My brother had a funny experience. He grew up in Wisconsin and moved to Louisiana. He got pulled over for going the speed limit while it was snowing. The officer told him he should slow down due to it snowing. But when my brother told him he was originally from Wisconsin, the officer apologized and sent him on his way. 😮😊
Yup, reckless driving is what I was told the charge was. I pointed to the chains (this was in Mississippi, but I'd been living near Reno, Nevada before we moved back to Texas Hill Country and I wasn't about to toss 'em long as I had a car they fit) and the officer said, "what ARE those?!" after explaining he (jokingly) asked if I could take his momma some eggs, turns out she lived about a mile from my parents so I asked if she was short on milk or bread too.
Louisiana cops are the best! Late and lost, we were going over the speed limit to get to a funeral in Baton Rouge. Got pulled over. Explained. Didn't get a ticket, but a police escort clearing traffic for us, all the way to the funeral home !!!
On a motorcycle I stop, take off my helmet and stand next to the bike. In a car, I'm tempted, but I stay in the car, just stopped. Yes, by most state laws, you are not to interfere with a lit procession, especially flanked by patrolmen. You don't have to stop unless you are impeding their progress, but if you cut into the procession or make a big pass, then you are going to get a ticket
Yep. I married my wife in ‘94. She is from California and the first time back here when I pulled over for a funeral procession she tripped out. Turned out you get no courtesy in Commiefornia for a funeral, as I found out in ‘95 when we returned to Commiefornia for her Grandpa’s funeral. No sheriff or police escort. Every man for himself!
If they don't wave back especially when you know that person. Then the pettiness sets in. "Oh she didn't wanna wave. I know she saw me. Cuz she look at me. Watch here now next time I see her in the store. I ain't gonna wave back." My aunts word for word now.
@@keisharobinson7093 I was talking about meeting someone on the road and not having time to wave before they have passed me. Whenever that happened I would sometimes call and explain.❤️🤗🐝
During my great-grandmother's funeral procession, someone tried cutting in front of me. The deputy directing traffic made them pull over and sit till the procession was through. Didn't help the fool considering my great-grandmother was an aunt to the sheriff and sister to his father, who was the sheriff before him.
I don't pull over. I never pull over. Why should I pull over and take time out of my day for someone I never met and probably wouldn't have liked if I had?
Pull over and turn on your dims, in fact. It's respect. And you're gonna want it when it's a procession you're in (not in the lead car; you won't care then. I HOPE we're still doing it then....)
The funeral procession was something that I witnessed two weeks ago, in Alabama, during my nanas' funeral. Being from up north I did not know that that was a thing in the south. It took me by surprise but made me feel honored by the respect they all showed.
My parents are from Alabama but I was raised in Illinois...moved to Texas not long after college and have been here for almost 20 years at this point, and "don't go if there might be snow" is a rule I live by. Why? Because while I am adept at snow driving (it's a skill you never really lose), no native Texan has that skill. I'm terrified of everyone else on the road when it rains, let alone snows...and I mean, my goodness, they only have sand to put down on the road for traction, so for the love of all that is good and holy - just stay home.
That’s the way it is in Lubbock when it rains. Once a single drop hits the pavement, common sense goes out the window. Nobody out here knows how to drive when it rains.
My Sister and her Husband moved from Michigan to Florida in the late 70s, it was a year the cold crept all the way down to Miami, they got 1" of snow and my BIL went to work that morning -15 minute drive, made it onto the highway and got off to come back home petrified, he said they were either doing 2 mph or driving like the roads were dry, he said one car never even let off the gas peddle as they were spinning off the road. They only lasted a year down there.
@@TheWabbit I can totally relate...a few months after I moved to TX, we had an ice storm. I didn't even think to go to the store as everything would be open like it was in Chicago, right? Yeah...I walked down to the gas station by my apartment and it was closed. I was completely shocked. Walking back to my apartment I saw two trucks not even slowing down over the icy overpass...both of which went into the ditch. I thought, these people are nuts! I've never left my house during severe weather here since...
My parents moved from southeast Missouri to extreme northern Illinois shortly before I was born sixty plus years ago, and now I have lived in North Carolina for almost twenty years, and I refuse to go anywhere here if it snows because no one knows how to drive in it.
You forgot to keep snacks (Little Debbie) and water bottles/bug juices in the car in case you see someone in need of assistance. Even if you can’t help, as a Southerner, you should pull over and offer them the snacks, who knows how long they could be waiting for someone who can help. This is also a pro tip because there could be kids, and snacks will help calm them down if they’re scared.
@@sallyphillips9175 bug juice is like kool-aid (I guess squash is the non US version) basically fruit flavored sugar water. With a fun sports bottle squeeze top
I just watched a Charlie Berens video on a similar topic. I am now convinced that if a Wisconsinite and an Alabamian arrived at a four-way stop at the same time, they would basically both wave for the other one to go through in an increasingly frantic manner... until the Californian who arrived at the intersection after them just decides to go through.
I represent that remark, @jerseydevs2000 . I've been known to come onto that very scenario, wait for a few seconds for the first person there to go, and finally say out loud, "Well, if you're not gonna go, then I am, I have no time to waste" as I go through the intersection.
Last section was 100% correct. Went to my Uncle's funeral in Texarkana. Every car was off the street, and we passed through a few miles of town... got out to the cemetery and a tractor across the road was cutting grass. He shut down the tractor, stood up and took his hat off. My Uncle had been a VoTech teacher in Texarkana and was (apparently) well known. Whatever the case, immense respect was shown to the funeral procession.
I grew up in Michigan...worked in Atlanta one winter when I was 21. It began flurrying. The family I was renting a room from were horrified when I went out to the store. After about an hour of terror, I returned to the house properly chastised. Southerners have NO IDEA how to drive when it is snowing, and panic drive either ridiculously aggressive, or crawl at absurdly slow speeds. Furthermore, the roads are NOT designed to allow driving in ice or snow. There is no concept of keeping a level roadway so you won't slide off into the ditch because of a slippery surface...no concept of crowning the road surface to channel slippery liquids to where they need to go. Nope. Just slap the road down on a decent foundation and get on with life. Dangerous as all get out. If it snows in the south...just stay home. Even if you know how to drive in snow, the rest of the population doesn't...and major portions of your route are likely impassable just by road design.
You are absolutely right! And I try to tell northerners that we get more black ice than snow, because it rains all day and freezes at night. No one can drive in that stuff on these hilly curvy roads. Just stay home! It will all go away in a few hours anyway….❤️🤗🐝
Or alternatively, buy an old dune buggy, weld on a bunch of scrap metal and barbed wire, and paint on a bunch of road warrior emblems. If the roads are in chaos, embrace the chaos.
I've driven in snow & ice for decades, but driving during a rain storm/tornado watch/ warned area is not easy. The water comes faster than wipers can clear it away. I can honestly say in my many years in the Northeast, I could count on one hand the number of torrential rains experienced. But in the South, torrential rain is the norm and exceeded my previous experience the first month. Wow, because when it rains in the South, it pours. Literally. 🌊⛈🙏👑✝
I've been stuck out in those rains before. I was coming back home to Atlanta from visiting my folks down in South Georgia when one of those torrential rains hit. All the traffic on I-75 either stopped or slowed down to a crawl because at times I couldn't see more than a few feet in front of me and I had to guess at where the dividing markers were. Was a hectic thirty minutes or so before the rain slacked off.
@nanoflower1 has happened to me several times. I live in ATL and my parents live in Warner Robins. Once drove along side the edges of a tornado to get back to ATL.
Um... I was just in Atlanta today. I gave several waves. Atlanta, home of the 45 minute funeral processionals with 200+ cars. That's where I was when that happened.
@@MelvinMarsh Whew! I drove back home to Alabama from the Atlanta area today in that wet misty mess. We dodged traffic, but the speed racers were out in full force. 😳
Great video ! When I was 14 we moved from the DC area to Kentucky. True story. We stopped for gas in Tennessee and the attendant- this was before self service stations- and he asked Mom how our oil was. She said that it had been checked at the last stop. Then he said slowly no, I'm asking how are you you all ? She still thought he said oil. He finally said that's good and shook his head. Also people were calling us honey or sugar. That disturbed me until we finally got to KY and I understood that's just how friendly the people here are. After living all the rest of my life down south I would never live anywhere else. Bless your heart ❤️.
Went to Tennessee for the first time in 2020, never been in the south til then and took me about a day to get used to to how friendly and kind people are there, love it though
This Georgia boy was stationed in Maine during the winter. I had duty driver for my command one day, and there was a foot of snow on the ground. The vehicle in question was the standard Navy white 15 passenger van with only front wheel drive. After my Commanding Officer got in, I turned around and told everyone upfront, I was from , Georgia, had never driven in snow (I had a canadian friend for that) and things were going to be really really slow. After nearly spinning out on the intial attmept to move the van, my Commanding Officer quipped, "Theyre going to find us in the bottom of the drydock tomorrow morning, aren't they? " I responded, "Possibly Sir". I did manage to get everyone to the barracks safely that day. :p
The funeral procession is a MAJOR rule and I wish more people knew about it, understood, and most importantly obeyed it. Growing up in Mississippi this was a vital necessity and well bless your heart for not showing respect like you ought to for those that have passed on. I grew up with everyone pulling over to the shoulder and get out to show respect. When I moved after HS to Atlanta area I would get so mad for this not being a thing that was obeyed. I had no clue people would or even could just drive right past the procession like it’s no big deal!
On top of parking until the entire procession has passed (there will be a cop at the end so you know it's the end) also take your dang hat off. I've seen people not take their hat off and that just rude as all get out and will be remembered...
I'm from FL. I once was in NC during the winter and it snowed. As you said, I thought it was the end of days. Between the driving and the teeth chattering cold, I honestly thought I went to hell. But praise the Lord, I made it to my location and hunkered down for a week.
I love traveling in the south. Im from northern Ohio and had winters off work for 15 years. Once I was in Fla. and had to get back for an emergency. But the news said Atlanta was impassable. So I called the highway patrol there and was told that the reason was 3 inches of snow. I laughed, I really thought he was joking. I then asked what the real reason was, and he was not happy with me. So after getting a stern lecture I started north, Im in a 4 wheel drive truck. I got to Atlanta and it was scary deserted! So I took it up to 70 and stayed in 2 wheel drive kicking up a lot of snow. I was having fun when the highway patrol came after me in a car from an entrance ramp. I watched him fish tail all over down the ramp. After 3 exits I got off, stopped and ate, and continued. I was 21 at the time and really did not get it. Then I met someone from the south who's driving scared the crap out of me if it was at all slick out and I got it. Blessings To Y''all!
