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Ocelot II

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3. I had to visit Dallas once for work, and while I was there they had a little bitty snowfall,
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 07:00 PM
Jan 2024

maybe an inch or two, and the whole place shut down. Cars and trucks were in ditches all over the place. It was an amount of snow that we in MN would have barely noticed, but we have snowplows and sanding equipment, and at least after the season's first snowfall most drivers remember how to drive on snow and ice. The thing you really have to watch out for is black ice, which forms on roads when vehicle exhaust condenses and freezes, and you can't see it. If the roads haven't been sanded this can be pretty dangerous, especially at night.

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