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Re: Americans Can't Drive in the Rain?



brycel@neosoft.com (Bryce Lindsay) says:
>msw5513@vms2.tamu.edu says...

>>Americans can't drive in the rain (Don't ask about Texans on ice :-).

>>Marc

>Ice one the rode never heard of it.  Now i have had Ice in my coke. but 
>it always melts to fast.  Ice on the road wow what a concept i wouder if 
>that means i could walk accross the parking lot from my Apt to the 
>swimming pool with out wering worring about burning my feet.   

Dallas (home) gets ice about once every three years, only one snow storm
since '70 (some snow fall, but not snow that stuck and made slush and all
that).  It ices about once every five years or so here (College Station).
Houston gets it less often.

But when it happens...  Well, I borrow a camcorder and get some hilarious
footage.   In recent years it has become amusing to look at the tires of
the car going through the intersection against the light with the driver
in a look of panic, if they are spinning, they are ABS.  ABS doesn't stop
them, but they don't have to worry about having locked tires :-)

Marc


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