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[DMickey28]

The scariest was a horrible wind/rain storm through the mountians in PA, at night driving a Penske 16' truck WITH a tow trolley and my car on the bag. I WAS SO SCARED. The particular area I remember was pretty high up with nothing but a gaurd rail to my right and I could see a few house lights or something down in the valley. We had to get through that small stretch before we could stop and the storm just came out of nowhere.

The most dangerous was a winter storm in MA a few years back. It was about 1am, I had just left work and on Rt. 24 going towards Boston. The highway was nothing but a sheet of ice. Every few feet there were cars off the side of the road. A jerk flew by me, fishtailing just as he passed me and about 1/2 mile up the road I pasted him in a ditch.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

DH and I were driving from Detroit to Chicago (or Montreal, can't remember which trip)anyway it was winter and it was COLD. It was late at night, and all of a sudden with no warning we drove right onto glare ice on the road..all over it..we started to drift off the road, but didn't. That was terrifying.

When I was a teenager in Michigan I was driving at night in winter accross a little viaduct in our town. I got to the top, again glare ice, and did a 180 turn right at the top. I didn't even bother to try to go where I was intending, I took that as a sign and just returned home.

My DH and his friend were riding motorcycles on the Blue Ridge Parkway and they came across a terrible wind/rain storm. They just missed having a tree fall on them.

 

[DMickey28]

That reminds me. My sister and I left to drive to MO to visit family for Christmas about 18 years ago. They were predicting snow but not until the next day. We decided to leave earlier than planned to try and beat the storm. Well the predictions were off a little and we ended up hitting the storm in the mountains on the PA Turnpike. We were able to get into OH before we had to pull off and get a hotel room. I was so exhausted and thankful to be off the road. At one point this semi went flying past us and I put my foot on the brake and we started to slide. We were on a part of the Turnpike where it looked like if we hit the guardrail we would plunge down the mountain.

This is probably the same area we hit the rain/wind storm at night. Scary when the trailer behind your moving van is blowing around.

 

[bigmerle1966]

This is probably the same area we hit the rain/wind storm at night. Scary when the trailer behind your moving van is blowing around.

I was just going to ask if you were on the PA Turnpike. Because of the snow we couldn't see any lights, all we saw was pitch black nothing and knew there was a drop. And this was way before cell phones became something everyone had so if we had gone off the road no one would have known we were down there. The truck was gone and there was no one behind us.

 

[Kitty 34]

thick fog and then ice

 

[Feralpeg]

Black ice. I was driving home from my brother's house on Christmas day of 1987. I hit a patch of black ice on I-35 and did a 360 in the middle of the highway. I was 7 months pregnant at the time. All I could think of in those quick few moments was that I did not want to lose my baby. God must have been smiling down on me. The car came to a stop still on the highway after my spin. I was able to drive home (although I was shaking like a leaf). I hope to never experience anything like that again.

 

[Aurora63]

Rain. On the way to Disney once, going north on th FL Turnpike. The thunderstorms were so bad you could not see a thing, thankfully whoever was in front of us turned on their hazard lights, we followed them for about an hour and a half until it subsided.

 

[freckles and boo]

I have lots of white out snow stories.

We were stuck on I-80 near Truckee, CA for eight hours in a blizzard. That sucked.

We have experienced evil lake effect snow on I-80/94 near Michigan City, IN. The huge number of semis make that a scary route.

We have taken many, many trips on I-57 between Chicago and Champaign and because 57 goes straight N/S the wind blows the snow directly across the road from the west with nothing to block it (it is mostly flat farm country). It is easy to lose track of the road completely.