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I left work last night at 4pm and picked up my CRV and left my Mini at the train station for the ride home. Got to the base of the mountain (hwy 330)
at 7pm and put on my chains. Only made it 1.5 miles and traffic was stopped at only 1500ft elevation and just light snow. After a few minutes moving again
and by 4000ft the fun started. Must have seen 50 cars/trucks or more off the road and people where just stopped right in the middle of the road. My CRV is a tank
in snow so just drove on any part of the road to get by all the carnage.

Was 930 by the time I got home, but no problem. Just watched the news and they said they where using Snow-Cats to rescue all the stranded motorist
Just wondering what will happen if we had a big snow storm, only got 8". I grew up in this stuff and enjoy the snow.

Roads get clogged in the DC area with an inch or two.
Funny thing is that it wasn't as bad before front wheel drive.
My conclusion is that people are either less skilled at driving or more stupid.

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Amen Brother Jim,
I drive it I-66 East, and 28 North to Dulles 61 miles one way every workday and the level of idiocy and incompetence of the drivers in traffic continues to amaze me, particularly in bad weather. The soccer mom's and Dads in their AWD crossovers ( which because it says AWD somehow makes them believe they possess super powers over physics)...

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you can have 10 wheel drive but once your locked and sliding in matters not .

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4wd only gets and keeps you moving. Care must still be taken with starting, stopping and steering. Usually the first real snow in Pa reminds people that 4wd does not make you invincible

The other problem is all this traction control, ABS, and the like. You don't have to learn any of the "tricks" that always worked and when you try to drive a vehicle with all this stuff it just doesn't work like it once did.
I was driving my wives CX9 AWD today in the snow, hated it!
Give me regular 4wheel drive, or rear wheel, or front wheel, no ABS and no traction control and good tires!
Im sure the statistics prove otherwise but thats my 2 cents.

hahahahah - I live in Colorado and only chained ONCE in 15 years.

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

Wait till you try to get that dually around in the snow☺

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In the mountain area's here they have chain use mandatory unless you have a 4x4 with snow tires. If it gets real bad, everyone must use chains.
Since so many people head up the mountains to go skiing and so many have never driven in the snow it can get insane. They didn't plow until the next day
because there was to many cars and trucks crashed all over the road. Add to that they don't use salt and it rained first to make it nice and icy.

There was a survey I once heard of. 85% of drivers felt their driving skills were "above average". Do the math

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