Well the danger on the rocks is surely passed
Still I remain tied to the mast. Could it be that I have found my home at last?
Home at last. Driving back from Peoria through drifts and other nastiness was an experience. The ogwife and i have done many a trip up to the Great White North in fair weather and foul, for any number of reasons, at any number of times; this was no big deal. I was careful, and now I’m home.
Fun to watch the fools scream ahead of me on black ice and see them two miles down the road in the ditch. People still don’t understand that an expensive 4wd doesn’t grant them immunity from the laws of physics.
Good to sleep in my own bed.
I always said the only advanage a 4WD gives you on ice is sligthly better odds of getting back on the road once you slide off.
Hey, WB punctilious! I was beginning to think you didn’t like me!
As a prudent driver who is frequently passed by lunatics in snowstorms, I know very well this feeling of which you speak :-)
Many years ago when I was younger, more foolish, and owned a Jeep CJ-5, I saw a statement in a 4-wheel drive magazine that has stuck w/ me over the years. I forget the exact words, but the basic idea was this: all 4-wheel drive will do is let get you an extra mile away from help before getting stuck.
I’ll never forget the time a few years ago when we were driving out of Indy to Pennsylvania during a pretty bad snow and ice event. We headed east on I-70 and almost before we got out of the county there was a sharp demarcation in the weather and the blowing snow and slush stopped, but the roads were still pretty slick.
We were not quite out to Greenfield, tooling along doing about 30 tops, slower when my butt didn’t feel comfortable with the traction, when some idiot woman in a Camry with Carmel plates went flying by us, had to be doing at least 50. About a half mile farther down the road, though, she lost it and ended up in the median, plowing up a huge storm of mud and snow for about a hundred feet. She finally came to rest, facing backwards, looking completely stunned but otherwise unhurt. By some miracle she managed to keep the car upright throughout, I still don’t know how.
We didn’t stop, we just called 911 and told them about it. There wasn’t anything we could do anyway and she looked like she was OK as we drove slowly past.
I’ll bet she doesn’t drive like that in the snow anymore, though. Unless she does.