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- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: The Cos on skids, and the Snow Problem problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.203931.11394@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <1992Dec21.174102.16911@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1992Dec21.200624.921@tessi.com> <BzoAAr.3Lp@agora.rain.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:39:31 GMT
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- batie@agora.rain.com (Alan Batie) writes:
-
- >allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren) writes:
- >>Additionally, there is NO salt used at all on the roadways, just sand
-
- >Thank goodness! My car is 8 years old now, with 178K miles on it and
- >going strong. If they salted the roads here like they do in the east,
- >I would've been forced to buy a new car by now, and I've got lots better
- >things to do with my money.
-
- "Thank goodnes!" is right! I didn't mean to say that I was remotely
- in favor of the salt. I'm VERY, VERY glad they don't salt around here.
- When we first moved to Oregon, we had a 1984 Toyota Celica with 150k
- miles on it, with most of those miles put on by my father-in-law in
- his Sales job in the Boston, MA area. When I took it through DEQ, the
- techs were just shaking their heads when they read the exhaust results.
- They said that the car tested out like it was brand new, even though
- the body was simply rusting away. We traded the car in two months
- later because, basically, the rust was like a cancer gone rampant.
-
- allen
-