Driving in the snow

[mtbc]

Yesterday afternoon it started to snow and it largely continued overnight. We did not get much accumulation, the more elevated, mountainous areas are toward the northwest and southeast. Still, it was enough to delay or close some schools this morning. The gentle snow was pleasant to drive in on my evening journey back from my house. When turning off the Pellissippi Parkway, toward the temporary housing, I passed a recent road collision in which an SUV had become wedged between metal posts at an intersection. I was confused about how best to pass it, in retrospect I think that I ought to have turned away elsewhere and approached that road from a different entry point.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I'm glad you're comfortable with driving in snow. The only time I've done it as an adult was a sudden snow storm in Memphis, and I was terrified. Then Pat reminded me it's the same as driving in loose sand, except for the black ice, so just take it slow and easy. And I was okay. But that shit is not normal.

[mtbc]

Mmm, I remember in central Ohio whenever the winter started, at first a lot of drivers seemed to be as if they'd never seen a winter before. In the end I ended up owning an AWD Subaru and putting severe snow tires on it for each winter and that sure helped, also we had a 4WD Mazda minivan that allowed locking the center diff that made it good at climbing up over and through the snow, again probably something that would be good in sand too. It was funny living in Boston to see that the accumulation was such that they even needed to truck the snow out of the city; there I saw a blizzard as early as Hallowe'en! I'm okay with FWD cars but still not sure how to control a RWD car if it starts to lose traction.