Wouldn’t have done much good. It went from clear and fine with dry roads, to treacherous, in less than 30 minutes.
I am still stunned at how fast the roads became dangerous.
I knew snow was expected and I was going home as soon as it started. I went to lunch early, at 11:30, so as to have that out of the way when the snow arrived around noon and I could just close up and leave.
Between leaving for lunch and returning to work to close up, the roads were already bad. They went bad so fast, that pretty much everyone was caught out.
Worst I have seen here in central NC in a long time.
Not in the amount of snow, which is about 8 inches at the moment with sleet coming down, but in the speed of the deterioration of conditions.
Deja vu all over again.
Exactly what happened to me today. Not a flake in the sky, decided to run out for gas. Had to wait in line for fifteen minutes and by the time I had finished, the road was covered and it was snowing hard. Only had 1/2mi to get home, immediately called my husband who has an eight mile commute. Took him an hour and a half. This was at noon.