Russian "Highway"

[lars]

http://bc4x4.com/inthenews/default.cfm?ID=153

If you live over there, you could easily justify why you've spent so much time/money building your 4x4.

...lars

[raskal]

they have better highways than we have trails.

and better trucks for them :)

http://www.englishrussia.com/images/cool_cars/3.jpg

[MudKick]

Looks just like Stave...


I do love the speed limit sign of 70Km/hr.:laugh
I think that should be a "minimum" speed to maintain in order not to get stuck... :redneck



And the guy with no pants is pretty disturbing...:eek:

[mabb]

I remember Kruschev shouting: "We will bury you!"
So THAT'S what he was talking about!

[MudKick]

Actually, in a sense, that's how Russians won the WWII. Except they made sure to time it so the entire German Army was stuck like that in November, near polar circle...


Genius!!!

Evil Genius, for that matter.;)

[Chucky3436]

My god, theres cars in there.

Like...family cars. Do those cars ACTUALLY make it through that stuff? I would guess so if its used so much.

[HSOK]

Originally posted by Chucky3436
My god, theres cars in there.

Like...family cars. Do those cars ACTUALLY make it through that stuff? I would guess so if its used so much.

I don't think it does get used too much. I'd imagine once a station wagon or 2 gets stuck, the highway collects that many cars over the course of a couple days while they try to clear the vehicles out faster than they pile up.

[brian468]

thats flippin awesome!

[muddhunter]

They must really want to get where there going to drive a highway like that in a 4 dr sedan!

[whitetrashxj]

wtf? i wonder if the side roads are any better lol:redneck

[Tom P]

quote: Everytime it rains the road gets paralized, these shots are made a few days before the traffic jam for 600 cars got stuck there

600 cars getting stuck!! You'd think after the first couple hundred the drivers would want to size up the obstacle first. :rolleyes:

That little van is kind of cool, maybe the fact it's a van and those blondes explains the missing pants?

[Lone Ranger]

Hahahahaha That's so completely awesome. It brings back some very fond memories of living in the Baja for their couple days of the year that it rains.

The van we drove down suffered an engine fire so we were borrowing a friend's '74 VW Bug (complete with no brakes or seatbelts, but hey! It had a set of 31" snowtires on that back. That's all it needed :redneck ) and my dad, brother and I would tune 'er up and suit up and go raise some hell around town with it. There'd be vehicles stuck everywhere and that ol' girl would just scream along through it (albeit, not as deep as some of the mud in those pics :eek: ). The windshield wipers didn't work either so when the mud really built up we'd have to hang out the window and drive like so... That is until the battery fell out the through the rusty floor and we'd be forced to go retrieve it (I still swear that problem started when we lauched it off a half-submerged row boat sunk in the sand down on the beach, but that discussion still hasn't been finished. It tore the floor open originally and no one cared enough to fix it).

The real shame was the car was eventually written off when the steering wheel came off in the driver's hands when a friend of ours was using it and of course having no brakes it ended up hitting the ditch and rolled. This is a very true story and there were four people in it when this happened, including a very good buddy of mine Dante Huerte. He suffered serveral broken ribs, everyone else was just as bad off and the driver (I believe he suffered a broken jaw) only remembers pulling his son to safety before CBing for help and passing out... The moral of the story: don't drive fast with no brakes!!!

Yeah, that's a pretty nasty sinario but it those sort of countries you just gotta do what you gotta do, even if it means taking the family sedan down a highway that's causing trucks to fall over or sink to their doors.

I wish I had my digi for some of the road closures BC has suffered. My record's 3 days so far sitting 30 km east of Golden in the middle of nowhere in -20* snowy weather waiting for the highways department to clean the landslide off the highway (hence why I travel with a MINIMUM of 1 weeks worth of supplies in here, plus I have two 150 gallon fuel tanks which enough for the truck to idle for that period). It was a gong show, diabetics with no medication of supplies, people damn near freezing to death due to no protection, and here's us long haul guys feeding the "masses" with Campbells chunky soups and fresh coffee... I think next time I'm starting a caffeteria and making some money while I'm at it :D Anywhere from 4 to 24 hour closures aren't overly uncommon out here...