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To: AugustWest who wrote (529)	12/22/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

August, Yes, we've had white-outs here in Eastern Ontario before. Actually, what I think I hate about the worst is driving home late at night in a heavy snowfall when the wind is strong. Nothing quite so distracting as zillions of snow flakes racing straight at your windshield...removing all sense of "perspective". I was thinking about the "snowbanks" that you mentioned. I always think that driving is a lot safer once there is a few feet of snow everywhere. In the first car accidents of winter, a lot of people seem to roll their cars or go off the road and hit trees and stuff. Or they try not to and end up in a head-on collision. However, once there is a thick layer of snow everywhere, you can actually take the ditch at pretty high speed without serious repercussions... except for a very large towing bill to pay for being winched back out again. Our farm is on a bad bend in a highway and I've seen some rather spectacular winter "crashes", but so far (knock on wood) nobody has been hurt. I guess the worst that has happened is a couple of elderly people who took the ditch and buried their big old Thunderbird so deep in the snow that I had to help them to climb out of the windows. Ah...the joys of living on a farm near a big S-curve... Believe it or not, one morning I had to call for tow trucks and give people a hand after 3 separate spin-outs in front of my place. Guess I don't have to mention that my mailbox has been totalled countless times. For awhile, I had an old wooden mailbox and I think I had to go out and nail that sucker back together about twice a week. It was finally destroyed beyond recognition by a tractor trailer that jacknifed, drove down the road through the ditch at about 70mph, crossed the highway and drove down that ditch for about 1/4 mile..then got back up on the road and continued down the road as if nothing had happened. The truck hit the big culvert in my laneway so hard that it busted the concrete as the truck "lept" over my laneway on its way down the ditch... Must have been one of those "Built Ford Tough" trucks... Often wonder what that driver was thinking during that whole escapade. I know what I was thinking as I saw this big tractor trailer hitting the culvert and then sailing up into the air over the laneway... side running lights making red streamers across the night sky as the truck took off into space for about 50 feet... Sort of looked like it was doing an imitation of a 747 over at the airport near here. Well, I hope you can stay in and enjoy all that snow from the comfort of your home...maybe with a nice fire going in the woodstove and some hot coffee or mulled cider to sip on... (-: Later, Croc