As long as I'm posting MFFY tales, here's one that got me Monday.
------------------------- A little too much ice on Crystal Mountain Boulevard, a little too much downhill speed in the wrong place, and all of a sudden a 2001 Ford four-door sedan found itself in a heap of trouble Monday.
MFFY du jour 3436DYM So because he posts a hypocritical rant for effect, that is so far off base that it makes no sense you have to attack me? There is such a thing as MFFY...
And for nearly five hours into the evening, so were the hundreds of cars and their occupants stuck behind it, either spun out themselves or unable to pbutt on the narrow, twisting roadway leading from the ski resort 85 miles southeast of Seattle.
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Making matters nearly impossible Monday, some witnesses said, were the downhill travelers who tried to beat the clog by going the wrong way in the uphill lane.
These scofflaws soon found themselves with nowhere to go and wound up blocking both lanes, preventing the Crystal Mountain sanding truck from descending with its load -- and taxing the patience and tolerance of everyone else, who sat hungry, cold and possibly as ticked off as Suzanne Mager.
"I wonder why the road wasn't being sanded and patrolled as snow was falling and the temp was in the sort-of-wet-sort-of-frozen zone," she said Tuesday in a copy of the angry e-mail she fired off to Crystal's management.
"It was also curious to me that Crystal appeared to have no vehicle preventing numbskulls from zipping past us to drive ahead of the line-up."
------------------------------ So those MFFYs unconvinced 500 cars...
As a pbutting note (weird entendre there), Crystal Mt. (who maintains the Blvd) switched to calcium chloride de-icer several years ago and no longer *has* a sander. Because the temperature was dropping below where de-icer is effective, we were left with a layer of water on compact snow & ice. If they had had a sander, they could have fixed things. MFFY profit motives at work.
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