Water-soluble driving skills, y'all! And I once had a native of southeast Asia tell me she'd never seen an actual _monsoon_ rain as consistently hard for as long as the summer rainstorms were doing in Virginia that year!
As a native Floridian, I think you might need to disclaim more about the flashers in the rain. We already have enough people thinking that that is actually all true so the joke isn’t obvious enough. 😂 When driving in the rain, keep going, even if the car in the lane next to you disappears, you can still keep going.
Also native Floridian here. The only time I've been afraid when driving in the rain was during a 1 hr drive I made after college, at night, during a torrential downpour where I could only see 5ft ahead of me on a backwoods road. By the time I managed to get to a lit highway half an hour later my knuckles had turned white and my fingers were hurting from gripping the steering wheel so hard. The roads in town were literally covered and, as I neared home, I passed a half submerged car that had accidentally driven into a ditch because it was underwater and they couldn't see where the road WAS.
@@brianhall4182 🤣 I was driving in the last cat 5 hurricane we had on some back roads around Waldo, I couldn't see 2 ft in front of my bumper. I said fuck it, let's ride!
The flip side is people who think "oh, I can see just fine, I don't need headlights on". Like, dude, I NEED to see your tail lights so I dont slam into your silver Camary when the sky opens up in about 45 seconds.
@@amberamazine Dude, yes! This is why I've been 100% against daytime running lamps. I have passed by COUNTLESS numbers of people driving without rear lights when it's dry out because of that. And you flash at them and they have no idea because most people think, "hey, my lights are on." It's like no, you can see, but I can't see you which is a problem. If DRLs are now mandated, auto lights should also be mandated. It costs relatively nothing to put the additional light sensor on the car for that functionality but instead manufacturers charge an extra few thousand for auto lights in some electronics equipment group. Can we just make that one included by default and charge for the other stuff? And of course the danger is compounded in the rain. The least I could ever see was what I alluded to above-daytime on the interstate, storming hard but it's still bright out, and the semi-truck in front of me disappears, and then I look over to the driver in the lane to the right of me, and they disappear too. Basically, it was a white out, but with rain instead of snow. Thankfully it was quick. The worst situation however, was a rain just before dusk where the reflection of the sky in the rain made it so that a three-lane highway looked like one lane because the lines were white, the road is a really light grey, the lines were missing the black outline, and there were no reflectors, with a completely overcast sky. It was like driving on a mirror with a median in the middle of it. Oh and it was also a giant curve, did I forget to mention that? That was fun...
@Zed I know it’s a real thing. The joke I’m talking about is that it’s generally illegal to do that. In Florida, that’s at least one law most people seem to be familiar with, thankfully. The people with hazard lights on in the rain usually are from other states, driving way slow in the right lane, and get passed by everyone else. And it usually starts way before the deluge. Here, if you see people slowing for rain and you’re not in a tourist area, something serious is going on ahead or the road is impassable. 😂
If four cars stop at an intersection at nearly the same time, go away and come back in 10 minutes, and they'll still be there, all thinking "go ahead, you first, bless your heart."
First Come, First Served: The first vehicle to arrive at the intersection has the right of way. That means if you're the first to arrive, you're the first to go. Right Goes First: If two vehicles arrive at an intersection at the same time, the vehicle on the right has the right of way.
I hate how accurate this is 😂😂😂 Especially the wave to apologize for any minor mistake "ope! didn't see ya there, bud **waves** my bad" (Arkansas here)
There’s also the courtesy head nod when you meet an oncoming vehicle, mostly farming/country folk. It’s like a tip of the hat “howdy pardner” hello. And where I live in TN, we still pull over and stop for funeral processions.
When approaching a 4 way in the south, if cars are present, I intentionally approach the intersection slower so that the other drivers have the ability to sort out whose first before I get there. Works sometimes.
I guess we’re not gonna talk about merging traffic from an on-ramp, then? I’ve lived more than half of my adult life somewhere in the South, and my biggest complaint was how meek the drivers were when they were merging onto a highway. They would always try to drop behind you, even if you were adjusting your speed to let them in front of you, which led to a competition in deceleration. I love the South, but this was one thing that I could never get used to.
Ugh! This happens ALL. THE. TIME. Also, good gracious if you want to get in the other lane to make a turn. You either have to practically come to a complete stop because of the aforementioned deceleration competition or cut 'em off and hit the brakes to make your turn. I feel I have become a much more aggressive driver in the last 17 years I have lived in the South, though I have learned the courtesy wave so maybe it cancels out? 😂
You forgot: 1. Turn your signal on when the car three cars ahead turn on theirs and proceed to leave it on until you turn the opposite direction. 2. Do NOT stop or slow down at a yellow light. It's a challenge to see how many cars can get through before technically running the red. The current office holder is one Ms. Jemimah Nedry of Smyrna, GA who was the 7th car to enter and exit on yellow. 3. Never go the posted speed limit. Always travel a minimum of 5 miles under OR 10 miles over. Bonus points if you switch it up so no one can pass you on a two lane road.
I've learned all those rules since moving to the south over 10 years ago. One thing I also learned: If Waffle House is closed, stay out of the area. It's crisis time.
This is 100% so true. I live in Arkansas when my brother came to visit me, he couldn't fathom people waving at each other. We also don't believe in the lines in the road. 😂
Them 15mph curve signs in the north (hwy9,5,14) are not suggestions, best be goin' 10 'specially at night. Remember before guardrails were put up, folks learned the hard way.
We moved my in-laws down to AR several years ago. It would've been only a 10 hour drive if we hadn't stopped at all. By the time we got there, it was dark. No streetlights. Twists and turns and dips and THE NARROWEST BRIDGE IVE EVER SEEN with like 4 inches of "wall" on either side. Seriously. My husband almost tipped the Uhaul after one of the dips because he couldn't see that the road abruptly turned. We weren't going fast because, again, there were no lights...but still...To make it worse, my in-laws hadn't been there before to know what the roads were like. Yes, they bought a house without looking at it. Didn't know where the nearest anything was. When we went out the next morning to get food, we could actually see how far down we would've fallen if things had gone badly. Yikes. We have hills and curves where we are up north but not quite like that...and we don't drive them at night. I'll take snow over cliffs, thanks. At least if we wind up off the road, it'll just be in a ditch.
@Katie up until about 25 years ago many of them roads didn't have guardrails on the curves or falling rock warning signs. Kinfolk told me about drivin' them roads before they were paved.😳 Now I understand why everybody used to wave when passing one another, it was a combination of howdy&goodbye.
We had a funeral procession for a fellow trucker a couple of months ago. This is south Louisiana and we started on one side of town and went through it and about ten miles into the country. We had a sheriff escort for the country and city police for town. Every intersection was blocked and every vehicle (including eighteen wheelers) pulled over for us, even on a major U.S. highway. It was a humbling experience.
I was super thankful for the slow down and turn on emergency flashers when I drove through Atlanta on a rainy night. I was already terrified of the massive highways at high speeds. Adding rain just added insult to injury. But I was able to escape thanks to a couple dozen people going 10+ under flashing their signals. I just got behind one of them and prayed until I got out of the city safely. Thank you random southern drivers.
I rode my motorcycle out to Cherokee County, Alabama this weekend to look at some land. Every truck on the road gave me the hand-on-wheel two-finger wave. I gave them the "keep four wheels down" sign - the bikers salute adapted to four-wheelers.
I live in a rural part of New Jersey (yes, they exist) and we have lots of narrow roads, so we use the courtesy wave almost daily (thumb on the wheel and 4 fingers up), whether it is because someone pulled over or because they slowed for safety. Another use of the courtesy wave is at mail pickup time and dog-walking time - no matter whether you are doing it or driving past. (An aside - I moved to rural NJ 12 years ago after doing business in the South for many years and longing for a friendlier area than the crowded NJ suburb where I was living.)
so the last part is just a more hey gesture? if so i live in swva and that was everywhere growing up but now pushing 40 and its almost nonexistent. (though i get it because me and my sisters who are 30 and pushing 30 grew up weirded out by randoms even in our subdivision waving at us when riding and our grandparents nor parents could explain the phenomenon beyond "thats how it is"). now the traditional courtesy wave still exists as in thanks for letting me in or sorry oops my bad. now if only this area would learn what a turn signal was before breaking 🤦♂️
@@gmikes5184 Yes. I think also because the roads are not heavily traveled so if a car comes along, we can pretty much be sure it is a local person, even if we don’t know them.
This is so true. I'm from Houston but lived in North Jersey for a few years. I learned to drive in the snow. I then lived in Atlanta during Snowmageddon. It was hilarious watching people spin their tires while I just idled my car and crawled along past them. Made it home that evening, it took a while, and had to detour to take level roads, but I made it home just fine. People in the south just don't know how to manage in the snow.😂🌨
To be fair, in the deep south, we only see snow once every five years or so. I lived in Lafayette Indiana and that was a quick immersion learning to snow driving 101. Even though I can navigate any future snowpocolypse, I'm goings to sit at home and contemplate burning all the furniture at the first flurry but after I've bought all the bread and milk the piggy wiggly has in stock from sheer habit.
Remember that much of Atlanta Metro today is populated by immigrants from tropical climates and islands. A lot. Most drive light econo cars that can't dig into the ice. Most Crackers, Brothers and Sistas in North Georgia have seen snowy roads every couple years all through their lives. You can't do much with pinballs bing bonging in front of or all around you.
@@STho205 Where I live in mid GA it's just us "been here generations folk" and a few people from India.. I learned how to snow drive in a convertible so I don't know if the car size has much to do with safety. My lebaron was light as a feather but she managed snow up to about 6 inches deep with no problem. Will admit I kept a 2 ton floor jack in the trunk. I will never be defeated by a flat tire at least. Lol.
Haha - I always feel guilty if I daydream through a courtesy wave and only realize I failed to return it until it was too late. It's extra embarrassing because I live in NY now and visit family down in rural KY. When I slip south of the Line, I try to courtesy wave first and, god forbid, not miss someone else's...because that would make me a damyankee with no raisin'. (Not the fruit raisin, the other raisin'). 😂
You forgot the alternative to the wave, which is the head nod. It is usually used when you are going by each other on the edge of a cliff drop or some similar driving condition like meeting in a blind curve.
My entire family is from Alabama and the south, and while I didn't grow up there I've spent a lot of time there and I think being raised the way I was I instill a lot of these habits... mainly the stop sign one. I have honestly played the "go stop go stop" game at stop signs, where you tell them to go, they tell you to go, and then when you go, they start to go because they didn't think you were going to go? It got so annoying that I have become the most stubbornly polite and annoying driver at stop signs. If you tell me to go, I simply won't. I'll keep telling you to go. I got all day. I don't care if I'm late or in a hurry. I. Got. All. Day. Now you go.
