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To: wyattearp

Nice try. We do ok in the snow, considering that we have real hills here. This ain't Ohio.


122 posted on 01/05/2005 9:59:27 AM PST by Rate_Determining_Step (US Military - Draining the Swamp of Terrorism since 2001!)
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To: Rate_Determining_Step

"Nice try. We do ok in the snow, considering that we have real hills here. This ain't Ohio."

I don't live in Ohio, I live in Seattle. I've lived all over the Puget Sound region for all of my life, except for when I was in the Navy. People around here seem to think that having 4-wheel drive means that they can do 55 on black ice. When it gets below freezing with snow or ice on the roads, the sides of the roads are littered with 4-wheel drive vehicles.

When it snowed last year downtown, this town was almost completely still. In downtown Seattle you are either going uphill or you are going downhill, without much in between. If people don't know how to drive in those conditions, they shouldn't drive. It is amazing how people will try to drive up or down a snow-and-ice covered hill with no traction devices whatsoever.

Ever driven over Snoqualmie Pass in a snowstorm? I've seen people get scared because they were way out of their league and stop right in the middle of the road, assuming that everybody will just go around them.


135 posted on 01/05/2005 10:24:06 AM PST by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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