
All jokes aside, pretending your granny is ‘wearing a new dress and holding a crock pot full of gravy’ is solid winter driving advice.
Winter storms have buried much of the United States in snow, from Kansas to the East Coast. With Texas about to receive snow and record-low temperatures, many motorists with little to no experience driving in the snow will be faced with the wintery white stuff. Fret not, though. A silly bit of advice can help the inexperienced with one of the most important tenets of winter driving.
Your tactics for driving in the snow should be similar to ātaking your grandma to churchā
Driving in the snow can be daunting, especially for motorists without much experience with the wintertime powder. Fortunately, a frustrated, albeit helpful X (formerly Twitter) user has a colorful recommendation for snow driving.Ā Ā
āIf you rarely drive on snow, just pretend youāre taking your grandma to church,ā X user Chadsu42 said. āThereās a platter of biscuits and 2 gallons of sweet tea in glass jars in the back seat.ā It sounds like a precarious situation. After all, you donāt want to jostle your grandma or dump a tidal wave of tea across your back seat.Ā
āSheās wearing a new dress and holding a crock pot full of gravy,ā the X user joked. In short, if you donāt want one angry, disappointed granny covered in hot gravy, you had better slow down and drive smoothly.
Joking aside, slowing it down and driving smoothly is one of the best recommendations we can make for driving in the snow. Traction is at a premium on snowy, icy roads. Abrupt steering inputs or acceleration could easily break your traction and send you spinning. Drive smoothly. Like grandma is sitting in the backseat in her new dress with a pot of gravy on her lap. Get it?
In addition to slow, steady, smooth moves, there are a few other things you can do to stay on track in the snow. For starters, you can take the danger out of the equation entirely by keeping your road-going trips to a minimum. Donāt drive if you donāt have to do so. However, you can also do the following to prioritize safety and avoid wintertime disasters.
- Keep an emergency kit and a fully-charged cell phone
- Equip your vehicle with winter tires or snow chains
- Take road reports into consideration before departing
- Turn on your headlights
- Allot extra space between yourself and other vehicles
- Stay alert and watch out for black ice