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it’s been greatly sped up for effect.
It does have that weird WW2 newsreel feel to it. But might just be because it is a wide lens or there is a frame rate mismatch.
Look at the snow is falling or the folk walking about and it doesn't appear too far off normal speed.
Regardless of what speed they were actually going, the results suggest it was too fast!
Funniest vehicle I have ever used in snow was my sidecar outfit. Stamp on the rear brake it spun. Open the throttle it would spin or drift if you caught it with the steering. You could actually end up driving it along crabbing. Most amusing
Had to go out in our SLK again and without about 1cm of uncleared snow on the roads it's not far off undriveable. Not fun! Left plenty of room and started slowing very early for any junctions so no real "eek!" moments on that front. Main issue was when some pedestrians stepped out into the road thinking I'd be able to avoid them (I did, just, given I was doing about 15mph) or when other cars thought I'd left the big gap to the traffic in front for fun and decided that pulling out into that space then going really, really slowly was a good idea.
Quite a few examples of people driving fwd suv type stuff not realising they are for 4x4.
coming back from work down a short stretch of duel carriageway I sa doing about 40 in the clear lane, cumquat comes past me in the snow lane (been up my chuff for about 5 miles) realises 40 was about right and slams on the brakes, next thing I see her in the rear view mirror pirouetting across the verge!
On way to pick new car up with dealer guy in 4x4 Kodiak, and another car in front. Backcountry lane, snowdrifts etc, **** overtakes us both. Pulling back in to snowy road.
Unfortunately doesn't end up in a ditch.
The snows melting here on the Solent, I expect the roads to be very busy indeed.
My neighbour, who drives a landrover softroader (something modern in white) has been happily trundling about all through this weather (Devon) he's very impressed with it, said it's been faultless despite having regular summer tyres. He's collected friends from various stuck cars and cancelled trains without any bother. He's a sensible Brexit voting 70yr old guy, not the type to wheelspin and nob about. That said, it does have a hell of a lot of electro-gubbins driver assist.
Yestereve, in the village, I spotted one of the rarer species -
A fish-tailed twonker truck.
This one was in full plumage: snorkel, raised suspension, monster truck tyres, rat-black, Coch+Weimble tuning/ECU.
The state of play was night, snowing, and the high street mostly empty of moving traffic yet busyish with pedestrians. Quite a few of us shopping for rations, ambling to and fro across the now white street. The odd car I spotted would be crawling along. As was (at first) the dark-plumed 4x4 Landy pickup. I'm first aware of it as it trawls slowly around the village island, 'put put rumble put'.
Then, it sees the green lights on the crossing, clocks the handful of people milling around outside of the co op and Chinese takeaways, and - put-pop BLAAAAT!!! LOOKATMELOOKATME! (Fishtails the short length of the shops and lights)
I've no doubt that accelerating into a dark, busy, snowy village is as twittish as it is dangerous.
I am Grumplestiltskin, and this was last night's weather. Does crank length matter? Because I've been cranky for 50 years now.
He’s a sensible Brexit voting 70yr old guy,
Oxymoron ?
I was talking to my Father-in-law yesterday. In 1982 round here, S Wales, the snow was epic, he's a farmer and used to put a couple of churns of milk on the tractor drive into the village and people would collect it in jugs, bowls and saucepans. One day he thought he was driving on the road until there was a dip in the snow drifts and he realised he'd been driving along the side of the road on the row of parked cars. Suprisingly there was almost no damage, one slightly dented roof was all