How a DRONE and six State Troopers saved me from the SNOWPOCALYPSE
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A truly harrowing drive home through SNOWPACALYPSE 2024!
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“Luckily they left the light on for me” 😂😂 Love this dude
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Agree! HAHA!
I cannot believe you let them drag your Mazda!
The day I left Northern Illinois for Oklahoma, it was 16 below with a mighty wind and heavy snow. Scraping ice off the windows, my polycarbonate ice scraper shattered. 30mph on I55 was reckless driving. Now and then I had to stop for whiteout conditions or for a car facing the wrong way. I could understand how that happened as the wind was always trying to turn the car around. I reached Broken Arrow Oklahoma the next afternoon and it was sunny and 48 degrees. My civic was a pretty sure-footed car.
Thank god Ken is alive! He is important to my laughter and thankfulness to human life. God bless Ken.
BTW - Ken, have you ever heard of traction cables? They are like tire chains but not the same. They are lower profile than chains but can really help "bite" into slippery road conditions. They don't cost that much, and can be a pain to put on, but can make the difference between moving forward (up a hill) or slipping sideways into a ditch.
Thanks!
DUDE!!! The snow looks CRAZY with the LEDs!!!! Freakin rad!
Moral to the story: To stay safe, always bring a 249 grams drone, and a 3 ton pickup truck with huge tires.
Love the color of the snow from the leds. Looked like your were flying in a laser light show.
Everyone knows snow chains but i use snow socks. Basically a fabric sleeve that goes over the tires and you can get anywhere you need to in the snow as long as you go 20ish
From my years on the local police department I can assure you that your rear wheel drive Crown Vic is a beast in the snow
HAHAHA that trooper seemed real enthused with the "Let's go"
Haha! True
Good to see you are safe. Money well spent.
I’m gonna take a guess at about $850. This is exactly why I carry Roadside Assistance coverage on my phone and my car! Regardless of what I’m driving, I’ll be getting help. Glad you’re OK!
Where I live, the conditions you drove in would be an average winter day, and I get around fine in my rear-wheel drive van even in significantly worse weather. 😋 But I understand why it would be a harrowing experience for you there. The road crews don't have the equipment or experience to keep the roads in great driving shape despite weather conditions, you and/or the the other drivers have very little experience with that type of slippery surface and almost certainly your car does not have snow tires (they make an incredible difference, but, I mean, why WOULD you have snow tires if you only need them once every several years?) If I lived THERE, I wouldn't even dare go out on the roads in those conditions despite decades of experience driving through it HERE. So very glad you made it home safe!!
I'm from there.....and my most used suggestion is to get your TNDL, you need to drive in Chicago for two weeks...preferably in winter....one either learns how to drive fairly quick....or you never drive again....either way is a W
Man that was scary! Glad you made it safely home. Your adventure was well told by your video👍👍
Thanks 👍
"All this snow"! LOL!
You will LOVE your 4Runner, I PROMISE!!!!
I was driving a semi truck in that mess down in Texas. Was a crazy storm
I feel for ya man. I live on top of a mountain in faulkville Alabama and was trapped for four days. On the fifth we tried to go to the store and made it about half way down before we gave up. RWD toyota 4runner just spinnin tires and losing ground and a car went off the road in front of us almost going off the side of the mountain. Thankfully a good Samaritan came back with a tow rope and pulled us up the mountain so we could go home. oh and i guess 600 for the tow..
Wow! I am glad you made it home safe. Your story reminded me of a similar drive I did in the snow many years ago from Jackson, Tennessee to Cookeville, Tennessee. I was driving a 3rd Generation (1993) twin turbo Mazda RX-7. Talk about Zoom, Zoom! That car would fly!! Anyway, it was a white knuckle drive along I-40 with some scary moments, but I made it without incident. My guess on the tow bill is $250. Love your channel!
I grew up with muscle cars in Tulsa, and we'd have similar happen to us. Super nice, then it snows, then it rains, and then freezes...and snows again. You see little fluffs not always realizing there is black ice under it. I've stood still on a road, but because a lot of our roads were "crowned," I'm sliding sideways off the road (on the black ice). Glad that truck helped you at the end. People like that are salt of the Earth and awesome in my book.
