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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: How many snow tires DOES a front-wheel drive car need?
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 17:46:22 EDT
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   Joe Heneghan of Naperville, Ill. suggests using no snow tires.  Well,
it may work in Illinois, but here in Maryland, thousands of people from
the polar north try to get along without snow tires and fail miserably.
It isn't the depth of the snow that gives us trouble, it's the condition,
and here it's almost always wet and slippery.  Last year, in fact, the
snow was very dry, and we had much last trouble.

   It's really impressive how much difference the snow makes.  All those
upstate New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians come down and drive us crazy because
they don't realize you have to drive differently here.  Two inches of snow
practically halts the whole area.

Charley Wingate