I keep mine in the garage, as my car gets big snow accumulations mostly when it sits in my driveway. I don't carry it in the car very often as I rarely get hit with big snow events away from the home.

 

Winter driving tip #17: Move south.

 

Yes please. For many years I thought Daytona Beach Shores was one of my favourite spots. But many of the places we visited over the years just got quite a bit closer to the ocean as this last storm created so much erosion damage, I never would have expected it and the storm wasn't really that strong, very surprising.

 

Well any of you near Bufalo will be dealing with it now! Looks like a sizeable snow dump coming.

 

dropped the SL63 at storage today
Owner of the place had a brandy-new '22 white. Only mileage is from dealer to storage.
He also had a '69 Lincoln Continental with only 11k miles on it.
Everything including tires was original from the factory.
He got it from an estate he appraised it had been sitting on jack-stands for 52 years.

 

For people who drive on rural roads or interstates with open stretches bordering flat land the presence of snow drifts can be dicey at times if you hit them at speed (50-70 mph). The trick I use is to lift throttle as soon as I see them , sometimes I will disengage the clutch or slap the tranny into neutral and just coast through the drifts as straight as possible. You need to stop powering the drive wheels before you enter the snow drift though. Once you get through it then back to throttle. You can get through most drifts relatively fast as they don't tend to run for long distances, but they can cause some damage if you lose control while you are going through them. I see too many people just drive through them under throttle and then they sometimes end up in one of two ditches. The same applies to patches of ice. These two road conditions can cause a bit of stress, but if you learn to react quickly you will get through them safely most of the time.

 

you just need soft hands and soft feet.

 

If you don’t know how to drive in the snow or don’t have a vehicle that is safe to drive in the snow stay home.
My commute to work is split up between 2 highways both being about 7 miles each. We had about an inch of snow fall tonight and it was still coming down during my commute tonight but road crews were out and it wasn’t too bad. THe first part of my commute there was no one in front of me and I traveled at 35 m.p.h. which I felt comfortable at. I came to the intersection where I turn to get on the other highway and there is a parking lot to the side and I saw a car pulled over there, a lot of times people pull over there if they are not comfortable driving and wait for the plow to go by. I turned on to the highway and within a tenth of a mile there is a new Mercedes with jersey plates driving at 10 miles an hour with their flashers on. It is one lane in the direction I was going and this person drove at 10-15 miles an hour the whole 7 miles didn’t pull over once, had about 20 or more cars behind us had a few parking lots they could of pulled over but they just kept going 10m.p.h. I was nervous that one of the people in one of the twenty vehicles behind us was going to lose their patience and pass.

 

^ I'm guessing that was not Jerry. When I run into a situation like that I always think of my mother who never drove until my father pasted away. She was no spring chicken. But she did it.

 

My mother is still driving strong at 88 years old. She drives damn slow and with her nose just a few inches from the windshield, she has never been in an accident but I bet she has created a few around her. lol