Home | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactHome | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactI live in Chicago now and am hoping the 300 mi. or so north will buy some experience for both the hwy dept and people in general -----Original Message----- From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Heivilin, Jim Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:14 AM To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Oh the weather outside is frightful... > -----Original Message----- > King, Jonathan W. > Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Oh the weather outside is > frightful... > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, McFarland, Jason M. wrote: > > <RANT> > > I want to know why Columbia drivers (Missouri drivers in general) > > can't seem to remember how to drive in snow for more than a week. > > Well, in some cases it's clear that people grew up in places > where this was rarely an issue and thus never knew, and moved > to Columbia maybe with the weird notion we don't have winter. > And we replenish our population of snow-clueless every year, so... > Look at the license plates though. Coming in this morning a guy in an Xterra from Texas was doing better than the person in front of us from here (MO plates at least). She had a Subaru Grand Vitara (with AWD??) and was still sliding all over the place but when I took my WRX (also AWD) though the same place I had no problem. But I suppose even if they grow up here if no one ever teaches them how to drive on it they never ever learn. > Another issue here in Columbia is that even if you basically know > what you're doing, if other people don't, you'll have to brake more > and/or stop moving when you would really like to keep your forward > momentum. It's starting to ice up a bit, and stop-and-go is death > on slippery parts. > Give me the four feet of snow I grew up with (Northern Illinois) over this four inches of snow and six inches of ice any time. Of course it helped enormously that the snow plows were actually sent out to plow the roads. Jim _______________________________________________ discussion mailing list EMAIL:PROTECTED http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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