Car in the Ditch???????

That is what could have happened to my car today morning. As usual the weather in Scranton sucked, with freezing rain, sleet, snow and ice (finally a slushy mix was in the road). As a good practice (they call it best practice) had my car switched on 20 mins before I started to office, cleaned all the icy wintry mix on top of my car. The drive from my house to office is not much of a problem. I give ride to my office colleague whose house is in a steep hill, for which I have to take a small de-tour from my office route.

I have had problems before in the snow and ice mixture driving up the hill and was really skeptical to drive up this time too. I thought lucky me, since I did not have any problem in driving up the steep hill. I was sort of confident that I have made it but there lied the final touch. There is an adage that life is not always smooth, but the problem today morning when I was taking U turn was that the road was too smooth. There is no worst place to do a 180 than this one. With me staring down the hill, it is a forest with trees and not a road (sema pallam) and my car front tires are deep inside more than 1 feet of snow.

Only after getting down the car to look at the conditions, I realized how slippery it was. It was at least 2 inches of ice on the road and I could not walk there, I could have fell down and hurt myself easily. I shoveled the snow below the front tires in my car and with combination of reverse gear and drive mode, I struggled( rather the car struggled) for about 15-20 mins to come out of the snow. Now I am more experienced in driving in snow :) and know who will come to help you when you are really struggling.