If you never lived where it snows and were moving North to where it does snow, what would you have liked to have known? What would you do to prepare?

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
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    11 days ago

    I moved to Washington State and got caught in a blizzard in an old beat-up pickup truck.

    Part of my route to get home required that I go down a Long Hill, so I slowed to 5 miles an hour and dropped my vehicle in to low gear and made it about 20 ft down the hill before I lost traction.

    As I’m slowly uncontrollably skiing down the hill on a bed of snow, to my left and to my right I am passing by row after row after row of vehicles that had been abandoned by their drivers unable to traverse this road.

    It was a good day to wear brown pants

    However, by steering against the skid and not white knuckling and not riding my brakes and keeping the vehicle in its low drive I was able to safely ski down the road that I had found myself on and make it to the other side.

    I was able to drive home that day by following my own advice.

    If something like that happens to you, I hope you do the same.