DO YOU MIND...

[Lady Cop]

does he live in florida? all those folks have had their turn signals on since they left home to try to locate the grocery store this morning.

[SyberBitch]

I need a xanax to take a road trip. Something like this would give me a heart attack.


© AP Photo/Phil Klein
Highway One/Big Sur (California)


Alfred Hitchcock could not have conjured a scarier highwayâ??122 miles of vertigo between Monterey and Morro Bay. Two lanes for nearly its entire length, the road meanders along cliff tops poised high above the Pacific, including 33 bridges and countless drop offs into liquid oblivion. Anyone faintly squeamish should not attempt to drive this route.

phhhht... now imagine that with 7% grades and blind 'kiss-your-ass' curves.

People have died from fright, driving in WV (just from the roads).

[SyberBitch]

does he live in florida? all those folks have had their turn signals on since they left home to try to locate the grocery store this morning.

No... NYC.

He drives an old black minivan with both sides smashed in from cars hitting him, and caved in bumpers. He's nearing 80yrs old, half blind and mostly deaf. He drives at something like 15-20mph (on highways) and could probably wallpaper his room in citations, most of which he manages to have 'dropped' due to technicalities. ::doh::

[Lady Cop]

that is a entirely serious topic i have broached more than once, the very elderly and/or debilitated still driving. florida is very bad, and i have seen a number of fatalities in Mass, since i've been up here. the DMV is going to finally start taking measures, making changes in testing... for the sake of public safety. so many families simply cannot prevail upon people to hang up the keys. it's like taking away their independence.

[SyberBitch]

that is a entirely serious topic i have broached more than once, the very elderly and/or debilitated still driving. florida is very bad, and i have seen a number of fatalities in Mass, since i've been up here. the DMV is going to finally start taking measures, making changes in testing... for the sake of public safety. so many families simply cannot prevail upon people to hang up the keys. it's like taking away their independence.

Just don't take away their Depends!! :;beat::

::gigg::

[Lady Cop]

that's where they hide their drugs! ::pots::

[sally]

Here are a couple more, I get an anxiety attack just looking at it. I'm a actually a very good driver, but this shit scares me especially when some idiot is on your ass trying to do 90+.


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Interstate-15 (California/Nevada)


The scariest route of all may be Interstate-15 between Californiaâ??s Cajon Pass (near Los Angeles) and Las Vegas. The route isnâ??t especially twisty or desolate road, yet itâ??s the deadliest stretch of interstate in the entire nation, especially after dark when people are racing back and forth between L.A. and Vegas. According to the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, 173 crash-related deaths occurred on this 207-mile stretch of interstate during one recent five-year period.




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Moki Dugway (Utah)


Named after a Spanish term for the Pueblo Indians (â??mokeeâ?) who once lived in this area, the Moki Dugway is a spectacular switchback stretch of State Highway 261 in southern Utah. Plunging off Cedar Mesa, the narrow gravel road drops 1,100 feet in just three miles as it snakes its way down into the Valley of the Gods. Moki Dugway is part of the â??Trail of the Ancientsâ? National Scenic Byway.

[Lady Cop]

this is known as the Death Road in Bolivia. i'd rather drive on this than go through NYC again.

[twisteroo]

[user=93]sally[/user] wrote: People have died from fright, driving in WV (just from the roads).

I do remember running through WV on a 4 lane divided highway, with cross traffic and the speed limit was 65 or 70, gotta love those hillbillies.

[SyberBitch]

this is known as the Death Road in Bolivia. i'd rather drive on this than go through NYC again.

Yikes... now that first image did give me the willies.

[SyberBitch]

[user=93]sally[/user] wrote: People have died from fright, driving in WV (just from the roads).

I do remember running through WV on a 4 lane divided highway, with cross traffic and the speed limit was 65 or 70, gotta love those hillbillies.

Oh hell, the '4 lanes' are nothing.

Here is a picture of a typical WV road (not counting highways and roads through towns)



Typical speed limit on such a road - 55mph
Then add large, overloaded, speeding coal trucks who don't care whether or not they run you off the road (bearing in mind that these roads, typically, do not have 'shoulders').

[Maggot]

Whatcha drankin syberbitch?

[SyberBitch]

Whatcha drankin syberbitch?

::bigg::