Shinibents
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- Joined
- January 15, 2005
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- 15
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- City, State
- Superior, WI
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '01 Ranger 4.0
Last winter my girlfriend and I decided to go to a nearby casino around 3 in the morning. Well ok I was wide awake and decided that some free pop would be nice so I woke her up to go with me. The problem with this is that where I live you don't know what the weather will be like once you get to the top of the hill on the way out of town. Where I live it can be nice warm and whatever, but once you get up the hill the temp change makes it foggy and can drop snow without warning.
Anyway the casino is about 20-30 minutes away straight highway the entire way there. So we got to the top of the hill and around 5 miles out of town and bam, instant snowstorm. Visiability is about nill and what once was a 20-30 minute ride is now going to be 45-60 if I drive carefully like I should. Around the halfway point I realized that the snow wasn't letting up and I should turn around. I started looking for the first exit that had an overpass but realized how bad the visablity was when I passed under it without seeing it before hand.
We struggled on to the casino and got our free pop. That part wasn't bad. We decided to wander around the casino with hopes that the weather would calm down for the ride home. We left around 5am and the weather was a little better. I drove under the freeway overpass and got onto the entrance ramp.
This is where it starts to suck. At around the end of the ramp there was a patch of black ice, or that's all I think it could be. The back tires lost their grip and the truck turned into a frisbee on the highway. The thing did at least 2 spins and came into the median backwards. Sad thing is that the median was right after an the highway went over a road, so it dipped in like a giant ditch. In the few seconds that I seemed to have I thought I was going to roll the truck. Ironically the speed, which I was trying to gain when this whole mess started, saved the truck from rolling. the drivers side stayed in the air long enough for the passenger side to drop first keeping the thing from going over.
Problem was I had to get a tow, so the free pop wasn't that free after all.
Luckily it was early and there was no traffic. Another lucky not is that the cops didn't look at my plates. I realized later that the dealer forgot to put my tags on the plates when they put them on the truck.
The awesome thing about this was the truck was basically undamaged. The only thing broke was the clips holding plastic on the top of the bumper down it flops around now.
-SB :navajo:
Anyway the casino is about 20-30 minutes away straight highway the entire way there. So we got to the top of the hill and around 5 miles out of town and bam, instant snowstorm. Visiability is about nill and what once was a 20-30 minute ride is now going to be 45-60 if I drive carefully like I should. Around the halfway point I realized that the snow wasn't letting up and I should turn around. I started looking for the first exit that had an overpass but realized how bad the visablity was when I passed under it without seeing it before hand.
We struggled on to the casino and got our free pop. That part wasn't bad. We decided to wander around the casino with hopes that the weather would calm down for the ride home. We left around 5am and the weather was a little better. I drove under the freeway overpass and got onto the entrance ramp.
This is where it starts to suck. At around the end of the ramp there was a patch of black ice, or that's all I think it could be. The back tires lost their grip and the truck turned into a frisbee on the highway. The thing did at least 2 spins and came into the median backwards. Sad thing is that the median was right after an the highway went over a road, so it dipped in like a giant ditch. In the few seconds that I seemed to have I thought I was going to roll the truck. Ironically the speed, which I was trying to gain when this whole mess started, saved the truck from rolling. the drivers side stayed in the air long enough for the passenger side to drop first keeping the thing from going over.
Problem was I had to get a tow, so the free pop wasn't that free after all.
Luckily it was early and there was no traffic. Another lucky not is that the cops didn't look at my plates. I realized later that the dealer forgot to put my tags on the plates when they put them on the truck.
The awesome thing about this was the truck was basically undamaged. The only thing broke was the clips holding plastic on the top of the bumper down it flops around now.
-SB :navajo:
