I’ve been in a white-out on I-75. What do you do? If you keep going with less than 50 foot visibility, you don’t know what you are going to run into. If you pull over and stop, you are asking to be part of an accident.
About all I could do was to pull to the right lane, slow to about 40 mph (from 70), turn on my flashers and hope everything worked out.
Maybe I got lucky, but we made it through.
That’s all you can do till you find an exit.
Its rather drive worse side roads at a more appropriate speed and make it home.
I know the feeling. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Wife and I took a trip from IL to Idaho 10 years ago. We experienced the absolutely worse weather conditions ever. Not exaggerating. All in one trip.
First Black Ice in ND. Came up on it and the backend kicks out with no warning. I-94 was just fine...until it wasn’t. Caught it and got it straight. 1/2 mile up cars all over the HWY and ditches. The next 4 hours you could not drive faster than 10mph. 1 mph over and your vehicle would slide off the road. You knew it was bad because even the truck drivers pulled off and called it a night. After 4 hours we pulled off in Bismarck. I got out of the truck and felt that I aged 40 years.
Coming home we battled icy mountain roads, 75 mph winds in WY, that was OK but the killer was fog in IA that night. I could not believe how thick it was. Thought we were goners because I could barely see the line of the HWY to my right. No visibility - there could have been the Titanic 20 feet in front of me and I would have never known. All you do is pray to see an exit because pulling to the side is just as deadly as moving forward.