It's that time again: Winter Driving

This will actually be my first winter driving experience... I've managed to avoid it, thus far, but now I'm not so lucky.

As @RipTheVeins said, this is also my first winter driving. Here in Indiana we haven't had any snow yet (at least where I live). But it's really cold though.

Hooray for the slight possibility of snow storms that could make days-off happen.

Mhm. My town got hit full force with snow this weekend. It was clear as day Thursday night, then snowed from Friday morning straight through to night.  
 
It's picking up again now, I believe.

"This will actually be my first winter driving experience... I've managed to avoid it, thus far, but now I'm not so lucky. "

It's snowing in Michigan again. My car started to slip a little, and I was like... Oh, yeah. Winter.

I'm in Ottawa and we're about to get our first storm on Wednesday.  Reports are saying that we're going to get 20+ cm's of snow, but that's not even that bad compared some of the storms we've had in the last couple years.  Thankfully I'm a 20 minute walk from my university, so I'm good for that, but when I go home for Christmas then I get to deal with the torture of winter driving.

Yeah, it snowed here on Thursday and I had to chant in my head: go slow, don't drive like a jackass, this shit is dangerous.  I hate winter driving.

I use to live in Winnipeg, so I know all about this. I now live in Vancouver and I have to say it is probably even more dangerous to drive here without the snow than it is to drive in Winnipeg WITH the snow. Fuck the west-coasters do not know how to drive. Stop signs and Red lights here are optional and even though the speed limit in Vancouver never goes above 50km (even on multi-lane highways, except the trans-canada which goes up to 80) people drive 80 klicks everywhere. Fuck! I one day was walking to the nearby train station and had to use two crosswalks at steetlights and I saw THREE CARS run the stop lights and almost hit me. At least when it snows here people are too terrified to drive so the roads remain a little bit more sane, if you can believe it.

Cold winds, snow fall, and bad drivers, the 3 worst thing about winter.

I love driving in the snow, it's just the other drivers that make it a problem. When we got our snow Friday and I was on my way to work, I was actually able to go 20 mph faster on a major highway than normal. Usually it's incredibly crowded, and I start imagining car-raping the bumper of any old woman in front of me. When I finally got to some side streets, though, it was like people were driving on an inch of ice over a river. The road could be as flat and as straight as possible, and people will still drive 15 mph under the speed limit and react at a frighteningly slow pace. But yeah, hell yeah I'm ready for some winter driving.

man, i have had only about 3 snow day's so far! and all the snow is gone once again.

Sucks man, Thank god its 45+ degrees here year round.

Calgary is a bunch of bullshit, I do not know why I live here.

I had to drive in the stuff on Saturday, very thick. And there were still people going above 55 on the high way. Insane since I had to crawl between 35 and 45 on my whole hour+ drive back home.  
 
One year, my anti lock breaks decided they didn't want to function, so I did an incredibly dramatically slow front hit into a side road sign. Left a mark on my car that's still there.  
 
Snow's only good to look at. Otherwise, I hate the blasted stuff.

yes, i am ready for snow. it actually just snowed like an inch very small. the only problem was getting up my driveway. it is on a hill so it will be hard to do. i just hate driving when it's icy because some people crash. 
 
in high school as i waited for the bus to come it was great watching people going through a stop sign. i would see people going like 30 and now stopping because of sliding. then crashing into a snow bank.

After last year, I dread the coming of snow.  Our mayor's bungling of a major snow storm here in Seattle is just one of the reasons he did not win reelection this past November.  I mean, really:
 
1.  He didn't deploy the entire fleet of snowplows the city has.
2.  Those that were deployed were mainly deployed to the area of Seattle he lives.
3.  He didn't allow salting the sidewalks for environmental reasons.
 
End result:  Seattle was shut down for two weeks because no one could get anywhere.
 
It doesn't help that a lot of residents around here have no idea how to drive in the snow, either.

i find it interesting that this was posted today, first day of snow here in reno nevada, looks like the roads are gonna be nice and icy tomorrow... yikes
 
edit: of course, not having a tv i dont watch weather reports so i dont know how big the snow storm was so it could be all over i guess...

Goddamn it.... Montreal still has no snow :/

Oh god. Thanks for helping me build my confidence up since I just am starting to drive and I saw 6 cars get in a wreck today.

How are people's driving thus far? Toronto has had barely any snow, and when we do, it melts a few days. That makes my winter driving so far this year more like autumn/spring driving.