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In article <BzC5zH.EyG@neon.rain.com> jeff@onion.rain.com (Jeff Beadles) writes:
>Stuart Lewis wrote:
>>	"turn into a skid ..."
>
>andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) wrote:
>>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.
>
>I disagree with this, but then again I grew up in a area that received
>a lot of snow, with a rear wheel drive car.  Turning into a skid is
>a natural response. :-)

What has always scared me is that you can get a driver's licence
anywhere on the continent and not know how to control a car in a skid.
I think you should have to demonstrate skid control on a skid pad -
but then I'm the sort who finds deserted snowy parking lots and
practices skid recovery. To know theoretically that you turn in to
the skid is one thing; it's another thing to have actually done it and
know what it feels like. In a front drive car I'd probably use power
to pull me out of the skid, and in a rear drive car I'd back off the
power - but I'd know which worked better, because I'd have tried it
before I really needed it.

Oh yeah, expect snow in the Siskiyous. I flew from San Francisco
to Vancouver B.C. the other day and there was snow on the ground
from just north of Redding to about Eugene.

...laura