[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway

[adin at frontier.net]

Hey, watch it or I'll send in the Swedish Bikini Team/ Animal Control  
Squad to kick some socal butt!






Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>:

> Its hard to find 'real Vikings' (aka Norwegians) anymore unless they  
>  have moved to Seattle or St Paul Minnosota.
>
>    Now when I lived in Seattle there were more Norwegian flags   
> waving then American flags....you guys down in SoCal think you are   
> ill from all the  Mexican and Vietnamese national flags? You want to  
>  be on the edge of scary un-American activities? Then  drive into   
> Ballard ( a sub of Seatle) on Friday night when all those   
> transplanted Norwegion-pigions who just got off fishing boats have   
> come ashore and drank about 10 beers and ate all that lutafisk or   
> whatever its called ohhhhh man, its tough.  ;-]>
>
>   My experience is its no different when we had snow or ice or RAIN   
> in Seattle....the Norwegians disappeared off the roads....driving in  
>  the winter months was the best time to drive your Pantera because   
> you could be sure NO Norwegians would be on the road.
>
>   Mad Dawg
>
> Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se> wrote:
>   cengles at cox.net skrev:
>> Dear Torbjorn,
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>>> And Yuppie to day the first snow fall, with a total chaos on the main
>>> roads. Several 100 cars of the road.
>>
>> Please help me understand this situation. We in the subtropical   
>> zone of Oklahoma and Texas think that all residents of Scandanavia   
>> are completely familiar with cold, white snow material and are   
>> completely competent to drive in it. We think that the reason one   
>> or two inches of snow paralyzes Dallas or Oklahoma City and sends   
>> hundreds of vehicles into ditchs, other cars and freeway retaining   
>> walls is that we do not know how to drive in the snow. It would   
>> seem that Norwegians also have a short memory and have to re-learn   
>> each winter, too?? I just don't see how that can be, but several   
>> hundred Norwegians off the road don't lie. Aren't you all supposed   
>> to be natural ice, snow and rally drivers??? ;-)
>
> The same thing invariably happens every year in Sweden on the first snow
> and frost. It is as if snow and ice is something completely unheard of.
>
> I must also say that snow and frost is much worse in areas that don't
> normally see much of it.
>
> We who live up north has always looked down on the people living in
> southern Sweden, or anywhere closer to the equator, where they run into
> massive traffic issues if there are just a few snow flakes coming down.
> After having driven through southern Sweden during a relatively mild
> snowfall in December they get much more respect from me. I have seldom
> experienced anything so slippery and messy.
>
> It is normally much drier and colder up here, which gives a much better
> grip.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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