Those people had warning, they knew the storm was coming. Yet they were still out there driving, knowing they would be caught in it. Few if any had vehicles prepared for that kine of weather. Wrong tires, wrong kind of vehicle, wrong attitudes. They have no one to blame but themselves. Don't want to hear it, ain't listening.
Up here if you get caught stuck, or off the road, by the Troopers or city Cops you get a ticket. Driving a vehicle unsafe for conditions, or driving too fast for conditions.
A couple of weeks ago the wife was coming home from work. Road was covered with ice, still left over from our ice storm back in November. Everyone was driving 55 mph in the right lane, as normal. Here came a car in the left lane. After it passed Michelle the road made a slow turn to the left and the passing car lost control and went into a skid. Skidding car hit two vehicles in front of Michelle. Being in the turn hitting the brakes would only throw her into a skid as well. She slowed and drove into the snowbank on the right side of the road. She went through the snow bank and down into the low area along the highway. After her car came to a stop she tried several times to drive back up onto the highway. No good, her tires kept spinning out before reaching the top of the incline and pavement. So she just backed down into the low area, turned and drove parallel to the highway. Once she got her speed up she climbed the bank and made it back onto the pavement. She then drove home. She did not say anything about it when she got home. A few days later as I was driving home on Saturday I pointed out where someone had gone off the raod and then drove back up onto the road, she said Me, I did that. Then she told me what had happened. Other people would have given up when they first were unable to climb the incline back to the pavement. It's called attitude. By the way Michelle drives a KIA Sportage with 4-wheel drive, and 4 studded snow tires.
