Nobody in California ever said that shit.
Having rain 3 days a year isn’t bipolar weather
Yeah but weather over there fluctuates a lot between on fire and not on fire
A couple years ago I was back in Florida visiting my parents and I forgot how weird shit was there sometimes. About 75+ degrees outside and out of nowhere sudden hail/downpour. Hail of all different sized, one piece was like half a soft ball. Went on for maybe 60 seconds. Was long enough for me to open the door, acknowledge I could no longer see shit, and then pick up that giant piece of ice and the storm cloud passed. A bit over 2-3" of rain I emptied out of the rain gauge.
Everywhere has weird weather moments, but that one will always stand out to me.
You must be Southern California. Northern it rains all the time.
Seriously Colorado though:
Yea Colorado is peak “four seasons in one day” territory sometimes
Rest of the world panicking for Colorado for a second
Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It’s the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don’t know to drive.
Do you live in PA DE VA or WVA by chance
VA 😉
Drove through VA once, and we were amazed at how good the drivers were. Normal speeds, being predictable instead of trying to be “polite”, not sitting in the passing lane for miles, it was crazy.
The only big problem with drivers in VA, imo, is that while they’re good they’re competitive within the bounds of good. And moreso within/near city or big town limits. Really this just means that if you turn on your indicator to show that you’re trying to change lanes, many VA drivers will speed up to pass you to allow you to merge behind them rather than in front of them. Comparatively not a big deal, but I didn’t even realize this was a thing until I lived in NC and regularly experienced people happily making way for me to merge when I indicated.
I knew it , I’m in the state that causes all the havoc!
Every day I start the car I gotta slap my face and look in the mirror and pump myself up
If it makes you feel better, I think you guys are a better state in almost every other way but driving 😂
edit: Genuinely y’all might have the best state flag in the nation, and that’s coming from a Virginian and our flag is pretty fucking great
Nah drivers in my state don’t know how to drive either
No Californian would say that. The weather is stable and nice 9 months of the year and cloudy and nice the sun the other 3.
Unless it’s a little bit too hot and too dry
“If you don’t like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes”
I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it’s a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it’s unique to where they live
It’s not, though. People from LA will say the exact opposite.
That saying pops up anywhere where there’s a large range of weather. Which is most places, but not everywhere.
What do people in LA say then? “Well if you don’t like the weather… Get used to it?”
Its really hard to not like the weather in LA
I’ve heard “If you want snow, drive to it,” which is pretty related.
I have heard this almost exclusively for Florida and not any of the surrounding states. Or really I have never heard it about any other states on the Eastern seaboard.
Nah, Florida’s gone from bright, clear, and sunny to “holy fuck, did we forget about a hurricane hitting land?” In the time it’s taken me to go to the bathroom.
Not use the bathroom. Just getting there.
SE Nebraska, 5-6 pm every spring and summer. Sunny in the east. Dark wall cloud to the west
When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard this in Ontario
Down by the lake you would.
People say it abt New England, Great Lakes, the South, the Midwest. Literally everywhere I’ve lived, if you don’t like the weather… wait.
Per my experience, Oklahoma has the dumbest drivers, Texas and California are tied for the most aggressive drivers (but simultaneously skilled just enough to not cause mass genocide), and Virginia has the worst road layout.
There’s a lot of different flavors of shit.
There’s a big difference between drivers who only drive in rural areas and drivers who drive in crowded rush hour traffic in big cities. And, different big cities have their own challenges. As a visitor, trying to navigate LA’s freeway hell was awful, and the drivers who were used to it were not at all accommodating. But, I think LA drivers would find driving in Boston and its Masshole drivers to be hell, because it’s all about squeezing down narrow streets that come from a time before automobiles.
I used to be a trucker. Drive everything east of the Mississippi.
Indiana has the dumbest drivers. Never have I been to a state with a lower average i.q. Idk, it might be an environmental thing, like in the water, or too many generations of cousin fucking. But something ain’t right there. They make poor choices and have a lack of self preservation.
New england the rudest, but they’re at least predictable. When they do something rude and reckless its always in pursuit of a goal. E.g. making the next exit, turn, lane ect.
The south has the most lackadaisical drivers. They just don’t give a fuck. They’re doing what they’re doing and that’s that.
