slippery!

I ran some errands this afternoon. On my way back from Milwaukee, the snow was coming down hard. I was doing about 40 on the freeway (so you know it was bad!). I saw a car in the ditch, then realized it was moving and trying to make its way back up to the pavement. It did, so I had to move over a lane (right after activating the anti-lock brakes). After that, I realized there was nobody behind me. Only a mile back, I had been in heavy traffic.

Was I the last car to make it through before some big accident? Or was everyone else just going that much slower than the cars I was with?

When I got home, pulling into the driveway, I lost all traction and plowed into the snowbank. Icebank, really. There didn't seem to be any damage to the car. And then I had to back up to get a running start to make it up the driveway. Our driveway is not that steep.