[R-390] Recap kit Update- Wife back in hospital -SNOW

[mikea]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:56:05AM -0500, Todd Bigelow - PS wrote:
> This must be a hoot to see, you should sell videos! We got over a foot
> of snow last night, then it changed to freezing rain and sleet for my
> drive in to work. Made it in with 3-6" of snow and slush on the
> interstate, closer to a foot when I hit the offramp into town. Thought I
> was late, but I actually beat the crowd since gov't offices had a
> delayed opening.
> 
> The biggest problems we have up here are with the
> out-of-staters(referred to as 'flatlanders' and 'citiots')from outside
> New England just have no concept of using their noggins when conditions
> change. They just keep right on trying to barrel down the highway at
> 80mph with their lame all-season radials, then wonder why they end up as
> a lawn ornament out in the median or over the bank. You don't have to
> creep along at a snail's pace generally, but you can't drive like you're
> at LeMans, either.

Texas and Oklahoma after a snow or an ice storm are always good 
for laughs, as long as you don't have to drive. The indigenes 
treat the steering wheel as 3-state: L-M-R, and the pedals as
binary: Off-On. This makes things ... erm ... interesting. Yes, 
that's the word I want. 

I'm glad I learned my snow-and-ice driving in Korea, where the
traffic was lighter.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964