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Originally posted by Hootie
He said he laughs every time he passes some vehicle off the side of the road with a California license plate.
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That's too bad, but the truth is that nothing makes a Coloradan madder than someone in a huge whatever charging through the mountains in the winter. Unfortunately, this seems to be most often the case with Texans -- Californians being a close second.
Mountain driving can be scary at best -- even when the weather seems good. You can't see "black ice" on the roadway, and you can find your arse in a ditch or guardrail or a much more dangerous and unfortunate place in less than the wink of an eye.
More than once I've entered the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70 in bright sunshine on one side and emerged into a blizzard 90 seconds later on the other side.
In can be nearly as bad on the plains, except the weather doesn't change quite as quickly.
By the way, in the three roll-overs I mentioned in my post above, one was a 4WD pickup and the two others were SUV's.
While I don't recommend this, about once or twice a winter, if I'm on a very wide road or in a parking lot with no other traffic, I practice fish-tailing and even sometimes a 360 degree skid. I don't know if it helps, but I've never hit anything or anybody in 30 years of driving in the snow and ice.
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