I have almost no #SnowDriving experience, but when my car's back end started sliding out during a curve today, I instinctively steered into the drift to regain traction and then steadied myself.
Just as I had done a thousand times when iterating drift physics for #SaintsRow or the wolf sled on GoW:Ragnarok.
It was kinda surreal, I don't think I've ever had #VideoGame proficiency translate that directly to meat space before.
Chains are a feel good tool...
...as I have discovered on a drive up to a NZ snowfield many years ago.
My car did a slow-mo 360 just below the car park and we stopped right over the edge of a long fall (no guardrail) precipice...
...as me and my now ex counted our luck, the rest of the convoy I was heading passed us...
... it was only then I realised the gravity of the situation as every car was full of folks with shocked faces of people who have just witnessed a near tragedy...
...so yeah chains are not a magic device.
So I have learned. My near lethal error was a minor acceleration.
It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, & bring lots of smiles to Mastodon.
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The snow was super pretty yesterday when all I had to do was sit in my sunroom with the fireplace going and watch it through the beautiful windows.
It is less pretty today when the snowblower won't throw snow, and I had to clear 6" of the white stuff off my front stairs, my car, and from around my car so I can get to it later without my jeans getting soaked.
Can't wait to see what it's like in the city, where there's no way to clear it.
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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
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