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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I hadn't thought of that "not knowing how to drive" part. I remember when I lived in DC they once got like 3 or 4 inches and basically the whole city shut down for 3 or 4 days. I heard a news report that street cleaning had been complicated because the salt trucks and plows could not go out until the snow stopped- honest- they couldn't find plow/ salt truck drivers that knew how to drive in snow?
A good snow is magic for kids 5-12. But an ice storm not so much.
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Texas drivers are the worst when it comes to ice. Although certain of us spent our lives in the frosty north navigating ice and snow for a good portion of the year, I was terrified to hit the roads during an ice storm. Idiots in unweighted pickup trucks or sports cars with track tires barrelling down the Interstate at 80 mph made me feel more like being in a real-life Frogger game (with me being the frog).
Here, there was a massive traffic snarl on Friday because a renegade sprinkler caused a small 1/8 inch thick ice patch on the 405/101 split. Six wrecks and a 1 hour delay. At least there is the excuse that there has never been an ice patch on the 405, but still.
