"They let you go right into the mess,"

Oh yeah EOD, it's not like they're really in the middle of BFE Montana or Alaska, or the outback. But most probably aren't capable of making much of a walk in good weather, and wouldnt try it unless they were forced to. And there was a clip on the news here about a trucker giving some breakfast to nearby cars that he had prepared in his microwave.

 

True. I would have to double check exactly where the incident occurred on I95 but Fort Belvoir is only a couple miles from the highway and I95 goes right through Quantico so there would have been plenty of military vehicles available (active duty versus National Guard) if it was really needed.

 

I didn't call them all idiots. There were plenty of drivers that were prepared.
The idiots that were interviewed and blamed the DOT, the governor, or anybody other than themselves are the idiots.

 

Awesomeness right there

 

It doesn't take but one truck to jack-knife to block a highway. At rush hour and with a heavy snow rate it doesn't take too many minutes to have a mess. It can take quite a while to clean up pile-ups in dense fog, too.

That can be country idiot or city idiot. Take your pick.

 

12” OF SNOW!!!!


ALL AT ONCE!!!!


Snow doesn’t suck until you have to shovel out the truck doors to get in.




Eric VW
Can we get a ‘yawn’ emoji up in here?

 

I have a winter bag that stays in my vehicle. It has an extras of clothing just in case; winter coat, gloves, scarf, socks and ski pants. I also keep an old pair of snow boots in there. And, I always dress for the weather (or at least have with me), good gloves, sweat shirt over my long sleeve shirt, heavy enough coat and I'm wearing either insulated work boots or snow boots regardless of if I'm just going to the local grocery store (2 miles away) or further out.

 

Atlanta.....fun times for sure.
Years, well more years than I care to remember ago I did trouble shooting for the company I worked for. So I got to fly around a fair amount. Captain says major snowstorm happening, car rental place saying all doom and gloom. Parking lot looks like the bumper car amusement ride run by old toothless himself.
This snowmageddon would be called flurries in Wisconsin.
Driving through Atlanta I swear I could hear the Benny Hill theme music over loud speakers.
If I had the shenanigans to rob a bank I'm sure I could have escaped.

 

This has been my point from the beginning of the thread.
Just a few minutes of prep (and a half tank of gas) and you can survive a day stuck in you vehicle easily.
Sure, it will be an inconvenience, and it may not be particularly comfy, but you can survive......instead of pointing blame...

 

Yes!
And a little winter weather last year that shut down Texas power plants...
Because they were not prepared. And all the residents that had frozen pipes and no alternative heat... because they were not prepared...

 

Well, he's declared a state of emergency for this one already! Kinda humorous....

 

Hilarious the number of pundits blaming the governor-elect.

 

I realize this question is rhetorical, but I’m going to answer anyway.

As an owner of 2 EVs and someone who lives in a place that gets pretty cold and someone who generally likes to be prepared I decided to find out for myself. The other night at 15F ambient, I turned on both vehicles and set the cabin temp to 65 and monitored the %charge of the battery via the cars app on my phone while watching TV inside. It took 1 hour for one vehicle and 1.5 hours for the other to loose 1% of battery capacity.

So, it depends…on the car, the SOC of the battery, the OAT, etc but I think most would be fine.

Here’s a video for you in case you’re really interested…short answer is 71 hours for car in the video.

 

That's probably equal to a full tank in a regular car.

 

So.....

Take that elec car and park it in an ice storm, then stay in it for 24 hours......with your family. Make sure you are on a highway because you'll be using wipers and lights also...at the least. And one more thing....don't plan for it...rather, just decide to do it when the battery is at 1/2 or so.....about the same as the other vehicles with combustion engines.