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Probably because that's not tailgating. I drive on I-93 and I-84 quite a bit I know tailgating when I see it.

I am assuming this post is trolling, because unless that line of cars is going 15 mph, they are tailgating. If they are going 40, as I assume, it could get them a reckless driving ticket if there was an accident.
 
I am assuming this post is trolling, because unless that line of cars is going 15 mph, they are tailgating. If they are going 40, as I assume, it could get them a reckless driving ticket if there was an accident.
Nobody commented because nobody (including you) can actually say it's tailgating, definitively.
If anything, it's clearly in close proximity to an intersection, which brings in potential of being slower.
 
This thread has gotten me thinking about safe winter driving, and I am willing to admit that I was wrong.

I drove into the office without cleaning a single flake of snow off my car. The part I was wrong about was that 3 seconds, even on clear roads, is not enough to be behind the car in front of you because there are so many tailgaters on the highway that not only do I need to have enough time to be able to stop before hitting the car in front of me, but I need to be able to slow down gradually so the tailgaters behind me do not rear end me. 4 seconds behind is the right number.

The posters in this thread deserve the credit for bringing this to my attention. After reading so many of you justify your tailgating in this 9 page thread, I realized just how many people not only tailgate, but think that it is their right. I want to thank all of you guys for educating me on this topic. I will be a safer driver going forward.
 
Plot twist: I just got back from the grocery store. I had a truck in front of me drop half a dozen basketball size chunks of packed wheel well ice from the underside of the truck.

Clean off the underside of your vehicles, people. Be considerate - clean the underside of your vehicles.
 
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Not going to start a new thread but here in suburban Boston, it's so cold that there is still black ice even on major roads. Car slid slightly twice this morning. Treatment of roads isn't enough because anything that melts refreezes. So be careful out there. We've seen major accidents on I-495 along my route to work each of the last two days. I assume it's the same in CT.
 
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Only 2 months out the year. The rest of the year is fantastic

Sure. Arizona has about 150 days a year where it hits 100. It hits 90 in late March, and the first time it gets to 100 is around mid-April. It stays there until mid October, and doesn't drop into the 80's until November.

People love to talk about the "dry heat", but those "official highs" are the air temperature. In the sun, it will be hotter. You can't play golf in May in that kind of heat if you are over about 35. It is actually very dangerous if you are over 50.

Asphalt absorbs heat, so it is 40-60 degrees hotter on the street than it is in the air. There are days the asphalt can literally soften the soles of your sneakers, and you can burn your hands just losing your balance and putting your hand on the asphalt.

The atmospheric rivers in the last couple of years appear to have slowed the water loss, although any move in El Nino could turn that back. This is causing many areas to stop any new development. While that may seem like a positive, the fact that the government needs to stop new development because of water shortages is typically a bad leading indicator.

Have fun.
 
Sure. Arizona has about 150 days a year where it hits 100. It hits 90 in late March, and the first time it gets to 100 is around mid-April. It stays there until mid October, and doesn't drop into the 80's until November.

People love to talk about the "dry heat", but those "official highs" are the air temperature. In the sun, it will be hotter. You can't play golf in May in that kind of heat if you are over about 35. It is actually very dangerous if you are over 50.

Asphalt absorbs heat, so it is 40-60 degrees hotter on the street than it is in the air. There are days the asphalt can literally soften the soles of your sneakers, and you can burn your hands just losing your balance and putting your hand on the asphalt.

The atmospheric rivers in the last couple of years appear to have slowed the water loss, although any move in El Nino could turn that back. This is causing many areas to stop any new development. While that may seem like a positive, the fact that the government needs to stop new development because of water shortages is typically a bad leading indicator.

Have fun.
Quit being selfish and clean the roof of your car.
 
Plot twist: I just got back from the grocery store. I had a truck in front of me drop half a dozen basketball size chunks of packed wheel well ice from the underside of the truck.

Clean off the underside of your vehicles, people. Be considerate: clean the underside of your vehicles.
"You must've been tailgating otherwise the snow wouldn't have accumulated on the underside of the truck." - Nelson, probably.

(I had a mentor who used to say "given enough time, people will always tell you who they are." For some reason that quote comes to mind in this thread.)
 
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Sure. Arizona has about 150 days a year where it hits 100. It hits 90 in late March, and the first time it gets to 100 is around mid-April. It stays there until mid October, and doesn't drop into the 80's until November.

