FormerHangie
En-Route
Sounds like it's from the "Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt" school of safety engineering...
At first I was annoyed that the car wouldn't move, but after having given it a little thought it wouldn't have mattered anyway, there was no way I was getting up that hill with the car and tires I had.
People laugh at us for not being able to get around in snow, bu I don't think they understand what we're dealing with. I lived in Chicago for a number of years, have driven in Colorado, Utah and around Lake Tahoe, never got stuck. Here, you just can't go. We started the day at 33 degrees with sleet, which changed over to rain, then back to wet snow, then some more rain, then finally heavy, wet snow. What we wound up with on the neighborhood streets was a few inches of wet snow on top of wet slush. All weather tires, the kind nearly all of us have, never touch the pavement and the snow is so slushy your wheels just spin. No one buys winter tires because this happens about once every three years, and I'm not sure they'd do the job anyway, they are engineered for places that have an actual winter. It makes more sense just to send everyone home early rather than gear up for an infrequent event.
