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Those people drove from dry pavement into a curtain of snow that was turning to ice glaze when it
hit the pavement. There was no gradual flurries to flakes, it was a CURTAIN.  I saw it.     I left
my workplace parking lot about 11 a.m., when I drove through the curtain of snow I put my jeep in 4
wheel drive, and promptly got stuck on a minor incline.  Now that's slick!  I put the vehicle in
neutral and switched to 4 wheel low, then idled forward up the hill.

Charles Packer wrote:

> The NY Times weather page has a brief daily note on some technical
> or scientific aspect of recent weather phenomena. On Saturday
> it featured the East coast storm and said
>
>         "Most residents in the [Washington] region
>         expected snow, but the way it began
>         contributed to the massive collision. The
>         snow started with a burst around Washington
>         as highway temperatures were just above
>         32 degrees. The air temperature was near
>         25, so the first flakes melted, turned to
>         ice and then quickly covered the ice with
>         snow, the ideal ingredients for a highway
>         disaster."
>
> So it's probably a little excessive to blame the pileups
> entirely on Washingtonians' purported lack of driving skills.
> Granted, people follow each other too closely...but hey, it
> works 99.99% of the time!...
>
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> packer@clark.net (Charles Packer)
> http://www.clark.net/~whatnews

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