I had to drive 20 miles through a blizzard last week which was the first time driving in snow for many years. I wouldn't have given it a second thought when I was younger but I'm not so confident now even with anti-lock braking.
I did plenty of driving in the snow these last few winters. Being the Store Manager, you're stuck finding a way to get there no matter what. 😛
These days, I'm probably not going to risk it. If I need to do it, I'm sure I can figure it out, but that means driving 10-15 MPH on the highway, and I don't want to take two hours to get to my work.
I avoid it if possible because people around here can't drive in snow. We don't get it often enough, and usually when we do, a lot of places close anyways. I did have to drive to my first day of classes for my last semester in school after a big snowstorm, and I thought they should've pushed the start date back because there were still literal sheets of ice on the road and on the sidewalks. Not sure why they felt it appropriate to open lol. Similar situation happened a couple times at my community college too, except it wasn't as bad, and one of the times, my dad drove me to my classes. The other time, I'd missed my morning classes because I got food poisoning, but my night classes were cancelled because it'd started snowing. I was feeling better by the time campus reopened for classes, and when I went to my next scheduled class, all was more or less well until I got to the campus itself and was turning in, and there was still snow and ice on the road lol.
Only had to go to work like once or twice in snow though, back when I was living about 20-30 minutes away from work. Naturally took a little longer to get in both times, but I lived in an area where a lot of the roads would be plowed early because they were on primary and secondary roads. (I lived on a secondary road, thankfully, as they don't plow neighborhood roads around here.) I definitely remember it being really slow though and we mostly just kinda chilled and didn't really do much, and we closed early because my store leader insisted we all get home before dark and the roads iced over again. Pretty sure we had maybe 5-10 customers during the time I was there, and we used it as a training day because we had a newer associate who was learning the ropes and I was preparing to be a manager (they'd already put me in the group chat, but I didn't become official until about a month later).
I'm not very good at driving when the roads are iced over. The car that I have is two wheel drive, and those don't do well in really bad weather conditions. If it bad enough I have to have someone drive me to work.
I've been in Northeast Ohio all my life and am very familiar with driving in the snow. And now that I have a 4-wheel drive truck, I'm invincible! lol 😀
I do remember the first time I encountered black ice. I stopped at a crossroads but the road I was attempting to cross started to move along with everything else in my line of vision. It took a second or two to get it straight in my head that roads don't move and that my car was travelling sideways because of the camber in the road
The key to driving on the snow is staying steady with speed and control and not slamming on the breaks. Myself, I got thru a dangerous situation last year doing just that.
