[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

Be my quest...I'm back in NORcal.
  PS While your at it see if they can get our backordered PI magazines mailed.
   
  
adin at frontier.net wrote:
  Hey, watch it or I'll send in the Swedish Bikini Team/ Animal Control 
Squad to kick some socal butt!






Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci :

> 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 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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