The Icy Menace

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Mix these juicy ingredients: Snow & Ice + People in a Hurry + Downhill Intersections.

Then marvel at the ensuing confusion as inertia and low-friction, colliding-body physics play out before your eyes.

The kids were a half hour late for school after we watched this season's first icy wipeout unfold. I don't think the lady in the white, all-wheel-drive SUV was ready for her right turn to go so wrong at the bottom of the hill, as she hammered a nice 30 degree camber into a compact's front wheel.

After helping push one of the cars out of the road, we sat around and waited to pass along a witness report to an overworked officer with a cool snow hat. It was a worthy cue, and I spent the rest of the way to school describing ice-driving tactics to Giselle--who will be in learner's permit territory next year :-O

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