice.

I'd pop it in 4WD and drive straight over those fuckers with my 8500 pound 12 MPG SUV suburban

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Word, oohahh. I moved to PDX from St. Paul, MN two years ago, and I won't drive when it snows in Portland. There's a solid plate of ice on the ground this morning. . . They don't salt the roads here either so it doesn't melt until the cold breaks.

The way I look at it- it's nice to get a few snow days every winter, something I never got in MN.

I think this video is even better for sheer madness: http://www.videosift.com/video/Cars-play-pool-on-unbelievably-slippery-roads . This one is also from Portland.

I guess noone out there has ever heard of a thing called "snow tires"

>> ^BillOreilly:
I guess noone out there has ever heard of a thing called "snow tires"

We got em. My coworker drives a Subaru WRX STi. He's got a set of Bridgestone Blizzaks on it. Last night, as he was driving home… well, I'll just copy and paste his words:

Dave S: portland wasn't too bad last night. but right about the time I crossed cornelius pass road, it all turned to ice. by the time I got home, it was a solid sheet -- I did a test on the road in front of my house, and it took 10 seconds of ABS to stop from 25 mph. and this is with blizzaks, even. it'll be even better when the freezing rain starts up later.