The snow part always gets me.....I'm from Indiana but I live in the middleish part of Kentucky now. I had to go to Indy for a trip once in winter and Kentucky interstate was slow because of flurries......Stayed the night at the parents for a visit and next day drove to Indy in a white out and people were going interstate speed. How different regions handle things always fascinate me
My sister moved from Idaho to Virginia, and every year it kills her when it snows a half inch (flick wipers on to get snow off the windshield and off you go) and everyone is driving like there is eight inches of snow on the ground. When a teen visiting family in Kentucky we had to pull over to the side of the road because it was raining so hard we could barely see the semi in front of us. They had pulled over as well.
@@ruthmeow4262 I do that if needed too but it has to be heavy lol. Snow around here I learned pretty fast any hint the weather will say snow go to the store a day early to get bread. It's funny when its a half inch and people are grabbing bread like its rare.
I've lived in Northern KY my whole life & I've never seen traffic slow down for flurries. Maybe ice was expected that day? The house I live in now practically sits on I75. We had quite heavy snow this morning & people slowed down for it, but it's back to normal now.
We literally talk about the blizzard of 93’ and snowmageddon every time there is a chance of flurries. They were life altering events on southern culture. My dad walked to the store 5 miles away, during 93’ bc we had been snowed in so long and my husband was trapped in his car for 12 hours during snowmageddon bc he was essential personnel and had to go to work. He ended up getting stuck at work for 3 days. Everything in this video is 100% true, even if he said it with a smirk. There was no exaggeration, just truth. Southerner approved!
In Texas it's "Snowvid" now that brings out the shivers. That was a bad one. I now keep a bunch of canned food, water jugs, and a few logs on hand just in case.
I am from Minnesota and am living in North Carolina. I would prefer to drive in a full on blizzard in Minnesota than dealing with a light dusting of snow in NC. My fellow Minnesotans know how to drive in a blizzard. My mother drove like a bat out of hell during a snow storm to get me to the hospital due to a nosebleed that would not stop. That very much impressed by GF. I will not take my car out after a dusting of snow in NC. I know how to drive in the stuff, but I know that others do not.
Most NC mountain natives handle snow just fine, but our eastern NC flatlander and Florida ski tourists certainly do not...they tend to think the snow falls only on the slopes, not the roads.
@@kim5229 Yeah, Floridian transplant, snow scares the poo out of me. Heck, it took me 3 months of earaches and vertigo to adapt to elevation change and I’m not in the mountains. Y’all mountain folk are hearty!
Born and raised in Alabama. Joined the USAF and went all over the place. Last duty station was at Minot ND. You'd think they would know how to drive in the snow, but nope. They wind up in the ditch just as much as we in the south do when it snows.
They forget, get cocky, or get effed because someone else around them doesn't know what they're doing. I tell my husband to be careful because, "I trust YOU it's everyone else on the road I'm worried about."
well in the Seattle area they buy these lifted 4 wheel drive s.u.v. then drive 10 miles over normal speed limit not realizing when you break traction laws of motion says "baby you gonna crash."
I remember the 93 blizzard. I was 8, and my dad had broken his leg in New Mexico on vacation. My grandpa and uncle drove down to retrieve us and our car, and we drove straight through the blizzard, helping teach people "ice driving" every time we pulled into a gas station. People shared stories about being stuck for days. Asked where we were from. Missouri. We don't get tons of winter weather, but we do get all types. Since then I have been a truck driver for several years. I have learned one thing above all else. People from the south (in general, not every single person) cannot drive. This includes my own state. We have a kind of mason/dixon line situation. Half can drive, half can't. The only time they have any semblance of normalcy on the road is with a clear blue sky on a warm day. Cloudy? Can't drive. Raining? Forget about it. Don't even talk to me about snow. They shut down cities for a dusting of flurries. God bless their hearts, they should stick to horse and buggy. Illinois isn't any better. They can drive, but they behave like entitled children.
So true, y’all! The 2-finger wave on country roads is definitely alive and well in East Texas. Doesn’t apply in town of any size, even small ones, just no-center-line country roads overshadowed by tall tree limbs. When we moved here in the 80s from Houston, my kids were like, “What tha…..?” Yes, these are cultural norms that you have to learn or grow up with. I think the 2-finger wave means, “I might know you or someone you’re kin to and I don’t want to be rude,” or it means “If you need help, I’m ready to pitch in.”
Don't forget the double flash of the emergency blinkers to thank the person for letting you merge. OR the double flash of lights to signal they're okay to merge!
Yep & before daytime running lights were a standard we turned the headlights on & off at least twice to let oncoming traffic know there is a highway patrol or city cop waiting up ahead
My friend (now husband) freaked out the first time I did a courtesy wave. He thought I was arguing with the other driver after the let me merge. I explained that I was thanking them. “Oooh, it’s a thank you wave?” Granted, we were going to school in Memphis so it was 50/50 if he’d previously been getting thank you waves or the bird.
1st year we lived in NC there was a blizzard with almost a 1/2 foot of snow People were shocked that my father and us kids (ages 5,6, 8,) were outside shoveling snow and putting the chains on the cars You'd have thought we were Bigfoot from all the odd stares we got. And when parents went to work you could see how many came from Chicago at their office -- company opened new center in NC and about 1/2 staff came from Chicago. Lot was full of cars with chains on tires
As a Californian visiting Hattiesburg, MS, I did learn about the "wave" and find it delightful. Also, I realized that Californians use our horns too much. We have this thing called the "friendly California toot" which is two quick beeps to wake up the driver in front of us who won't move when the light turns green. You DON'T do that in Hattiesburg. I almost gave the toot to a guy in the school carline who didn't move when the cars in front of him did. I had my thumb on the horn but was stopped by my conscience. I waited waaay longer than I could and said "Hellllooo?" out my window. That worked and the line moved. Unfortunately my Hattiesburger daughter was mortified as I was driving her car. I've been schooled that the horn is only for safety issues and you don't do anything that's ungracious. I love the South.
My husband was born in California and grew up in several Northern states. I'm a native Texan, and his horn usage mortifies me 😂😂😂. I'm honestly frightened he may get us shot someday by honking at the wrong person.
I was a lifelong Californian who escaped when they embraced Fascist tyranny. They don't think as much as New Yorkers do, even in LA. But today, in my country town in Texas, I turned onto Main Street, and a car sped past me on this four-lane road and honked! And not a courtesy honk either; it was long, right next to me. He must have been from New York . . .
My New Jersey boyfriend who just moved down here to Alabama thanks you for this. It makes my actions much clearer to him--things I thought were just OBVIOUS, like 4-way stops.
I was six years old in 93..i lived out in the hollow at the foot of the mountains and part of the property was on a secondary road off the highway and the lower part was by the highway the only way out was up the left steep hill or right steep hill on the road we lived on so what papa did was shovel snow out from the john Deere tractor and he drove the tractor dad sat on thw wheel well and i sat in dads lap we went down the hill into our bigger field to the flat highway road into town in the tractor for groceries...i remember watching it snow and lightning across the mountains at the same time...we were out of power for a week so we just kept our milk and stuff in the snow
Courtesty Wave is not just the south, very common on Long Island in New York, and most of upstate. You just wont find it here in Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn, but literally everywhere else. Also we love driving in snow here, as long as its under 12 inches, unless they plowed it.
Former Texan here...the thing about the white stuff in Texas is that it's rarely snow...or rarely gonna stay snow...It almost always turns to ice/slush and that shit is hell to drive in. I will 100% drive in snow but I ain't messing with ice. I once had to drive in ice and was driving home from work at 2am and nearly saw some poor dude just coast his way off a bridge cuz that slushy mess will cause you to casually just...not stop.
@Jen Boston driving: route 95 north to New Hampshire, south to the cape. At Boston city limits, plan on getting off within downtown and in any other lane but the right lane, options: learn kamikaze moves or you're going towards the cape! 😆
@@debbiethomas2622 Yeah, that's Boston being Boston...only safe option there might be to have a vehicle which is identified first by the letter M and followed by a series of numbers because an actual tank is the only safe option.
For those of you commenting against pulling over for funeral processions, please take a few minutes to think about it. Not everyone in that line is from the area and likely doesn’t know the way to the cemetery. Plus, and most importantly, the very last thing anyone grieving a loved ones needs to be thinking of is trying to navigate traffic. I can tell you from experience that it adds to the burden of grief a family is experiencing for their loved one to be so disrespected that way. My brother’s funeral procession 2 years ago was interrupted twice.
I was stationed at Ft. Rucker during the winter of '72/'73 when we got over six inches of snow It was funny because the people who claimed that Northern people didn't know how to drive were siting down in ditches along the road to Carin Airfield, waiting for a wrecker. I made it to the Airfield on time, while one of the civilians arrived five minters before quitting time.
I live two miles outside the gate of Ft. Rucker currently and I remember that snow we got that year. I was a wee lad in living in Eufaula and we kids had a time. Our parents not so much, lol
@@sully4627 My section maintained the weather instruments, multiple cable TV systems and microwave relays to provide weather data for the airfields and flight schools. I had my '66 red GTO with me while I served there. Do you remember the tanker truck that was hit by a drunk driver at the entrance to Carin Airfield? It exploded and burnt I was in Daleville at that time, and saw the fireball rising into the air, and head the explosion. There were no remains of the driver after the fire was out, but burning JP4 was running downhill in the ditch towards Daleville. The airfield used up its supply of firefighting foam, and that part of the highway was reduced to crumbling gravel after all the asphalt was consumed by the fire.
@@RainyDayz1991 I made several trips to Dothan, to get parts from an electronics wholesaler. I still have the original RCA Cos/Mos data book that I bought there in 1973. It was a new technology at the time, so it was more theory and applications than datasheets. I rem ember driving the road between there and Ft. Rucker in my red '66 GTO. The speedometer had the wrong gears in the transmission, so it read 50% high. It was fun to se the reaction from passengers when they glanced at the speedometer while I passed a police cruise. It was sitting on 105 MPH, which was right at the 70 MPH speed limit. One was screaming, "They are going to put us under the jail!" There was no posted speed limit on that road in the '70s. and the Alabama State Police were driving white, unmarked Mustangs.
I'm from Florida. I have never driven in snow but rain is no problem, lol. My husband has never seen snow(I did when I was younger). We talk about maybe taking a trip to show our son and him snow for the first time... But I'm not sure about it, we hate being cold!
I'm in Houston. I'm pretty sure the rain means drive at least 10 miles per hour above the speed limit like a maniac. Thus why I don't drive in the rain anymore.
I'm in Arkansas and it's the same thing. My cousin was visiting from Ohio and she said driving here scared the daylights out of her, especially in the rain. They drive like crazy people in the rain.