The Midwest has the nicest most considerate drivers, and as a result traffic jams are far fewer, everything just flows smoother.
California I believe has the statistically worst drivers. New York id say has the most insane but skillful enough to somehow not die drivers.
https://www.moneygeek.com/resources/states-with-the-worst-drivers/
New Mexico has the worse drivers, Texas is fifth. California seems to just be average.
I find that ironic because Massachusetts drivers and New Jersey drives are the worst drivers I’ve ever seen. On the East Coast, it’s almost guaranteed that the car overtaking you doing 30 over the speed limit is going to be from one of those two states.
Call me weird but I enjoy driving in Manhattan. People drive at a reasonable pace.
Don’t be silly, no one drives in manhattan, there’s too much traffic
Never been to the east coast (that’s a goal for sure though), but I totally get that. It’s why I like driving the areas surrounding LA. People are more decisive while driving than other states up the coast. The California driver is more likely to be an asshole, yes, but one who knows what’s happening around them, makes a decision, and stick to it. My home state drives (ha) me insane with the amount of people who just seem totally checked out, either fiddling around on a cell phone or some other bullshit that shouldn’t be done while driving.
Exactly. The real pro move is driving in Montreal.
I witnessed a right turn from the left lane in utah. Except the street was 4 lanes wide.
Texas drivers are the worst drivers in Kansas
Went to Texas once. Made it to Paris, was there for a couple minutes, decided to leave after almost being involved in a fatal car crash right in front of me
‘don’t like the weather, wait an hour.’, every state i’ve been to.
You’ve never been to so cal, we always just say isn’t the weather perfect here.
not as an adult
Living at altitude, this is actually true. Very low atmospheric buffering. Temperature swings of 40 degrees within a few hours.
Yeah in Colorado it can be 60 degrees and sunny and snowing in the same day
No one in the southwest say this lol
In monsoon season it’s absolutely ‘the forecast cannot help you. It might rain here, it might rain 50 yards away’
But they would be correct about having the worst drivers
Arkansas doesn’t require driver’s ed so I think we do have the market cornered on bad drivers. I see folks slam on their brakes on the interstate, reverse back to their exit, the interstates themselves were obviously designed by folks who don’t understand how it works, etc. I’ve lived in several states and never seen anything quite like it.
I think what people don’t realize is that roads are mostly designed by politicians and transit engineers just check to make sure the whole thing doesn’t collapse or sink when a car drives over it.
There are standards but 9/10 times the standards are written by the local council member whose background is in like real estate law or is the son of the local auto dealership owner.
They do that shit in Florida often enough as well. Mostly the same reason. People who don’t, or legally should not, have a license.
A good driver NEVER misses their exit.
In my state, it was 70° last week; now it is 28°.
Week? Yesterday my daughter and I rode bikes to her school in 30° and rode home in 73°. Choosing her outfits is very difficult this week.
Thermal underwear under jeggings, no-show socks, Uggs, and a wool tube top. Problem solved!
Would you happen to be somewhere near east Tennessee/north Carolina? Same exact thing happened here
I’m pretty close to Bowling Green, KY. Did you see the guy that got caught having sex with the dead deer on the side of the road? One county over :/
Are the people in your city also famous for crashing cars into buildings at an alarming rate?
Nobody here is famous. And the mayor’s name is Billy-Bob.
I’ve lived in quite a few places and I still think of Maryland drivers as the worst I’ve encountered. Istanbul drivers are the most ballsy/skilled/terrifying/helpful.
I was coming here to say this exact thing… I’ve never seen such an aggressively clueless population of drivers as those in Maryland. They will savagely cut you off in the left lane to go the speed limit or less.
Yeah well in [insert location] we have two seasons, winter and construction.
Construction isn’t a season where I’m at, it’s a constant. Our seasons are hot, wildfire, mudslide, and earthquake.
I’m guessing wherever you live doesn’t have lots of snow and frozen ground.
Closest we get to snow is the ash from wildfires, womp womp. Nearby mountains get snow though, so that’s nice.
Florida is hot and construction
I thought my state was the worst, but turns out Miami takes the cake. Grand Theft Auto was basically accurate.
Just looked it up and apparently my state actually has a remarkably low rate of traffic deaths, so apparently we’re actually pretty good drivers
