Have you driven on snow? or not?

[NewtonMP2100]

....never used snow but if it is like other drugs....probably not a good idea to drive using it............also never driven on allergy medicine......

[AAA]

I couldn't drive yesterday. Yesterday didn't exist for me.
But I have proof that it happened.

[Speedy]

Yes. Used to be a little ice in November and then again in April but with climate change we get ice throughout the winter. But mostly snow. Central Minnesota.

[RgrF]

Interesting. I just posted this at another site:

Out here (LA) they start skidding and ramming each other the minute a rain cloud passes over. I learned to drive in snow and ice conditions. I'll never forget the Christmas Eve I was driving a carload of friends to midnight Mass in downtown Boston.

I lost control just as I was merging from I-93 onto (what was then) the Central Artery/Mystic River Bridge. The fully loaded Olds spun around 2 1/2 turns and ended sideways across two lanes of a 6 lane merge. Damn good thing others were sensible enough to not be out driving that night or I'd not be typing this.

Steer in the direction of the skid was all I could remember, I was 17. It was blizzard conditions and that night no one was driving 55 - even 17-year olds - not because we didn't want to but the unplowed snow made it impossible.

[Black]

Learned to drive in a 70s rear wheel drive boat in an unplowed parking lot with about 4-6" of snow.

[PeterB]

What is this thing you call snow?

[Jack D.]

I think so...does this count??? :devil:

[Grateful11]

PeterB wrote:
What is this thing you call snow?

Caveman Skipper: Is very cold on other side of hill. Gilligan say they have thing called snow.
Cavewoman Ginger: What is snow?
Caveman Skipper: Is white lumpy rain.

[dmann]

Snow, yes. Ice, yes.

Native Chicagoan and went to college in Iowa. Will say that the hills in Iowa taught me a different kind of snow and ice driving than I knew coming from flat-as-a-pancake IL.

Now I cover IL, IN, MI and OH for work, so I spend tons of time driving throughout the Midwest in less than optimal conditions.

DM

[Rick-o]

Jack D. wrote:
I think so...does this count??? :devil:

Good one! That's MY favorite way to drive on snow and ice.

Really, I don't mind driving my cars or trucks on snow and ice. But I do mind sharing the road with all those folks that haven't a clue what to do in those conditions. :punch: