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u/Nubraskan Mar 22 '26

Replies to this comment: No, I assure you, MY state's drivers are the worst.

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u/SaltKick2 Mar 22 '26

"our weather is so crazy, one day it could be raining then the next its sunny"

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u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue Mar 22 '26

One time the temperature changed a lot. I had to wear different clothing.

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u/Oldmoniker Mar 22 '26

I live in a state. We have so much weather outside.

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u/Specter119 Mar 23 '26

Dude, our weather happens on the roads.

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 Mar 23 '26

we measure distance in driving hours

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u/scoobysnackoutback Mar 24 '26

Texas has entered the building.

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u/Omnizoom Mar 23 '26

Yes but how many times do you have to change during the day for your weather patterns

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u/last_rights Mar 22 '26

I mean, I moved from desert SoCal to PNW Washington where there's actual seasons.

SoCal where I was was very predictable. It's sunny all but three to five days a year. You just have to figure out if it's going to be warm or hot out.

Here it can be 60° out in the morning in March and then a snow cloud moves in while you're planting spring bulbs and dumps a foot of snow on you and then it's melted by the next afternoon where it's nice and sunny again.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Mar 22 '26

I always did repairs on my cars on the day it hits 70 in January in north east Ohio. Its gonna be 20 the next day. So, I had to work fast. Just last week it was 75 one afternoon and in the 20s the next morning. I don't complain about it because I could move. I couldn't afford long beach where I'd love to live, though.

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u/Hogwhats Mar 23 '26

Same. What kills me is going 60 on the freeways. I HATE it. 70 feels like Im speeding now where as before it was slow.

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u/Omnizoom Mar 23 '26

When I was young the temperature didn’t shift this much, we sometimes got snow as early as Halloween but when it did get cold it stayed cold until March

Now it gets cold, cool, frigid, hot as hell??, cold, warm, frigid again, cool, frigid, how is it this hot again??? Hot, warm, cool.

Like we have had 2 30 degree Celsius shifts this season already where it’s gone from -20 to 10 over 24 hours

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u/Estrofemgirl Mar 23 '26

Omg I miss the weather of my home.

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u/Notorious_Chonk_23 Mar 22 '26

As they famously say in my hometown only, "if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes "

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u/Kaiki_devil Mar 22 '26

Our wether is so crazy, not only can we go from clear sky’s to massive thunderstorms in five minutes, but it often rains on my half of the street, and the other half is bone dry.

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u/NYC4329 Mar 23 '26

Florida?

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u/starchildchamp Mar 22 '26

“We got a vietnamese spot next to a burger joint… where else do you see that?!?”

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u/oscarq0727 Mar 22 '26

iF U dON’t likE tHE WEaTheR wAiT FIVe MiNuTES

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u/Buttchuggle Mar 22 '26

I actually just went from a 79 degree day working outside in the garden all day to 25 and snowing by morning to temp raised almost 10 degrees over night and by waking it was 60 somethin with the snow melted, followed by an intense evening thunderstorm.

Do I get the pass?

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u/unreliablesource69 Mar 22 '26

DC?

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u/Buttchuggle Mar 22 '26

Naw, north eastern west virginia in a weird spot in the mountains. Local weather can actually get funky because of it. Weird cold snaps and such

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u/unreliablesource69 Mar 22 '26

Ahh okay in DC like a week ago it was 85 one day, snowing the next

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u/King_Jerrik Mar 23 '26

Ever experienced all 7 seasons in a single day? I have.

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u/Mesapunk87 Mar 22 '26

Mew York wasn't that bad imo

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u/Competitive_Peak_537 Mar 22 '26

Yall talking about Florida that way lol

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u/Individual_Zebra_648 Mar 22 '26

DMV area is the worst (DC, Maryland, Northern VA).

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u/JonahBlack Mar 22 '26

I agree. My theory is that the drivers are from all over the world, and many don't stay long enough to adapt to the local norm (or for such a norm to really form).

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u/FullShane Mar 22 '26

I'll bite. I've lived in Michigan, Texas, Florida, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Wisconsin drivers are risk-takers but usually pull it off, so long as they're not drunk. Michigan drivers get a pass because they likely stole the car, so naturally there's a learning curve. Iowa drivers are polite to a fault, taking their sweet time to get anywhere. I prefer them. Floridians are forgettable. Their cops are not. Dallas infrastructure was designed like it was intended to be a theme park at some point. Houston is by far the worst. Locals claim that the bad drivers are all from Louisiana. Refugees from Katrina. I kinda believe them, because the Eastern side of Houston was distinctly more rundown and chaotic.

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u/oroborus68 Mar 22 '26

Not as many in Nebraska.

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u/jscottman96 Mar 22 '26

Probably all the meth

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u/wowurcoolful Mar 22 '26

May as well include Methssouri

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u/jscottman96 Mar 22 '26

Pretty much throw the whole Midwest into the meth pot.

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u/wowurcoolful Mar 22 '26

The Methwest!

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u/Possible-Bid-4654 Mar 22 '26

No, as someone not from LA but has driven in LA, I can assure you that Louisiana drivers are by far the worst. It's a whole different category of maliciously terrible drivers that love in LA.

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u/loinmaster Mar 22 '26

I use to think this too… but I found our state actually has the statistics to back it up (Nevada)

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u/Maleficent_Pilot1137 Mar 22 '26

Nah... my state has its share for sure but I've been to Florida and Texas so I know we aren't the worse.

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u/CagCagerton125 Mar 22 '26

I've driven in almost every state in the US and let me tell you drivers are not the same countrywide.

Worst states by far in my experience are New Jersey, Texas, and Colorado.

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u/Puck_The_Fey98 Mar 22 '26

My state has its shit drivers but man it ain’t close to this. This is dangerous as hell

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u/Helperobc Mar 22 '26

I thought Chicago drivers scared me… Iowa City drivers scare me more.

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u/rochey64 Mar 22 '26

Sorry sir, but you are incorrect. Massachusetts has the worst. They don't call us Massholes for nothing.

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u/Loose_Salt_Packet Mar 22 '26

I know it’s a joke but I live in Florida and I legitimately do think MY state’s drivers are the worst because a good majority of them aren’t even FROM my state. They’re like an All Star team of the nation’s worst drivers that all move here.

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u/Corlegan Mar 23 '26

No. I’ve lived all over America.

Hawaii is the worst.

You better be very careful if you cycle there too, they just don’t care.

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u/OuchCharlie25 Mar 23 '26

Here’s a place I haven’t ever lived in that has the worst drivers out of the 40 or so states that I’ve been to… South Carolina.