the s2k blog

Back in Southern Cali, the weather never got very cold, and here in my first winter in Dallas, we had the most snow on record. There was actually only a couple of days of bad snow, but the worst was at a record breaking 12.5″ within a 24 hour period. People tend to drive pretty bad here in general… when it rains it gets even worse, so you can only imagine what it was like in the snow. Fortunately I had no problems driving the S through the snow with my regular summer times on, except for the one day where I couldn’t even get it all the way out of the garage.

It had snowed all night and even though there was snow everywhere figured I’d give it a try. I backed it out of the garage, but soon realized I had no traction since there was ice under the snow. I had such little traction that I couldn’t even get it back into the garage. A neighbor who saw me rocking it helped push me in. I needed to get to work, so I just dusted all the snow off my wife’s car (who parks outside and has all-season tires on her Civic) and had no problem driving the 10 miles to work.

I do feel kind of bad exposing my beloved car to such extreme weather though :\