Eduardo K. wrote:
In article .com,
Jay Honeck wrote:
Here in the Midwest, the first snowstorm of the year always brings a
rash of fender-benders, as folks have to re-learn how to drive in icy
conditions.


Where I live there is no snow or ice, and it only rains every 3 or 4 weeks
in winter. Just enough to get the streets oily so the first drops
of rain turn it into something very slippery.

That, added to the hundres of people who take the bus on dry days
and get their cars only on rainy days makes the first 3 hours of a rainy
day an absolute nightmare.

From hour 4 everything is so flodded traffic slows down to a complete stop
so fender benders are no longer a problem

The joys of a developing nation.

Nah, happens here, too. I learned in driver's ed about streets getting
oily, but it rained a lot where I learned to drive and I never
experienced it.

First time it rained here, I took a corner too fast and spun out...it
felt like I was driving on a solid sheet of ice. Of course, being used
to driving in snow, it was easy to recover. Scary stuff!