Re: Flooring it. Was What the.....(hey John Neff)

From: Richard A Pyburn (rap777@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 08:30:40 EST


On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:02:21 -0600 "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@texas.net>
writes:
>
> Yeah...had to ride on the grass near my house to get up the hill.
> There
> were 8 wrecks all along Howard as well. And one moron in a Mustang
> Cobra trying to get traction (while flooring it). DUH! ;)

Aren't ya supposed to generate enough heat with the spinning tires to
melt the ice and thus get back to the dry pavement?? Hmmmm...

>
> Hopefully, the roads will be a bit more "pleasing" to the rubber
> tomorrow.
>
> - Bernd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of John
> Neff
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:49 PM
> To: Dakota Mailing List
> Subject: RE: DML: What the.....(hey John Neff)
>
>
>
> I tried to go to work today at 12. I don't know about your end of
> town,
> but out here in Hill Country, the roads are frozen with 1"+ ice. I
> ended
> up turning around and going home after watching someone sliding
> sideways
> down 195. Not cool. But, it was fun to go poking around the back
> roads a
> little bit while trying to keep the truck out of the barb wire
> fences :)
>
> Also, I was one of the very few people who was even remotely in
> control
> of their vehicle. 4WD is good!
>
> John
>
> >Dude...this stuff is fun in the Jeep! :)
> >- - Bernd
>
>
>
>
>

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