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Old 2009-12-23, 05:46 PM   #136
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Originally Posted by sperry View Post
The ice last night was hands down the slipperiest roads I've ever driven on. The igt parking lot was so slick, going 2 mph was too fast to be able to stop on. Just thinking about touching the brake, and you were sliding 15 ft. Unbelieveable. But it did seem to clean up pretty quickly.
Did I ever tell you about the time I (inadvertently) drifted my DHL van around the IGT shipping/receiving road, to avoid some cell-phone moron with his car parked on the curve, in the ice, in a truck lane? When the tail end of the van went by him, I was 100% positive that I had at least clipped his mirror with my rear doors.

When I got everything stopped, and went back to tell him that the next vehicle would probably weigh 20 times what I did, I found that somehow I had missed him completely and that for once my 3D vehicle awareness was wrong. THAT was the most slippery experience I probably ever had, I don't know what it is about that IGT surface, but it sure can be scary.
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