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Article #803Re: Weather on I-5?
From: Andrew Klossner
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:09
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:09
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Stuart Lewis offers some excellent advice about driving in snow. My
two bits' worth:
"When driving in snow *always* light on the gas, light on the
brakes."
And, if you have a manual transmission, don't use first gear.
Accelerate from a stop in second gear. You're less likely to lose
traction.
"turn into a skid ..."
This is for rear wheel drive. If you have front wheel drive, turn in
the direction that you want to go. In snow country, this alone was a
good reason to buy front wheel drive -- the natural reflex is the right
one in this situation.
-=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
(uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.tek.com!shaman!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: pnw.general Subject: Re: Weather on I-5? Message-ID: <2341@shaman.wv.tek.com> Date: 15 Dec 92 19:09:36 GMT References: <1992Dec13.172918.26548@u.washington.edu> <BzA44z.G49@plato.ds.boeing.com> Sender: news@shaman.wv.tek.com Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 19