[TriLUG] OFF-TOPIC - Snow "Storm"?

[Greg Brown]

What a disaster!  I work from home so, from that end I was okay.  
However my wife drives from youngsville to RTP for work.  We were 
supposed to get a "light dusting" but, as was perviously stated, it was 
a mess in less then an hour.  I have an old 1992 Jeep Cherokee that I 
keep around for reasons such as this.  I told kelly that I would come 
to RTP to get her instead of her trying to drive her car home (it's 
front wheel drive but I with the hills we would encounter on the drive 
home I was certain that she would slip off the road at one point or 
another).

Luckily I drive on back roads to RTP and only encounter traffic once I 
get Miami and Highway 70.  Even at 2:00 there were cars piled up no the 
shoulder of the road.  I made it to RTP and the drive home, which would 
normally take 45 minutes, took two hours.  I never put the Jeep in four 
low but I did take advantage of grassy shoulders of the road in four 
high on the steep hills.

I had a couple significant slips and slides on the way home but I was 
thankful for the old Jeep stepping up and getting the job done once 
again.  I only wish it had the full-time 4x4 transfer case which would 
take the shifting into and out of four wheel drive out of the picture.

Greg

On Jan 21, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> Jim Ray wrote:
>
>>> It's the first time I've ever dropped into 4wd-low for snow/ice.
>>>
>>
>> I dropped into 2 foot drive, parked my blessed minivan in a gridlock 
>> near
>> ncsu and walked home with my two children in my arms.  What a mess.  
>> I've
>> never seen anything so bad when living in Chicago or in my native NC 
>> in my
>> 43 years.
>>
> My regular commute of 15-20 mins took me 6 hours, and it was only that 
> short because at 5 and a half hours I got fed up, got out of traffic, 
> started driving in the opposing lanes, and generally breaking the law 
> en masse in order to get home.  Once I started going around the sheep, 
> instead of waiting in the line with them, it took another 20 mins to 
> get home, across ice-covered hills (ala Millbrook) and past crashed 
> school buses.
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
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