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Allstate Insurance has Safe Winter Driving Tips

Were you “dreaming of a white Christmas”? Now that the holiday is over, and you have to start driving back and forth to work every day again, all that snow and ice doesn’t look quite so inviting. Allstate Insurance has some safe Winter driving tips for you. Their advice could help you avoid an accident and an auto insurance claim. Winter weather is serious! How extreme the weather will get depends on where you live. In California, I’m most likely to be dealing with a bit of rain. In many other parts of the country, however, people can expect to … Continue reading →

Warm-Up Winter Driving Skills

  Winter Driving Tip #1:  Don’t use the wind as an alternative to snow brushes and ice scrapers.  Get off your lazy behind and remove the snow from your car before you hit the highway. So, yeah, the meteorologists were right.  We got dumped on a couple of days ago.  The first significant snowfall of the season and now drivers in these parts are being forced to warm-up their winter driving skills after a long hibernation. Unfortunately, many motorists I followed yesterday morning must have overslept or couldn’t remember where they stored their brushes because I got pummeled with sheets … Continue reading →

Reviewing Winter Driving Tips

Here it comes… the first major storm of the winter season is heading straight for the Midwest and our city is looking to get hit with at least 8 inches of the white stuff. I’m not looking forward to driving to church tomorrow morning given that the road crews will have barely started clearing the highways before we have to head out. Even if your neck of the woods is escaping this round of bad weather (although I hear it is headed for the East Coast as soon as it hits us) it’s as good a time as any to … Continue reading →