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Originally Posted by AGDee
Nobody can drive on ice- northerner or not. I very narrowly missed being in an accident on Tuesday morning because of black ice. It was too cold for the salt to work. A car two cars in front of me on I-75 started spinning. I was able to brake- my ABS kicked in- and steer slightly to the shoulder so I had traction on the nasty icky snow stuff at the side of the road. That car spun all way across three lanes until it hit the cement barrier on the left side of the freeway and it took out 3 other cars (including a pick up truck) on its way. It was so cold (-12) that when it hit the pickup truck, the plastic part of the car that hit shattered- like an explosion- sending parts into the air and scattering everywhere. Not just cracked or crunched- shattered. It was the freakiest thing I ever saw. I was shaking the whole rest of the way to work because the ice would just show up out of nowhere.
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That is a northern driving technique that is so helpful. It's harder to do this year, because the snow banks are so high we're driving through tunnels over here...so there often isn't a shoulder.
That plastic story is wild! Like liquid nitrogen!