Today Erika and I dropped Grace off at the bus station in Portland so she could get to Vermont for a few days. It started to
snow just before Erika and I started to drive back to Bates. I had Erika drive because I had never driven
in snow...well she hadn't either but was a more experienced driver. Our Prius
lost traction in the snow three times, within 5 minutes of each other, all only 2 miles from school. We first almost ran into a stopped car in
front of us, and then almost glided into oncoming traffic, and then almost hit
a car that was driving forward as we were turning left but couldn't stop.
Luckily Erika utilized snow drifts to stop our car. I was intensely impressed with her accident-avoidance skills. I would have probably got us killed.
