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Originally Posted by duckman1911
X2. After we got up this morning and saw the conditions we decided to not open the shop today. Not worth risking anyone getting hurt.
When I was a volunteer firefighter we had a night of weather like this and it was wreck after wreck all night long. Had to crawl inside an upside down blazer. It was in a ditch and had a foot of water flowing through it. On my back in that crap at 3:30 in the morning. *** were they thinking when they decided to go for a ride?
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I always got a quick laugh at how many people with big ole 4wd were the one's getting in trouble. 4wd dont help you on ice.
The only drive systems i ever saw that could get you through this stuff fairly reliably (if you drove slow) were the one's of the type in the Oldsmobile bravada smarttrak systems. (basically was a limited slip diff both front and back) and with added snow chains. They were the preferred drive types that we would use as a company vehicle when there was inclement weather up north.
Heaven help you if you hit a sheet of black ice going over 20 mph and touched your brakes.