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24th January 2016 #1
Massive Blizzard Paralyses East Coast Of USA
Fierce snowstorms ... the worst for 20 years, have hit the Eastern United States ... with Washington DC - where the 'White House' has "turned even whiter" - being particularly badly affected by drifts of
up to 21/2 ft deep recorded in parts of the nation's Capital ... bringing the City's MAIN transport systems to a standstill!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35374741
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24th January 2016 #2
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Apart from those living in the mountainous areas, the average US driver is terrible in the snow. They think their 4WD pickup truck is invincible. The problem is there is usually ice under the snow as they get very cold weather. You can guess the rest.
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24th January 2016 #3
They should lower the tyre pressures to 15lb psi, one of the tricks of off roaders also keep revs as low as possible
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25th January 2016 #4
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25th January 2016 #5
Experienced off road drivers don't use snow chains in snow they use years of knowledge and common sense, I did 9 years of off roading during the 90's when at that time I owned a Jeep CJ7 with a 350 AMC 5.9 v8 engine and could tackle any terrain including hill climbing on soft sand and also serious hill climbing in snowy conditions, the trick was to maintain idle speed and lower tyre pressures and one almost never got stuck, the downhill runs were the most dangerous but always successful at lowest possible revs in lowest gear. Hope you understand all this Arthur!
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26th January 2016 #6
Thank you for your explanation, Michael ... the thing is - as I had mentioned on Simon's thread - I'm not a driver myself, and ... ... know even less about the "mechanics" of ANY kind of vehicle, to be frank. But I do remember my dad fitting chains to the wheels of his Austin travelling shop for delivering groceries to customers in outlying farm areas during the heavy snowfalls of the 1950s & early 60s and wondered whether the practice continued into modern times.
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26th January 2016 #7
Still used Arthur, in fact it's illegal not to carry them on certain roads in France and Switzerland
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