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Originally Posted by Seahawk

The problem in NoVa is two-fold: No one knows how to drive in snow, everyone thinks they know how to drive in snow.

It is bumper cars at times. I have never seen anything like it.

When I was commuting into DC, I always carried a winter kit in the car: Food, water. clothes, tow straps, etc...and I gassed up every day.

DC has more traffic pinch points imaginable.

When I was in HS, we lived in Woodbridge, VA, and dad worked up in/very near DC. I remember one day where there was a bunch of snow and he took my car into DC. It was a '65 Impala with a 4spd and marginally effective drum brakes. It also had mismatched tires front to rear. No idea what they were, but they were probably cheap tires that the PO had on it. I remember him coming home from work. The roads to where we lived hadn't been plowed yet. THere was probably 6-8" of snow on them. He came chugging on into the neighborhood with the car looking kind of like a snow plow with about a foot of snow piled up against the front bumper.

I drove in the snow a few times when we lived there, but was just a kid and never had to commute in it.