I snapped this with my blackberry sitting at the bottom of an exit ramp preparing to turn around and go back the way I came earlier today. I was scheduled to go out to Alcoa, TN again and had already delayed until later in the day before heading out. It never made it above freezing today and was still snowing, but the roads were well salted so I figured it should be OK.

I hit several patches of really heavy flurries but the road was clear and I remember thinking as I got near the NC/TN state line, “this isn’t bad at all, as long as I come back through before it re-freezes for the night.” Then I rounded a curve and hit my first patch of solid white, slick road, decided maybe this wasn’t such a great idea after all, and bailed at the next exit. The ramp back up onto I-40 in the opposite direction was also totally covered in snow and ice and I barely made it back up onto the Interstate. I don’t think Chevy Uplanders are designed for four-wheeling.