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This week: Slip Slidin' Away Edited by: 🐕GeminiGem🎁  
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Slip Slidin' Away
It is definitely wintertime where I live. We are smack dab in the middle of a typical cold front. The temperatures are dipping down to the single digits and we had snow on Monday. A whopping two to three inches.
No, that isn't much snow, but it is enough to make the roads a level-four driving disaster. The day before the storm, it was sunny and 58 degrees Fahrenheit. That meant they couldn't "pre-treat" the roads for ice and snow they knew was coming because it was too warm. They had the snow plows ready, but there was only so much they could do. The roads ended up coated in ice and hard-packed snow.
Colorado has always attracted people from other parts of the country to move here. The nearest city has grown over the years, of course, and it seems like people from places like California and Texas make up a lot of that growth. I didn't research that fact, but it bears out in a few ways that I won't go into right now.
At this altitude, we get the snow storms, then it will warm up enough afterward to melt the snow. This means that most days of winter, the folks who move here from other states have good, dry driving conditions. When the snow hits, these folks have to learn how to drive on ice and snow all over again. I can't explain this any better than this. When the weather is dry people forget how to drive in the snow. It makes it terrifying for those of us who don't forget.
Four-wheel drive vehicles are rampant around these parts. That's great, but four-wheel drive does not assist with ice. No matter how good your vehicle drives through the snow, if you hit a patch of ice, you will probably slide. If you are going too fast when you hit that ice, apply the brakes too quickly, and don't know how to steer out of a slide, you are an accident waiting to happen.
So, guess what? There were hundreds of accidents during that one day of snow. I was not one of them, thankfully. No, every single car accident I have been in has happened on a beautiful, dry, sunshiny day. It seems I have some misplaced apprehension of driving in bad weather. |
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