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"Michael McNneil" wrote:

"James Hurrell" wrote in message


Yes.. the old "Series" Land Rovers always seem to have superior off road
ability to their newer cousins... My Series 3 never fails to let me down in
the mud when I go off roading, but ice... that's another thing - 4WD doesn't
seem to help a bit.

It was icy from the start with this spell of snow in Stoke at least.
Walking was difficult. I noticed that a lot of pedestrians were daft
enough to have their hands in their pockets too!

The reason they close the schools when it snows is because the people
who buy those stupid non-off-roadsters are the mums who take their
children to school and extend the rush hour by nearly 2 hours.

Someone obviously realises that these creatures can't drive and if they
could, their vehices are too sad to use.

Salt having no effect in the not all that cold weather, one might ask
what they use in Canadian cities.



I can't speak for Canada, but I did live in Northern Sweden for a while.
There they use winter tyres (with metal studs, legally enforced between
specified dates) and snow ploughs. Never grit and salt, they are not much
use at -25C, and it can get much colder than that.

Usually, the snow ploughs are out whenever snow is forcast or observed.
Getting stuck or sliding off the road (or even a breakdown) in the
temperatures they experience up there can be fatal, and some roads have very
little traffic. You might wait several hours before you see another vehicle.

But you soon get used to driving on ice, since you will be doing it for nine
months of the year.

Many of the roads up there are sufaced with gravel, since they will be held
together with ice for most of the year. In the summer you can see a car
approaching for miles by the dust cloud it kicks up.

Martin

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