snow how it causes problems

why when we have a bit of snow the counrty falls to bits, yeah i know a lot of people arnt used to snow but bluddy hell the madness it causes we only have a couple of inches and never gets below -5 hardly how do you think places like canada copes and they go below -10 and more just makes my laugh realy

but on a serious note was reading me mates facebook status he had a bit of a prang while driving last nite he was okay but his car was a little worse for wear as he had problems with the snow and ice, ill no doubt get a full story when he blogs about it in due time, ive had a couple of near misses with snow and ice while driving, quite scary realy but iam alive to tell the story

one time i was driving in ice and snow the snow just suddenly came down no warning and gave all the roads quite a covering, couldnt see the pavement or road wher it started or ended and deffo couldnt see any road markings, as ther was so much snow fall, but if you took your time you things were okay unlike so many drivers of today who want to get to places at 100 mph, but anyway that will be another post back to my near miss

i was driving down a big hill rad was very snowy andi was crawling at 5 mph andeven at that speed when i tapped my breaks it made my car skid once i started to skid that was it, i went all the way down the hill even tho i couldnt stop the cari was under controll i couldnt pull it into the side of the road as they was all parked cars in the way and would of caused to much damage so i just continued skidding down the hill

i got to the bottom of the hill still unable to stop the car i saw the traffic lights were on red but i know there was traffic coming from the main road i got worried now as i knew i was goign to go through the red lights i did and 2 cars narrowly missed me by inches i was sweating by now luckly after a few more mins i did come to a stop after the traffic lights i knew there was a car park so i decied to pull into that and in the end i mangaed to pull to a stop by gently pulling upto a brick wall

luckly theer was no damage to me or my car or any of the other drivers silly enoguh the main road was okay as it had been salted but the side roads were like ice rinks, i thanked my luck stars and got home and had a whisky or 2 to settle my nervous, driving these days isnt much fun like it was when i started you need eyes and ears eveywhere as you never know whats goign to happen to yourself out on the roads