SUV on side after wrecking on icy roads WRAL
Today I had planned to take the Ram Outdoorsman to the western part of the state for a few days. My favorite place to go in North Carolina is Cataloochee Valley inside the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and I was so looking forward to doing some wildlife photography and touring around. Well if you’ve watched the news any we are socked in with the first storm of the season we got about a ¼ inch of snow before it switched over to sleet and freezing rain. The roads are a mess here and while snow is not too big an issue the ice is an entirely different one. WRAL
Just the trek into the office this morning was like an obstacle course with cars and trucks littered all over the place after losing traction and sliding into each other and other objects. The Ram Outdoorsman handled great not the least bit of a problem. Yesterday in anticipation of this storm and still planning on making the trip west I put about 300 lbs of sandbags in the bed of the truck to help weigh down the backend. I normally do that with my truck so I just went ahead and did it with the Ram Outdoorsman.
While I’m confident that the truck could make the trip and get me there safely some of the other people on the road are what concerns me. I don’t need to make the trip so I guess I’ll heed the NC Highway Patrol warning and not make any unnecessary trips. I was going to have to head back home on Saturday anyways and the weather folks are predicting another winter storm for Saturday too. So I guess we’ll do some things closer to home the next few days I went into work today but I’m going to take tomorrow off to play.
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