12-20-2009, 06:13 AM
Interesting. I just posted this at another site:
Out here (LA) they start skidding and ramming each other the minute a rain cloud passes over. I learned to drive in snow and ice conditions. I'll never forget the Christmas Eve I was driving a carload of friends to midnight Mass in downtown Boston.
I lost control just as I was merging from I-93 onto (what was then) the Central Artery/Mystic River Bridge. The fully loaded Olds spun around 2 1/2 turns and ended sideways across two lanes of a 6 lane merge. Damn good thing others were sensible enough to not be out driving that night or I'd not be typing this.
Steer in the direction of the skid was all I could remember, I was 17. It was blizzard conditions and that night no one was driving 55 - even 17-year olds - not because we didn't want to but the unplowed snow made it impossible.
Out here (LA) they start skidding and ramming each other the minute a rain cloud passes over. I learned to drive in snow and ice conditions. I'll never forget the Christmas Eve I was driving a carload of friends to midnight Mass in downtown Boston.
I lost control just as I was merging from I-93 onto (what was then) the Central Artery/Mystic River Bridge. The fully loaded Olds spun around 2 1/2 turns and ended sideways across two lanes of a 6 lane merge. Damn good thing others were sensible enough to not be out driving that night or I'd not be typing this.
Steer in the direction of the skid was all I could remember, I was 17. It was blizzard conditions and that night no one was driving 55 - even 17-year olds - not because we didn't want to but the unplowed snow made it impossible.