TotalyHucked
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- Location
- Auburn, Georgia
- First Name
- Zach
- Truck Year
- 1985
- Truck Model
- Sierra 1500
- Engine Size
- 5.3
Cuz the daily's still down, I'm still driving the C10. The hwy was fine on Tuesday, we were all going ~40ish. Once I got off the exit and onto the side roads, that's when it got interesting. Turned right off the ramp and stopped at QT to top up the tank and grab a couple cokes inside, as I was leaving I nearly slid into the tanker truck that was refilling their tanks. No salt or sand on that side of the lot apparently.
Leave QT and go left back across the hwy to the other side of Lawrenceville Suwannee Rd (major thoroughfare through here) and it's baadddd. Apparently they had not salted that side of it at all. So we're all crawling 2nd gear, like 20ish. Come up to the neighborhood (I turned on my signal a long ways back) I'm down to first gear and under 10mph at this point. Go to get in the turn lane and lightly tap the brakes to make the turn, truck just slides right on past the entrance. Now I'm watching the curb that's getting closer and trying to pump the brakes to get it to turn where I want or stop. Thankfully it stopped before I hit the curb.
So I get out and walk over to look at where I need to go. The entrance is a STEEP, big ole hill and it's pretty icy already and it's curved at the bottom with cars always parked on the road. I debated leaving my truck up at the road but didn't want it to get hit in the night. So I manage to back up where I slid through and slid the rear out into the main road when there was no traffic to point the nose straight down the hill and send it. Thankfully, I only got a small slide before I got back to dry pavement but there was one more decent sized hill to climb before I make it to the house. That one was pedal down, sideways in 2nd gear clawing to get up it. This neighborhood stays shaded most of the day so it didn't melt until about 3pm yesterday, so I got a snow day lol
This was when I got home Tuesday, I was mainly worried about hitting those cars as I came down the hill.
This was yesterday about 8:30am, straight ice
Leave QT and go left back across the hwy to the other side of Lawrenceville Suwannee Rd (major thoroughfare through here) and it's baadddd. Apparently they had not salted that side of it at all. So we're all crawling 2nd gear, like 20ish. Come up to the neighborhood (I turned on my signal a long ways back) I'm down to first gear and under 10mph at this point. Go to get in the turn lane and lightly tap the brakes to make the turn, truck just slides right on past the entrance. Now I'm watching the curb that's getting closer and trying to pump the brakes to get it to turn where I want or stop. Thankfully it stopped before I hit the curb.
So I get out and walk over to look at where I need to go. The entrance is a STEEP, big ole hill and it's pretty icy already and it's curved at the bottom with cars always parked on the road. I debated leaving my truck up at the road but didn't want it to get hit in the night. So I manage to back up where I slid through and slid the rear out into the main road when there was no traffic to point the nose straight down the hill and send it. Thankfully, I only got a small slide before I got back to dry pavement but there was one more decent sized hill to climb before I make it to the house. That one was pedal down, sideways in 2nd gear clawing to get up it. This neighborhood stays shaded most of the day so it didn't melt until about 3pm yesterday, so I got a snow day lol
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This was when I got home Tuesday, I was mainly worried about hitting those cars as I came down the hill.
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This was yesterday about 8:30am, straight ice
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