Black ice

[Larry C Leung]

I also recently posted about a black ice story. Only way I survived is
cuz I had dedicated snows. My friend and I were the ONLY cars staying on
the road (even if we couldn't go anywhere, the roads were all clogged
up).

LL - NY

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:19:49 -0500 Jenny Curtis <jenny at physics.umn.edu>
writes:
>Hi Qlist:
>
>Doyt, that was a harrowing story about black ice.  After driving
>learning to drive North Dakota and Minnesota, I was pretty cocky 
>about
>driving in the winter until I hit black ice driving into work one
>morning.  It had snowed a bit, melted and then frozen on the road in
>an invisible thin film.  This was driving an Isuzu Trooper (without
>4WD turned on) with new all season tires. I stepped on the brake to
>accomodate a slight turn in the road and was amazed to find my back
>end suddenly riding in the oncoming lane.  Luckily there was no one
>coming at that moment.  I immediately pulled off the brakes and let
>the car slow itself down.  I had only been going 25, so it didn't 
>take
>long.
>
>These days I use hakkapellitas (studs are illegal in Minnesota) on my
>4000 and they are great tires.  I'm not sure they would be a whole 
>lot
>better on black ice, however.  I really never want to find out.  That
>experience stays with me everytime I'm driving in fresh snow.  I
>think, even with AWD, and even with the best possible snow tires you
>can still find yourself out of control in winter driving conditions.
>Moral of the story is, be careful out there.
>
>
>Jenny
>864KQ:Eurotrash Princess
>