Unless you are some form of a misbegotten soul, winter flat stinks. I hate it with a passion. I had to endure 30 years of winters working as a cop and I was never disappointed in how drivers failed to remember what it was like to safely operate a motor vehicle in/on snow and ice. Then came the great revelation about "black ice". Everyone started calling ice "black". Well there is no such thing, ice isn't black unless it it dyed, but blaming your inability to safety operate your vehicle on "black ice" sounds way better than "I am a plain stupid driver". And lets not forget that bridge overpasses have a nasty habit of icing over when the temps are just right, but people forget that little tidbit too and change lanes, or sharply apply their brakes on overpasses and wonder why they just hit a median the wall or another vehicle. Yep, must have been that darned "black ice" again. I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard someone blame their crash on "black ice". I would be a millionaire. Sorry if I sound biased about winter, but the only times my cruiser was hit was when I was stopped with my emergency lights on assisting others involved in crashes. The last time I was hit the driver blamed it on...you guessed it, "black ice"! I picked up a piece of his "black ice" and held it in front of his face and asked him if it was black? He just glared at me. Needless to say I enjoyed another trooper issuing a citation to Mr. Black Ice. In fact he got two citations as his license was suspended for failure to pay a prior citation. Gotta love it.
Rick H.