Learning safe driving.

Post #7,290 by static 8/30/01 8:55:50 PM Reply	Learning safe driving. Some friends of my sister are veterans at driving on icy roads. How? They've been down to the snow regularly for many years, initially in a bomb of a car that they probably had a few close scrapes with. Result: they have the solid experience and Know What To Do. I've also seen some phenomenal things on Mt Panorama at Bathurst (V8 racing, if you don't know) that could only be pulled off by drivers experienced in taking literally centimetre chances. One in particular was one guy got his car spun out on the track facing the wrong way and with a mere fraction of a second to spare spun it round on the track between racing cars to face the right way and keep racing. That is experience. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #7,309 by wharris2 8/31/01 5:03:23 AM Reply	Anecdotes Cincinnati drivers are horrible in poor weather. I've never seen traffic as bad in rain as in snow. But here you are. Egads. Now, some rain and some snow will crush driving conditions no matter where you are. But here, you get a little drizzle, you get a lot of congestion. I don't understand it. French Zombies are zapping me with lasers!
Post #7,352 by mhuber 8/31/01 3:08:05 PM Reply	Dreading that first snow Sometime in the next few months, a flake or two will hit the I-system here in Milwaukee. It will be about 40 degrees F. The snow will melt as it hits. There will be no accumulation on roads, no ice, not a whole lot of water. People will panic. Traffic will crawl. Fenders will be bent. The TV and radio weather and traffic people will orgasm on the air about the crisis. They might even create a new logo for the storm. A few weeks later, the roads will be a slick grey deathtrap and the drivers going 20 under the limit on that nearly dry surface will be doing 20 over the limit on a genuinely dangerous surface and dying - taking others with them. And it will take at least three inches of snow for a storm to rate a name and logo. We get about a half dozen storm like that per year. White guys in suits know best - Pat McCurdy
Post #7,367 by Ashton 8/31/01 5:01:01 PM Reply	Q for you Unfortunates in the white, soon-grey zones Are there any areas, cities (other than enroute to ski playgrounds) which require chains? At all? Under certain circumstances? If so - are 'snow tires' then deemed an adequate equivalent? (Or is it all left up to Darwinism and Tee Vee er 'manufactured consent' via infoterrorment?) Hmmm - maybe a Hum-Vee could have some rational purpose: if it's left to Darwin out there.
Post #7,368 by mhuber 8/31/01 5:07:10 PM Reply	No chains required anywhere around here, as far as I know But then, I tend to stick to the City during winter. Milwaukee isn't really all that bad for driving in snow. All it takes, except for maybe one or two days per winter, and we tend to sit those out, is decent tires and sane driving. Which means slowing down when the roads are slippery, and realizing that 4 wheel drive doesn't help you stop. And go out and play a little in a parking lot or something every winter, so you know how your machine acts in a skid. White guys in suits know best - Pat McCurdy
Post #7,370 by drewk 8/31/01 5:24:37 PM Reply	Not allowed, usually This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Post #7,400 by static 8/31/01 10:21:41 PM Reply	We had some freaky weather a few weeks ago. Which is why my sister mentioned her friends. It dumped snow on the Southern Highlands and the Blue Mountains - two regions of New South Wales that almost never get snowed on. In fact, it dumped nearly a foot of snow. The TV news crews got a few locals on camera complaining about the unusually high amount of traffic (!) - most of it city tourists (!!) who clearly didn't know how to drive on an icy road. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #7,436 by wharris2 9/1/01 4:05:59 AM Reply	Re: Dreading that first snow You just ligtened my day a lot. "a flake or two"------ classic. French Zombies are zapping me with lasers!
Post #7,472 by boxley 9/1/01 9:11:40 PM Reply	the first snow in florida is around the corner huge storms of whiteheaded flakes clogging the roadways with their first car. Shudder. thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk

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