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Auburn Annie · 12-19-2009, 07:05 PM

My husband and daughter made it to Charleston SC around 2 this afternoon having survived the trip from hell, as my husband put it. They were on I-81 south and I-77 south and both places were AWFUL for trying to drive; both roads were closed just after my family made it through. They went at one-tenth of a mile per hour in some places, no hotel room to be found anywhere (they slept in the car, fortunately had pillows and a sleeping bag) and crawled past overturned tractor trailers and hundreds of cars in ditches or stuck in snow banks. They do have plows in Virginia and North Carolina but my daughter says "they don't know HOW to plow!" The local papers were calling it a storm of epic proportions; further north today DC was getting in one day what they normally get in a whole season.

In the end, they arrived in one piece - which is more than some folks did. Now I can relax. Rich flies home on the 27th. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.

12-19-2009, 07:05 PM	#12
Auburn Annie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 3,101	Re: Winter in Toronto My husband and daughter made it to Charleston SC around 2 this afternoon having survived the trip from hell, as my husband put it. They were on I-81 south and I-77 south and both places were AWFUL for trying to drive; both roads were closed just after my family made it through. They went at one-tenth of a mile per hour in some places, no hotel room to be found anywhere (they slept in the car, fortunately had pillows and a sleeping bag) and crawled past overturned tractor trailers and hundreds of cars in ditches or stuck in snow banks. They do have plows in Virginia and North Carolina but my daughter says "they don't know HOW to plow!" The local papers were calling it a storm of epic proportions; further north today DC was getting in one day what they normally get in a whole season. In the end, they arrived in one piece - which is more than some folks did. Now I can relax. Rich flies home on the 27th. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.