02-09-2011, 06:17 PM
Hi,
Like I said, it depends on the conditions.
Another little story:
One winter when I lived in Pullman, it started raining which turned to ice and then snow as the temperature dropped. By morning we had a good four to six inches of snow over about an inch of ice. Nice and cold, no problem.
Then a Chinook started. It warmed up quite a bit by afternoon, so the snow was turning to slush and the ice was melting at the top.
Now, there was a gravel parking lot behind the science library. The lot had a fair slope that ran at right angles to how the cars were normally parked.
Well, the slope, the ice, the lack of studded tires led to one of the strangest things I've seen. First one car, then another started to slip sideways, downhill. Mind you, these were parked cars. When one car hit the next, sometimes the slide would stop, more often the second would also start sliding.
Sometimes, even zero is too fast for the conditions.
--Pete
(02-09-2011, 05:16 AM)DeeBye Wrote: I see a lot of people in this thread saying that you need snow tires or studs or even chains to drive safely in winter conditions. You do not.
Like I said, it depends on the conditions.
Another little story:
One winter when I lived in Pullman, it started raining which turned to ice and then snow as the temperature dropped. By morning we had a good four to six inches of snow over about an inch of ice. Nice and cold, no problem.
Then a Chinook started. It warmed up quite a bit by afternoon, so the snow was turning to slush and the ice was melting at the top.
Now, there was a gravel parking lot behind the science library. The lot had a fair slope that ran at right angles to how the cars were normally parked.
Well, the slope, the ice, the lack of studded tires led to one of the strangest things I've seen. First one car, then another started to slip sideways, downhill. Mind you, these were parked cars. When one car hit the next, sometimes the slide would stop, more often the second would also start sliding.
Sometimes, even zero is too fast for the conditions.
--Pete
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