On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 05:06:38 GMT, "Ralph Nesbitt"
wrote:

It is obvious you have never been to the SE, Mid West, Central, or SW parts
of the country.
Ralph Nesbitt

I'm not sure what your point is, but you're mistaken.

Spent four years finishing school in Atlanta. They do get the
occasional snow storm down there and it completely devastates the
drivers. I watched a guy get stuck in four inches of snow in the
middle of a flat road. He thought that if some throttle was good,
nearly full throttle was MUCH better to get him moving. He literally
dug himself into the asphalt about three inches down. I still
remember watching him belatedly finally returning to idle and I
watched the tires lazily spin around in the curf they'd dug while the
driver watched the steam pouring out from them. When I was down there
in the late 60's and early 70's and it snowed, it literally shut the
city down. No one (well, very few) knew how to drive in it.

Corky Scott