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To: Ron who wrote (17)	9/23/2013 10:41:37 PM
From: Drygulch Dan	Read Replies (4) of 170

Summer ended for me on Saturday as my wife and I drove through a snow storm on the way over to Calif bay area for a sporting event. We passed through about 20 miles of snow storming as we drove and saw at least two vehicles that suffered from damage. One had just flipped upside down in a drainage area along an abrupt granite wall. The single person inside the vehicle was struggling to get out when we approached the scene. Two other vehicles had stopped to also provide assistance. We helped the lady crawl out of her upside down and partially crushed vehicle. We put blankets around her and gave her some gloves upon her emergence. Her hands were exceedingly cold. The whisked her off to one of the other cars who had volunteered to wait for with her for the emergency crews to show up. It was a reinforcing lesson for my wife who had been driving that gravity is not your friend when driving down a grade in snow or ice. She continued driving afterwards but was more attentive to the conditions than before. Since there is no cell phone coverage in that area we were hoping one of passing vehicles would put in the call to 911 for assistance as several of them stopped to see the accident and then moved on. The emergency vehicles started coming up the hill about a half hour after we left the scene. So they were not prepared to respond to this storm either. First a Cal Trans truck then a couple of forest services vehicles then about a half dozen fire trucks of all descriptions. Then a couple ambulances. Then two highway patrol vehicles. All of these passed by with lights blazing finally as we neared Jackson about 45 minutes down the road a couple of tow trucks ambled by. It must have been quit the zoo up there. On the way back up and over the mountains. I held our two cell phones and made a mental map of where there is sufficient cell phone coverage on that road and why, for our own sake as we both drive that road a lot. I'll be driving that road again Wednesday to attend a gathering in Lodi to meet with a vintner of some note down there. I always got my set of chains in the car as well as things like blankets, water, towels, a large rope and hitch. Just to be ready to give assistance. My wife confided in me that she had taken the chains out of her car for the summer. They are back in there now but not for our recent round trip. Fortunately her car has 4 wheel drive capability and never got into a slide on that trip. Snow driving in the Sierra is a bit tricky as the freezing level wanders around up and down in elevation depending on the coldness of the current storm.

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