What do people that are for the first time moving to a place where is snows need to know? - eviltoast

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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    2 months 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.