[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway

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That, and we don't get the same frozen stuff in Texas.

It tends to be either ice or wet snow, both of which are much slicker than the snow you find in colder climates.

I watched a video of a bus in Dallas that slid down an overpass and slammed into a car.  It started out at about 1 mph.

We drive to Colorado every year to go skiing.  The snow in the mountains is a lot easier to drive on.

We also don't have the salt, cotton seed, or sand trucks that you find in colder climates.  I spent a lot of time in Chicago this winter.  The salt trucks ran all the time.  It would snow 6", but the parking lots would be clear.  That's only possible with lots of salt everywhere.

I don't mean to imply the drivers aren't at fault.  I've seen plenty of people slide off the road.  They just don't know what they're doing.  For that matter, I saw plenty of it on I-70 in Colorado earlier this year.

Will.

-----Original Message-----
>From: msm at portata.com
>Sent: Oct 29, 2008 2:55 PM
>To: cengles at cox.net, Torbjorn Harlem <torbjorn.harlem at elverhoy.no>
>Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
>
>It snowed on us a couple of times when we lived in Austin.  The problem
>wasn't the lack of winter driving skills; it was just plain stupidity.
>People would drive the same speed and brake and turn the same way as
>they usually did then were surprised when they ended up in a ditch.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
>On Behalf Of cengles at cox.net
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:29 AM
>To: Torbjorn Harlem
>Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
>
>
>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??? ;-)
>
>
>Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
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