People love to talk about the "dry heat", but those "official highs" are the air temperature. In the sun, it will be hotter. You can't play golf in May in that kind of heat if you are over about 35. It is actually very dangerous if you are over 50.

Asphalt absorbs heat, so it is 40-60 degrees hotter on the street than it is in the air. There are days the asphalt can literally soften the soles of your sneakers, and you can burn your hands just losing your balance and putting your hand on the asphalt.

The atmospheric rivers in the last couple of years appear to have slowed the water loss, although any move in El Nino could turn that back. This is causing many areas to stop any new development. While that may seem like a positive, the fact that the government needs to stop new development because of water shortages is typically a bad leading indicator.

Have fun.
Let me enjoy the sun
 
It was 5 degrees this morning. Ill manage.
Haha I love the change of seasons in the northeast, and I really enjoy winter, but every year in February I find myself thinking "OK enough is enough. I'm sick of this ish."

What's the reason for the move business or are you retiring down there?
 
Haha I love the change of seasons in the northeast, and I really enjoy winter, but every year in February I find myself thinking "OK enough is enough. I'm sick of this ish."

What's the reason for the move business or are you retiring down there?

This winter sucks, no denying that, but it is the first really bad winter we have had in 11 years. Most weeks in Connecticut in mid-December through February it is in the 40's several times, and most snows melt within a few days. You get the plow piles in the parking lots, but otherwise snow on the ground doesn't last. We usually get one week long cold snap a winter where it is 0ish at night and mid teens in the day, and then we are done with the extreme cold. This winter is a 1980's style Connecticut winter.
 
Haha I love the change of seasons in the northeast, and I really enjoy winter, but every year in February I find myself thinking "OK enough is enough. I'm sick of this ish."

What's the reason for the move business or are you retiring down there?
WAAAY to young to retire haha. But just lifestyle change. Wife has a business opportunity there and just ready for something different.
 
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WAAAY to young to retire haha. But just lifestyle change. Wife has a business opportunity there and just ready for something different.

I like Connecticut, but if I could do it all over, I would move around a lot. I would not choose Arizona necessarily, but I would have liked to live a few years in California (northern and/or southern), North Carolina, Philadelphia, NYC and Boston. I like Chicago, Austin and SLC too. London, Paris and Amsterdam are also pretty cool.

It is a big world out there. Enjoy as much of it as you can. Good luck.
 
Haha I love the change of seasons in the northeast, and I really enjoy winter, but every year in February I find myself thinking "OK enough is enough. I'm sick of this ish."

What's the reason for the move business or are you retiring down there?
I've always preferred having seasons and from as long as long as i can remember until maybe my late 30's I liked having extremes (well, as extreme as it gets in the NY suburbs).

As each year goes by I prefer it less and less extreme, now in my mid 60's, it wouldn't bother me if a summer day never exceeded 91 or 92 degrees and if the winter never dropped below freezing. I'm not sure that can happen up here.
 
It was 5 degrees this morning. Ill manage.
I'll always take the bitter cold over oppressive heat. 5 degrees is nothing a good winter jacket can't fix, if you're going to be out in it for a while mittens/gloves and a winter hat fix it.

There's nothing you can do about 111 degrees other than sit in central AC. Shorts and a t-shirt/shirtless/naked outside ain't going to fix that.

A few close Chicago friends of mine moved to Chandler several years ago. They seem to like it a lot but they're always doing stuff outdoors early in the morning because of the heat.

Meanwhile my mom reached out to me this morning that she has no heat in Connecticut and the oil guy can't get down the tiny incline driveway so there's always drawbacks to the weather.
 
I've always preferred having seasons and from as long as long as i can remember until maybe my late 30's I liked having extremes (well, as extreme as it gets in the NY suburbs).

As each year goes by I prefer it less and less extreme, now in my mid 60's, it wouldn't bother me if a summer day never exceeded 91 or 92 degrees and if the winter never dropped below freezing. I'm not sure that can happen up here.

San Diego or Orange County CA.
 
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Greetings from Louisville.

Bardstown Rd, as pictured here, would be like Farmington Ave, perhaps just west of West Hartford Center.

Tap on the image to see how from 850 miles away, a local television station is shaming a man who garages his car.
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