I suppose it depends. I grew up in metro Detroit and letting funeral processions go by was a pretty regular thing. In my current location in northern Michigan, not so much, but it doesn't matter since there's less traffic anyway and it's easier to find your way around.
My PaPa would say “ If you were in such a hurry, why didn’t you start yesterday!” This…coming from a man who was likely going 25 mph UNDER the speed limit. Bless his sweet pea pickin heart. ❤I miss him.
I had a coworker who always put her flashers on when it rained hard. I tried telling her that was illegal, but she basically told me she was going to keep doing it regardless.
You don’t put on your flashers in FL driving 25mph during one of those 2pm “gray out”tropical rain storms, whoever is driving behind you will slam into the back of you ‘cause they can’t see you. Ask me how I know.
It's not illegal at all to put your flashers on when it's raining so hard it forces you to drive very slowly while your wipers are going as fast as they can. It's actually encouraged by law enforcement!
@TiredMomma it is absolutely illegal in most states. You have other lights on your vehicle. Emergency flashers should not be on while driving. No LEO is going to encourage you to do that, because it's dangerous
@@TiredMomma I would like to say that you are absolutely correct, however this ends up being a case where different states have different driving regulations. Only 10 states outright ban it, the rest either allow it, or allow it in cases where there is a safety hazard created by non-use. Mostly on highways, if one is driving below the minimum speed for whatever reason, flashers are to be used. This is a safety issue, you want people behind you to see you and avoid you, to not create a potentially deadly crash.
My pawpaw used to do the one finger wave all the time. The funeral procession one is real. In the country, not only do people pull over and stop, but some folks get out of their cars and bow their heads to pay their respects.
I've been a passenger in a hydroplanning accident, so yeah, I follow every rule of driving in the rain (flashers are a rarity tho, I've only used them twice). (Edit: felt like I should clarify, I've only ever driven in rain where I needed my hazards twice, I always have my lights on during rainy weather. I avoid driving in the rain as much as possible, and will stay somewhere to avoid it and let it pass)
I took a special winter driving course in Alaska. It was on a course in a large nlot that was iced over, and they sprayed water on it before you took the driving test. The one giving the test would grab the wheel at some point, and jerk it. You had to recover without hitting a cone.
Some southern states, like my home state of Alabama, have a law where you're supposed to have your headlights on in rainy weather conditions Georgia also has that law and they strictly enforce it: a police officer sees you driving in rainy weather conditions without your headlights on, they'll pull you over and give you a ticket
@@karlsmith2570 I'm sure that things have changed, in the 50+ years since I was stationed at Ft. Rucker but there were a ot of old cars on the road that had no headlights .
In FL during a tropical rain storms during driving it completely “greys out” and you cannot see at all. Slow down and turn on flashers so the people behind you won’t slam into your tail. My Seattle born family members couldn’t understand that. 🤦🏾♀️
@@michaelterrell unfortunately, while the law about headlights on during rainy weather conditions is also applicable to Alabama, they don't enforce that law as rigidly as Georgia does
Don’t use a turn signal, just cut off multiple lanes of traffic. Pace the person next to you to block traffic that just wants to go the speed limit. Drive 5 mph slower than posted speed in ALL lanes. Putter on the acceleration lane, then just stop at the merge.🙄
Yup. Snow in West Texas is a nightmare. People out here think if you have 4WD you’re invincible in the snow. One year we had over 120 accidents in one day… roll overs seem to be the new cool thing everyone is doing this winter. It ain’t about going, it’s about stopping.
We have courtesy waves here in England. Pedesitians uses them too and are also accompanied with a half jog when you cross the road. You see, we can't run because you should never run across the road but we can't walk because otherwise you would incoveinece the driver you kindly let you pass.
Snowmageddon!!!! Lol I’m always so happy when people use this term to describe that disaster. Not so much because I’m inconsiderate. It’s just that was a name I gave it and I didn’t realize how many others use it too and so the mutual but separate agreements to call that incident that is amazing to me and always makes me laugh. I just love the irony.
I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, my husband in New Jersey. My daughter was born in Illinois, but lived in PA until she was 15 and we moved to Baton Rouge. Whereas we would drive to church in three feet of snow, here they actually will give you a dispensation from Mass for the threat of snow and cancel school "out of an abundance of caution" if it gets "too" cold or if heavy rain is predicted.
I'm from PA too. I wonder how bad the "blizzard of '93" was, in the south? Where I was (NEPA) we had to remember where we parked our cars and hope that you were shoveling out the correct snow mound, that had a car somewhere under it.
The too cold thing isn't about driving...it's about the kids at the outdoor bus stops. Specifically the poor kids without winter clothing. Too many cases of frostbite to count. In Nebraska, the too cold for school thing is because some kids literally froze to death at bus stops in rural areas because school stayed open.
@@lunachick7549 In the blizzard of 93 we were without power for over a week, ice on the power line brought down a bunch of power lines, had lightning, and 25 inches of snow in my front yard (which is more snow than I had ever seen in my life). May not be much for other parts of the country but since we get about 1/2 of an inch of snow about every other year it was catastrophic.
I’ve absolutely always wanted to try to drive in a southern town in the snow. My friend moved to Tennessee and told me how abandoned things were. Seemed like a grand old time to me.
I have a driving rule I wish everyone followed, North South West East or Middle. Turn Your Head Lights ON! Its raining, turn them on. Its foggy, turn them on. Its early morning or evening, turn them on. If you see more than two other autos with their head lights on, turn them on. Its 5 am in the dark going down the highway at 70 mph and almost hit me, Turn the gosh darn head lights on Daryl!
In Feb 2021, we had a major storm sweep through Texas. A lot of snow and we lost our electricity for 4 days (at my house) amidst the frozen temps. I was working graveyards at a convenience store and I spent the early part of the storm explaining to teen customers how to drive in snow and ice. My word it was funny. I learned to drive in Texas but most of my driving experience had been in Iceland and other snowy climes. The majority of the young drivers I helped out in the parking lot were not even born the last time we had such a storm. I still don't go out in the snow though because I do not trust other drivers .
This is hilariously true!! I definitely remember the March '93 snow storm. I lived in rural Monroe/Conecuh County line. There were cars wrecked everywhere when we went to town to get a motel, since of course we lost power. Lol
The funeral rule makes you a certified, card holder of the south. All are true but them dang Yankees don't get the funeral one. Y'all have a great rest of your day and tell your momma I said hey. 💖
Tampa though into not the south just souther don’t . I live in Nth go and I still don’t .. the law sun on the books and if I dont know you I own you nothing inckuding sliwing down I front of a house on a country at rd having a wake with a sign saying slow down .. wake ahead
My brother had a funny experience. He grew up in Wisconsin and moved to Louisiana. He got pulled over for going the speed limit while it was snowing. The officer told him he should slow down due to it snowing. But when my brother told him he was originally from Wisconsin, the officer apologized and sent him on his way. 😮😊
Yup, reckless driving is what I was told the charge was.
I pointed to the chains (this was in Mississippi, but I'd been living near Reno, Nevada before we moved back to Texas Hill Country and I wasn't about to toss 'em long as I had a car they fit) and the officer said, "what ARE those?!" after explaining he (jokingly) asked if I could take his momma some eggs, turns out she lived about a mile from my parents so I asked if she was short on milk or bread too.
Louisiana cops are the best!
Late and lost, we were going over the speed limit to get to a funeral in Baton Rouge.
Got pulled over. Explained. Didn't get a ticket, but a police escort clearing traffic for us, all the way to the funeral home !!!
🪦 The funeral procession rule is a real thing. Respect.
I thought that was everywhere. A law, even.
On a motorcycle I stop, take off my helmet and stand next to the bike.
In a car, I'm tempted, but I stay in the car, just stopped.
Yes, by most state laws, you are not to interfere with a lit procession, especially flanked by patrolmen. You don't have to stop unless you are impeding their progress, but if you cut into the procession or make a big pass, then you are going to get a ticket
Amen
@@katie7748 Right!? Is it not real thing??
Yep. I married my wife in ‘94. She is from California and the first time back here when I pulled over for a funeral procession she tripped out. Turned out you get no courtesy in Commiefornia for a funeral, as I found out in ‘95 when we returned to Commiefornia for her Grandpa’s funeral. No sheriff or police escort. Every man for himself!
Man, the thing about wondering for the next 20 minutes whether they saw your wave or not hurts me deep down inside, it's so true.
If they don't wave back especially when you know that person. Then the pettiness sets in. "Oh she didn't wanna wave. I know she saw me. Cuz she look at me. Watch here now next time I see her in the store. I ain't gonna wave back." My aunts word for word now.
Yes, I have been known to go home and call just to explain that I wasn’t being rude, I just didn’t see them in time.❤️🤗🐝
@deborahdanhauer8525 Most of the time they apologize by calling or meeting them again in the store.
@@keisharobinson7093 I was talking about meeting someone on the road and not having time to wave before they have passed me. Whenever that happened I would sometimes call and explain.❤️🤗🐝
@@keisharobinson7093 Yesss!!! 😂😂The accuracy! 😂
The funeral procession rule was /is always true for me. My pawpaw almost got into a fistfight over someone not respecting my grandmother’s procession.
As he should! God bless pawpaw ! Shame on anyone that does not pull over.
During my great-grandmother's funeral procession, someone tried cutting in front of me. The deputy directing traffic made them pull over and sit till the procession was through. Didn't help the fool considering my great-grandmother was an aunt to the sheriff and sister to his father, who was the sheriff before him.
I don't pull over. I never pull over. Why should I pull over and take time out of my day for someone I never met and probably wouldn't have liked if I had?
Pull over and turn on your dims, in fact. It's respect. And you're gonna want it when it's a procession you're in (not in the lead car; you won't care then. I HOPE we're still doing it then....)
@@ericalger5003 you're not from around here, are you? Bless your heart....
The funeral procession was something that I witnessed two weeks ago, in Alabama, during my nanas' funeral. Being from up north I did not know that that was a thing in the south. It took me by surprise but made me feel honored by the respect they all showed.
I'm sorry to hear about your Nana..
Sorry for your loss, happy your nana and you’un’s were respected.
My parents are from Alabama but I was raised in Illinois...moved to Texas not long after college and have been here for almost 20 years at this point, and "don't go if there might be snow" is a rule I live by. Why? Because while I am adept at snow driving (it's a skill you never really lose), no native Texan has that skill. I'm terrified of everyone else on the road when it rains, let alone snows...and I mean, my goodness, they only have sand to put down on the road for traction, so for the love of all that is good and holy - just stay home.
That’s the way it is in Lubbock when it rains. Once a single drop hits the pavement, common sense goes out the window. Nobody out here knows how to drive when it rains.
