Yep. AND, in low vis low speed, I put the blinkers on. I don't understand why more people don't do this. In low vis I want to do everything I can to make myself visible. BTW, on Donner Pass rd on may way out to boreal there was a white nissan altima coming at me . . . with no headlights or anything on. I kept flashing my lights at them until they passed, but never saw them turn their's on . . .No one here is debating that, but wow, when you look at the vitriol on Twitter etc., it makes me sad. I was driving around Donner Lake around the same time that you were headed to Boreal. It was fine as long as the wind wasn't blowing because the trees gave contrast, etc., but the moment the wind picked up I had no idea whether I was two feet away from the right snowbank or on the wrong side of the road. I can imagine it was 10x worse on the summit.
I've a running list of storm driving pet peeves, among them and one of the easiest to fix: drivers who rely on their day runners/auto mode for their lights. Day runners on does not mean that tail lights are on. And sometimes it's bright enough that auto mode doesn't turn on head and tail lights. Flip the headlights on and make yourself visible from behind!
A little bit off topic, but they're probably the same people who only rely on DRL at night and wondering why they can't see.
That makes me feel a little better about my 6 a.m. decision that I needed another day to recuperate from this stinking cold that's plaguing me. This would have happened just before I got to Baxter.
Yep. AND, in low vis low speed, I put the blinkers on. I don't understand why more people don't do this. In low vis I want to do everything I can to make myself visible. BTW, on Donner Pass rd on may way out to boreal there was a white nissan altima coming at me . . . with no headlights or anything on. I kept flashing my lights at them until they passed, but never saw them turn their's on . . .
I could have been clearer: I mean in the kind of low vis I experienced saturday. Not your run of the mill "reduced vis". I kept losing track of the semi I was following. They had on their blinkers, but, unfortunately, their taillights consisted of two palm sized circles.
Be nice
Let's hope forecaster got it wrong and most of it goes south to LALA Land. And then over this coming holiday weekend that many like this person have blacked out pass dates for, we get compensation in a capping layer of more extra cold light dry snow. So looks like I may be away from snow till after the weekend. Avalanche issues may become worst in years.
Its not just KSL.
