Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
The DFW area is a good place to stay away from when it gets even a little bit slick from what I've seen. Too many folks just don't understand how to drive with lower traction, and not many opportunities to practice so they just play bumper cars with expensive hardware!.
Things have looked up a bit around here, Roger. It isn't (or wasn't) that people here were less gifted drivers than in other areas. The problem was that until recently there were NO plows and not much sand/salt equipment. I'm pleased to report that Fort Worth bought three plows just last month.

Evidently getting financing for such goodies has been a tough sell since the stuff is so rarely needed.

A few years back we had a terrible clear-ice storm that stayed with us for several days. Plenty of fenderbenders| I was doing a lot of work for a company in Dallas that did maintenance work on corporate jets. The shop manager was a guy from upstate New York who informed us daily that "people here just don't know how to drive on ice".

Well, he was right about that. NOBODY knows how to drive on clear ice!

A few days later somebody pinned up a newspaper article describing a disastrous ice storm in New york. It reported that emergency crews were responding to an estimated eleven thousand auto accidents in the state.

Ole Greg didn't comment on that.

Jim