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- From: dreitman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Daniel R. Reitman, Attorney to Be)
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- Subject: Re: The Cos on skids, and the Snow Problem problem
- Message-ID: <21DEC199215070128@oregon.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:07:00 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec21.174102.16911@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec21.174102.16911@nwnexus.WA.COM>,
- pyotr@halcyon.com (Peter D. Hampe) writes...
- >On the "I can drive in snow" thread - I heard a statement that I
- >agree with. Most of the people who say "I'm from BigSnowState
- >and I know how to drive in Snow" usually are missing two crucial
- >differences: wet snow and hills. And irregular snow falls. That's
- >three. [Amoung the differences are ...]
- >
- >With out the regualr snowfall there is less chance to practice.
- >The wet snow makes for slick roads in a heartbeat, and the hills
- >just tend to negate SOP for intersections (The snow and ice rules
- >are that traffic up the hill has right of way unless you are sliding
- >sideways down the hill. Sliding down the hill backwards is still a
- >2 point penalty.)
-
- Yesterday I had a major ordeal with snow driving. Being a New Englander, my
- snow experience is in low hills and the like. I made the mistake of trying to
- drive Aufderheide Drive in Lane County (a.k.a. Willamette National Forest Road
- 19) with insufficient equipment, no food, no water, no chains, and a front
- wheel drive subcompact. I got back to Eugene at 11 this morning, after getting
- my front wheels towed out of the shoulder by a passing pickup 25 miles north of
- Oakridge. Needless to say, I'm staying off that road for a while. You think
- about mortality quite a bit in those situations.
-