Today’s freezing rain and icy perception reminds me of my first experience with this not so friendly stuff. This was many years of ago when I was in college. I had a night class. Gee, I can’t even recall what course I was taking, but the professor decided to dismiss class because of the imminent threat of ice. As the old saying goes, “It was a little too late.” By the time our class broke up the rain turned into ice coating everything!
I hitched a ride with a classmate that night. My husband was snugly safe at home. Georgia and I were about 10-minutes away from the school when her car slid off the road. We walked to a nearby home to borrow 
the phone. This was in the day before cell phones controlled our society. I managed to get my husband. Nothing moves on ice, I mean nothing. Okay, I take that back. Every thing moves on ice, but in the worse possible way. My darling husband knew this and he strapped chains on our little rear-wheel drive, orange Ford Fiesta to brave the elements to collect us. Most commutters were stranded or in a ditch. However, with chains on our little chariot, my husband slowly made his way across interstate 640 west to reach us across town. Needless to say, that was an enormously anxious and nerve-wrecking evening. It was so comforting to finally reach our humble abode and slide beneath the blankets.
My questions this week are:
1. Do you own a set of tire chains & have you actually had cause to use them?
2. What’s the worse weather related travel experience have you had?
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Glad you made it home safe.
I’ve never been in the position of driving in such conditions since my driving life started in South Florida and we’ve never ventured out to cold, snowy places.
Wow that sounds just scary!
I’m glad you weren’t hurt and that hubs came to the rescue.
No we don’t own chains for the vehicle. I guess we live in LA where it’s not necessary right now.
Worse weather , I’d say was a hurricane.
aloha!
Sorry the delay in coming to visit!
1) I don’t own a set of chain tires..
2) The scariest time to travel for me was in heavy, heavy rain where I can’t even see anything further than the length of my arms.
Glad you made it home safe.
I’ve never been in the position of driving in such conditions since my driving life started in South Florida and we’ve never ventured out to cold, snowy places.
@JamericanSpice…a hurricane sounds pretty scary to me. I guess when Mother Nature is kicking her heels up then we should show our respect and be afraid. Exercising caution and good judgement at all times in the midst of a crisis. God bless and have a Merry Christmas!
Wow that sounds just scary!
I’m glad you weren’t hurt and that hubs came to the rescue.
No we don’t own chains for the vehicle. I guess we live in LA where it’s not necessary right now.
Worse weather , I’d say was a hurricane.
aloha!
@Margaret…well, we know about hair standing fog here, too. I absolutely agree with you, it’s terrifying not being able to see past the hood of your car. You don’t know what is ahead of you — a vehicle stopped in the road, a deer leaping across your path, or a person.
We’ve seen this kind of knife slicing thick fog upon the Blue Ridge Parkway on more than one occasion. We get it sometimes here in the valley, but the mountains are notorious for these scary moments. Strangely, it’s both frightening yet adds a mysterious beauty to the landscape. We enjoy parking at an overlook in our car to watch the waves of fog float across us, like ocean waves. It’s so peaceful. Sometimes we get clear patches to see again and other times, well… we just have to creep down the parkway at a crawl till visibility is better. Keep safe!
We don’t own chains since…well, we live in California…and we have four-wheel-drive on our SUV and our pickup (just in case we want to head over the Sierras to Nevada).
In California we have fog. And believe me, there’s nothing scarier than going down the freeway and not being able to see past the hood of your car. You can’t stop or someone will rear end you, you can’t speed up or you might run into a stalled vehicle up ahead. You start seeing wierd shapes in the fog when nothing is there. It takes an hour to go a distance that should have taken minutes. Your stomach is knotted up so tight, you can hardly stand the pain. Fog sucks!
@Lui…volcanic ashfall. Whoa, that’s something we don’t have to worry with here! I can imagine that was quite frightening. Thankfully you made it through the ordeal. With that in mind, this reminds me of an excellent movie, Dante’s Peak. If you haven’t seen it, then you may enjoy it.
Oh Cathy that sounds scary!
I am glad you made it home.
No I don’t have tire chains but then we don’t have winter.
Btw, I hope everybody has heard/read about the advantage of having SUNGLASSES to use when driving on zero visibility rains! I tried it and it worked wonders!
My worse weather travel was under a volcanic ashfall (and I was miles away from the town where the volcano erupted!) and the ash stuck on the windshield practically covered the vehicle! Total nightmare!