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Originally Posted by Devil Dog Mosport View Post
To all my Southern Pcar brothers and sisters, don't feel to guilty about not being able to drive in that nasty white stuff. Without using salt/sand on the roads and having the correct tires and equipment Even us experienced, winter road tested experts would have the same outcome under your conditions.

Exactly.. I get sick of hearing it also and I'm originally from Buffalo. Snow has nothing to with it really, it's the ice. Solid sheets of ice that you can't even walk on let alone drive on, and it was mainly the 18 wheelers that got stuck everywhere and created the main bottlenecks. That combined with the fact the everybody left work at the same so the salt trucks couldnt get through. The average drive time home was over 12 hours to go 20 miles. Thousands of cars stranded everywhere, hundreds of people sleeping in their cars, etc. Some scenes were borderline horrific. Hundreds of small school children trapped on buses overnight.
My wife made it 16 miles in 13 hours, finally pulled over, slept in her car until @ 3:30am, and then it took another 2 hours to get home. She left work at @ 12:15pm, and finally got home at 6:30am. My company got us hotel rooms by the airport thank goodness!