In the late 60's or early 70's my wife and I were driving in Northern
Indiana in a snowstorm where the snow was blowing accross the road and
seemed to be going by sideways in front of us. I was following another car
close enough to keep his tail lights in sight when he stopped moving, I went
up to his car to find out what the trouble was and found out he had driven
off of the road and into a shallow ditch. He lived nearby and offered to let
us stay at his place until the storm was over. I was driving a 1958
International pickup at the time and after the storm was over the dashboard
had a small snowdrift on it We weathered the storm in a gas station on the
way to the man's house. Another reason I moved to California.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Charles Gedraitis" <dcg@xxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] It never rains in SoCal.......
> A few years back when I was 17 and the '61 Newport was still my daily
> driver I got caught in a freak snowstorm coming home one night about 20
> miles from home-I couldn't see more than 15 feet in front of me, but it
> didn't look like it was about to let up, and I still had to make curfew
> so I drove miserably through it-doing about 35 on the highway. It wasn't
> the lack of visibility, it was that my one-speed wipers were sooo slow,
> that I had to wait a few seconds to see that 15 feet. I think it was at
> that point I considered getting something to drive on the snowy days...
>
> ~dave
>
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