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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, we get Southern Californians who come up here "to see the snow" and 
then come to a full stop in the middle of the road because "oh, I thought 
you only got those colors in Vermont."  And, you'll see them pulled off to 
the side of the road because the signs all say "4 wheel drive or chains 
required beyond this point."  AH, stupid, that means when there's snow on 
the ground!  CalTrans turns the signs around to face traffic or flips them 
up, which ever, as soon as we get our first snow warning.

And then there was the lady in the store the other day.  She moved here from 
Maine and was complaining because it was 20 degrees.  You could just about 
hear her from one end of the store to the other "but this is California.  I 
moved here to be warm."  Well then lady, you shouldn't have moved somewhere 
called the Trinity ALPS!  Didn't the word "ALPS" give her a clue?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>


> This area is full of what my son calls "halfbacks."  These are northerners
> that moved to Florida then moved half way back.  He says they cannot drive
> in any case then he launches off into the people who come down to look at
> the colors and stop in the middle of the freeway.
>
> He learned to drive in no snow California but spent time sliding around 
> the
> desert so has no problems in the snow.  His California born and raised 
> wife
> on the other hand is fearful of the snow and ice.