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- Subject: Re: driving in snow (or other low traction conditions)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.200748.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 04:07:48 GMT
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- In article <MS-C.724922673.1103527590.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>, Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> writes:
- > David Barts writes:
- >> so many of the Texas drivers had about driving on snow in NM (the
- >> very same Texans who ten demonstrated their utter incompetence at
- >> negotiating an icy, banked hairpin curve and ended up 30 feet down
- >> a road embankment)
- >
- > Interesting. The last time I was in Albuquerque/Santa Fe, the car I rented
- > had Texas license plates. It was winter, there was lots of snow & ice on the
- > roads, and I got to hear lots of tiresome lectures about how ``you Texas don't
- > know how to drive on ice.''
- >
- > Bigots is bigots.
- >
-
- I was raised in Clovis, New Mexico. It's about 9 miles from Texas.
- When I was in High School, our civics class, when doing a mock state
- legislature passes a law that would erect an 18 foot wall on the Texas
- border keeping Texans out.
-
- That part of New Mexico has about the same weather as Texas, and the
- driving is usually pretty mild during the winter. I learned a lot
- when I first came up here, usually the hard way. === Al Sparks
-