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Have I mentioned I do NOT like Ice??
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 581635" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>It has been bad here too. We had no school Thurs but I had to drive to Tulsa to the doctor. Their roads were totally clear. Once I got out of town onto the main part of the turnpike, the road was totally clear. Until then it was a real mess, and several times I had no choice but to pass people because they were doing 30mph on a 75 mph road. It was dicey one time, because only one lane was totally clear, but if I hadn't passed I would have been rear ended. Later in the day I heard that one of the 30mph cars was totaled because a SUV hit them from behind, just couldn't slow down fast enough or get over. The SUV tried to get over, but slid out. it happened about five or ten min after we passed the car. </p><p></p><p>We don't get much snow here. We get ice. This year was very mild so far, but it isn't at all uncommon to get 3 or more inches of ice with a bad storm. No one here knows how to drive on snow, but most are good with ice. One thing that easy child and sister in law NEED to do is to start carrying a bag of kitty litter in the car. Biggest one they can find, and in a plastic bucket is best. Scooping is okay but the older kind is just fine and cheaper. WHen you get stuck in ice, you dump some kitty litter around the tires and in a track to the road. It makes a HUGE difference. I have seen semi's get out of ditches and medians with this. If the ice is too solid, dump your coffee or a water bottle on it to help bond the kitty litter to the ice to give traction. Not a lot of liquid, just enough to help make them stick together. If you can, put a bit more litter over the liquid.</p><p></p><p>I am glad that they all made it home safe. If easy child and sister in law have AAA, have her talk about the cost of having AAA pull them out (that they are already paying for even if they don't use it) and the cost of having sister in law not work for a day. I had to do this with husband at one point and it took showign him the $$$ involved to get through. Or tell easy child to stop calling him until AFTER she is out of the ditch or the tow truck is there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 581635, member: 1233"] It has been bad here too. We had no school Thurs but I had to drive to Tulsa to the doctor. Their roads were totally clear. Once I got out of town onto the main part of the turnpike, the road was totally clear. Until then it was a real mess, and several times I had no choice but to pass people because they were doing 30mph on a 75 mph road. It was dicey one time, because only one lane was totally clear, but if I hadn't passed I would have been rear ended. Later in the day I heard that one of the 30mph cars was totaled because a SUV hit them from behind, just couldn't slow down fast enough or get over. The SUV tried to get over, but slid out. it happened about five or ten min after we passed the car. We don't get much snow here. We get ice. This year was very mild so far, but it isn't at all uncommon to get 3 or more inches of ice with a bad storm. No one here knows how to drive on snow, but most are good with ice. One thing that easy child and sister in law NEED to do is to start carrying a bag of kitty litter in the car. Biggest one they can find, and in a plastic bucket is best. Scooping is okay but the older kind is just fine and cheaper. WHen you get stuck in ice, you dump some kitty litter around the tires and in a track to the road. It makes a HUGE difference. I have seen semi's get out of ditches and medians with this. If the ice is too solid, dump your coffee or a water bottle on it to help bond the kitty litter to the ice to give traction. Not a lot of liquid, just enough to help make them stick together. If you can, put a bit more litter over the liquid. I am glad that they all made it home safe. If easy child and sister in law have AAA, have her talk about the cost of having AAA pull them out (that they are already paying for even if they don't use it) and the cost of having sister in law not work for a day. I had to do this with husband at one point and it took showign him the $$$ involved to get through. Or tell easy child to stop calling him until AFTER she is out of the ditch or the tow truck is there. [/QUOTE]
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