We had a freak winter storm. It was not predicted by any weathermen/women in our

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area. I looked out the door and there was a white out at PetSmart. Later on it subsided. When I went home, I loaned some young people a scraper because our windshields were all iced up. This means there was a base of ice on the roads, no plows put any sand down anywhere. They counted on the snow on top to act like sand. The young people were from Montreal and going back. They had their front defrosters working, but not the back ones. So I gave them my scraper. On the way home, I kept seeing trucks and cars in the ditch. I assumed it was because they hit ice (I could see glittery looking areas on the road in my headlights). Then it happened, white outs. One after another after another. I lost count of how many. I came out of one just in time to avoid hitting a mail box! So now I don't know if they hit ice or a white out. Now I'm worried about the three 20 something females that I gave my ice scraper to. If I had difficulty and I know these roads, what did they encounter? I hope they made it back to Canada or found some place to stay over night. The white-outs/snow squalls were halfway to my house, none that I saw prior to that, but I did see plenty of people off the road. Have you ever hit a really bad unpredicted storm? Have you ever helped people and thought you did right by them, only to wonder if you should have done more? Have you ever thought people went off the road for one reason and then later on figure out or hear that it was probably another reason? If I had hit this weather before my Brother's (any of the three of them) houses, then I would have stayed over night in a town before the really bad part of the storm. But often, the weather is fine until a few miles past their houses. Is there an area that is always more stormy than others where you live? Have you ever had some fool tailgate you when the roads are bad? The truck behind me could have never stopped in time if I stopped fast. So I pulled off at a store and let him go by. Wonder if he was one of the truck accidents I saw later. I thought the storm was over and I was fine, but it was still going on. Have you ever stayed put somewhere to avoid driving in a storm, only to find out the storm was just a little way down the road? A 30 to 45 minute drive took me 1 1/2 hours.