My Sister and her Husband moved from Michigan to Florida in the late 70s, it was a year the cold crept all the way down to Miami, they got 1" of snow and my BIL went to work that morning -15 minute drive, made it onto the highway and got off to come back home petrified, he said they were either doing 2 mph or driving like the roads were dry, he said one car never even let off the gas peddle as they were spinning off the road. They only lasted a year down there.
@@TheWabbit I can totally relate...a few months after I moved to TX, we had an ice storm. I didn't even think to go to the store as everything would be open like it was in Chicago, right? Yeah...I walked down to the gas station by my apartment and it was closed. I was completely shocked. Walking back to my apartment I saw two trucks not even slowing down over the icy overpass...both of which went into the ditch. I thought, these people are nuts! I've never left my house during severe weather here since...
Texans treat snow and rain like it's a sign of endtimes...
My parents moved from southeast Missouri to extreme northern Illinois shortly before I was born sixty plus years ago, and now I have lived in North Carolina for almost twenty years, and I refuse to go anywhere here if it snows because no one knows how to drive in it.
You forgot to keep snacks (Little Debbie) and water bottles/bug juices in the car in case you see someone in need of assistance. Even if you can’t help, as a Southerner, you should pull over and offer them the snacks, who knows how long they could be waiting for someone who can help. This is also a pro tip because there could be kids, and snacks will help calm them down if they’re scared.
Bless your heart (not always an insult) for thinking of the little ones.
And keep your .38 handy just in case.
Bug juices?
Your heart is definitely in the right place but I sure as hell wouldn't eat or drink anything a stranger offered me, lol.
@@sallyphillips9175 bug juice is like kool-aid (I guess squash is the non US version) basically fruit flavored sugar water. With a fun sports bottle squeeze top
I just watched a Charlie Berens video on a similar topic. I am now convinced that if a Wisconsinite and an Alabamian arrived at a four-way stop at the same time, they would basically both wave for the other one to go through in an increasingly frantic manner... until the Californian who arrived at the intersection after them just decides to go through.
I represent that remark, @jerseydevs2000 . I've been known to come onto that very scenario, wait for a few seconds for the first person there to go, and finally say out loud, "Well, if you're not gonna go, then I am, I have no time to waste" as I go through the intersection.
And the Californian only does a rolling stop....
Last section was 100% correct. Went to my Uncle's funeral in Texarkana. Every car was off the street, and we passed through a few miles of town... got out to the cemetery and a tractor across the road was cutting grass. He shut down the tractor, stood up and took his hat off. My Uncle had been a VoTech teacher in Texarkana and was (apparently) well known. Whatever the case, immense respect was shown to the funeral procession.
I grew up in Michigan...worked in Atlanta one winter when I was 21. It began flurrying. The family I was renting a room from were horrified when I went out to the store.
After about an hour of terror, I returned to the house properly chastised. Southerners have NO IDEA how to drive when it is snowing, and panic drive either ridiculously aggressive, or crawl at absurdly slow speeds. Furthermore, the roads are NOT designed to allow driving in ice or snow. There is no concept of keeping a level roadway so you won't slide off into the ditch because of a slippery surface...no concept of crowning the road surface to channel slippery liquids to where they need to go. Nope. Just slap the road down on a decent foundation and get on with life.
Dangerous as all get out. If it snows in the south...just stay home. Even if you know how to drive in snow, the rest of the population doesn't...and major portions of your route are likely impassable just by road design.
You are absolutely right! And I try to tell northerners that we get more black ice than snow, because it rains all day and freezes at night. No one can drive in that stuff on these hilly curvy roads. Just stay home! It will all go away in a few hours anyway….❤️🤗🐝
Huh, never thought about road design!
Being from Michigan I think I can say we’re professionals when driving in the snow
Or alternatively, buy an old dune buggy, weld on a bunch of scrap metal and barbed wire, and paint on a bunch of road warrior emblems. If the roads are in chaos, embrace the chaos.
I learned how to drive in North Dakota and been living in the midwest for years. I'd rather drive in snow than on ice any day.
I've driven in snow & ice for decades, but driving during a rain storm/tornado watch/ warned area is not easy. The water comes faster than wipers can clear it away. I can honestly say in my many years in the Northeast, I could count on one hand the number of torrential rains experienced. But in the South, torrential rain is the norm and exceeded my previous experience the first month. Wow, because when it rains in the South, it pours. Literally. 🌊⛈🙏👑✝
So true! Native Georgian who spent 20 years in NJ and I NEVER saw torrential rainfall there like in GA or Florida. Plenty of snow, tho.
I've been stuck out in those rains before. I was coming back home to Atlanta from visiting my folks down in South Georgia when one of those torrential rains hit. All the traffic on I-75 either stopped or slowed down to a crawl because at times I couldn't see more than a few feet in front of me and I had to guess at where the dividing markers were. Was a hectic thirty minutes or so before the rain slacked off.
I'm from FL. It'll not rain but 30 minutes in the day. But in that 30 minutes, the skies release all the water known to man.
@nanoflower1 has happened to me several times. I live in ATL and my parents live in Warner Robins. Once drove along side the edges of a tornado to get back to ATL.
@@janejones7638 Yes!
There needs to be a footnote that none of the "southern hospitality" rules apply to driving in Atlanta.
Um... I was just in Atlanta today. I gave several waves. Atlanta, home of the 45 minute funeral processionals with 200+ cars. That's where I was when that happened.
San Antonio, either!
@@MelvinMarsh Whew! I drove back home to Alabama from the Atlanta area today in that wet misty mess. We dodged traffic, but the speed racers were out in full force. 😳
My husband is an OTR trucker. He HATES going through Atlanta.
That goes for most major Southern cities thanks to transplants. 🤮
Great video ! When I was 14 we moved from the DC area to Kentucky. True story. We stopped for gas in Tennessee and the attendant- this was before self service stations- and he asked Mom how our oil was. She said that it had been checked at the last stop. Then he said slowly no, I'm asking how are you you all ? She still thought he said oil. He finally said that's good and shook his head. Also people were calling us honey or sugar. That disturbed me until we finally got to KY and I understood that's just how friendly the people here are. After living all the rest of my life down south I would never live anywhere else. Bless your heart ❤️.
Went to Tennessee for the first time in 2020, never been in the south til then and took me about a day to get used to to how friendly and kind people are there, love it though
This Georgia boy was stationed in Maine during the winter. I had duty driver for my command one day, and there was a foot of snow on the ground. The vehicle in question was the standard Navy white 15 passenger van with only front wheel drive. After my Commanding Officer got in, I turned around and told everyone upfront, I was from , Georgia, had never driven in snow (I had a canadian friend for that) and things were going to be really really slow. After nearly spinning out on the intial attmept to move the van, my Commanding Officer quipped, "Theyre going to find us in the bottom of the drydock tomorrow morning, aren't they? " I responded, "Possibly Sir". I did manage to get everyone to the barracks safely that day. :p
The funeral procession is a MAJOR rule and I wish more people knew about it, understood, and most importantly obeyed it. Growing up in Mississippi this was a vital necessity and well bless your heart for not showing respect like you ought to for those that have passed on. I grew up with everyone pulling over to the shoulder and get out to show respect. When I moved after HS to Atlanta area I would get so mad for this not being a thing that was obeyed. I had no clue people would or even could just drive right past the procession like it’s no big deal!
ma'am, this is a wendys.
@@Zeakthecat 20 internet points for you, congrats 🎉
On top of parking until the entire procession has passed (there will be a cop at the end so you know it's the end) also take your dang hat off. I've seen people not take their hat off and that just rude as all get out and will be remembered...
@@blackhawkmg3722 Amen!! One of the most disrespectful things is to not take your cap or hat off!! Finally someone gets it too!
I'm from FL. I once was in NC during the winter and it snowed. As you said, I thought it was the end of days. Between the driving and the teeth chattering cold, I honestly thought I went to hell. But praise the Lord, I made it to my location and hunkered down for a week.
I love traveling in the south. Im from northern Ohio and had winters off work for 15 years. Once I was in Fla. and had to get back for an emergency. But the news said Atlanta was impassable.
So I called the highway patrol there and was told that the reason was 3 inches of snow. I laughed, I really thought he was joking. I then asked what the real reason was, and he was not happy
with me. So after getting a stern lecture I started north, Im in a 4 wheel drive truck. I got to Atlanta and it was scary deserted! So I took it up to 70 and stayed in 2 wheel drive kicking up a lot
of snow. I was having fun when the highway patrol came after me in a car from an entrance ramp. I watched him fish tail all over down the ramp. After 3 exits I got off, stopped and ate, and continued. I was 21 at the time and really did not get it. Then I met someone from the south who's driving scared the crap out of me if it was at all slick out and I got it. Blessings To Y''all!
Water-soluble driving skills, y'all! And I once had a native of southeast Asia tell me she'd never seen an actual _monsoon_ rain as consistently hard for as long as the summer rainstorms were doing in Virginia that year!
As a native Floridian, I think you might need to disclaim more about the flashers in the rain. We already have enough people thinking that that is actually all true so the joke isn’t obvious enough. 😂 When driving in the rain, keep going, even if the car in the lane next to you disappears, you can still keep going.
Also native Floridian here. The only time I've been afraid when driving in the rain was during a 1 hr drive I made after college, at night, during a torrential downpour where I could only see 5ft ahead of me on a backwoods road. By the time I managed to get to a lit highway half an hour later my knuckles had turned white and my fingers were hurting from gripping the steering wheel so hard. The roads in town were literally covered and, as I neared home, I passed a half submerged car that had accidentally driven into a ditch because it was underwater and they couldn't see where the road WAS.
@@brianhall4182 🤣 I was driving in the last cat 5 hurricane we had on some back roads around Waldo, I couldn't see 2 ft in front of my bumper. I said fuck it, let's ride!
The flip side is people who think "oh, I can see just fine, I don't need headlights on". Like, dude, I NEED to see your tail lights so I dont slam into your silver Camary when the sky opens up in about 45 seconds.
@@amberamazine Dude, yes! This is why I've been 100% against daytime running lamps. I have passed by COUNTLESS numbers of people driving without rear lights when it's dry out because of that. And you flash at them and they have no idea because most people think, "hey, my lights are on." It's like no, you can see, but I can't see you which is a problem. If DRLs are now mandated, auto lights should also be mandated. It costs relatively nothing to put the additional light sensor on the car for that functionality but instead manufacturers charge an extra few thousand for auto lights in some electronics equipment group. Can we just make that one included by default and charge for the other stuff? And of course the danger is compounded in the rain.
