Ice Flows...

Our weather pattern here lately has been of hard rain followed by clear cold days. What happens is that the ground gets saturated with water, which then slowly drains off of hillsides onto roads.

This is fine during the day; they just make a wet patch here and there. In the mornings it can be treacherous: In the cold of the night, that innocent weep onto the road accumulates into an inch or more of slushy ice.

Now, here in New England, we get our fair share of ice and snow--so we know how to drive on slick roads. The problem with these ice flows is that the road will be clear and dry, then whammo! You come around a curve and it is a sheet of ice.