Posted by mkirsch on January 28, 2014 at 09:55:47 from (65.199.189.6):
In Reply to: Waiting on Ice posted by NCWayne on January 28, 2014 at 07:00:31:
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Not necessarily.
Back in those days all the buses were gasoline powered. They would start in extreme cold, and didn't gel up.
All the buses today are DIESEL. In NC, I sincerely doubt there's a drop of winter diesel to be had, and none of them are treated with anti-gel additives.
Even around here, with the winter diesel and anti-gel, they still need extra time to get the buses going when it's super-cold out like this.
I agree, though... It seems like we had to go to school in a lot worse than this, and nobody thought twice about it. I can't count the number of times I rode the bus home in a complete whiteout. The bus driver had 52 pairs of eyes on those days.
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