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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts
My work has been closed. They decided to go ahead and open up shop today to try and get some stuff done before our 4 day holiday. Well, I went out this morning and my wife stole my truck. She left me her little Stratus that I had to dig out of 3 feet of snow. Slapped our chains on there and took off.
I got about 1 mile and the chains snapped. Then trying to drive up a big hill I slip slided all over the place narrowly missing some trucks. Got stuck. Had to dig myself out of the snow and decided it was time to pack it in and go home. Inched back toward my place, and couldn't get up the small incline leading into my apartment complex. Had to park the car across the street in a little strip mall.
I'm pretty experienced driving in adverse weather conditions, but I have to say, I've never driven in anything remotely close to this. If I had my truck, I'm sure I would've made it. For those of you who have 2WD cars, how the hell do you deal with this stuff every year? What we have right now in Seattle I assume is pretty standard for you guys out in the midwest.
Free free to throw in the obligatory "You're a pussy" comments. This is the first time road conditions have ever prevented me from getting somewhere.
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Ohio isn't terrible, but it can get pretty bad out in the country where I live. When I drove my 3 previous cars which were all RWD, I would load the back up with rock salt bags, and put the snow tires on. My Buick I'm driving now, has traction control, which makes it a lot easier to deal with. I would love to have an AWD those rascals can cut through the snow. On the same note, last year I couldn't get out of my driveway for 2 weeks with my Buick, I had to drive the 4x4. Our driveway is very long about 200 yards and I need to get a quad with a snow plow, or get a snow play for the truck, so I can keep the driveway clean. By myself it would be a 2 day job at least to shovel it by hand.