Stay off the dang roads.

That takes talent.
There was one here tractor on a exit ramp trailer on an entrance ramp... roads really aren't that bad here. I was trying to figure out which way he'd been going.
 
Yeah I was on my way home from work. Some dummy in a 2wd 90's gmc jimmy truck with 3 kids in the back pulled out in front of me. It was either hit the passenger door or telephone pole. I choose the pole luckily I stopped about 6 inches short of it 4ft off the road.
 
Luckily they shut down at work. Can’t haul a trailer if they can’t load it. I’d say tomorrow is 50/50 though. When I started we closed for nothing. They finally started shutting down when it gets really bad.
 
I was out on some side roads giving my teen driver some practice on bad roads/parking lots. It really wasn’t bad enough for something like that to have happened. I hope the driver is OK.
 
He had an exciting day and brown pants.
 
That's the exit to my job. They closed 15-501 and Durham freeway for hours. That basically shut a big part of Durham down. That ice is no joke. Got me off of work today though... boss was not willing to risk it.
 
Historically I never miss a chance to drive in the snow because I love to do so, 10+ years ago it was usually in rwd muscle cars, lol.

I must be getting old. I left mid day Sunday in my 4wd jeep liberty, we had about 3" of loose sleet over a dusting of snow. It was pretty dang slippery on street tires (they say AT on the sidewalls but tread is indistinguishable from street tires) and had a good bit of resistance too, like driving on slippery sand. Left out of my driveway it was uphill into a right hand corner. I had to keep in the middle of the road in a constant leftward attitude to keep from sliding to the inside of the slightly banked corner. I realized then that if a vehicle came around that corner in the opposite direction I would have to dive to the inside and would likely wind up in the ditch.

I made it around the corner and turned around in the first driveway. Moral of the story: getting too old for this and tires make a huge difference. A few years ago I drove all over in similar circumstances in a jeep patriot with decent AT tires.
 
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