It has been snowing here over the past 24 hours. It was snowing last night, so people knew about it before they went to bed and yet, despite that, people don't bother to clear the snow from their cars before they leave the house.
A few things:
- Driving with a car-roof-sized slab of snow 10 cm deep on top of the car is dangerous as it will come off at speed and 10 kg of snow hitting the road/car behind could cause a crash
- Having lights on is useless unless you have removed the snow covering them
- Having an A4-sized gap in the snow on your front screen or just clearing a football sized gap in the condensation on the window and leaving all other windows covered in snow is not enough to drive safely.
- Doing normal speeds and leaving a couple nano-metres between you and the car in front is stupid
- Approaching a turning at normal speeds when the road that you are turning into has 10 cm of snow on it is stupid
- Trying to get up a snow-covered hill in first gear and wondering why you aren't moving and what that burning rubber smell is - stupid too.
Enough said. Thank you.