Just out of curiosity, did you check your airspace class for those impromptu B rolls :) Hee hee.
$180 , that was major pucker factor going on even without the tow truck bill.
Back in my early comedy road touring days I was going to a gig in Amarillo Texas from Denver in February. I spun out and got stuck 3 times on the way there. I was driving my 80 Honda Civic Wagon.
Glad you're okay, I was white knuckling it with you, nice story telling. As far as the towing cost, I'm going with $246.50!
$230? Glad you're back safe. Been in that situation with a Miata once...
I will say the fly high fpv guys got the sickest led strips I’ve ever owned.
Glad you made it to Bama again, I once drove from Gainesboro, TN to Selma, AL in the snow
I have a front wheel drive Mazda and it also can't deal with a slight incline with snow. And I have all season high performance tires. 😂
Fun video. Reminds me of days past. Florida man here.
Glad you enjoyed it, Florida man.
$179.50? Glad you made it back safely ❄️❄️❄️👍
4:40 you were going too fast for conditions. As someone from Florida now living in Maine and driving a Mustang, I've learned snow is not friendly to rear-wheel drive cars. Gotta take it slow. Especially in a state which isn't really equipped to clear heavy snowfall. Drive safe!
Thank God they still leave the light on for Us! Thank You.
Once got caught in a freezing rainstorm on I-5 up Salem Oregon returning home from an anniversary weekend with the wife. Driving my 2 seater Toyota Mr2 was the same, it doesn’t like slow. The freeway was glass smooth with a steady building up of ice. It was also a white
knuckle trip, I feel your pain and anxiety.
Why are you trying to drive in the blizzard? Pull over, go back, don’t start to start with😂
I have no guess on what the tow-truck charged you, but I'm glad you made it home safe, and the car wasn't damaged. You got more snow in the south than we got in NJ. Great video, thanks for sharing.
$29.95 tow charge,that’s the price I would set for you Ken. 🤣
I had a similar drive in an S2000 when the county didn’t think they needed to salt the roads. It was the rush hour from hell. But I didn’t get stuck until I got off the highway and just ended up parking it.
Props to the guy in the pickup
Never tow from your ball. People die that way.
$287.95 for the tow. Should have went and got a bag or two of kitty litter or sand. Rear wheel drive put it from back wheel to front after using your foot to remove excess snow and away you go. Just keep some momentum. Drove a 1989 Mazda RX7 for 5 years in Canadian winters. Definitely need snow tires but I never got stuck.
My assumption is the tow costs no less than $185 with a $90 hazardous-conditions fee.
Love watching southerners try to drive in snow. That "storm" is what we northerners call a dusting. :)
"I had to stay at the Motel 6. Luckily they left the light on for me." - Classic Ken Heron humor.
On my 16 Toyota Camry Hybrid Le I purchased Michelin Cross Climate 2's and they do absolutely amazing in the snow. They are on the top when it comes to an all whether tires. You'd drive away out of that little bit of snow like a boss in your car.
AAA is a great help. Great footage and love the show Ken. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks bud! 😎
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Edge of the seat Hitchcock thriller right here 😳
RX-8? That's like +1000 respects
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So much for the front wheel alignment 😢
Hey Ken, can you explain to everyone how flying in snow is legal? Did you forget about the 500' and 2000' cloud cover rules? Did you also forget about the fact you need to have clear visibility for 3 statue miles? Even if you had a strobe light (and we know you didn't) how do you think that would be visible at night for 3 SM?
As you know, this channel is monetized and you profit from this video. So could you please explain why you think this type of reckless flying is okay? Flying in snow is a direct violation of 107.51.
I lost count of Ken's FAA violations. He knows all about "in furtherance of a business" and he knows the rules. He also knows the FAA is a joke and will never do anything, so why should he care about following any of their rules? I know I ignore every single FAA rule with drones everyday. I am about to go fly my AR Pro Wing. I tend to fly about 10 miles out and back. No RID, no VO, no strobe, no airspace clearance, no reg number on my drone, never took that silly test, etc... The FAA will never do a thing. THAT is why Ken thinks this kind of flying is ok.
