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Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts) Tue Jan 20, 2015, 05:11 AM Jan 2015

Whoa Nelly! Too Close For Comfort. Black Ice. Video

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Whoa Nelly! Too Close For Comfort. Black Ice. Video (Original Post) Unknown Beatle Jan 2015 OP

Look at that, you just ruined a perfectly good pair of pants! Revanchist Jan 2015 #1

... Unknown Beatle Jan 2015 #2

The most amazing part of this Chemisse Jan 2015 #3

And he doesn't say anything Unknown Beatle Jan 2015 #4

They just showed this exact same video on MSNBC's First Look Rhiannon12866 Jan 2015 #5

Wild. I had an experience with black ice years ago mnhtnbb Jan 2015 #6

They drive real fast in Jersey! RoccoR5955 Jan 2015 #7

Why do people insist on calling ice "black ice"? elias7 Jan 2015 #8

Three other definitions of black ice by the World Meteorological Organization are: Unknown Beatle Jan 2015 #9

Revanchist

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1. Look at that, you just ruined a perfectly good pair of pants!

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 05:17 AM

Jan 2015

This is why we can't have nice things, you know.

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)

2. ...

Reply to Revanchist (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 05:27 AM

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Chemisse

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3. The most amazing part of this

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 06:31 AM

Jan 2015

Is that the person with the camera kept recording when it looked like that truck might be about to obliterate him.

Unknown Beatle

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4. And he doesn't say anything

Reply to Chemisse (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 06:51 AM

Jan 2015

during the accident, only when he notices that other rigs are behind him does he cooly say "Got to go. Lot more trucks behind me."

Rhiannon12866

(205,527 posts)

5. They just showed this exact same video on MSNBC's First Look

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 07:02 AM

Jan 2015

And I had the same thought. My first impulse would have been to get out of the way...

mnhtnbb

(31,392 posts)

6. Wild. I had an experience with black ice years ago

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 07:38 AM

Jan 2015

when my Jeep did a 360 and hit the curb of the city street I was on--driving all of 10 mph.
Fortunately, no damage and the Jeep didn't jump the curb or flip and I didn't have my kids
in the car, either. It was scary. Very scary.

I can't imagine seeing something like that coming up on you and not screaming, or doing something
to try to get out of the way. That guy was VERY lucky the truck didn't hit him.

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)

7. They drive real fast in Jersey!

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 08:43 AM

Jan 2015

Often times too fast.
People have to learn to SLOW THE HELL DOWN, especially when things are slippery.
You see these speeding trucks all the time.
They think that they own the road!

elias7

(4,008 posts)

8. Why do people insist on calling ice "black ice"?

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 11:23 AM

Jan 2015

If roads were yellow, would we call it yellow ice?

Ice is ice, and it's clear because it's frozen water. Many people seem to use the term black ice as if it somehow absolves them from driving recklessly in icy conditions.

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine.

Unknown Beatle

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9. Three other definitions of black ice by the World Meteorological Organization are:

Reply to elias7 (Reply #8)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 05:47 PM

Jan 2015

~A thin ice layer on a fresh or salt water body which appears dark in colour because of its transparency;
~A mariner's term for a dreaded form of icing sometimes sufficiently heavy to capsize a small ship;
~Another term for ice on rocks in the mountains known equally as verglas (glaze ice).

World Meteorological Organization defines it as Black Ice.

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