Biggest difference is road surface. Southern roads are smoother and ice up like a skating rink.
Mike On Jan 30, 2014 3:53 PM, "Dieselhead" <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > A couple of differences between snow in the South and in the North are that >> it's often been warm prior to the snow in the South - the first ΒΌ" of snow >> melts on contact with the road then freezes to ice while the rest of the >> snow covers it. This happens almost every time. Makes driving tricky. The >> other issue is the size of the population area that is reporting the >> gridlock, shutdowns, etc. the smaller towns/cities don't have much of an >> issue with snow. It's the million plus cars trying to get home all at once >> that cause the problems. >> > > We often get rain turning to snow in the north. slush freezes with snow on > top. That does not count for the inability of southerners to drive on > snow. > Do the southern cities really have that many more cars than say CHicago? > I doubt there is much difference, or fewer cars. > > Biggest differences are ill equipped and ill trained road crews and > supervision along with masses of drivers that don't know how to drive. > > However with the proliferation of 4wd cars and SUVs, the latter is pretty > ubiquitous. In a one mile stretch along i-35 north of Des moines in every > snow there is an average of 40 or so vehicles spun out in the ditch, and > most are 4wd SUVs, with over half rolled. THat is just plain stupidity. > Sometimes it is so bad that there is no place to slide off without hitting > some other moron. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
