From trying to control a pack of over-excited huskies in the wilderness to doing handbrake turns on ice in a rally car, Finnish Lapland is an adventure sports hotspot.
In an ice storm, if the car in front of you is skidding from side to side, you can bet that the road is slippery.
Elgar loved wordplay: his Enigma Variations contained clues as to the people who inspired each of the pieces - his daughter was called Carice, using part of each of his wife's forenames Car(oline Al)ice, and his house in Malvern was called Craeg Lea, an anagram of C(arice), A(lice) and E(dward) Elgar.
Prestone uses that brand name on all manner of car care products such as car wax, battery starters, driveway ice-melting salt.
He said he worried the uneven ice that coated the streets was going to damage his car.
By registering the amount of friction between the tyre and the road, the system warns the car's computer-control equipment if the car is in danger of aquaplaning on a large puddle or skidding on ice.
In 2006, a woman in Chaddesden, Derbyshire reported a lump of ice about the size of three bags of sugar fell from the sky and narrowly missed her car.
Some games had already been called off on Friday - while Wycombe appealed to fans to help staff grit the car park and roads leading to the ground, and clear them of snow and ice.
GM's vice president for research and development, Lawrence Burns, says consumers have to start thinking of their car as a power-supplying appliance as well as a means of transportation. (A hybrid car, for example, might be an alternative to an emergency generator during an ice storm.) Meanwhile, GM is endorsing Huber's thinking with plans to introduce plug-in versions of the Chevrolet Volt and a Saturn vue crossover by 2010.
The family across the street is driving a 60 thousand dollar car and every couple of weeks they carry in and out about 20 or so igloo ice chests.
That's when you notice the gleam of black ice under the thin dusting of snow, mocking the idea of changing direction with anything like the control of a car or a pair of skis.
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