Ten dollars? 😂😂 Glad you're safe Ken! All the best.
Once again your blessings kicked in.Glad you made it home an to Sweet home Alabama. Keep on flying my Friend. Git Er Don
Ages ago I had a 94 t-bird, talk about useless in the slightest bad weather. I would get stuck in half an inch of snow parking on the street just with the crown of the road.
Glad you made it safe ,I'm gonna say 500 for the tow
What was the ceiling height and visibility when you were operating your drone?
When moving to ohio we got caught in a white out blizzard in Kentucky. It was terrifying. Glad youre safe man.
Nice car. In 1991 my first car was an 81 RX=7. Miss that car. Lived in NH BTW
I would say about $175 for the Tow. great vid as always glad you are safe
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Awesome. It was 37°c here yesterday and rain today.
By the looks of that drive home looks like you had to change those boxers soon as you hit the door. At least you made it home safe.
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$348 for the tow, that's my guess.
I had a miata on summer tires when I lived in MI. We had a huge storm and I barely made it home. My 45 minute commute was over 3 hours that day. On I-75 the snow in the middle of the lane was dragging on my undercarriage. Similar experience with my heavily modded Volvo V70 R in TN and KY. Now I'm about 1,400 south of my old house in MI. No more snow lol
Good job steering out of those skids. Is it just me or did you hair get a little more white and fabulous from this drive?
It was definitely a bit sketchy riding with my friend with a truck that the front dif wasn’t working. Luckily he was a good driver! I live up here in Wisconsin and this weather is no joke. Our roads haven’t cleared up since we got the storm and this ridiculous cold freezes the roads up. My front wheel drive Camry sucks in the weather but I can’t imagine a rx8
The Shining Part 2. ($300?). Safely back to fly again... All work and no play makes Ken a dull boy... 😉
that's crazy I need to get my 107 to fly more! cant believe they charged you 378$ for that tow.
Good Work, Ken. Since the trooper called the wrecker... cost you way more I'd say $427.00 to tow you out.
When I say Pulaski on the screen, I thought, "Holy shit. We were there." Then I saw the state. My wife and left Pulaski, VA Monday, January 15, in the afternoon and drove into a snow storm heading towards Ohio. At times the Interstate was down to 25 MPH and semi trucks were sliding sideways. We were driving a rented Nissan Altima with AWD and it was still a harrowing trip.
What you all struggle with down there, us up here in the frozen tundra of the Dakotas call a minor inconvenience. LOL Bring your drones up here some time and fly the Black Hills, the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, or Sturgis during the rally.
Guessing $350
Impressive driving!
I know you will get some brand new tires before you take that road chip next time😅😅❤
My guess is $450
Note to Ken - Fit winter tyres or at least all season tyres in conditions like that, especially in a RWD car.
A bit of extra weight over the rear axle can help.
If you have regular half worn summer tyres forget it until the roads are cleared.
Also those speeds you were doing when you got all squirmy was way too fast for the conditions⚠️😳
Ask me how I know?.....😊
No I never ended up in a ditch but had a few hairy moments commuting 90 miles each way across the pennines through snow, ice, hail, fog etc
Only one time I didn't make it to work was when a blizzard completely buried my car, I took one look at it at 5am, spent 20 mins digging one wheel out and gave up and went back to bed 🛌 work ain't that important! 😅
I'm sure the hookup/winch out was about 400-500, and the state added fee of some sort was another 250-300, so I'm gonna shoot my shot at 850 total.
That looks so familiar to when we went from Roanoke to TN after you accident.
$600 Ken you did a great job getting back I bet you had summer Tires on the car and that would make it very difficult.
I used to just love driving in the snow with my '93 Civic HB (manual of course). I do miss a normal hand brake for checking road conditions so I can adapt quicker. But yeah, a rear wheel drive anything in the snow....no thank you. Glad you got home.....eventually 😁
Oh, and I'm betting that tow bill was at least $275 (always carry AAA for peace of mind)
Wow pucker factor was extremely high on the way back home. Hated that I couldn't make it to meet up with the fly high group. Guess with this weather I will see you in March when it warms back up.