The least I could ever see was what I alluded to above-daytime on the interstate, storming hard but it's still bright out, and the semi-truck in front of me disappears, and then I look over to the driver in the lane to the right of me, and they disappear too. Basically, it was a white out, but with rain instead of snow. Thankfully it was quick. The worst situation however, was a rain just before dusk where the reflection of the sky in the rain made it so that a three-lane highway looked like one lane because the lines were white, the road is a really light grey, the lines were missing the black outline, and there were no reflectors, with a completely overcast sky. It was like driving on a mirror with a median in the middle of it. Oh and it was also a giant curve, did I forget to mention that? That was fun...
@Zed I know it’s a real thing. The joke I’m talking about is that it’s generally illegal to do that. In Florida, that’s at least one law most people seem to be familiar with, thankfully. The people with hazard lights on in the rain usually are from other states, driving way slow in the right lane, and get passed by everyone else. And it usually starts way before the deluge. Here, if you see people slowing for rain and you’re not in a tourist area, something serious is going on ahead or the road is impassable. 😂
As a Georgia girl (go Dawgs!) I can honestly say the 4-way stop portion is spot on. I literally LOL'd throughout the entire segment. 😆
If four cars stop at an intersection at nearly the same time, go away and come back in 10 minutes, and they'll still be there, all thinking "go ahead, you first, bless your heart."
First Come, First Served: The first vehicle to arrive at the intersection has the right of way. That means if you're the first to arrive, you're the first to go. Right Goes First: If two vehicles arrive at an intersection at the same time, the vehicle on the right has the right of way.
I hate how accurate this is 😂😂😂 Especially the wave to apologize for any minor mistake "ope! didn't see ya there, bud **waves** my bad" (Arkansas here)
There’s also the courtesy head nod when you meet an oncoming vehicle, mostly farming/country folk. It’s like a tip of the hat “howdy pardner” hello. And where I live in TN, we still pull over and stop for funeral processions.
When approaching a 4 way in the south, if cars are present, I intentionally approach the intersection slower so that the other drivers have the ability to sort out whose first before I get there. Works sometimes.
The 4 way stop is totally accurate.
I guess we’re not gonna talk about merging traffic from an on-ramp, then? I’ve lived more than half of my adult life somewhere in the South, and my biggest complaint was how meek the drivers were when they were merging onto a highway. They would always try to drop behind you, even if you were adjusting your speed to let them in front of you, which led to a competition in deceleration. I love the South, but this was one thing that I could never get used to.
On ramps are meant for you to reach warp speed.
@@seaval5410 LOL!! Best comment yet!!!
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Ugh! This happens ALL. THE. TIME. Also, good gracious if you want to get in the other lane to make a turn. You either have to practically come to a complete stop because of the aforementioned deceleration competition or cut 'em off and hit the brakes to make your turn. I feel I have become a much more aggressive driver in the last 17 years I have lived in the South, though I have learned the courtesy wave so maybe it cancels out? 😂
Texas, on the other hand...at least in San Antonio, there are two rules:
1. Drive fast
2. Don't signal a lane change unless you want them to pass you!
Always used the zipper merge, remembering to signal to request, not demand space. Quick wave of thanks like they said.😄
You forgot:
1. Turn your signal on when the car three cars ahead turn on theirs and proceed to leave it on until you turn the opposite direction.
2. Do NOT stop or slow down at a yellow light. It's a challenge to see how many cars can get through before technically running the red. The current office holder is one Ms. Jemimah Nedry of Smyrna, GA who was the 7th car to enter and exit on yellow.
3. Never go the posted speed limit. Always travel a minimum of 5 miles under OR 10 miles over. Bonus points if you switch it up so no one can pass you on a two lane road.
I've learned all those rules since moving to the south over 10 years ago. One thing I also learned: If Waffle House is closed, stay out of the area. It's crisis time.
This is 100% so true.
I live in Arkansas when my brother came to visit me, he couldn't fathom people waving at each other. We also don't believe in the lines in the road. 😂
Nick Rupert
Here in Arkansas we also
think a yeld sign is just a suggestion. 🙂
WPS!
Them 15mph curve signs in the north (hwy9,5,14) are not suggestions, best be goin' 10 'specially at night.
Remember before guardrails were put up, folks learned the hard way.
We moved my in-laws down to AR several years ago. It would've been only a 10 hour drive if we hadn't stopped at all. By the time we got there, it was dark. No streetlights. Twists and turns and dips and THE NARROWEST BRIDGE IVE EVER SEEN with like 4 inches of "wall" on either side. Seriously. My husband almost tipped the Uhaul after one of the dips because he couldn't see that the road abruptly turned. We weren't going fast because, again, there were no lights...but still...To make it worse, my in-laws hadn't been there before to know what the roads were like. Yes, they bought a house without looking at it. Didn't know where the nearest anything was. When we went out the next morning to get food, we could actually see how far down we would've fallen if things had gone badly. Yikes.
We have hills and curves where we are up north but not quite like that...and we don't drive them at night. I'll take snow over cliffs, thanks. At least if we wind up off the road, it'll just be in a ditch.
@Katie up until about 25 years ago many of them roads didn't have guardrails on the curves or falling rock warning signs.
Kinfolk told me about drivin' them roads before they were paved.😳
Now I understand why everybody used to wave when passing one another, it was a combination of howdy&goodbye.
I totally get the whole anxiety about whether you've been polite enough thing. And I grew up in Canada!
This is so true!! Gotta love us in the South. We wave most of the time.
The only time I wave is to say "thank you" for things like letting me out of a parking lot in heavy traffic.
We had a funeral procession for a fellow trucker a couple of months ago. This is south Louisiana and we started on one side of town and went through it and about ten miles into the country. We had a sheriff escort for the country and city police for town. Every intersection was blocked and every vehicle (including eighteen wheelers) pulled over for us, even on a major U.S. highway. It was a humbling experience.
As it should be
I was super thankful for the slow down and turn on emergency flashers when I drove through Atlanta on a rainy night. I was already terrified of the massive highways at high speeds. Adding rain just added insult to injury. But I was able to escape thanks to a couple dozen people going 10+ under flashing their signals. I just got behind one of them and prayed until I got out of the city safely. Thank you random southern drivers.
I rode my motorcycle out to Cherokee County, Alabama this weekend to look at some land. Every truck on the road gave me the hand-on-wheel two-finger wave. I gave them the "keep four wheels down" sign - the bikers salute adapted to four-wheelers.
I live in a rural part of New Jersey (yes, they exist) and we have lots of narrow roads, so we use the courtesy wave almost daily (thumb on the wheel and 4 fingers up), whether it is because someone pulled over or because they slowed for safety. Another use of the courtesy wave is at mail pickup time and dog-walking time - no matter whether you are doing it or driving past. (An aside - I moved to rural NJ 12 years ago after doing business in the South for many years and longing for a friendlier area than the crowded NJ suburb where I was living.)
so the last part is just a more hey gesture? if so i live in swva and that was everywhere growing up but now pushing 40 and its almost nonexistent. (though i get it because me and my sisters who are 30 and pushing 30 grew up weirded out by randoms even in our subdivision waving at us when riding and our grandparents nor parents could explain the phenomenon beyond "thats how it is"). now the traditional courtesy wave still exists as in thanks for letting me in or sorry oops my bad. now if only this area would learn what a turn signal was before breaking 🤦♂️
@@gmikes5184 Yes. I think also because the roads are not heavily traveled so if a car comes along, we can pretty much be sure it is a local person, even if we don’t know them.
This is so true. I'm from Houston but lived in North Jersey for a few years. I learned to drive in the snow. I then lived in Atlanta during Snowmageddon. It was hilarious watching people spin their tires while I just idled my car and crawled along past them. Made it home that evening, it took a while, and had to detour to take level roads, but I made it home just fine. People in the south just don't know how to manage in the snow.😂🌨
To be fair, in the deep south, we only see snow once every five years or so. I lived in Lafayette Indiana and that was a quick immersion learning to snow driving 101. Even though I can navigate any future snowpocolypse, I'm goings to sit at home and contemplate burning all the furniture at the first flurry but after I've bought all the bread and milk the piggy wiggly has in stock from sheer habit.
Yeah, we don’t do snow down here. We don’t have the resources for all of that. We like to look at it, but forget driving in it!
Remember that much of Atlanta Metro today is populated by immigrants from tropical climates and islands. A lot. Most drive light econo cars that can't dig into the ice.
Most Crackers, Brothers and Sistas in North Georgia have seen snowy roads every couple years all through their lives. You can't do much with pinballs bing bonging in front of or all around you.
@@STho205 You mean like Cracker Barrels?
@@STho205 Where I live in mid GA it's just us "been here generations folk" and a few people from India.. I learned how to snow drive in a convertible so I don't know if the car size has much to do with safety. My lebaron was light as a feather but she managed snow up to about 6 inches deep with no problem. Will admit I kept a 2 ton floor jack in the trunk. I will never be defeated by a flat tire at least. Lol.
Haha - I always feel guilty if I daydream through a courtesy wave and only realize I failed to return it until it was too late. It's extra embarrassing because I live in NY now and visit family down in rural KY. When I slip south of the Line, I try to courtesy wave first and, god forbid, not miss someone else's...because that would make me a damyankee with no raisin'. (Not the fruit raisin, the other raisin'). 😂
You forgot the alternative to the wave, which is the head nod. It is usually used when you are going by each other on the edge of a cliff drop or some similar driving condition like meeting in a blind curve.
My entire family is from Alabama and the south, and while I didn't grow up there I've spent a lot of time there and I think being raised the way I was I instill a lot of these habits... mainly the stop sign one. I have honestly played the "go stop go stop" game at stop signs, where you tell them to go, they tell you to go, and then when you go, they start to go because they didn't think you were going to go? It got so annoying that I have become the most stubbornly polite and annoying driver at stop signs. If you tell me to go, I simply won't. I'll keep telling you to go. I got all day. I don't care if I'm late or in a hurry. I. Got. All. Day. Now you go.
I’m a full hand wave type!😂 And I DO still pull over for funeral processions. Respect.
The snow part always gets me.....I'm from Indiana but I live in the middleish part of Kentucky now. I had to go to Indy for a trip once in winter and Kentucky interstate was slow because of flurries......Stayed the night at the parents for a visit and next day drove to Indy in a white out and people were going interstate speed. How different regions handle things always fascinate me
My sister moved from Idaho to Virginia, and every year it kills her when it snows a half inch (flick wipers on to get snow off the windshield and off you go) and everyone is driving like there is eight inches of snow on the ground. When a teen visiting family in Kentucky we had to pull over to the side of the road because it was raining so hard we could barely see the semi in front of us. They had pulled over as well.
@@ruthmeow4262 I do that if needed too but it has to be heavy lol. Snow around here I learned pretty fast any hint the weather will say snow go to the store a day early to get bread. It's funny when its a half inch and people are grabbing bread like its rare.
