Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: OT: The other Apple Drive Date: 20 Sep 2015 14:35:47 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <2015091908305766930-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <3ZKdnUgCVvd3fWDInZ2dnUU7-f-dnZ2d@giganews.com> <55fde3dd$0$1682$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <190920151907470832%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Y76yLyhexKTbci7S3Ak+ogGle3a6g0FqxYQa7caFgyIAArKBgE Cancel-Lock: sha1:q8kvSYACaIqpbA/MfzTXST8bZy0= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:80021 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:78077 On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 10:18:32 -0400, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2015-09-19 19:07, nospam wrote: >> In article <55fde3dd$0$1682$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Patty Winter >> wrote: >> >>>> I don't know of anywhere around here where chains are required at any >>>> time. Maybe in upstate NY, VT, NH, ME (?). >>> >>> Don't those states use salt when the roads are icy? >> >> not everywhere and ice isn't the issue anyway. snow is. >> >> they might salt or sand so that the snow doesn't melt and refreeze to >> ice, but even if it does freeze, it doesn't matter to those who know >> how to drive in those conditions. > > Salting has nothing to do with snow. It is applied after snow clearing > (often by the truck plowing the road). > > 4 WD is a definite advantage for traction on ice. If there is a good > incline the 2WD car can be left behind the 4WD car climbing the hill. That's the claim. Oddly around here with the first good snow, the majority of cars off in the ditch are 4 wheel drives. That's because they forgot when they touch the brakes all things between 4-wheel and 2- wheel drive are equal. -- Lloyd