On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 07:17 pm, Julia Thompson wrote:
"Miller, Jeffrey" wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 06:59 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: But its Seattle, you're used to it..
And don't EVEN get me started on the yahoo's in this city who can't figure out how to drive in these conditions. Who says Seattle knows how to deal with rain? ^_^
Or are you talking more the idiots who don't understand that if there's a barrier up, someone had a darn good reason for putting it up and they shouldn't try to drive around it and possibly get themselves killed, or at least kill the car?
Yup. The local traffic/news people mention in every single broadcast, "Don't be an idiot, pay attention to signs, they're there for a reason folks.."
What really irks me is Seattlites seem to think that torrential downpour requires either 90 mph or 10mph crawls.. and forget using the 4-way flashers... or headlights! Reduced visibility? Huh?
Gee, at least in Austin, people will have the sense to slow down to
35-40MPH on MoPac if it's raining hard enough. (Of course, the time I
most vividly remember *that*, I missed my exit because I couldn't see
where it was, and had to take the next exit, which had some overpasses
just before it so I could determine just where I had to go.) They don't
slow down to a 10MPH crawl, they slow down to the maximum safe speed, or
so it seems. (Although it may actually be 5MPH *over* the maximum safe
speed but hey, we've got some pretty bad drivers here!)
Headlight use is another story sometimes. I'm always afraid I'm going
to rear-end someone because I couldn't see them in time because they had
no lights on. So if I get behind someone who *does* have their lights
on, I just hope they don't exit too soon.
There's a big hill between my parents' home and here that had a crawler lane up one side of it. They've just finished building a crawler lane up the other side in time for the first frost...the new road-surface is so smooth that when the frost came nothing could get up the hill. Not even the gritting truck... Oops :)
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