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To: Earlie who wrote (73947)	1/18/2000 3:51:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

If you ever have to drive in the snow in California, you will survive as long as you assume each and every other driver on the road can be counted on to do precisely the wrong thing. (Austrians, of course, drive just fine in the snow.) -mb

To: Earlie who wrote (73947)	1/18/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: Franco Battista	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Seems our reputation as great drivers is well known (g). Gilles Villeneuve once remarked that the most dangerous driving in Montreal was on the public roads and that even he was afraid to drive on them! In all fairness, I have noticed that more and more cities are unfortunately adopting our habits....

To: Earlie who wrote (73947)	1/18/2000 6:14:00 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

LOL, Earlie. That's the definition of Canadian winter, all right. 'From Here to Infinity ...' <g> We used to call it black ice around Montreal, probably a reflection on the state of Quebec's blacktop roads at the time. For those of you who have never had the pleasure, this ice is invisible, perfectly transparent, and as Earlie mentioned, infinitely slippery. You don't know you're on it until it's too late, at which point you better hope your wheels are pointing straight and that the road is straight and that there is nothing stopped in front of you ... because your steering doesn't work, your brakes don't work, you discover you've become a giant curling stone going somewhere fast on a very straight line.