Welcome home and bundle up! I was just thinking about you...FV
Picked sister in law up in Ohio and drove to DC on Wed. For the first time in my life-I spun off the road on a wicked patch of black ice that had many cars off the road ahead of me-went into the medium on I-70, down a hillside there, where the car turned facing the other direction on the way up the other side, going uphill, to the traffic coming the opposite direction....heart was in my throat.
After sitting for a moment, thanking God that we stopped, I got the car in motion and we joined traffic going the opposite direction from where we wanted to go...but it was not difficult as an exit was less than a mile away and the cars on that side (I-70 west bound) were going about 15 miles an hour...would that our side had been going that slow! I had gently hit the brakes because a van in front of me has spun out to the right shoulder, I spun to the left. And THIS was after a one hour and 40 minute detour off of I-70 east bound to Route 40, ( they had closed I-70 off with flares) because a huge truck had jack-knifed on I-70, apparently a tanker from the radio report) Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! It took me almost 14 hours to drive to DC! (It took eight hours to get to Dayton, Ohio yesterdaY!!!
LESSON LEARNED: No matter how good a driver ya think ya are, weather wins.