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Originally Posted by nyum96
Unless you have been in the south and in a real ice storm, 1-2" of snow quickly turns into thick ice. As I walked the last 5 miles home on Tuesday night (10 hours to go 10 miles in the work suv, then ditched it in the parking lot) I met a lot of great people walking with me from Ohio and New York. All fully understanding what a real ice storm is and admitted it wasn't like the north but worse. These are also the people who created dangerous driving conditions by passing in oncoming traffic lanes. They left their cars in the middle of the roads. That's what they admitted freely. From the short 5 mile walk, anything that is rear wheel drive, you were screwed. AWD cars did fine except for the Porsche Panamera. That guy parked his car back in the woods. Unfortunately, RWD cars and 2WD trucks are more popular due to the environment. BTW, X5 did fine on summer slicks and I use to live in upstate NY for many years.
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^ This.. I lived in NYC for over 18 years and now 16 so far in Atlanta. I lived through the "feet" of snow that we would get on occasion in the 90's and drove through them.
This is ICE folks completely different beast, I don't care what you drive short of one of those behemoth trucks with studded tires w/nails sticking out you ain't going nowhere. Of course, much could be said or not about the unpreparedness of the city being that they were fully aware.. But hopefully, a lesson hard-learned.
FWIW.. I drove at a moderate speed with my X3 and still was slipping and sliding away..
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