Fighting With The Santa Ana Winds: Worst Road Conditions You Driven Through?

Oh, dear, that must've been SO SCARY!!! I'm glad your parents are OK! Phew! The worst road conditions we drove through was a week ago. We went to Pori to my hubby's eldest brother's place and when we drove home, it was SO DARK and FOGGY. The fog was SO thick that we had to drive slowly. Plus it was a new city for us, so we didn't dare drive too quickly 'coz we had to pay attention to road signs in order to not get lost. The thick fog covered the road for about 150 km. It felt like we were moving but not really getting anywhere. It felt like we were in the middle of a horror movie he he he he he...

Hi Gtargirl! Wow! That was not very smart to egnore a red-flag high wind warning. But, to tell you the truth , I probably would have done the same.LOL! Good thing your parents are okay. To bad for the car, it can be replaced, your parents cannot. I am trying to picture my parents as two pillars of sand.LOL! Well good thing everything is Okay. Take care, and have a nice day. Tell your parents to take care too. Groetjes Margajoe.

Oh my what a derrible thing to happen to your mom and dad and I bet they were scareder than you was when ya saw them all covered with sand. I have drove through samd storms snowsorms Tornados ice storms. Think the worst one was wehn we were moving from Wis . to Utah in Dec of all months . Well we hit black ice and took us 2 hours to go 5 miles to get to and exit to a motel. and even the motel parking lot was a solid sheet of ice. another one was when IWas a kid we were driving in a snow storm had to guess where the road was and ended up in a ditch for hours till my dad walked to a farm and got some one with a tractor to pull us out. Nothing hurt us or our cars but it was awfull any way

I have heard of these Santa Anna Winds, but they must be worse than I realised. To blow out your parents car windows must be caused by very powerful winds. It must have been very scary for them. Where I come from up North, we get what we call "northerlies". In reality, they are worse than the name implies. Northerlies can be very strong, & very hot. If we get a northerly on a hot summers day, they can be very dangerous, & can cause fires, or at least inflame a fire to a wildfire level. Northerlies also cause a lot of allergy problems.

We are nowhere near the fires, but when we lived in Florida had to deal with hurricanes. I was always a nervous wreck when it came to driving in bad conditions. I am glad your parents made it safely to your house. DO you think you will need to evacuate or are you a pretty safe distance away?

ohh im glad they made it. The worst driving conditions i have been in would have to be when i was in labor with my last child Hubby didnt have a lisense at that time so i had to drive he was with me just incase i couldnt drive any more.. well it was november and the roads were slippery and it was snowing hard. I managed to get to the dr only to be told there were no beds available at the hospital and that i should go back home 30 minutes away. made it back home to although im not to sure how lol

Well being from the "Great White North" (Canada) driving conditions can be absolutely brutal in the winter thanks to blizzard conditions, heavy snow, white outs, black ice, strong winds etc..I dont live in Canada anymore but Western New York is just as bad and being out in the country the driving conditions can get brutal

Jeez I'm glad to hear they are ok, even though they should perhaps have taken heed of the red flag warning. A couple of years back I was driving in the North of England across an area of Saddleworth Moor which is notorious for bad weather. The weather turned bad almost within moments of my starting up the long climb up to the Moor and by the time I got to the top of the hill it was a raging blizzard. Visibility was zero, the winds driving the snow virtually horizontal and the only way I could continue was to try and drive with main beams and hazard lights and fog lights and crawling along as best I could until I reached the other side of the Moor. As I inched my way carefully down the hill the snow stopped, the wind eased off and by the time I got to the bottom it was raining and you would never have known the awful driving conditions higher up.