"Littlefoot" wrote in message news:7c88e57ef5fe4@uwe...
> Hello,
>
> I will be taking a road trip on December 21st from Seattle to San
> Francisco with my 2 friends. I've never driven in the snow before and I'm
> very very nervous. I've already bought chains and I've practiced putting
> them
> on in my driveway many times. Has anyone made this drive in December? What
> should I expect? I'll be driving a Toyota Corolla (Manual Transmission).
> How
> long should this drive take in the snow? I've made the trip before but it
> was
> in July. I'm planning on staying the night somewhere in OR.
>
Odds are there won't be any snow. At least not on the freeway. However, a
couple of times in my experience I-5 has been closed because of snow. And a
stretch in central Washington was recently closed due to flooding. Keep
close tabs on the weather and the road conditions. 511 works in Oregon and
Washington; in California call 800-427-ROAD (7623) for the CHP road
conditions.
The last time we drove up in the winter, I-5 was closed north of Redding due
to a heavy snow fall. We called ahead and reserved a motel room in Redding.
The town filled up that night. The next morning they'd cleared the road and
we drove all the way through to Seattle that day -- without putting on
chains. (Another storm was forecast.)
Marianne
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