MrJoshua wrote: Cheers to you Angry! You make sitting on the couch with the the windows and doors open, when its 45 degrees out to clear the stench of a self cleaning oven, seem less miserable.
thanks, i know it's not much but i do what i can. 
i'm still kinda jacked on caffeine and adrenaline so i think i'll watch some UFC.
glad you made it through the silliness of Asheville with snow on the ground.... things do tend to get crazy around here when some one mentions snow ... we had people leaving work Fri morning with < 1" on the ground.... absolutely panicking as to their chances of making the 5 mi to home... 
Glad you made it safely angryp! Have fun with the rugrats etc for Christmas.
You're the man Angry. Parts of 81 have been closed here in Va due to accidents. A friend of a friend left Charlottesville for Lynchburg during the storm and spent 30 hrs in the car...with coworkers.
Hmmm... Snow in Asheville you say?
Xceler8x wrote: A friend of a friend left Charlottesville for Lynchburg during the storm and spent 30 hrs in the car...with coworkers.
Any survivors?
DILYSI Dave wrote: Hmmm... Snow in Asheville you say?
i was appalled (sp?) at the number of Jeep and Subaru products abandoned on I-26 through the Asheville area. but like it's been said a bunch of times around here, AWD helps with go, but does nothing for stop or turn. that's when it's all about the tires.
... and driving skills.
Angry, I must have passed you yesterday. Was southbound from Detroit on 75. Left at 6:30am from Pontiac, snow covered local roads, about 2 inches or so. Hit the M5 then 275, roads got better the further south I went. Just wet south of 96. Sound like it got worse as the day went on. TN was pretty with all the snow in the northern areas. Roads were just wet when I got there. When are you heading south?
DILYSI Dave wrote: Hmmm... Snow in Asheville you say?
ya, hard to believe isn't it...?? at my house (10 mi e of Asheville) we had 10 1/2 on my deck Fri night and it was still coming down...
the all seasons (aka noseasons) on my suby really haven't gotten the job done... don't know if any other tire would have gotten me up my driveway with that much snow and an open diff.... 200' at an 18% grade 
still not up it, will have to stumble through the snow at 5:30 in the morning down to the car...
snow tires make a huge difference. Not that they'd make sense to buy in your case, but that snow wouldn't have stopped you with snow tires and 2wd. Some all seasons cope with snow better than others, but never as good as snows. Exception being one of the all-season nokian tires.
Racer1ab wrote: A fellow on Corner-carvers wrote this blog to those who aren't really familiar with snow driving, it's a pretty good read! http://braketurnaccelerate.blogspot.com/2009/12/tips-for-driving-on-snow-and-ice.html
That's actually a pretty good lesson on driving, whether there's snow or not! Nice find, thanks for the link.
sachilles wrote: snow tires make a huge difference. Not that they'd make sense to buy in your case, but that snow wouldn't have stopped you with snow tires and 2wd. Some all seasons cope with snow better than others, but never as good as snows. Exception being one of the all-season nokian tires. we got some decent amounts of snow when I was a kid, maybe it's coming back...
I've had the old timey Town and Country recaps on an '86 Civic and on all 4 cor of an '88 suby and they truly did make a huge difference .... the problem this time is the snow is so deep I get high centered the snows might have helped up the driveway Fri when the snow was still "soft" and pushable... if global warming is the myth some say it is maybe I should get a set of steelies and some snows ...
Posting from a hotel in Asheville. :) We decided to get out of the house and come play in the snow. Interstates and surface streets are fine. Nearly got stuck in an unplowed parking lot at Biltmore. Speedo read 60 while I was doing all I could to maintain walking speed. Got out though. Freaked the wife out a bit. Oops.
Go a little further South and they have no plows, entire states shut down and all the local drivers get themselves on CNN.
Yes! Last time it snowed that bad here, everything just shut down and everyone had a day off. Gotta love the south in a snowstorm.
A whole 1.5" so far... Damned global warming
John Brown wrote: A whole 1.5" so far... Damned global warming
Cheez, we got 14" in 24 hours on Saturday.
BoxheadTim wrote:Xceler8x wrote: A friend of a friend left Charlottesville for Lynchburg during the storm and spent 30 hrs in the car...with coworkers.Any survivors?
I told him I would've cut someone. Even in my own car...
Argghh! WE'RE FREEZING HERE!! IT'S ONLY 60 FREAKING DEGREES!! No snow, but it's cloudy and dark, maybe soon.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Posting from a hotel in Asheville. :) We decided to get out of the house and come play in the snow. Interstates and surface streets are fine. Nearly got stuck in an unplowed parking lot at Biltmore. Speedo read 60 while I was doing all I could to maintain walking speed. Got out though. Freaked the wife out a bit. Oops.
good for you, dave. sometimes you just gotta get out of the house. what did you drive, the P5 or the WRX? or the monster tow vehicle?
AngryCorvair wrote:DILYSI Dave wrote: Posting from a hotel in Asheville. :) We decided to get out of the house and come play in the snow. Interstates and surface streets are fine. Nearly got stuck in an unplowed parking lot at Biltmore. Speedo read 60 while I was doing all I could to maintain walking speed. Got out though. Freaked the wife out a bit. Oops.good for you, dave. sometimes you just gotta get out of the house. what did you drive, the P5 or the WRX? or the monster tow vehicle?
Took the WRX. P5 would have been in trouble. WRX was good, except the snow was deep enough that the whole car tended to sit on top of the snow, and the tires were trying to droop to get traction. Not ideal. The truck would have probably been fine, with the locker. The Jeep would have rocked, if we didn't die from hypothermia on the way.
today is another (kinda) long day behind the wheel. about 750 miles, weather is supposed to be clear but it's friggin' cold in lower MI right now.
the '96 probe GT will hit 219k today. hooray!
11.5 hours door to door, including a last-minute stop at the Fort Sanders Yacht Club. one bartender, no patrons. crazy. i've never been the only person in a bar, as far as you know....
now relaxing with a beer and my favorite message board.
It barely got above freezing today in Simpsonville, SC. As of now, tomorrow is Monday January 4th and it will be my first day back at work after 2 weeks of vacation. First week back is always the hardest one of the year. Good news is that it's just 5 more days to Friday!
Snow tires take 90% of the anxiety out of winter driving.
We don't have interstates up here... we have highways
Like others have said... no sudden braking or applying the throttle and you'll be fine. Especially in a Volvo... up here they make the best ice racers. Lots of salt on the roads, and calcium on the 400 highways. Just got back from waaaaaay up north (where the snowmobiles outnumber the cars and the only store you see for miles has a totem pole out front) and the roads were great, so southern and eastern Ontario are a breeze in comparison. Make sure you have lots of good sub-zero windshield fluid - if it gets sloppy out, you go through a lot.
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