2underage said: What do you southerners do when winter goes crazy and invades your mostly warm paradise?
I am a former "Southerner". I grew up in San Diego. You can't get more south than that without being in Mexico. Down there if it snows, they drive faster.
Back about 1996 I had 4 feet of wet, heavy snow drop in 36 hours. Trees fell everywhere and they hadn't plowed my road 3 days later, so i did some sawing and dug it out and left for to San Diego, and did not swap my 1963 Mecedes diesel back to my summer tires. I got to the north base of the Grapevine and the CHP was turning cars back to go on other routes. I asked the officer what was the problem. He said there was 2 inches of snow on the pass. I asked him to look at my tires. They were fairly new studded snow tires. He said "you must live where they have real winters" and asked if i had chains. Yup. He said "put them on when you get to it, and don't hit the plows, they hate that", and I was the only car on the Grapevine at that time. too fun. Tires make all the difference, I find it hard to believe studs are illegal in some states.
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