Roads last night

[blackawdtsi]

Anyone else get caught on the ice rink last night? It took me an hour to drive my son home from St. Louis Park to Mounds View. Had to do 20mph or less.

Leaving my parent's underground garage, there's an incline. I couldn't make it up and the car started sliding backwards, I turned the wheel and managed not to hit the wall, garage or girl who was standing outside as I 180'd and went back in haha.

[viridionplague]

yea it was pretty bad, my gf was out for work and got home 3 hours late. she has new tires and AWD and still said it was super bad.

i myself walked outside and just wiped out hardcore because it dosent look like the ground is anything other than wet.

[Febo]

Yeah they were brutal, but the sexus dominated these roads. love this car.

[turbotalon1g]

^BS, nothing was dominating.

Took us 3 times to get thru that light crossing south over 694 from silver lake road (went to champps to watch the fight)

Any hint of accel truck would go sideways, sudden decel would do the same. I think I cruised 35w at 30mph in 3rd most of the way.

The ramp from 35w N to 10W was blocked by people stuck on the ramp.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

It took me 50 minutes to get from Cambridge to Saint Francis which is normally a 20-25 min drive. I could only manage about 25-30 mph and every time there was a slight incline my car would start going sideways.

[Febo]

^BS, nothing was dominating.

Traction control, an automatic, and a low center of gravity = domination

[Matt D.]

I was downtown, wandered to some bars with friends, ended up at one of their apartments. We tried getting a cab back to our cars at the 7 Corners ramp but it was a 4 hour wait, apparently they pulled all the cabs off the streets. Ended up sleeping there and coming home this morning, probably a good idea as my driveway is still an ice rink.

[awd-drifter]

We just got back from hunting, went to an uncle's house to play cards and drove home at around 11:30pm. Took us 3-4 hours from Maplewood to home. We decided to take the small roads and it seemed taking ANY road with a hill was a bad idea. Me and some other guy were being a good 'samaritan' and putting salt all over on Concord near the Mexican restaurants because EVERYONE got stuck going up that slight up hill...even us. Last night every car got pwnd.

[s1ngletracker]

I drove from new brighton to bloomington. It was awful. I saw probably 30+ cars on the side of the road, or crashed into barriers or each other, including a lot of cabs. People coudn't get up the slightest hill. It was fuggin bumper cars out there. I saw cops stuck. Unfortunately on an ice rink of a road, AWD + good winter tires + LSD + manual trans still really does very little.

[rose0529]

I was downtown, wandered to some bars with friends, ended up at one of their apartments. We tried getting a cab back to our cars at the 7 Corners ramp but it was a 4 hour wait, apparently they pulled all the cabs off the streets. Ended up sleeping there and coming home this morning, probably a good idea as my driveway is still an ice rink.

Glad you got something figured out!

Traction control, an automatic, and a low center of gravity = domination

I personally would rather have a manual in bad weather, so much more control when braking and acceleration. And I'm not a fan of traction control cutting the power when trying to accelerate!!!

I started out not thinking it would be to bad... and was going to give Matt a ride home, but then canceled that, but while i was out Rachael ended up needing a ride home. She was Baby sitting in Minnetonka, and the couple didnt get home till after 3 because of the traffic.

I had to change my route 3 times because roads were blocked by people stuck on hills. I also passed a bunch of people who were pulled over on the side of small hills who were stuck. AWD and snow tires is amazing. Although not invinclible, downhill's were a little tricky when a stop was at the bottom.