11-21-2013, 10:51 AM
(11-21-2013, 10:26 AM)kai Wrote: Naturally, people drive very slowly, not always very intelligently, and for a place that gets regular weather like this, Denver is laughably bad at street-clearing. Every first snow is treated like a snowpocalypse, traffic-wise, no matter how intense the actual snowfall is.
Truth. I live twenty minutes from work and it took me an hour and a half to get in this morning, the hour of which was getting from Iliff/Havana to the Hampden/I-25 exit (five miles). I only fish-tailed a couple of times and those were because I spaced and started going too fast for traffic. The freeways, while not awesome, are better than the regular streets because A) everyone thinks they're going to be terrible so they clog up the regular roads, and B) they are a straight shot to wherever one is going, no stop lights to further clog up traffic. Of course there are also idiots and crazy people who drive at normal speeds on the freeway, so I-25 had a lot of accidents this morning (a coworker said someone flipped onto their side on an exit ramp D: D: D: ).
Hampden was a sheet of ice, but the south side around County Line was pretty clear. The streets were mostly just wet and the sky was just starting to look a little blue.
I took a picture this morning but for some reason my phone is refusing to send it anywhere. I'll post again when I can post it!