Posted on 12/31/2005 7:10:51 AM PST by Godzilla
Get the BF Goodrich All-Terrain ones in 16 inch. You can burn rubber on ice with those. BUT they cost $170 EACH. And you need 70 PSI in them. The 3/4" tread allows you to ignore them for years. They probably weigh more than you if you need to change one. After you unscrew the 8 bolts on the wheel:):)
The city put the U.P. rail in a underpass arrangement going through downtown. I wonder if it's now a two mile long 30 foot deep pool.
Deep Creek, which runs into Warner Valley at Adel, Has some nice trout as well!
Leni
I've never been in a traffic jam in NV with the exception of Las Vegas and when Reno/Sparks were remodeling the I-80 about three years ago.
I don't drive much any longer because everything is within a mile from us (my husband drives a whopping mile and a half to work). Arizonans think five cars is a traffic jam. LOL! In the winter months it gets a little busy, though, because of all the Snow Birds. Big deal!
When we went to So. Cal. to visit my family a couple of years ago, we were traveling along the 10 Freeway. Two sports cars were racing behind me. I saw them. I was in the fast lane, and I and everyone else slowed down to let them pass in the other lanes. One of the sports cars ran into an overpass piling. His car looked like itsy bitsy pieces of metal. The car in front of him stopped, but wouldn't get near the metal for fear of (I'm sure) a fire. No fire. And there is no doubt in my mind that he was dead. Many cell phones, including ours, reported the two racers to the CHP. They had to be driving at about 120-150 mph.
That was Cyber's first time seeing a death on a highway.
I've driven that section dozens of times and it's great country. Only problem at night is the nearly invisible herds of cows that sometimes congregate on the highway. I used to drive it at around 125 in my Jag roadster during daytime but at night, after a couple of near-death experiences, I slowed down a lot.
Once time in the late 80s, my brother and I were waved through a CHP checkpoint....and while on top of the pass, noticed there was NO TRAFFIC on I-80 and all the exits were not plowed....we had a small 4x4 Jimmy......we just tried to stay in the middle lane....finally these bright lights came up behind us and it was a Cal Trans plow, so we just ducked in behind him down the hill...
Another time we went around a CHP checkpoint on the Grapevine because we had to get to Sacramento....that was interesting....!
But we made it with no problems in a full size 2WD pickup....the Chippies were surprised to see us driving up there.
Us foothill driver sure like that smooth new asphalt cause the old stuff was sure gittin beat up badly!!! Maybe Placer County got Cal Trans to do something without suing them.
SEE! See!! See!!! I ain't the only one talking about this monument to stupidity!!!
I can't stand the "Compassionate Conservative" thing since I'm compassion fatigued!!!
I think Conservatives should consider everything. Especially "consideration" which also means money! (now remember... Money isn't the root of all evil, the LOVE of it is!!!)
Mainly, though, I've considered all this liberal and moderate and centrist stuff very carefully and with great deliberation and due consideration, I consider it not to be worth a tinker's damn!!!
By the way, I'm just across the canyon from you where there's supposed to be an Auburn Reservoir, on the Georgetown Divide.
Hope all our CA FReepers are safe and sound on this New Year's Eve, and far away from floods and landslides.
The smart ones who paid attention to where their homes were in relation to flood plains are.
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