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Re: snow chains??
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:02:27 -0700, "blah" <blah@blah.blah> wrote:
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>"Noon-Air" <Noon-Air@comcast.net> didst type:
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><snip> The chains are not so much[color=green]
>> for piece of mind, but to be able to continue to travel when the highway
>> department puts up the signs that say "Chains Required".[/color]
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>I see. In my native state of Montana, its assumed that anybody on the road
>should know what they are doing and will suffer the consequences otherwise.
>Chains aren't "required" since good sense is or you die. Things are very
>different in Kalifornia ...[/color]
Yup. Sometimes they run "Chain Control" on the highways headed into
the ski areas to make sure everyone has them if they expect heavy snow
soon but it's not snowing (or not heavily) right now.
They don't have to be installed - if you have a set of chains /with
you/ that fit the vehicle, you can pass. (They'll look at the box,
and if there's any question they may make you put one on to prove they
fit. So don't bring the 155-13" ones for your Civic to fool them if
your truck has 265x16" on it.)
If you don't have any chains you can turn around and either go get a
set, or you can go home. This is to avoid the mayhem from City
Slickers that have no clue getting up in the mountains, and once the
conditions turn nasty then they can't get off the hill.
They don't have enough resources up there - tow trucks, Local Cops
or CHP Officers, Firemen, Paramedics and ambulances, and hospital beds
- to deal with the resulting carnage from "Amateur Hour at
Wrightwood." And it's never the idiot's fault that he got in the
accident, he's a victim too...
Better to keep it from starting.
--<< Bruce >>--
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