I've lived in Northern KY my whole life & I've never seen traffic slow down for flurries. Maybe ice was expected that day? The house I live in now practically sits on I75. We had quite heavy snow this morning & people slowed down for it, but it's back to normal now.
@@gotzBearhugz No Ice it was 64 going west, traffic was fine, flurries and super light snow happened and traffic slowed.
Indy in the snow is easy...no hills lol
I live in Florida, so driving in the rain is my jam.
We literally talk about the blizzard of 93’ and snowmageddon every time there is a chance of flurries. They were life altering events on southern culture. My dad walked to the store 5 miles away, during 93’ bc we had been snowed in so long and my husband was trapped in his car for 12 hours during snowmageddon bc he was essential personnel and had to go to work. He ended up getting stuck at work for 3 days. Everything in this video is 100% true, even if he said it with a smirk. There was no exaggeration, just truth. Southerner approved!
In Texas it's "Snowvid" now that brings out the shivers. That was a bad one. I now keep a bunch of canned food, water jugs, and a few logs on hand just in case.
@@wordforger It just takes 1 time and 30 years later you’re still hoarding canned goods every time the weatherman mentions flurries.
I don't live in the South, so everything I know about Southern roads I learned from "Smokey and the Bandit."
I am from Minnesota and am living in North Carolina. I would prefer to drive in a full on blizzard in Minnesota than dealing with a light dusting of snow in NC. My fellow Minnesotans know how to drive in a blizzard. My mother drove like a bat out of hell during a snow storm to get me to the hospital due to a nosebleed that would not stop. That very much impressed by GF. I will not take my car out after a dusting of snow in NC. I know how to drive in the stuff, but I know that others do not.
DITTO
Flat.
Mountains.
Plowed
Not plowed.
Makes a difference.
With your delightful attitude, I'm sure your community is glad you stay home. Bless your heart ❤️
Most NC mountain natives handle snow just fine, but our eastern NC flatlander and Florida ski tourists certainly do not...they tend to think the snow falls only on the slopes, not the roads.
@@kim5229 Yeah, Floridian transplant, snow scares the poo out of me. Heck, it took me 3 months of earaches and vertigo to adapt to elevation change and I’m not in the mountains.
Y’all mountain folk are hearty!
Born and raised in Alabama. Joined the USAF and went all over the place. Last duty station was at Minot ND. You'd think they would know how to drive in the snow, but nope. They wind up in the ditch just as much as we in the south do when it snows.
They forget, get cocky, or get effed because someone else around them doesn't know what they're doing. I tell my husband to be careful because, "I trust YOU it's everyone else on the road I'm worried about."
well in the Seattle area they buy these lifted 4 wheel drive s.u.v. then drive 10 miles over normal speed limit not realizing when you break traction laws of motion says "baby you gonna crash."
I remember the 93 blizzard. I was 8, and my dad had broken his leg in New Mexico on vacation. My grandpa and uncle drove down to retrieve us and our car, and we drove straight through the blizzard, helping teach people "ice driving" every time we pulled into a gas station. People shared stories about being stuck for days. Asked where we were from. Missouri. We don't get tons of winter weather, but we do get all types. Since then I have been a truck driver for several years. I have learned one thing above all else. People from the south (in general, not every single person) cannot drive. This includes my own state. We have a kind of mason/dixon line situation. Half can drive, half can't. The only time they have any semblance of normalcy on the road is with a clear blue sky on a warm day. Cloudy? Can't drive. Raining? Forget about it. Don't even talk to me about snow. They shut down cities for a dusting of flurries. God bless their hearts, they should stick to horse and buggy. Illinois isn't any better. They can drive, but they behave like entitled children.
So true, y’all! The 2-finger wave on country roads is definitely alive and well in East Texas. Doesn’t apply in town of any size, even small ones, just no-center-line country roads overshadowed by tall tree limbs. When we moved here in the 80s from Houston, my kids were like, “What tha…..?” Yes, these are cultural norms that you have to learn or grow up with. I think the 2-finger wave means, “I might know you or someone you’re kin to and I don’t want to be rude,” or it means “If you need help, I’m ready to pitch in.”
The 2-finger wave must be accompanied by wrist driving or else it's not sincere.
Don't forget the double flash of the emergency blinkers to thank the person for letting you merge. OR the double flash of lights to signal they're okay to merge!
Yep & before daytime running lights were a standard we turned the headlights on & off at least twice to let oncoming traffic know there is a highway patrol or city cop waiting up ahead
@@kristiskinner8542 100% It's a lost art.
@@kristiskinner8542 yesss!🤭
Husband is an OTR trucker and gets so excited when he sees other trucks or cars do this.
My friend (now husband) freaked out the first time I did a courtesy wave. He thought I was arguing with the other driver after the let me merge. I explained that I was thanking them. “Oooh, it’s a thank you wave?” Granted, we were going to school in Memphis so it was 50/50 if he’d previously been getting thank you waves or the bird.
1st year we lived in NC there was a blizzard with almost a 1/2 foot of snow
People were shocked that my father and us kids (ages 5,6, 8,) were outside shoveling snow and putting the chains on the cars
You'd have thought we were Bigfoot from all the odd stares we got. And when parents went to work you could see how many came from Chicago at their office -- company opened new center in NC and about 1/2 staff came from Chicago.
Lot was full of cars with chains on tires
Lived in WI my whole life and I've never seen anyone actually chain their tires.
@@katie7748 it's not as common as back in the 60s and 70s
Worse was the full tire wrap chains compared to the half chains
6" of snow ain't no blizzerd.....ya gotta have a lot mor'n that.....
@@jackbeckman7028 remember south
5 snowflakes closes school
As someone from Minnesota, the snow part made me laugh
But we in the south can’t do it because we have minimal experience
In a weird way, I actually enjoy being old enough to have a conversation starting with " You remember the blizzard of 93 . . ."
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I bloody well remember it. I was a firefighter during that mess. It sucked.
@@gregbrooks3577 Share your tale? 🙂
As a Californian visiting Hattiesburg, MS, I did learn about the "wave" and find it delightful. Also, I realized that Californians use our horns too much. We have this thing called the "friendly California toot" which is two quick beeps to wake up the driver in front of us who won't move when the light turns green. You DON'T do that in Hattiesburg. I almost gave the toot to a guy in the school carline who didn't move when the cars in front of him did. I had my thumb on the horn but was stopped by my conscience. I waited waaay longer than I could and said "Hellllooo?" out my window. That worked and the line moved. Unfortunately my Hattiesburger daughter was mortified as I was driving her car. I've been schooled that the horn is only for safety issues and you don't do anything that's ungracious. I love the South.
My husband was born in California and grew up in several Northern states. I'm a native Texan, and his horn usage mortifies me 😂😂😂. I'm honestly frightened he may get us shot someday by honking at the wrong person.
I was a lifelong Californian who escaped when they embraced Fascist tyranny. They don't think as much as New Yorkers do, even in LA. But today, in my country town in Texas, I turned onto Main Street, and a car sped past me on this four-lane road and honked! And not a courtesy honk either; it was long, right next to me. He must have been from New York . . .
My New Jersey boyfriend who just moved down here to Alabama thanks you for this. It makes my actions much clearer to him--things I thought were just OBVIOUS, like 4-way stops.
I was six years old in 93..i lived out in the hollow at the foot of the mountains and part of the property was on a secondary road off the highway and the lower part was by the highway the only way out was up the left steep hill or right steep hill on the road we lived on so what papa did was shovel snow out from the john Deere tractor and he drove the tractor dad sat on thw wheel well and i sat in dads lap we went down the hill into our bigger field to the flat highway road into town in the tractor for groceries...i remember watching it snow and lightning across the mountains at the same time...we were out of power for a week so we just kept our milk and stuff in the snow
Courtesty Wave is not just the south, very common on Long Island in New York, and most of upstate. You just wont find it here in Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn, but literally everywhere else. Also we love driving in snow here, as long as its under 12 inches, unless they plowed it.
Midwest too
This is one HUNDRED percent accurate. Everyone who moves here from another region should watch this to demystify our driving behaviors
I live in the south and am currently learning to drive. So glad I found this video!
The most accurate video EVER!
Former Texan here...the thing about the white stuff in Texas is that it's rarely snow...or rarely gonna stay snow...It almost always turns to ice/slush and that shit is hell to drive in.
I will 100% drive in snow but I ain't messing with ice. I once had to drive in ice and was driving home from work at 2am and nearly saw some poor dude just coast his way off a bridge cuz that slushy mess will cause you to casually just...not stop.
How to drive in Northern Virginia and Maryland: Read the Driver's manual, then don't do any of that.
I live in Northern Virginia and I have discovered that Boston is MUCH MUCH WORSE! Ugh, the roundabouts.
Facts
@Jen Boston driving: route 95 north to New Hampshire, south to the cape. At Boston city limits, plan on getting off within downtown and in any other lane but the right lane, options: learn kamikaze moves or you're going towards the cape! 😆
@@debbiethomas2622 Yeah, that's Boston being Boston...only safe option there might be to have a vehicle which is identified first by the letter M and followed by a series of numbers because an actual tank is the only safe option.
As all Virginia natives know, the South stops just north of Fredericksburg, VA. The DC Beltway is infested with folks who think they rule the world.
So many of these also apply to driving in England, apart from the driving in the rain one, because it rains a fair bit and we're used to that.
I love it! The courtesy wave is the one southern thing I feel people need reminded of;) thanks!
For those of you commenting against pulling over for funeral processions, please take a few minutes to think about it. Not everyone in that line is from the area and likely doesn’t know the way to the cemetery. Plus, and most importantly, the very last thing anyone grieving a loved ones needs to be thinking of is trying to navigate traffic. I can tell you from experience that it adds to the burden of grief a family is experiencing for their loved one to be so disrespected that way. My brother’s funeral procession 2 years ago was interrupted twice.
I agree.
I was stationed at Ft. Rucker during the winter of '72/'73 when we got over six inches of snow It was funny because the people who claimed that Northern people didn't know how to drive were siting down in ditches along the road to Carin Airfield, waiting for a wrecker. I made it to the Airfield on time, while one of the civilians arrived five minters before quitting time.
I live two miles outside the gate of Ft. Rucker currently and I remember that snow we got that year. I was a wee lad in living in Eufaula and we kids had a time. Our parents not so much, lol
@@sully4627 My section maintained the weather instruments, multiple cable TV systems and microwave relays to provide weather data for the airfields and flight schools.
I had my '66 red GTO with me while I served there. Do you remember the tanker truck that was hit by a drunk driver at the entrance to Carin Airfield? It exploded and burnt I was in Daleville at that time, and saw the fireball rising into the air, and head the explosion. There were no remains of the driver after the fire was out, but burning JP4 was running downhill in the ditch towards Daleville.
