The drive back from hell…

So we left St. George Saturday morning around 10:30ish. Man, the roads were hell from 10-15 miles north of St. George until past Cedar City, maybe even till Beaver– I don’t remember. What I do remember is driving extremely slowly and extremely carefully in my 2WD Maxima, in pretty constant fear. Visibility was limited, it was snowing like mad, and cars were sliding off everywhere (4WD vehicles, even) from the slick, slush/snow covered roads. If I strayed even a little outside the tracks in front of me I’d start to slip. It was a rather hellish 2 hours of driving and my hands / knuckles were sore afterwards from having gripped the steering wheel so tight.

Now, I’d gotten my oil change and with that a free car wash, the day I left to go down to St. George. So my car, though not spotless by the time I left to go back to Sandy, was relatively clean, and certainly free from any ice that might have built up previously. When I got out of the car at home after my non-stop trip from St. George, I found my car had grown and icicle beard and chops, or something. It was so funky looking, these round icicle things from dirty water/slush, pointing towards the front of the car. Funky, I tell you! It was so cold out that that water had literally frozen to my car while driving. Crazy stuff…