Weather Woes

Anyone watching national weather here in the US knows there is a blizzard in the high plains, windy and hot conditions in the south, and very cold windy weather east of the Mississippi. We are right in the middle of the upper level of the maelstrom. We left very early from our motel in Hill City, SD this morning because the snow had already started about 3 am and the prediction was for 60 mph winds and 14 inches. So while we did manage to miss some of that, we drove in incredibly bad weather nearly the entire day on very small roads whose two saving graces were very little traffic and very straight roads. There were some hairy slides and some severe icing on the front of the car including the windshield wipers but the car is all wheel drive even though it looks like a race car so we kept our speeds down to safe levels and made it to Grand Island, Nebraska. Tomorrow we are going to Iowa City, Iowa, which is only about a five hour trek on an interstate highway but it is supposed to snow all day tomorrow as well.