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Ed Pawlowski[_5_]

On 2/14/2019 7:06 PM, cshenk wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 3:30:31 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> We always get a chuckle over the traffic chaos that results from
>>> very small amounts of snow in the lower half of the US. It seems
>>> that is takes only about a half inch of snow to bring the
>>> transportation infrastructure to its knees.
>>>
>> That is because we do not get significant amounts of the white stuff.
>> When you have to drive in a condition that you have no experience
>> driving in of course we are brought to our knees. Are we supposed to
>> save two weeks of our vacation and schedule those weeks for the
>> second week of January in Minneapolis so we can learn to drive in a
>> condition we rarely experience? Are we supposed to stay off the
>> roads because some Northerner is here visiting but we are annoying
>> him and in his way because we don't know how to navigate in it?
>
> Thats the problem plus we do not have the gear to deal with it. They
> do not bother to plough side roads here (no treatment at all) and they
> do not sell snow tires either.
>
> Our biggest danger per local studies, IS the northern critters causing
> accidents 'getting annoyed' at the locals. The locals have fender
> benders in it. The northern annoyed critters cause fatalities going
> 50-60 and wiping out a local at 20mph.
>

Many have no idea what it is like in other places. The Weather Channel
runs a show called Highway Thru Hell. They deal with snow and ice on a
regular basis in BC.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4m...HpBpAgqeVckISg