Lights Out

No traffic lights? no cops directing traffic? pushyist driver gains? No problem. This is a free for all India style of driving where nobody hits anybody. Take a drive around Virginia Beach at the end of the Nor'Ida (Nov09 nor'easter) when the traffic lights are out.. Hey, I found this pretty damn enjoyable as traffic seemed to flow better without time wasted waiting at dead lights. Shove ahead which I can do. Enjoy

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[neek951]

Virginia law states to treat dead signals as 4 way stops. I just finished drivers ed.

[vbdenny]

@neek951 absolutely correct. Virginia law does treat non functioning signals as 4 way stops however Virginia drivers (apparently) do not. In reality, it was a free for all.

[vbdenny]

@jro9001 I have my generator set up so it powers the entire house. I had TV, Internet and everything. Others lost all food in their freezers and suffered more.

[jro9001]

@vbdenny at least the radio still works

[vbdenny]

@jro9001 NO electricity for 10 days, I needed gas for my generaotor

[jro9001]

@vbdenny u should have stayed home instead of going over 20 miles looking for gas

[vbdenny]

@jro9001 Hurricane

[jro9001]

what was the cause of this?

[vbdenny]

@wrale577 Virginia says the same thing. You can see how that worded out.

[wrale577]

I learned to drive in Florida and state law says roads with signals out are to be treated as a 4 way stop it was a question on my permit test and written test prior to the driving test.