At work and still zero crashes!
Dec. 20th, 2010 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaSo, the drive to Cheltenham was fine. Mostly motorways. Also people are sensible enough not to drive in this weather so the roads were clear even for a sundayh - there's often a bit of a jam at the top of the M23. Not this week.
I drove carefully and considered the occasional abandoned car at the side of the road to be a warning.
It was the back roads leaving to the cheltenham house that caused problems. Managed to avoid spinning off the road and crashing by the simple expredient of assuming that my car would continue in a staight line and making sure I was going slowly enough to have time to deal with that. final turn towards the housing estate. Brak very gently, and glide slowly past the turning as my brakes fail to have any effect on forward momentum at all.
I eventually get round that corner by turning round where I can (almost skidded past that turning as well) and relying on inertia and crawled to my parking space.
Driving to work was interesting since that is all minor roads and therefore ice (-10º out there!!).
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lemming_man gets to Melbourne with enough time to get the next connection. At least he flew on an airline that buys all the gadgets on planes that allow them to fly in the snow.
I drove carefully and considered the occasional abandoned car at the side of the road to be a warning.
It was the back roads leaving to the cheltenham house that caused problems. Managed to avoid spinning off the road and crashing by the simple expredient of assuming that my car would continue in a staight line and making sure I was going slowly enough to have time to deal with that. final turn towards the housing estate. Brak very gently, and glide slowly past the turning as my brakes fail to have any effect on forward momentum at all.
I eventually get round that corner by turning round where I can (almost skidded past that turning as well) and relying on inertia and crawled to my parking space.
Driving to work was interesting since that is all minor roads and therefore ice (-10º out there!!).
Hope
lemming_man gets to Melbourne with enough time to get the next connection. At least he flew on an airline that buys all the gadgets on planes that allow them to fly in the snow. 
