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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: driving in snow (or other low traction conditions)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.070956.20925@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <MS-C.724710317.1103527590.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> <1992Dec21.045201.24465@u.washington.edu> <BzsC9x.KK9@agora.rain.com> <1992Dec25.025044.7712@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:09:56 GMT
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- zakons@halcyon.com (Scott Allan Zakon) writes:
-
- >Hear, hear! Finally someone laid it on the line. Use your head. Why
- >couldn't this have been said about thirty posts ago. Another good idea
- >is to have emergency supplies like a map, gloves, boots, a full tank of
- >gas when you start your trip.
- >There's nothing that will ensue disater more than a lack of
- >preparedness.
- >As for the technical aspects of driving on rain, snow or ice, CHECK
- >WITH THE DEALERSHIP. They have access to the results of hundreds of
- >hours of testing with your model of car. This BS of trying to remember
- >thirty or forty rules that only peripherally relate to your car is going
- >to delay a reaction or cause an incorrect reaction.
-
-
- Another thing besides a map, gloves and boots: if you're driving in
- areas that are susceptible to snow and cold, pack along a blanket and
- a snowmobile suit. While growing up in the Midwest, I had a "emergency"
- box that I kept in my trunk: map, gloves, snowboots, hat, ski goggles,
- snowmobile suit, blanket, flares, "C" rations, etc. I know, it may
- seem extreme to some, but it saved my butt once when I became broken
- down out in the middle of nowhere at 2:00 AM on a VERY wintry, snowy
- night. I ate some of the food, set out flares, and put on all the
- above-mentioned items. When no help came after two hours of waiting,
- I put on the goggles, grabbed my flashlight and walked 5 miles 'til I
- got to a farmhouse. I was lucky, since I had cold-weather gear on
- me. I'm not saying this is needed everywhere, but in some parts
- of the Northwest, it's just common sense.
-
- allen
-