Snow and Ice shit show in PDX

How did everyone do in the snow and ice yesterday?

 

Haha didn’t know where was better to put this into lol

 

Hey, I resemble that comment.

 

Not a surprise, Gen 3 threads more "look at me" sort of posts rather than tech posts dealing with managing problems. Still so new that the response to all of the tech questions and problems are "take it to the dealer" rather than how to work thru diagnosis and repair. It'll change though, give it like 8-10 years.

I had no problems in snow and ice though. Sorry, nothing really to contribute. I'll show myself out..........

 

PDX ice storms suck!

My parents were going to come over from the 'Couv to stay with us in Forest Grove for Christmas Eve.
My daughter was going to run up to her boyfriends place from Forest Grove to the 'Couv to have dinner and swap gifts and then come back home.
My parent and daughters boyfriend are maybe 3 blocks apart from each other, and close to 40 mins from us on a good day.

Ice storm started, so changed everyone's plans and rode up with my daughter in her 2001 Nissan Pathfinder. I wanted to coach her through how/when to use 4WD on the highway, what to look out for around her, and teach her some skills on stopping on the slick in a parking lot when/if we had the chance.

All went well riding up with her and she dropped me off at my parents. She did get a chance to avoid smacking a curb in sloped round about entering my parents houseing development. She went into it a little hot and started to plow towards the curb, and before she smacked the brakes I was able to bark out to let off the gas and don't touch the brakes. The car stopped sliding towards the curb and snapped back to rolling the direction we needed. Lesson learned!

Walked into my parents house and within minutes, I was driving them over to my house in their car. Uneventful at this point.

Then later around 6pm my daughter started her trek home over the I-205 bridge where it took her 2 hours to go from the Washington side of the Columbia river, to the Killingsworth/Sandy exit (what's that about 4 miles). Road was slick as snot, and nobody was moving very fast. She had her phone in the phone holder and talking to me as she progressed. She described all of the idiots trying to make new lanes, the slipping, sliding and spun out cars everywhere.

Then, being the smart little shit that she is (20 yrs old), she said she was going to get the hell off the highway and find a way to get on Max and right it to Hillsboro where I could come pick her up. I looked on the map and told her if she could take the Killingsworth/Sandy exit 23A she would be set, as there was a Max station right there.
Another 30+ minutes goes by she and calls and says she made it up the 360 degree off ramp (sorta sideways with the front wheels pulling her up), passing a ton of spun out cars and trucks and she was going to the Shell station there to find a restroom to go pee before getting on the Max.

She parked her Pathfinder under a well lit lamp, put it back in 2WD, took all her belongings, locked it up, purchased a ticket and hopped on the Max.

She called again saying that a HUGE weight was lifted off her when she sat down on the Max and was able to chat with another family doing basically the same thing.

An hour and some change later she was in Hillsboro where I was there with a hot and toasty Gen 3 Tacoma to pick her up in. I guess the heat was crap on the Max train, so she used my heater vents like a campfire. Her trip was 4 hours in the making, for a normal 40 minute drive.

That was all last night, and just a bit ago my parents headed back home and took my daughter with them to drop her off at the Max station so she could drive her Pathfinder back home.

So, she learned a few valuable lessons through this adventure.

1. Pay attention to the weather forecasts and don't just assume everything will go as YOU plan them. Mother Nature can change YOUR plans at will.
2. She got some basic 4WD coaching from me, and then hands on practice on her own in Mother Nature's skating rink.
3. Also got to see how STOOPID folks can be on the road when the road gets covered in pure ice and they are not prepared.

As I am writing this, she is still driving home from where she parked last night.

 

I had no issues either, my tacoma drove and handled liked a champ. Just trying to see if everyone else’s Tacoma did the same for them...

 

Wow, what an eventful day for you. I saw all the people sliding around in the ice skating rink of PORTLAND. I had to drive from happy valley to Vancouver. Got to a stand still on the freeway. So I took the side roads all the way to sandy and got on the freeway and was over the bridge in now time. But that was all thanks to my 3rd gen tacoma. Worked like a charm in the ice.

 

She was stuck mostly due to the lack of movement on the freeway. Her Nissan Pathfinder does really well otherwise, but does not have any kind of stability control/traction control like we do with our trucks.

She does have chains with her to use, knows how to put them on, and was ready to do just that, but she didn't want to be out on the highway with all the idiots out there and get hit while putting them on. So, she figured either put the chains on once off the highway and then sit in traffic some more, or better yet just take the Max and leave her car parked safely at the station and go get it today.


I'm super proud of how she handled it all, staying calm and thinking it through.

BTW, she just walked in the door from getting her car. All is good!

 

I spent Christmas in Vancouver and Gresham/Troutdale. It’s still pretty icy on I-84. My brother made it from Tri Cities just fine in his 2016 SR5 4x4 last night though.

 

I had no problem getting around Portland yesterday. It was slick, but left the Tacoma in 4x4. Even went up Otty Road with ease yesterday. Last year my judgement said to avoid Otty Road (see the first picture on this link from last year).

http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2016...e-averaging-five-crashes-an-hour-in-the-snow/

 

Yeah it was really slick yesterday, but our 4x4 do great in this weather and I am very happy with the Tacoma purchase.

 

Merry Christmas

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The great ice apocalypse was so lame we took my wife’s Prius to church while my Taco slept in the garage! South end of Portland had about two hours of freezing rain and then 1/2 inch of snow at dinner time. Had a hard time getting the Prius to slip! The weather men love to hype it up though.

 

We got the same snow flurry here in Seattle too, a lot of hype and people that freak out but not enough to take public transportation. It's a shit or get off the pot situation but around here people get all confident and then pee on themselves the first time they have a little slip or wheel spin. I just avoided other people and had fun sliding the corners, but I've been driving in this weather and worse regularly for the past five years in Spokompton.

 

Press and hold your traction control button til the it turns off completely and let er buck. Was out at 6 am this morning power sliding around corners when no one else is around. Love this weather when I don't have to work, auto industry shuts down in Portland Oregon when it get nasty. After my last truck was totaled I was going to build a double cab and do uber or lyft when I can't work my day job, But I found my new Taco access cab in Reno loaded with a full CBI build and a lot of other cool stuff.

 

Pictures neighbor?

 

I’ve used the traction off button yesterday and it does handle better.

 

I was a loan rider, I am hoping that I get my wife to go wheeling with me so I teach her to film and be my spotter.