The airfield used up its supply of firefighting foam, and that part of the highway was reduced to crumbling gravel after all the asphalt was consumed by the fire.
@@michaelterrell I don't recall that accident.
I live in Dothan. Small world 😊.
@@RainyDayz1991 I made several trips to Dothan, to get parts from an electronics wholesaler. I still have the original RCA Cos/Mos data book that I bought there in 1973.
It was a new technology at the time, so it was more theory and applications than datasheets. I rem ember driving the road between there and Ft. Rucker in my red '66 GTO.
The speedometer had the wrong gears in the transmission, so it read 50% high. It was fun to se the reaction from passengers when they glanced at the speedometer while I passed a police cruise. It was sitting on 105 MPH, which was right at the 70 MPH speed limit. One was screaming, "They are going to put us under the jail!" There was no posted speed limit on that road in the '70s. and the Alabama State Police were driving white, unmarked Mustangs.
We are very polite drivers in West Virginia and we wave.
But we are neither scared of rain nor snow even on our curvy roads. ❤️ from West Virginia
I'm from Florida. I have never driven in snow but rain is no problem, lol. My husband has never seen snow(I did when I was younger). We talk about maybe taking a trip to show our son and him snow for the first time... But I'm not sure about it, we hate being cold!
As an Arkansan you forgot to add that we under NO circumstances use our blinker 😂😂😂😂
Yes we do!!!
We are only afraid of driving in the rain because we get those gullywashers that aren't normal rain 🤣
Those are bad, but watch out for the 'Frog Stranglers'. 😂😂😂😂😂
IKR! I mean hydroplaning is real y’all. Better to be safe, shoot…..you can pass me and not hurt my feelings one bit.
@@anitrachere7024 If you hydroplane really bad, you might pass yourself.
@@michaelterrell Haha! 🤭
One of the many things I’ve learned watching these videos… you guys were permanently scarred by the Blizzard of 93. 🥶
Oh thank God! I thought the "worried for 20 minutes that they didn't see my wave" was just me!! 🤣
I'm in Houston. I'm pretty sure the rain means drive at least 10 miles per hour above the speed limit like a maniac. Thus why I don't drive in the rain anymore.
Same in Atlanta.
I'm in Arkansas and it's the same thing. My cousin was visiting from Ohio and she said driving here scared the daylights out of her, especially in the rain. They drive like crazy people in the rain.
@@boardman49 Facts! I’m from Alabama and was in the ATL area this weekend. It was wild! 🤯I know they were cursing me out! Welp! Oh well.🤷🏽♀️
Thanks for mentioning pulling over for a funeral procession. That one hangs Yankees plum up.
I suppose it depends. I grew up in metro Detroit and letting funeral processions go by was a pretty regular thing. In my current location in northern Michigan, not so much, but it doesn't matter since there's less traffic anyway and it's easier to find your way around.
Here in Alabama, we pull over on both sides of the road.
hey now Ohio here rural we do all the same things. I think its city folk ya gotta worry about.
You have gone back to you roots with this one. Great episode!
My PaPa would say “ If you were in such a hurry, why didn’t you start yesterday!” This…coming from a man who was likely going 25 mph UNDER the speed limit. Bless his sweet pea pickin heart. ❤I miss him.
Yes please. People need this.
I had a coworker who always put her flashers on when it rained hard. I tried telling her that was illegal, but she basically told me she was going to keep doing it regardless.
You don’t put on your flashers in FL driving 25mph during one of those 2pm “gray out”tropical rain storms, whoever is driving behind you will slam into the back of you ‘cause they can’t see you. Ask me how I know.
It's not illegal at all to put your flashers on when it's raining so hard it forces you to drive very slowly while your wipers are going as fast as they can. It's actually encouraged by law enforcement!
@TiredMomma it is absolutely illegal in most states. You have other lights on your vehicle. Emergency flashers should not be on while driving. No LEO is going to encourage you to do that, because it's dangerous
@@TiredMomma Yeah your absolutely wrong. Emergency flashers are ONLY supposed to be turned on when you are stopped or in a funeral procession.
@@TiredMomma I would like to say that you are absolutely correct, however this ends up being a case where different states have different driving regulations. Only 10 states outright ban it, the rest either allow it, or allow it in cases where there is a safety hazard created by non-use. Mostly on highways, if one is driving below the minimum speed for whatever reason, flashers are to be used. This is a safety issue, you want people behind you to see you and avoid you, to not create a potentially deadly crash.
My pawpaw used to do the one finger wave all the time. The funeral procession one is real. In the country, not only do people pull over and stop, but some folks get out of their cars and bow their heads to pay their respects.
This is why I love the South. The wave, lol. I have done the panic full hand wave plenty of times.
I've been a passenger in a hydroplanning accident, so yeah, I follow every rule of driving in the rain (flashers are a rarity tho, I've only used them twice).
(Edit: felt like I should clarify, I've only ever driven in rain where I needed my hazards twice, I always have my lights on during rainy weather. I avoid driving in the rain as much as possible, and will stay somewhere to avoid it and let it pass)
I took a special winter driving course in Alaska. It was on a course in a large nlot that was iced over, and they sprayed water on it before you took the driving test. The one giving the test would grab the wheel at some point, and jerk it. You had to recover without hitting a cone.
Some southern states, like my home state of Alabama, have a law where you're supposed to have your headlights on in rainy weather conditions
Georgia also has that law and they strictly enforce it: a police officer sees you driving in rainy weather conditions without your headlights on, they'll pull you over and give you a ticket
@@karlsmith2570 I'm sure that things have changed, in the 50+ years since I was stationed at Ft. Rucker but there were a ot of old cars on the road that had no headlights .
In FL during a tropical rain storms during driving it completely “greys out” and you cannot see at all. Slow down and turn on flashers so the people behind you won’t slam into your tail. My Seattle born family members couldn’t understand that. 🤦🏾♀️
@@michaelterrell unfortunately, while the law about headlights on during rainy weather conditions is also applicable to Alabama, they don't enforce that law as rigidly as Georgia does
Don’t use a turn signal, just cut off multiple lanes of traffic. Pace the person next to you to block traffic that just wants to go the speed limit. Drive 5 mph slower than posted speed in ALL lanes. Putter on the acceleration lane, then just stop at the merge.🙄
Yes! I'm originally from PA now living in southwestern VA and am continually amazed at how people here aren't in accidents every five minutes!
Always pullover for a funeral. Adam you are killing me with all the rules
Yup. Snow in West Texas is a nightmare. People out here think if you have 4WD you’re invincible in the snow. One year we had over 120 accidents in one day… roll overs seem to be the new cool thing everyone is doing this winter. It ain’t about going, it’s about stopping.
Can we talk about how southerners really feel about northern drivers 😂
Snow is a 4 letter word just a heads up
We have courtesy waves here in England. Pedesitians uses them too and are also accompanied with a half jog when you cross the road. You see, we can't run because you should never run across the road but we can't walk because otherwise you would incoveinece the driver you kindly let you pass.
Snowmageddon!!!! Lol I’m always so happy when people use this term to describe that disaster. Not so much because I’m inconsiderate. It’s just that was a name I gave it and I didn’t realize how many others use it too and so the mutual but separate agreements to call that incident that is amazing to me and always makes me laugh. I just love the irony.
I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, my husband in New Jersey. My daughter was born in Illinois, but lived in PA until she was 15 and we moved to Baton Rouge. Whereas we would drive to church in three feet of snow, here they actually will give you a dispensation from Mass for the threat of snow and cancel school "out of an abundance of caution" if it gets "too" cold or if heavy rain is predicted.
I'm from PA too. I wonder how bad the "blizzard of '93" was, in the south? Where I was (NEPA) we had to remember where we parked our cars and hope that you were shoveling out the correct snow mound, that had a car somewhere under it.
The too cold thing isn't about driving...it's about the kids at the outdoor bus stops. Specifically the poor kids without winter clothing.
Too many cases of frostbite to count.
In Nebraska, the too cold for school thing is because some kids literally froze to death at bus stops in rural areas because school stayed open.
@@lunachick7549 In the blizzard of 93 we were without power for over a week, ice on the power line brought down a bunch of power lines, had lightning, and 25 inches of snow in my front yard (which is more snow than I had ever seen in my life). May not be much for other parts of the country but since we get about 1/2 of an inch of snow about every other year it was catastrophic.
@@dclark142002 no busses ran to this very small private school. It was about lack of winter coats, but no one stood at bus stops.
I’ve absolutely always wanted to try to drive in a southern town in the snow. My friend moved to Tennessee and told me how abandoned things were. Seemed like a grand old time to me.
I remember the Blizzard of ‘93! All us Floridians hopping in our cars and driving up to Atlanta for some snow play once the serious part was over…
Boy this is so true of the Dallas area. Maybe not in Dallas County. But definitely in Collin and Rockwall Counties
I have a driving rule I wish everyone followed, North South West East or Middle.
Turn Your Head Lights ON! Its raining, turn them on. Its foggy, turn them on. Its early morning or evening, turn them on. If you see more than two other autos with their head lights on, turn them on. Its 5 am in the dark going down the highway at 70 mph and almost hit me, Turn the gosh darn head lights on Daryl!
YES! The full hand wave! "and you'll be wondering for the next 20 minutes if they saw you"! So true - LOL! 👋
I live in Virginia Beach and never could live any further north. This video explains one of the reasons!
In Feb 2021, we had a major storm sweep through Texas. A lot of snow and we lost our electricity for 4 days (at my house) amidst the frozen temps. I was working graveyards at a convenience store and I spent the early part of the storm explaining to teen customers how to drive in snow and ice. My word it was funny. I learned to drive in Texas but most of my driving experience had been in Iceland and other snowy climes. The majority of the young drivers I helped out in the parking lot were not even born the last time we had such a storm. I still don't go out in the snow though because I do not trust other drivers .
I haven't seen the underpass stop for ages. Charleston is really going Yankee.
This was too short, need more of these rules!
This is hilariously true!! I definitely remember the March '93 snow storm. I lived in rural Monroe/Conecuh County line. There were cars wrecked everywhere when we went to town to get a motel, since of course we lost power. Lol
The funeral rule makes you a certified, card holder of the south. All are true but them dang Yankees don't get the funeral one. Y'all have a great rest of your day and tell your momma I said hey. 💖
Tampa though into not the south just souther don’t . I live in Nth go and I still don’t .. the law sun on the books and if I dont know you I own you nothing inckuding sliwing down I front of a house on a country at rd having a wake with a sign saying slow down .. wake ahead
@@JudyZimShadHomesteader well bless your heart.
The 4 way stop talk really hits close to home because there are a few in my neighborhood, and this has happened to me multiple times.