Steve Slatin on sat 3 jan 04
I'm always amused when Seattolians complain about local drivers.
If you want to see bad snow driving (without leaving the US), go
to the District of Columbia. I recall my first year there, seeing
cars off the road on less than an inch of snow, and that over
dry pavement.
Try to top THAT, Seattle!
-- Steve S.
>Dateline Seattle:
>We DON'T know how to drive in the snow around here!
easley59 on sat 3 jan 04
Dateline Seattle: =20
We DON'T know how to drive in the snow around here!
Rain, we've got it down pat, sort of. Some still drive too fast for =
conditions, snow, that's a whole 'nuther number.
A tinge of white and we go apesh*t. Schools close, weather reporters are =
sooooooooo excited, black ice is sighted everywhere, even tho you can't =
really see it in the first place.
No one seems to have heard that you don't use your brakes on ice, but, =
oh well. Slip and slide.
Makes good dinner table conversation.
It's 30^ right now, light powder coming down. North winds due this =
afternoon giving us a wind chill of 0 to -3 or something.
Just got a "snow advisory" on my weather bug.
Isn't that a riot? Midwesterner's must think we're nuts.
Nope, just need a little excitement in our lives, I guess.
Pam in chilly-for-us Seattle
Good day to hit the studio and not feel like I should be "doing =
something" away from the homefront. I'm just as chicken as the next guy =
to slip n slide.
Nancy R Chestnut on sat 3 jan 04
After learning to drive on snowy roads before and after they were "sanded"
in Massachusetts, I discovered that in eastern War-shington (near Idaho)
they dumped 'gravel' which was more like large pebbles or small stones on
top of the packed down snow. Worked great. I remember baby daughter humming
along with the sound of the tire chains on these rocks as our little rear
drive Datsun-that-could with a full tank of gas and concrete blocks in the
trunk chugged up to her sitter's house on the top of the tallest hill in
town.
Nancy in Cincinnati, where salt rules and Kroger sells out of bread and milk
at the first sign of a flake.
----- Original Message -----
From: "easley59"
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 1:49 PM
Subject: [CLAYART] "unclayart postings" SNOW JOB
Dateline Seattle:
We DON'T know how to drive in the snow around here!
Jan L. Peterson on sat 3 jan 04
I loved it there when it snowed. People in such panic. Took everyone
everywhere. They thought I was the sharpest thing around.
Seattle and the Harbor are beautiful in the snow.
Up here, it's still snowing from a couple of days ago. About a foot or
better. Our Pound dogs are loving it. We got a fat dog, and it makes it a little
hard for him to walk.
It's so pretty out our windows. 22 degrees right now, with the snow still
falling.
The snow in a famous Tacoma storm '74 was so heavy it broke big limbs off our
cherry tree. We, the ex and I, were shining light in to a gas station bay
because all the lights went out in Tacoma and Seattle, so people could be either
chained up, or snow-tired. Fun.
Jan, the Alleycat, where the traffic goes on like it's just another day.
PurpleLama@AOL.COM on sun 4 jan 04
I'm always amused when Seattolians complain about local drivers.
If you want to see bad snow driving (without leaving the US), go
to the District of Columbia. I recall my first year there, seeing
cars off the road on less than an inch of snow, and that over
dry pavement.
I've lived in both places. DC gets more snow. And people in DC drive better
in snow than the folks in Seattle. People in Seattle get much less practice.
Shula
in Edmond, OK
who stayed on the web last night "watching" and listening to NASA TV until we
knew for sure that Spirit had landed safely on Mars. Very cool!
claybair on sun 4 jan 04
Oh Yeah....
Well....
can you say you set the Space Needle on fire
with New Years eve fireworks (2002 I think)??
Huh??? Huh???
Actually I have to concede .....
I cannot top anything that happens in DC be it drivers
in 1" snow or politicians driving the USA into the ground
with their "snow jobs".
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
-----Original Message-----
From:Steve Slatin
I'm always amused when Seattolians complain about local drivers.
If you want to see bad snow driving (without leaving the US), go
to the District of Columbia. I recall my first year there, seeing
cars off the road on less than an inch of snow, and that over
dry pavement.
Try to top THAT, Seattle!
-- Steve S.
>Dateline Seattle:
>We DON'T know how to drive in the snow around here!
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