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This system can only be used where ground temperatures do not regularly drop below zero, otherwise sheet ice formation could result ( although a continuous water flow would act as an impediment to this ).
"The big flood of last year crushed their little bodies, " the guide Dan Lahren said, " and the resulting shallow sheet ice of the winter may have croaked the bugs for a year or two ."
With " heroic driving, particularly from Stirling Moss and Leslie Johnson " they finished at Lisbon 30 hours earlier than Garrad had expected, despite traffic, sheet ice, blizzards, and snowdrifts up to 18 inches deep en route.
On a very slippery surface such as sheet ice or gravel, it is possible to lock multiple wheels at once, and this can defeat ABS ( which relies on comparing all four wheels, and detecting individual wheels skidding ).
For hours, the nine crewmen of Navy seaplane George One hadn't had much to see _ hundreds of miles of sheet ice and wind-driven snow _ but then there was nothing at all except an impossibly white and ominous light.

Small lithic stage peoples followed megafauna like bison, mammoth ( now extinct ), and caribou, thus gaining the modern nickname " big-game hunters . " Groups of people may also have traveled into North America on shelf or sheet ice along the northern Pacific coast.
United plays its home games in the 8, 500-seat stadium at the National Sports Center, a multi-sport complex located in Blaine, Minnesota, which in addition to the soccer stadium, features over 50 full-sized soccer fields, a golf course, a velodrome, a meeting and convention facility, and an eight-sheet ice rink, the Schwan Super Rink.

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