How bad is the road?

[gabkwong]

Still stuck at work. Wonder anyone has first hand experience on the road condition. I am leaving from Inwood/Harry Hines going back to Rowlett.

[OZMDD]

Lots of slush, very slow going. Personally, I'd take surface streets so you can detour whenever you hit a problem.

[sammm]

I drove home (they sent us home) from work around 11am....all backroads, no freeway. It's slickery, but if you take your time you'll be OK. I never got out of 2nd or 3rd gear.

[CosmosMpower]

I found out my 330 zhp can spin 5th gear today!

[cwisenheimer]

Holy cow. I never let snow or ice stop me if I need to go to work, etc. I took the Miata today (west side of Fort Worth). Not a good plan. I've got Yoko S-Drives on it and I had a pretty hard time. Part of the trouble is that there are so many people out, the traffic moves at a snail's pace so you can't use momentum. Starting from a dead stop repeatedly was tough and included slipping sideways for the first 5 or 6 clutch slips trying to get moving. I got where I was going but it wasn't easy. BTW, I learned winter driving where it snows a lot, so I'm not a newb.

Like sammmmmmm said, take surface streets and backroads if you can. You'll go much faster and safer.

[trickyrix]

Garland reporting: Roads are fine over here, but I haven't been on any of the freeways. Traffic was ridiculous around lunch time when parents were rushing to pick up their kids, but it's slacked off quite a bit now.

[modernbeat]

Drove to work and back on bald Dunlops. Between 4pm and 7pm. If you don't know what you are doing, it's bad. If you know how to drive on ice and slush (it ices up after the sun goes down), it's not bad at all.

[OZMDD]

Bald tires? Things that tough at the shop?

[Jiggerachi]

It took me an hour & a half to get to Euless from UTA around 11am...it was nuts. Turbo FWD on summer tires is not as fun as you'd think in the snow. Watch many a heroic dodge ram driver get a lesson in physics.

My wife left downtown the same time and took her about 2.5hrs, most was spent on Woodall. She watched a Toyota Tundra slam into an armored truck. Not a good day for the Tundra.

Just drove back into work now and it's dumping a fresh layer of sleet on the roads. It was still loose pellets on the road so it was about like driving in colorado mountains, somehow not so bad if you know what you're doing. Woodall, shit was crazy as usual. Same conditions, uptown drivers.

Still sleeting when I pulled into the parking garage, I wouldn't go anywhere till about noon tomorrow.

[POS Racing]

The wife and I drove in from Waco late yesterday on I35 We kept a gap around us at all times and the weather only added about 30 minutes to our trip home.

Maybe you guys are doing it wrong.

[tailchaser]

Fastest trip home from work to date... Never got below the speed limit once I got on 75... Thanks for balling up 30, 20, 45 and 35!!! Much appreciated!