Why do malls stay open during severe winter weather?

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About 10-12 years ago, I was driving my best buddy back home after he had corrective eye surgery, and the traffic on I-95 had come to a stop. We were in my Nissan Pathfinder, and I had seen no problems, other than a little drizzle on the windshield. I got out of the vehicle, and immediately went flat on my back - wet black ice. I had to grab the door-sill, haul myself up grabbing the door-handle, etc to get back into the vehicle. There were no chain-reaction crashes, etc. We just waited until a state maintenance truck came through spreading salted sand, then we resumed our trip home.
 
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JasonRox said:
Yeah, and those people pay as the video displayed. :smile:
UH, JR, you just hit 2000, dissing Portland drivers.
 
turbo-1 said:
About 10-12 years ago, I was driving my best buddy back home after he had corrective eye surgery, and the traffic on I-95 had come to a stop. We were in my Nissan Pathfinder, and I had seen no problems, other than a little drizzle on the windshield. I got out of the vehicle, and immediately went flat on my back - wet black ice. I had to grab the door-sill, haul myself up grabbing the door-handle, etc to get back into the vehicle. There were no chain-reaction crashes, etc. We just waited until a state maintenance truck came through spreading salted sand, then we resumed our trip home.
I can't help but think that if aliens were watching our planet one of them would make the statement,"Some of these tool-using primates exhibit different learned behaviours varying by geographic region." I wonder what life would be like if learning from the mistakes of others were more commonplace.

At least the drivers here are generally more courteous than what I have experienced on the east coast. I don't have to push my nose into an intersection to get where I need to go.

Congrats on 2000, JR!
 
JasonRox said:
Those drivers suck ass. We get way more snow than that and I've never seen anything that bad around here. Good god they suck.

I went on the highway yesterday and still managed to average 60mph in Southern Ontario. Stay in the tracks and avoid touching the damn freaking brakes in the snow.

It's funny though because some cab drivers were passing me.

I have pictures of how bad it was. I have a picture of being parked in the middle of the highway completed covered in snow. I thought it would be fun to chill out on the highway since I was like the only one on it.

I don't hit the brakes like an idiot in bad weather, but if I go 60mph on the snow with my car I am guaranteed to spin out.