In order to help breathe new life into the forum, i figuired I'd add another thread. Share your cool winter driving techniques / stories here.
I'll start with happened to me on the expressway the other morning (6 am, still dark): I was going South on rural US-27 near my house (mid michigan) it was shitty with about 2 inches of really wet slush snow that happened been plowed yet (god bless our road commision) and me along with everyone else was doing about 45 tops. I had been following the tahoe infront of me for about 10 miles without passing. Finally, I decided to overtake and go to pass - cept since the left lane was travelled so much less, the amount of slush in it was huge. I got up next to the tahoe, I was doing about 55, only to get sucked off to the left towards the median. I ended up fishtailing back onto the road, but then was going towards him to fast, so i ended up going back towards the median. I had to decide A) Median B) Tahoe, or C) if i'm lucky keep it in between. so after about 10 seconds of fishtailing i managed to land it in the middle of the lane and pull past him, only to discover there was a semi infront of him whose draft was now brutally throwing around my weight-reductioned-grand am. I didn't want to have another median mis-hap, so I was forced to slow down and pull back in behind the tahoe. A completely useless attempt at passing - all it did was help burn off the calories from my scrambled eggs. Lesson learned: slush sucks.