mikeg's blog

Really! I mean it... okay fine I'm being sarcastic. So I'm driving home today and wonder of wonders, they actually PLOWED the roads on Long Island after a snowfall. This is a new and exciting thing for me, but I'm being conservative with my driving since I know that at any moment I could discover that the plow drivers' consortium has decided NOT to clear this particular section of road... And so I'm driving down NY-110, doing about 40MPH (as opposed to the traditional 60), when the truck in front of me decides it's had enough and sheds a few goodly-sized chunks of ice and slush 10 yards in front of me. 10 yards sounds like a lot, but at 40MPH it's really not, and with cars on the left of me and an unplowed shoulder on the right and a wet slippery road under me I really don't have many choices: Downshift hard and definitely skid, or engine break gently in 4th gear, hit the pile of slush, and maybe skid. You all see where this is going... Continue reading "I love the snow!"