>From: John Ritchie <ritchiej@ucs.orst.edu> >>>Anybody else have any good bus-ice-and-snow anecdotes? Best "not to be repeated" effort on my part was on a highly crowned ice covered road, a shortcut from the local ski area. Knowing the likelyhood of someone being hung up in the snowbank in a set of S bends I approached cautiously, 20mph max. Not one but two vehicles stuck, on either side of the road, with a little space between them! Ah-Ha I can make it, followed by uh-uh better not do it, so I gently pointed the '71 Westy at the snowbank, since braking was just a concept. Well, the passengers wheel touched the bank first, and stopped dead. The back of the bus pivotted around gracefully, initiating a 360 that brought us round to that little gap between the cars. I drove through while graciously waving to the small crowd that had fled to the top of the snowbanks when they realized what was going on. No applause, just a lot of stares. tim s.
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