[TriLUG] Re: OFF-TOPIC - Snow "Storm"?

[Dave Sorenson]

All this talk about the snow "almost" makes me nostagic for my high 
scool days powersliding around corners on the snowpack of my home town 
in Minnesota. We were drifting before it was cool. Kinda hard to be cool 
in Dad's Dodge Aspen station wagon though.

Dave S.

Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 21 January 2005 01:41 pm, Ryan Wheaton wrote:
>>
>>> Haha.  out here in colorado (talk about hills), when snow catches the
>>> plows off guard, i usually tend to make my own lanes and plow right
>>> through the 2ft of accumulation instead of sitting in traffic... 
> 
> 
>> I once had to drive the freeway from Detroit to Chicago in a foot of 
>> new snow. All the cars on the freeway were all going 60 MPH, all 
>> weaving across all three lanes, and all having a good time.
> 
> 
> I was riding in and driving (there were 7 of us) a 15-seat passenger van 
> from Minneapolis, MN to Buffalo, NY on January 2nd or 3rd, 1987 during 
> the massive New Years snowstorm that dumped feet of snow from Chicago to 
> the East coast.  We drove into the back end of the storm on the east 
> side of Chicago and had to stop in Buffalo because they wouldn't let us 
> drive any further towards our destination in Vermont.  I-90 turned into 
> a two lane highway. :-)
> 
> --[Lance]
>