Another winter driving tidbit at the county line those plows slow down to a crawl in the hammer lane to do a flip the other way. Very very dangerous situation in low and limited visibility. As I approach a group of slowed traffic with flashers on I'll not roll up to it but drive my mirror and watch someone isn't piling in before I shorten the gap. With room ahead u can safely allow more traffice to gather up from behind untill u aren't the vulnerable one at the back end of the slowdown. The tail end of any slowdown is not a good place to be. Keep room to roll forward if u need to and drive the mirror till year out of danger.
Also in sleet and freezing rain same thing the salt trucks also do a flip at the county line. So u r running along in subfreezing temps but have a good spray still kicking up and then BAM u cross the county line and that neighboring county ain't been out with the salt yet and you end up with bad wrecks at the county line where the road turns to a sheet of ice in real short order.
On those bad days as everything goes to hell and gets really bad before you get a chance to get off. As people and traffic begings to back down early on get a few lengths back to a semi in the other lane going at a rate u r comfortable with and park there and don't look back. Let the road open up in front of u and the hell with who's behind u.
I love driving in really bad conditions and at very slow speeds it's the same effect when conditions r severe, terrifying. It's an adrenaline rush that's pretty hard to top. It will scare the hell out of u. That's where a good wing man in that other lane to control the flow around u pays big dividends.
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