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A rare white (day after) christmas up here in the NW. The west side of Wa was hit with a solid 5 inches of snow, still accumulating as I write this post. Needed to pick up an accelerator pump and my fwd cadillac is dead and covered in snow, so i thought I’d test my rwd snow skills. Honestly not bad at all. Kept it under 35 and no one was on the roads besides a few trucks and subarus. Getting up the massive hill out of my neighborhood was the only challenge, you can see why in the picture below. Merry christmas everyone!
The dreaded hill, with a sled ramp in the middle of it for extra difficulty Successful drive!
I don't have experience with snow but when I was young and had my 74 it was to New Smyrna beach every weekend in the summer. With the posi and IRS it would go through the soft sand way better than any other 2 wheel drive car. Never got stuck.
Got jammed once and had to drive my 70 roadster about 200 miles in pretty good snow, mostly highway.. Was so bad by the end of the drive about 2 inches had accumulated on my raised and operating headlights, they looked like horizontal snow cones! That said the car was never squirrely and with the posi much more controllable than any of the RWD V8 I had learned to drove with. I'd give it a B+ for the conditions.
Do be careful with the posi rear end on snow. It will go straight like a 4 wheel drive,,,,,, but if you get into a spinout, it will do a full loop before you know what happened. Don't ask.
"5-inches? Meh!" says most of the mid-West and Northeast.
What a lot of folks in the rest of the country don't realize about snow in the western parts of the Oregon and Washington is that for the most part we don't use salt or de-icers in most areas and snow is a relative rarity in occurrence and stick-aroundedness that cities and towns don't own fleets of snow plows. Adding to that is that it's been wet and raining for days/weeks/months leading up to the freezing weather so that roadways have a coating of ice under the snow.
The highway crews do a fantastic job keeping the Cascade passes open but the lowlands just wait for the thaw.
"5-inches? Meh!" says most of the mid-West and Northeast.
What a lot of folks in the rest of the country don't realize about snow in the western parts of the Oregon and Washington is that for the most part we don't use salt or de-icers in most areas and snow is a relative rarity in occurrence and stick-aroundedness that cities and towns don't own fleets of snow plows. Adding to that is that it's been wet and raining for days/weeks/months leading up to the freezing weather so that roadways have a coating of ice under the snow.
The highway crews do a fantastic job keeping the Cascade passes open but the lowlands just wait for the thaw.
yeah everyone in our area just waits for the snow to thaw. My friend’s parents dont let them drive, and wouldnt even let me pick them up! How can you learn how to drive in the snow if you avoid it your whole life?? Unfortunately this is why nobody on the west side of the mountains dont know how to drive in the snow. Over 166 collisions in Pierce and Thurston county since Saturday! 70+ just today! Driving down from the seahawks game in my cousin’s truck we saw 6 cars in ditches in our 45 min drive. Dont people know practice makes perfect?
Its s(no)w problem...