I use that line leave the light on for ya a lot but most look at me like what! glad some of us get it.
C'mon up north and drive. You'll become a pro in no time. What you went through with rear wheel drive is what used to be common before front wheel and all-wheel drive. My fav's were my old 71 SS Chevelle, and 69 442. Now that was a challenge in the winter.
Speed is your friend, especially on hills.
I had to get my canoe towed once. It was pretty embarrassing lol.
You don’t have AAA? It’s like $99 a year!
Great for when you need to get out of a rough patch and could’ve saved some money on that Motel6 stay.
Glad you made it home safely because there’d be no TNL without ya. 😃
Hey Ken, what day was this? I started a trip from central New York State to JFK Airport, and back, on 1/6/24. It took close to (or over) 6 hours to get home - at about 30 mph - or less. I was driving a rented Chrysler Pacifica van that may(!) have had all wheel drive. LOL
I never drove off the road, but saw many vehicles that had. The really bad weather came after leaving JFK Airport. The snow started falling about 30 miles, after dark, driving west on Rt 80 into New Jersey.
To tell the truth, I wouldn't have minded having rear wheel drive. Front wheel drive may PULL you through the snow, but when those tires start to spin, due to the conditions being slippery or icy, then you have neither directional control or forward (pulling) control.
But to tell the truth, I wish I had been driving my old 1996 Toyota Rav4. It had a "Center Lock Differential" setting and would then drive like a tank. All the wheels spun at the exact same speed! Oh how I loved that car!
This was on MLK day
My most useful drone support equipment is my Toyota 4Runner Offroad edition.😅
That’s actually called Frankewing TN exit 14. I live right up the road from there. By the way the owner of the restaurant you were parked at called the cops on me for flying my drone lol of course I didn’t get in any trouble.
I used to daily drive an Rx-7, then I grew up.😂😂😂 all of those cars are absolutely awful in anything but the dry weather. My guess is your tow cost about $439.
Wow Ken you weren't kidding were you. What a trip! Glad you got home safe man, sorry I couldn't get to you. Oh! I'll skip the contest as I know the answer. We'll have a good chuckle together at the guesses.
Snow drifting is FUN!!!
I’m going to say your tow bill was $369. Hope it wasn’t more. Glad you got home safely and as always another awesome video!
That was my guess 😑
I'm going to say $300.00 to get you pulled out. Glad you finally made it home.
First tow out of parking lot going 1/4 mileprobably was $75.
Wow! and we all know, Ken always see the brighter side of things! Sorry that was a Tough Ride!
Better than usual interactions.. How a DRONE and six State Troopers threatened me from the POLICESTATEPOCALYPSE.
That snow looked fine to the Canadian eye ;). As for the towing cost… I’d say 275$
from Ontario here
Excellent Skills to make it though that mess! Going with $350
KEN! Such a HEROING experience! Glad you didn't end up in a ditch. My guess is that first tow cost about $1,200.00. Cheers, Brendan
$1450
It is 28 degrees (82 F) here in Redcliffe Queensland, 81% humidity. Not a snowflake in sight.
It was so funny to se you lock in when your car was sliding about, never seen you so concentrated 😂😂 Great that you made it back safely, Love your videos and cant wait for the (im gonna assume) RC car destruction, drones and rc are my two hobbies.
Yep.... snow sucks as much as trees lol. I'm guessing the tow was around $155.00
momentum is your friend Ken
In those conditions I'm guessing 125. Probably low as hell lol
So cool! i want to fly my drone in the rain and snow so bad but it hasn't done either where I live in months. LOL
And that's why they make whiskey. After that long, treacherous, white knuckled, ass clenching drive.... a couple shots of smoothness.
amazing all that weather related stuff on the part 107 study guides and testing...etc....and yet weather still seems to affect people who've been educated....
I know that Trooper and that exit!