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jon f mn

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When I was 15 and my father was away my mother had to drive to a town 20 miles away in a bad snowstorm. She was afraid to drive so she had me drive. There was about four inches of new snow in the road and I was doing my best to follow a set of tracks of a car ahead until I nearly hit a row of fence posts.
 
One time driving on NY Northway in a blinding snowstorm I was able to judge where the lane was by the fresh windrow of snow from the snowplow, was doing 50-55 suddenly got to where the snowplow made a U-turn in the median, now doing 50-55 in eight inches of snow with no visability! Panic. Made it, had to drive much slower from then on.
 
Yup, follow the tracks, but every once in a while you are reminded the leader has no clue where he was driving.....

Paul
 
In bad visibility and even at night I like to follow another vehicle. But not close, I like to keep the tail lights in sight and have enough distance between us that if they run into a truck parked at the side of the road or an accident or some such I will have time to see it and stop. And I won't do it if the leader is going crazy fast for conditions.
 
(quoted from post at 07:45:27 01/12/17) Yep, trying to be equidistant between the power poles and hope to heck you are on the road!

Larry
Over the years I've done that more than once.
Now days you can't always do that since so many power and phone lines are buried underground.
 
In Germany black/orange colored stakes are placed along the rural roads in the fall.
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I've seen it bad enough to the point you don't know where the ditches are. Out on a flat country gravel road the only way to know where you were at was to drive right in the middle between the fence lines. But that doesn't always work when some of the fences are taken out!
 
Years ago, when I 94 and MN 23 were being built west of St. Cloud, terrible night visibility, and only a few of us on the road....leader went thru a crossover by mistake, and we found ourselves all driving on the wrong side of the road. Next crossover, he went back to the other side!
 
Grew up on the corner of two township roads. Seemed as though the respective operators would compete to get to that corner as we were always open early. Once the overhead power went UG old Forner lost his landmark and ended up 50 yards out in the neighbor's plowed field stuck in 3 feet of snow. Wish I had that picture to post.
 
(quoted from post at 06:58:43 01/12/17) In bad visibility and even at night I like to follow another vehicle. But not close, I like to keep the tail lights in sight and have enough distance between us that if they run into a truck parked at the side of the road or an accident or some such I will have time to see it and stop. And I won't do it if the leader is going crazy fast for conditions.

I have driven for thousands of miles in snow storms where if you were able to see the tail lights of the vehicle ahead you were way to close to stop if there was a problem. The aim was to just keep the cloud of snow that follows them in sight.
 
Reminds me of a story. I used to work 20 miles from home and on one cold snowy blustery night I finally made it about 18 miles and the roads wern't plowed after that. I had to go past the Town Highway Dept. and all the doors were closed and the plows were inside. I pulled in and all the workers were inside getting warm. I asked the Highway superintendent if they had plowed my road lately. They hadn't plowed anything lately. He told a couple of the guys to get out the big double wing V plow and plow so I could get home. It was about a mile to my house, and they plowed up to my father's place next door where they could turn around and go back to the garage. That was back in the early 1980s and nobody went anywhere for the next couple of days. Another time I was out riding snowmobile, and I was watching a schoolbus that went about half way up a 1/3mile hill and stopped to let a boy off. When he tried to start again, he went backwards all the way to the bottom, and wound up in a ditch. Pretty soon along came the same snowplow, and they stopped and hooked on to the bus. They dropped the plow and the wings and started plowing up the hill, hauled the bus all the way to the top and onto the flat before they unhooked him.
 
Aw Jon,
Is that why you got a dark truck as your eyes are getting older?

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