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Originally Posted by Tcoat
I had a blast watching Georgia come to a snow induced grinding halt on the news last winter! I have seen 5 or 6 inch's of snow an hour that didn't even slow down traffic up here.
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I'm not going to say Georgians can compete with folks with real experience in snow but I'm also going to say it wasn't all their (our) fault.
The problem wasn't the snow, it was the marginal freezing temp at the beginning, then the almost immediate freeze, and it all hitting in the middle of the day when everyone was at work.
What we ended up with within 30 minutes of it starting was snow, ice, snow. It was difficult to just walk on. Of course, everyone has either summer or at best all-season tires and everyone left at exactly the same time onto untreated roads, with unprepared cars, at the exact wrong time.
I made the mistake of driving my FR-S that morning (complete with the "Prius" tires) thinking I would get home before it started. The forecast changed. I made it about two miles from the office and was doing OK (AT in manual, a little trouble on hills) but folks were sliding all around me. I turned around (I have a 40 mile commute) found a friendly driveway (some kids who I honestly think believed I was a narc when I knocked on the door because they were smoking weed and I was in a suit for meetings that day) offered some pizza money to leave my car there, and walked back to my office for the night.
Next day about 3:00pm when the weather returned to normal, the roads were empty and everything was slush, I got home with no issues and only about 15 minutes extra time.
In the end though, I still take blame for it as I said last winter. Be careful guys, if you have an AT, don't look down on a cold winter day, see the SNOW button and wonder "Hmmm, wonder what that does".
So see in the end it was really my fault.