You are right, there are days when the smart thing to do is just stay
home. Sounds like the conditions warranted that.

We own 2 Jeeps with 4x4 and I still will cancel stuff in a storm rather
than take the chance of someone hitting me or having to sit for hours
while vehicles around me just can't move.

There were something like 550+ accidents in the last storm here in
southern Canada according to the paper and the cops said 'most' were
single vehicle accidents caused by improper tires and improper speed for
the conditions so you sure weren't alone....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Finite Guy wrote:
>
> To clarify this, I was more or less rolling at about 2 mph and the
> road just simply was all ice and the car slipped to the side. The rest
> or the trafice was either stopped or rolling at 2 mph. The left turn
> was also sort of banked on a slight incline. No one can control a
> vehicle under those conditions unless you have a military tank with
> treads. The only safe speed here is 0 mph for any normal car. My
> mistake was bothering to go to work today.
> You are correct, if you are not under control or your vehicle and you
> say hit some one, in MA you are at fault no mater what the road
> conditons are. So, I was not in control of my car. There are no
> perfect drivers in this world not even the people on this newsgorup.
>
> I already went and bitched at the State Police Barricks in person, so
> I suppose they could have cited while I was there but they told me
> that the trooper has no business making a remark like that and I
> should forget it.
>
> At least I had the nerve to approach them in person instead of using
> vulgar email or phone calls.
>
> One reply to this post was extremely vulgar even more than my
> original.
>
> Very poor. Guess this newsgroup has to go.
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:33:26 -0500, Mike Romain >
> wrote:
>
> >You are lucky he had a sense of humor... He could have cited you for
> >making an unsafe left turn ( or going too fast for conditions) or for
> >driving with unfit tires/vehicle if you weren't going too fast or have
> >bald summers on or even just summer tires on.
> >
> >If indeed you are driving totally out of control in the winter because
> >you have no clue or bad tires, then he 'should' have nailed you before
> >your next out of control left turn kills someone.
> >
> >Mike
> >86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> >88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> >
> >Finite Guy wrote:
> >>
> >> Not aure whom I should bitch to about this one, but this morning (it
> >> is very snowly in Boston area today) I very slowly tried to make a
> >> left hand turn and my Grand Marquis had not trraction. My car very
> >> gently slid into a snow pile and there was no damage, no one hurt. In
> >> doing this my car blocked the main traffic for all but 15 seconds
> >> while I had to back up , straightene out and move along. A
> >> Massachsetts State Trooper was in traffic and got on his megaphone and
> >> shouted a sarcastice remark "Your Beatuiful" (I am male and not
> >> beautiful.) These cops are real assholes. They think they have no one
> >> to answer too and they have a right to abuse the public.